🎃October Hatch-a-long 2020🎃

[Muscovy Wunda]

Hello! I am excited to have found this post! I just got a new coop after moving 2 years ago and am reawakening my inner Chicken Lady!

I am incubating for my first time! Couldn’t find the breeds I wanted and am homeschooling my young kids and thought it would be a good experience. I ended up with two separate hatch dates due to shipping (eBay). Fingers crossed. I have read dozens of posts regarding incubating shipped eggs and am taking special care with the eggs.
8 Lavender Orpington
Mix of 6 eggs, Black Copper Maran, Crested Cream Legbar and a few olive egger.
Hatch date on or round Halloween... spooky!

How fun! This is a lesson for kids to learn. Glad you are able to get back into chickens. Vaccinatings not very big where I am, but what I do know is if you vaccinate one you need to vaccinate them all

 

[CSolis]

First little fuzzy butt out of the incubator this morning.. Completely dried off.. the 4 team mates are all busy pipping! He's the only one from Bruiser and Maggie, the others are from Charlie and Henrietta, my BSL pair.

 

[Zemeraire]

Day 14 candling update!
8/12 still beautiful, I can see their movement so well!
4/12 still sus, but air cell has grown still.

 

[CSolis]

# 2 hatched early this morning, #3 and 4 have pipped, #5 is lazing away (I hope)

 

[kelseyk]

PS How many of y’all vaccinate for Marek’s?

I do not.

 

[kelseyk]

Went to bed last night with 3 fuzz balls running around the incubator. When I checked on the other 5 eggs I found that I lost one during zip and had another egg peeping.

My incubator is no longer empty. My 6 Black Tail Japanese bantam eggs arrived and I set them late yesterday afternoon. Cross your fingers for me as every single one of them had a completely detached air cell. They will be sitting upright in an egg carton in the incubator for the first 7 days trying to get that air cell to stabilize a bit. Lavender Americaunas and Porcelain d'Uccles are on the way!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Cayuga pekin thst hatched 2 days ago. Love the little white tips on his wings

 

[CSolis]

Ha ha ha,, #2 is dried and has had pics taken!

#3 is on the way!

#4 is not as far along in the process, and I saw a hairline crack in #5 that wasn't there a few hours ago...

 

[CSolis]

#3 and 4 are out of their shells and drying/fluffing.. I see #5 pecking at his/her shell... Great hatch this time.

 

[CSolis]

YAY.. Woot woot... runs around singing the momma hatched all her eggs song... I'm so pleased!