7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[RubyNala97]

My pigeon egg has pipped!!! e

that's great!!

My eggs are rocking! How can I tell if they are malpositioned inside? These are shipped eggs with saddle shaped air cells. Any suggestions?

With shipped eggs, I trace the air cell AFTER it has drawn down, usually on day 19. This way you have a visual of the safe spots for it to pip. Air cells can get crazy shapes when they drawn down on shipped eggs. Otherwise, you just have to look for pips at the pointy end. Sometimes they are hard to see because the chick will pip pointy end and underneath on the side facing the floor.

So.......it was an Ayam cemani baby that hatched first!!!!!! There is a fibro zipping as I had to leave the house again.... and there were 2 more pips. 1 AC egg and 1 Fibro. Leaving just one AC left....I hope it hatches. And I forgot pictures in my short stay at the house.....I topped off their water and had to leave....I hope they will be okay until tomorrow! Bad timing to hatch babies and make plans. ....I need to do a better job planning next year. :/

That's great news!! And great for shipped eggs!! (need pics!!)

I skipped 9 pages. Did I miss anything?

Lots of pips, zips and chicks!

Up to 7 pips!!! I am a bit concerned about one of them. I see a small blood spot where the chick pipped. I think it pipped through a vein. Will it be okay? The blood spot is rather tiny...

It should be fine. It will usually clot inside the egg.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

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Thanks. I can still here the chick peeping. So, hopefully the rest of the hatch will go smoother.

 

[ronott1]

got up this morning to new babies Wyandottes and Marans HAPPY NEW YEAR

That is great!

20 chicks out, 3 zipping, 4 pipped, 5 unknown.

I think I lucked out and got a pure BLRW


And my one EE that has the muffs and beard!

How sweet!

Out of 9 silkie/sizzle/showgirl eggs set, 4 hatched, 1 still moving around in the egg, and 4 early quitters. At least fertility was 100% !

Great hatch!

If I were to keep Silikes, I would build them a Barbie coop.

 

[learycow]

Here they are! 2 black 1 blue and 1 that's black and white. Not sure what it will look like feathered out as I've never hatched one with these markings!

 

[ronott1]

I finally got some pictures to post! Here is my first chick.

Oldest DS made a terrible mistake with this chick. He called the chick a he...

!!! DS has jinxed me with roosters... lol

May the cute chick be a pullet!

Looks like a pullet to me...Of course they all do until the sprout huge combs and start to crow....

The legs are small and there are a lot of feathers so I am sticking with pullet, unless it crows of course...

 

[ronott1]

Here they are! 2 black 1 blue and 1 that's black and white. Not sure what it will look like feathered out as I've never hatched one with these markings!

The white goes away for the black breeds. Australorps and Marans have white or yellow on them when they hatch.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

Here they are! 2 black 1 blue and 1 that's black and white. Not sure what it will look like feathered out as I've never hatched one with these markings!

They are super adorable!! Congrats!

Totally agree!! They are all pullets until they aren't. LOL!!!

 

[learycow]

The white goes away for the black breeds. Australorps and Marans have white or yellow on them when they hatch.

OK thanks! I was dumbfounded as it looks like a barred rock as a chick. But I know its a pure silkie and I don't have any barred genes in my flock

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

OK thanks! I was dumbfounded as it looks like a barred rock as a chick. But I know its a pure silkie and I don't have any barred genes in my flock

All of my black Silkies sport a little white on their chick down. Sometimes they have white bellies and look like little penguins, sometimes it'll just be a little white on their toe fuzz or a smudge on their face. They're so cute, I wish they'd keep their little white patches, but they don't.

Your chicks are adorable!

 

[S5apiotrowski]

Well, my "slower" potentially "straddled" chick is moving around a bit better - it wants to play in a pile with the others. I think its a roos as every black or non-white chick I've hatch ends up being male. Anyway, I reviewed @Sally Sunshine 's link and tried putting it in a cup (the espresso cup seemed best) - but he wanted nothing to do with it. Jumped out and piled back up with the others - I guess that means its legs aren't THAT weak...



I have another one unzipping and several more active pips... I have a feeling this hatch will be drawn out over a couple days. Several mixed breed eggs from two flocks - each developing at its own rate! The blue eggs look like they will hatch next.