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    Introducing my new brood! (pic heavy)

    they all have their little personalities :D
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    Introducing my new brood! (pic heavy)

    I purchased 17 little babies yesterday...here they are! They are all purebreds, but different breeds, lavender and light sussex, welsummer, australorps and wyandottes :) Ignore the silly names, they're all named after people's screen names, save laura who's named after a friend's mother and...
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    Ended Halloween Hatch-A-Long 2018

    Getting all the goodies from ebay this week, my ipad charger came today, so egg photos tomorrow. I also ordered a high powered flashlight/torch (apparently 800lm), which is actually arriving before my new candler, so i should be able to light those eggs up like christmas tomorrow night to look...
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    Ended Halloween Hatch-A-Long 2018

    can i join in even if my babies are gonna come early? I set them yesterday because i want them ready to go to their new homes on halloween (few parents of the kiddos at my halloween party requested this) if so, ive got 16 eggs in the incubator, a mix of purebred light sussex and easter eggers...
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    Whoops....

    I am a fairly diligent egg collector, I go in every day, peek about, pick up any eggs I find in the coop etc, because I have a pet rooster (stunning light sussex boy, not quite a year old), and I know helena and helga, my tiny little bantams would hatch a potato if they could (they have actually...
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    HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

    Rabbits are actually more likely to attract rats than push them back, you are going to want to be VERY careful with those babies around them, I had an entire litter savaged by rats when the neighbours got rid of their birds, and they ran out of food there...
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    HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

    here's the early baby :) Fairly sure that's a blue :P
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    HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

    Oh good, thanks :) it is a little Araucana x Light sussex, cant tell if it is black or blue yet, I'm betting on blue though...Im so excited :) my last hatch was a total failure :D
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    HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

    One of my three eggs has just hatched! On day 20....is it okay for me to keep it in the incubator overnight, as it is 10:30pm and I'd really like to go to sleep and not wait for it to fluff out >.<
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    HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

    Congrats on the tiny babies, unfortunately I can't help you on the colours though that lighter one looks like (s)he will be quite striking
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    HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

    have 16 eggs stuffed in the incubator for an expected halloween hatch...most are either light sussex (pure) or light sussex x araucana but two are from two of my slightly older "scrub bantam" chooks (basically a backyard flock of very funny looking tiny birds that have a tendency to be so broody...
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    Two hours til lockdown....

    I couldn't resist candling, and the egg is dark except for the air cell, no veins anymore, but (from what I could see, and this egg is hard to see into) no internal pip, not sure on movement, but no peeping....I'm hoping the egg isn't dead...and if it isn't that it doesn't take much longer to...
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    Two hours til lockdown....

    only one egg was viable when I candled at lockdown, it is now the end of day 21 and no pip....i'm getting concerned
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    Smashed or Hatching?

    probably not a great idea. In the unlikely event that it survived "helping" it before the yolk is absorbed would kill it for sure.
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    Two hours til lockdown....

    Very excited, even though there's likely only one baby hatching this time, I can't wait to meet the little guy/girl. These eggs are from one of the hens, and the rooster that I hatched about this time last year, dad is a light sussex, mum is an arauacana girl, so little easter egger baby (or...
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