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Three pullets from my March hatch are going to their new home this morning! Two F1 olive eggers and a silver cuckoo marans. Awkward teen hens, but this whole group makes an adorable honking noise. I didn't realize I would feel sad. It's good though, more space for starting a new hatch :)

I didn't get them sadly. So now I have to figure out what we want to hatch next. We've been leaning towards trying to start a breeding flock, so we want to get something nice where we have a decent chance of re-homing roosters. My daughter wants to try salmon favorelles. I'm interested in a...

I need to confess, I've just bid on hatching eggs on eBay. Will need to get the incubator right back out. I'm not sure why I want the smell of baby chicken poop in the house for that long, but I guess I do?

Here is my gang of 7 at one week post hatch. Can't wait to see what the patterns and colors will be and how many hens. We had 8 hatch and lost one at day three who we think was from a brown egg, so we are down to 1 likely full silver cuckoo marans. The rest are olive eggers, marans rooster...

I don't know the answer, but I'm very curious also!

Sadly one of our wonderful batch of healthy 8 chicks turned up dead this morning :( So now it's 7 who have made it to day 4 post hatch. I know it's super normal but I'm still sad. My teenaged daughter and I agreed that it's easier that it was one of the chicks who were difficult to tell apart...

All 8 from incubator lock down made it to the group photo this morning.

I will be glad to put the incubator away for a bit and stop stressing!

All 8 of our eggs are hatched, fluffed up and look like survivors. I'm so relieved. Yesterday was a tough day! The first four hatched like champs on Friday night. The next four we ended up assisting each one with greater difficulty as we went. They were all shrink wrapped and unable to move...

Whew, the chick we helped out of the shell has finished its hatch. It's resting but seems like it might make it. Now I've got three eggs left, and if one shrink wrapped should I assume I've caused the others to as well? Two of the three have external pips. Good chance I'm over-reacting as...

Four of our eight are hatched and moved to the brooder this morning. Three of the remaining have pipped. But one was a very early pip yesterday and we were worried, so we tried to intervene. I'm not at all sure we're doing this right, but we watched a few videos first. Peeled some of the...

We now have three chicks that have hatched from late afternoon to evening. There are five more eggs and all looked viable at lockdown. Should we leave the chicks in overnight? We're nervous to open the lid too much and mess up the eggs that have pipped. There is one worrisome egg with a pip...

First chick of our first ever hatch. She's exhausted!

We have pips! And some sweet little peeping noises from inside the eggs. I played them a recording of our hens making happy noises and they responded. Day 20.

We locked down last night. Their little feet were kicking during candling :) Can't wait.

That's good to hear!

We just candled our eggs again (day 15). 8 of the original 9 eggs are developing and moving. We discarded one on Friday that clearly had not kept up. It had begun to develop and stopped early, maybe three or four days in. The rest are kicking and seem good. This is our first hatch, so total...

We are also doing our first hatch. We have 9 home eggs in the incubator and we are on day 6. Should hatch on March 20th? Three are silver cuckoo marans eggs, and six are snowy white easter egger eggs. Our main rooster is a silver cuckoo marans, but we did also have the snowy white easter egger...