6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[MisfitMarie]

They're BOTH in on it now! They just wont stop playing scare-the-pants-off-of-mommy!



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Really...???



What is this???

These Welsummers know exactly what they're doing, I tell ya! Evil!

They're lucky they're so... darn... CUTE...

 

[carcar80]

I love that picture.  I've felt like that a few times, lol.

It's precious but so dramatic and pitiful! I can actually hear the violin when I look.. Honestly it almost made me tear up.

 

[artsygirl]

we had two hatch, sadly one didn't make it. This one didn't make it And this one in comparison with a quarter.

If I can still enter cutest chick, I would like to enter the last pick in it ( the quarter one)

 

[MisfitMarie]

I vote for it too. I like that its pooping out a coin! If ALL of my chicks did that... WOW.... I could quit my job and die happy just hatching little fuzzies!

 

[ChickyChickens]

THIS IS SOOOOO AWEOSME!!! I only have 5 eggs left in the bator...but i odnt think they are goingt o hatch!! I dont know how many chicks there are...must go and count

 

[Amberjem]

eggna poe and loki

 

[Free Feather]

I don't mind at all, it's yours! It's even funnier now that the other Welsummer baby joined in... maybe the others will follow suit and I can get a hilarious group photo.

Question... Anyone here good at determining the gender of newly hatched Welsummer chicks? I only have two, and they look somewhat different... but neither has markings developed enough to determine either way. =/ I'm hoping one is a pullet. I'm just not sure. =/ The larger one has a much darker stripe and more obvious white side strips, but I can't see the "eyeliner" I hear about. At least not yet.

It has been my experience that the darker coloring means boy, and the light means girl. It worked with all five of my chicks.

 

[gilchicken]

This wasn't my best hatch ratio only 30% hatched but not bad for a homemade incubator i made out of a medical Styrofoam cooler i found in my shed.

Nice colors. .. What kind are they? ..

 

[gilchicken]

I know people give ducklings stuffed animals... Maybe a feather duster also...

I have a little teddy bear. ..

And she loved it. .

 

[Roan]

Easter hath will be so much fun!

Thanks for being a part of the hatch a long!

It is also called a float test. You can tell if the egg is good by the floating level. You can also see the egg move sometimes.

Didn't somebody post on here that they did the float test and the egg sunk like a rock but hatched anyway? So how accurate can the float test be?

I got the chicks to be still for a few cute pictures. I love the Buff ORP Mafia lineup and the "No, you can't have my scarf" picture, lol!! The last one is the largest chick with the smallest. Too stinking cute!

Okay, I've watched way too many Godzilla movies! That bottom pic for some reason looks like two monster chicks seeking out a town to trample! I can just imagine tiny humans running around trying to escape the wrath of the Chickgooras!!! I think it's the awesome camera angle!!! Great chicks and great pics!!!

Well, we inspected our side pip. He'd been in the same position since yesterday morning but managed to make the pip a little bigger. The membrane was turning black. I couldn't stand it.

I helped him hatch.

And I'm very glad I did. His leg was twisted all the way over his head in a very unnatural position. He wasn't able to turn himself around in the sell.

There was zero bleeding from the membrane, but I did find something like looked like dried/cooked yolk stuck to the shell/membrane. He bled a little from his belly button, but that stopped on its own quickly.

Now he's recovering in the incubator and drying. I'll leave him in there overnight to finish fluffing and maybe encourage the final egg to pip (float test tomorrow if no activity by morning). He's peeping and falling everywhere.

That's a good sign!

I'm a little worried about his leg. It was sticking out at a weird angle, due to the position in the egg... I'm hoping it will correct itself by morning.

This is a prime example of weak genetics... a chick that wouldn't have hatched and maybe shouldn't have, as cruel as that is to say. My soft heart (and some prompting from a pacing husband) led me to intervene.

I hope it turns out for the best.

MrsB

Aww, I hope it straightens out too!!!

EDIT: Added some descriptions and wording.