APRIL FOOLS HATCH, give or take a day.....who's in ??

[Wild Trapper]

emjay, congrats - beautiful little fluffy chicks.

It is really early here, like 6 AM, on day 20, (not officially day 20 'til 5 o'clock this evening), I have at least 8 pips out of my 26 eggs. None of DIL's 10 eggs have pipped yet. Hers are Jersey Black Giants, mine are all some mix of which will be EE chicks.

 

[madrooster]

got 6 chics sofar on day 20 and 8 more piping now,there popin like popcorn all jersey giants blue and splash, and 1 mutt, no orps yet,but there on there way ill load pics when i move this first batch, wohooooe

 

[storminstaffs]

I had 19 chicks hatch over the 1st and 2nd 9 cuckoo marans and 11 silver duckwing leghorns, still need to get some pic's though

 

[Wild Trapper]

I had to go out for a while this morning and one had zipped part way when I was leaving, by the time I got home, around a half hour ago, it was out and another was struggling to rid itself of a piece of the shell on top of it's head - little top hat.

There is still about a day and a forth left to day 21 official setting time, so these guys are a bit on the early side. The are not even quite dry yet. Hard to know if I could get pictures yet as it is a Hova-Bator with the two little windows in the top. Maybe when the hatch is complete, I can snap a few before they go in the brooder box. Gotta run to TSC and pick up a bag of chick starter later. Hope they don't have EEs in the store, don't know if I could resist allowing a few to follow me home.

 

[madrooster]

lol on the top hat. i had one that hatched out and fell right into another eggshell beside him lol ,he was stuck there for a min i have a hova bator too, i wish i had bigger windows but cant complain too much it does a good job of hatchin some babies.

 

[jettgirl24]

Well it's day 22 and only one of the tree has hatched still, nothing out of the other two. I'm struggling to remain patient because I have heard that it's fairly common for Marans to be too big or have a tough time getting out. I didn't have that issue with my last hatch but I've heard that from a few people. I'm not even seeing a lot of rocking so I desperately want to candle if nothing has happened this evening. On the upside the chick I have is the most adorable and snuggly little thing! My regular feed store has a 6 chick minimum so I'm going to call around today and see who has chicks without a minimum in case I need to get my little one a friend.

 

[Mmmaddie13]

Emjay, those chicks look HUGE in those tiny hands.

They're gorgeous.

Good luck to little Scooter.

 

[emjay]

thanks wildtrapper and mmmaddie. they do look big in my kids hands don't they? haha.

Thanks, Scooter is very happy and healthy otherwise, here's hoping, probably a roo too after all this effort, haha.

 

[madrooster]

8 chicks so far and 10 have piped so far , 3 more to pip on shipped eggs and it will be 100% hatch, ya now thats pretty cool and to add 5 blue jerseys,1 black jersey, 1 splash jersey and 1 buff orp so far

 

[madrooster]

lavender orp and some blue jersy giants