3 bantam chicks doing well.
No standard eggs have pipped, I don't think.
2 more bantam eggs have pipped, one's started zipping. Looks like we'll have a good bantam hatch Hope we get at least one standard. The standards, if they hatch, will be Black Sex-Link X Silkie Bantam.
Thank you, both of you, for your advice! I will keep waiting. They are very cute Silkie bantam crosses. The others (unhatched eggs) are laying hybrids with a bit of Silkie bantam thrown in.
These two are the roosters of all of the chicks (even the larger ones):
Sorry, I don't have a better...
The 4th egg back in the corner wasn't a 4th egg at all...it was a shell from one of the 3 hatched chicks that had been jammed back together. Besides these 3, no other pips or cheeps.
The 2 older chicks have been in there for about 7 hours...one isn't completely dried yet. They're bumping and...
I have an assortment of thirty-something eggs, and 5-6 are bantams. The rest are large/normal-sized. This morning is the 21st day.
3 bantam chicks have hatched, a 4th bantam egg is zipped right around and ready to hatch.
Is it a bad sign that there are no pips from the larger eggs? We placed...