5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[Nonyah Biz]

we named him ranger after the lone ranger(hes all alone and silver) lol

 

[All Henned Up]

I just got home. I now have 8 pip's and a lot of cheeping coming from my bator.
I hope they can hold out 4 more hours until the new year.
I'm going to be up all night running back and forth from the incubator e to the refrigerator. (where is the fat smiley face?)

 

[MontanaDolphin]

I'm a terrible photographer, but here ya go

Woohoo!!! Babies!!!!!!!!!!!

we named him ranger after the lone ranger(hes all alone and silver) lol

Oooo, beautiful color!!!!

 

[bantambury]

SEVEN chicks hatched! 5 left to go!

here is what I have found from getting silkie and OE cross eggs:
~blonde silkie
~grey silkie
~2 Japanese bantams
~2 OE crosses
~Japanese bantam silkie cross

FIVE left now..
~possibly another jap bantam
~3 OEs
~one silkie

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Current tally... 2 out (look like probably roos - but that's just ducky!) Five or more pips. Hard to be sure, because the two early birds are climbing all over & rolling things around between naps. They have 'greeted' the pip with the pea-sized hole, not sure if it was social or pecking at the membrane.
Going to set up a temporary brooder & get them out of there in a few minutes. Not going to transfer two chicks to the greenhouse brooder tonight, it's supposed to get to 17 degrees and it's a bit of a walk. But that means opening... *shudder*

 

[chickengirl1193]

SEVEN chicks hatched! 5 left to go!

here is what I have found from getting silkie and OE cross eggs:
~blonde silkie
~grey silkie
~2 Japanese bantams
~2 OE crosses
~Japanese bantam silkie cross



FIVE left now..
~possibly another jap bantam
~3 OEs
~one silkie

wow! so good for your first hatch in an incubator!

 

[ronott1]

Current tally... 2 out (look like probably roos - but that's just ducky!) Five or more pips. Hard to be sure, because the two early birds are climbing all over & rolling things around between naps. They have 'greeted' the pip with the pea-sized hole, not sure if it was social or pecking at the membrane.
Going to set up a temporary brooder & get them out of there in a few minutes. Not going to transfer two chicks to the greenhouse brooder tonight, it's supposed to get to 17 degrees and it's a bit of a walk. But that means opening... *shudder*

Very Nice!

wow! so good for your first hatch in an incubator!

I have four pips!

The first one is being lazy...They may wait until midnight!

That is in 6.5 hours still....

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Mick Jagger... I'm just waiting, on a friend.....

 

[bantambury]

wow! so good for your first hatch in an incubator!

thanks!

we just colored their tails so we could identify the OEs and japs......

well...that totally messed up their feathers for e cutest chick hatched pictures....will the dye matter?




so....I think we have 4 hens and 2 roosters! form testing them anyhow.

 

[chickensnewtome]

CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!! I wish I could be celebrating with ya'll, but even with all of my trying bad luck has hit me again. None of the bantam eggs ever showed signs of growth and my one lone RIR egg did not make it till lockdown. I think I am going to let mother nature take its course next time and let one of my chickens go broody. I need a better incubator if not. Maybe it is just me, heck I don't know! LOL