12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[Josip]

I'm completely in love with this chick, so it's probably going to be a rooster. lol

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Give some photos when HE IS dry

 

[BullChick]

If you take the bread out too soon you will have squishy dough. Nobody likes squishy dough. Lol

Noooobody?

 

[Cynthia12]

It’s Saturday before Easter, so it’s hatch day, right?!

Silly you.

 

[BullChick]

Silly you.

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[cppeace]

Good luck to you @cppeace. I am in the same situation, only a few eggs left with veins. Just hoping I get at least 2 to hatch.

Ugh stinks when that happens. Can't wait till I'm just hatching my own eggs again and no more shipped in ( other than maybe for a fun not needed breed). I was getting 90-100% hatch rate from any eggs my own birds laid.

 

[ronott1]

Day 12: I went and candled the eggs today and 6 looked good, the 4 left I am unsure about because they are super dark shells and I've never incubated Marans before and I think they don't have any development in them/stopped developing... but I may be wrong...
I'm leaving them in for a few more days and will candle again on day 14. (Today I took out 2 eggs that were super light and easy to see into and I saw no development at all)
Any advice on how to best candle super dark eggs like Marans?

With dark shelled eggs like Marans, the key is to look for increasing darkness in the egg when candled. The indicated development.

 

[ronott1]

I'm completely in love with this chick, so it's probably going to be a rooster. lol

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there is a 50\50 chance! of it being a cockerel

 

[CluckNDoodle]

there is a 50\50 chance! of it being a cockerel

More like 100% when I fall in love with it.

 

[LynnaePB]

Day 7 here and 6 of 8 have wiggly little embryos in them.

The other two look to be clear. I checked on day 3 as well and popped in another couple eggs to hopefully make up for the two I wasn't sure about at the time. I'm glad I did as they are definitely still clear and the two replacements definitely have something growing now.

These eggs are from two of my own silkie pairs....not sure why both girls had 1 egg out of 4 that just didn't want to start but oh well. They should have been fertilized so maybe they just quit extra early before blood vessels developed. I'll pull them day 10 and see.