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Our hatches are officially complete. Our 4 little Silkies I posted about yesterday are doing great. Running around, jumping on mama, all the normal things littles do. Our 3 Orpington eggs all hatched! And they're doing great. Mama Raven is doing a fantastic job for a first timer. All the chicks...

Our hatch that's due today or tomorrow had two chicks hatch yesterday morning, one over night and one zipped just before dark today. Had one egg I already know of die a week ago and I could make out movement in our last egg this morning so it may not hatch. 2 were Silkies and I our them with our...

One of ours hatched 4 days late. I think it was because the week before due date we had night temps in the teens and day temps in the upper 20s. We got 3 out of 9 hatch but one died because it couldn't back under mama and got chilled.

Just a possible suggestion. Warm bricks or rocks on the wood stove or in the BBQ grill. Wrap in a towel and place on top.

Went out to check them again yesterday morning, nothing. One more time about 4pm and found a very wet, newly hatched little chick! I got a feeling that the cold we had last week (low 20s and some teens) slowed the hatch a little. They're now on day 23. Checking again a little later this morning...

Our hatch started sometime this morning. I found our first Silkie chick a few minutes ago when I checked on them. Wil check again later but meanwhile both mamas are continuing to sit on the nest together.

Went down with my wife tonight to check the eggs. Wanted to be quick because it's cold, there's two hens on the nest and we didn't want to disturb the eggs because they're so close to hatching. I was able to lift one of their wings and my wife saw a dark chick almost out of the egg. We left...

I still have another day or two to wait. Since they're being hatched by a mama hen the pics will be after they're hatched, plus I'm on crutches but you can bet I'll be down at the coop when my wife tells me they're here!

Did you know that you can buy multimeters (voltmeters) from places like Sears or Lowes and they come with a thermocouple lead that can read temps? They're actually pretty accurate, I've checked mine against calibrated ones at work and it was almost right on.

Can I join? I just found this thread and I have a hatch of Silkies due this Saturday, the 16th. Candled several last night and they looked good so I'm hoping for a pretty successful batch. Was hoping to see some pictures of the chicks already hatched. Anyone???

I didn't about these HALs but I'm nearly on schedule with Christmas. I had three hens go broody so I've place eggs. I have two Silkies that went broody days apart and wanted to share a nest so they're hatching eggs together that are due this Saturday, the 16th. I also had an Orpington hen go...

Not sure of her age. Old enough to lay though. She laid egg the day after I got her but none since, I suspect that's due to the environment change of being in quarantine.

That's kinda what she sounds like, an old chain smoker. Was listening again tonight and she almost sounds like a goose going bawk, bawk. Definitely very different. TY

I just received a possible Ameraucana hen, at least she looks like one. She's in quarantine and seems fine but she sounds....ummm, different. Her cluck is sort of harsh, coarse or rough maybe, its hard to describe. I know different breeds can sound different even while making the same "sounds"...

Our young chicken protector. :love