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[Peep-Chicken]

Hope everyone's eggs are hatching! Haven't been around much.

My shipped eggs from MPC got candled again today. 7/7 are still viable. So not only are they are fertile, they are still in the run after 8 days! Don't most eggs quit in the first few days?

 

[Blarneyeggs]

My Broody's still sitting tight, but I've heard no peeping... I really hope she gets at least one chick, but it doesn't look good.

 

[tao chick]

I have had an internal pip for atleast 5 hours ago, how long till I can expect an external pip

Both my hatchers this round took about 24 hours from internal pip to hatch. One was a bit quicker, the other a bit slower.

 

[tao chick]

If I managed the Brabanters better than the other eggs (which I'm not sure I did), 504 hours would be noon Friday. One of the two did not look good at Day 18, but was close enough to leave in the incubator. Puppy and Kitten have been content (and spoiled) until Puppy just started yelling. I checked and I can't see any reason why he was yelling so I'm guessing that one of the Brabanters had an internal pip/peep or something that Puppy heard but I didn't. The brooder is right next to the incubator.
Edited: corrected my math. The chickens have hurt my ability to do simple addition. Haha.

I'm planning the next steps for my flock. I have some extra cockerels that I need to process. I need to button up some spots in the barn before winter. And over the winter I need to perfect my homemade incubator so I can hatch some of my own eggs in the spring.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Cinder & Chuck, 1 week old

well the lone serama egg wants me to be annoyed. Its day 19 or 20 (I think it 20) Not even an Internal pip, I just candled to check for an internal pip when I was putting water in and it wriggled, so thats a good sign, Hoping it pips tonight or tomorrow. The Incubator is in my bedroom on my desk and i am in my room watching movies on my laptop and staring at the egg hoping for a pip. The egg is moving around the incubator pretty good though. I have a Brinsea mini advance so i don't even have to stand up to see inside... Lazy Persons dream!

I heard some peeping!!!!!!! No pips, but a peep is encouraging.

yay, got peeps and a few cracks. looks like we'll both have additions to our backyard family soon!

I forgot to tell you. The two chicks that hatched are going to be my kids' chickens. It will be their responsibility to help raise them. My 7 year old son adopted the Ameraucana. My 5 year old daughter adopted the Barnevelder. (If a Brabanter hatches I'll let my 3-yo name it) These chickens may be 4-H show birds if possible. Anyway, I suggested some names and we settled on "Puppy" the Ameraucana and "Kitten" the Barnevelder. The kids have been asking for a puppy and a kitten. Ha!

ha ha ha love it!!! puppy and kitten!!! awwwww

I've got an internal pip on my serama egg!

go bitty!!! bitty bitty bitty boo boo boo goooo gooo itty bitty booo

Had to run and get the camera. Was going to wait until they were all hatched, but
this was too cute. Boy, it must feel good to be out of that egg!




Here is my baby in the glass. Doing well so far. You can see that I have both feet
taped in boots.


Taken through the wire I have on top of the brooder. I put the light on it.

dawwwwwww darnit, you are going to have me getting silks again this spring!!! I can feel it!!!! argggggggggg I always loved the white ones Congrats!!!!!!! lucky you!!!!!

Hope everyone's eggs are hatching! Haven't been around much.

My shipped eggs from MPC got candled again today. 7/7 are still viable. So not only are they are fertile, they are still in the run after 8 days! Don't most eggs quit in the first few days?

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Broody's still sitting tight, but I've heard no peeping... I really hope she gets at least one chick, but it doesn't look good.

come on momma brood!!!! put a witches hat on her, she will spookum out!!!

 

[tiffani day]

Have 12 out 4 barred rocks 4 silver laced Wyandotte and 4 mystery chicks I got from someone and they're not even sure who they came from lol. I still have 12 more eggs to go and all but 4 of those have pips or have started zipping. It's going to be a long day at work waiting to see who else came out.

 

[tao chick]

Have 12 out 4 barred rocks 4 silver laced Wyandotte and 4 mystery chicks I got from someone and they're not even sure who they came from lol. I still have 12 more eggs to go and all but 4 of those have pips or have started zipping. It's going to be a long day at work waiting to see who else came out.

Awesome!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

All the girls in my hatch are sold, a friend is getting 6 and another friend of a friend is taking 6, and I get to keep the CCL males and Luke claimed Godzilla now named SPOOK and HarmonyAnn claimed another and named her Pumpkin.

The pipper in the incubator was still alive this morning, the mom of the kid I watch talked me into letting him go over night, she freaked for him, I said ok just for you, but in the morning the bator stank so bad I needed to do something, I made its pip bigger , mind you its been pipped way way too long and its veins still huge and unabsorbed, this typically means it has an umbilical/intestical issue that it cannot or will not absorb, so it was just living in its shell like that, it was so sad, he was active and everything. I opened him up before the cull and his intestines grew on the outside, through a hole higher up and to the side, NOT where the umbilical where the yolk sack was absorbed, he even had a first poop in the shell. I had to cull. I had seen this only two times but they never lived, usually died in the shell. poor guy. the other egg chick was upsidedown and couldnt get out as I figured, another female.

Incubator is bleached, sterilized and up and running to dry out. I think kiddo has orders coming in today for serama chicks, and I think I have a order for CCL now that I started hatching. DID I ?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Have 12 out 4 barred rocks 4 silver laced Wyandotte and 4 mystery chicks I got from someone and they're not even sure who they came from lol. I still have 12 more eggs to go and all but 4 of those have pips or have started zipping. It's going to be a long day at work waiting to see who else came out.

AND YOU HAD DOUBTS????????????????

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Cynthia are you feeling better?