Anyone HATCHING?!?!? Newbie's and addicts WELCOME!!!! Hatch Calendar page 1!!!!

[djennings]

My broody mommy has one that has pipped.

 

[bikerchic]

 

[silkymom1986]

yay for new fluffy butts!!! Cant wait to see pics!

 

[Tanichca]

Candled last night, every egg was fertile and growing!

Lockdown at noon today!

 

[silkymom1986]

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WTG!!!

How exciting!!!

 

[The Critter Place]

Good Morning!

Silkymom I wanted to thank you for the invite to this thread. You had posted on one of my posts to join. Being a newbie, this one looked a little confusing. lol.. But I've read it all, and have enjoyed it!

It seems like we share a hatch date. I set mine on Oct. 20th. 30 Serama and 16 silkies.

I'm sorry to hear you had disappointing candling the other night.

I know how that goes, I guess we all do... but it's sad none the less. And I know how hubby's can be...

I hope the ones that are showing good are a strong hatch!

I candled last night and cleaned out the bad. And myself was a little sad. Shipped eggs are so hard! I hope to keep one little Serama roo, to get around shipped in the future, but where I live, roo's are a no no! So we are going to try and make him a house pet.

Of my 30 Serama, 13 are left, and 8 are very questionable.

Of my 16 Silkie, 6 are left, and 2 are very questionable.
A few had started to developed, but quit in just a few days. Only a little blood in the egg, the rest had never started.

One Serams we candled last night was just kicking up a storm!! Oh it was so precious! We could see the head and a little leg kick up every so often!
I made hubby look this morning when he got home from work before I got him any coffee!

He made jokes about the bright light making the little guy mad.. Gotta wonder!

He's pretty good about being a part of it... but at times not as much as I'd like... We've raised various birds for years off and on.

My son , 14, is a huge part of all of this and has his own 2 little chickens he's caring for now. Only a few weeks old.

We are currently raising quail and just starting with chickens.

I had to laugh at some of the excuses given here to hubby's for the eggs and such.

Mine has a very expensive hobby, so if he really wanted to nit pic, he'd lose! So he hasn't gone there yet.. $ for $ he spends triple what I do.. he he....

I'm looking forward to the hatches and seeing everyone's beautiful babies!

Wishing you all a good hatch and blessings of many fuzzy butts!

 

[silkymom1986]

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I am so glad you decided to come join us!!

And that you enjoyed reading the thread! Yea the first time I candled on day 7 almost all of them were showing development, but just couldn't make it all the way, I'm hoping the ones that still look good make it as I have the same goal as you, to avoid having to get shipped eggs. I only got 1 calico egg in my shippment which I was really counting on, but it was one of my quitters last night,

Thanks for the support! My hubs is usually very into it with me, at least he was when we were hatching his welsummer eggs, which had a pretty good turn out, 6 out of 11, but they weren't shipped. Good luck with your hatch as well and keep us updated! Here are some good hatch vibes for ya!!

 

[Melissa Rose]

Hey Silkymom my calico egg was a quitter too

But that
just gives us a good reason to order more - remember Chicken Math

 

[silkymom1986]

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Yea, so were the only 2 whites I had, so all I have are BBS and black sp, which is fine, I just hope to get a few at least!! I'm going to wait and see how your catdance eggs turn out before I order more, so far sounds like they are doing better!!

 

[The Critter Place]

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I am so glad you decided to come join us!!

And that you enjoyed reading the thread! Yea the first time I candled on day 7 almost all of them were showing development, but just couldn't make it all the way, I'm hoping the ones that still look good make it as I have the same goal as you, to avoid having to get shipped eggs. I only got 1 calico egg in my shippment which I was really counting on, but it was one of my quitters last night,

Thanks for the support! My hubs is usually very into it with me, at least he was when we were hatching his welsummer eggs, which had a pretty good turn out, 6 out of 11, but they weren't shipped. Good luck with your hatch as well and keep us updated! Here are some good hatch vibes for ya!!

HI and Thank you!
I'm sorry to hear the calico was a quitter. I would like to learn more and why eggs quit. Some of mine were scrambled, even though well packed. I guess there's only so much we can protect them in the mail. :-(

My hubby's name is Michael too! lol...
Mine has been working some horrible hours, so that doesn't help much.
I love birds and started raising parakeets back in the 80's. So No matter what , I enjoy it.

Thanks for the good vibes!
Here's some for you!

And for the others here too!