April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

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The hatch has begun! First baby out this morning has feathered feet. I only have two birds with feathered feet that are old enough to have babies, and one of them wasn't laying when I set this batch. So I know who mom is! Which is kind of fun.
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I'm up to 6 out total now (no pics yet), the rest are pipped and 2 are zipping! 14 of 22 made it to lockdown, and it looks like I might get all 14. 🤞
 
gmjarvi said:
The hatch has begun! First baby out this morning has feathered feet. I only have two birds with feathered feet that are old enough to have babies, and one of them wasn't laying when I set this batch. So I know who mom is! Which is kind of fun.
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I'm up to 6 out total now (no pics yet), the rest are pipped and 2 are zipping! 14 of 22 made it to lockdown, and it looks like I might get all 14. 🤞
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Gmjarvi, you know that we just hatched at the same time? Lol
 
kelseyk said:
So far (this year) I have gotten off ebay: Copper Marans, Silver Appenzeller, Bielefelders, Sapphire Gem/Lavender Orpington cross, Silkie, Svart Hona, Gold Appenzeller, Delaware, and D'Uccle. I have had all kinds of packaging. The worst was eggs wrapped in bubble wrap and put into a double layer of styrofoam egg carton then taped shut as far as it could go placed into a box with 2 sheets of crumpled up newspaper and 2 of those air pillows. There was lots of room for that egg carton to move in that box! Air cells were horrid in those eggs. I started with 14 and pulled 7 clears on day 7 and a late quitter on day 14 out of that batch. 5 hatched and I lost one of them at a week old (chick just never looked quite right to me). Most of my other ones have been packaged pretty well. My Gold Appenzellers I just set were individually wrapped in bubble wrap and set into a tissue paper lined egg carton (looked like the 2 outside columns of an 18 pack egg carton - both right and left sides of the carton), the carton taped shut, and carton secured within a large box tightly packed with newspaper. 1 egg out of that batch had a crack on the point of the egg (looked like it happened before the egg was put into the carton). I waxed it and put it upright in an egg carton in my Janoel. Air cells in all 12 of those eggs were great and all 12 are growing (on day 4)!
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Wow... I wonder what the bad packer was thinking on that one. I've had mixed luck with ebay, but as much really good as really bad. I'm always afraid of getting "that" seller though. (Not enough to keep me from buying though. Lol)
 
Three more ducks hatched today. Did a quick check of the remaining three eggs- 2 internal pips and an external. So I’m giving them more time. I hobbled three of the splay babies and put them in a separate brooder. I’m running out of room in my house between the birds, the incubators and the plants! Lol also. I had a crazy amount of boys hatch. I hope these last three are ladies.
I candles my Delaware eggs that are on day 18. Tossed 4 more and have two in lock down. Out of 15 eggs, just two left. Oy!
 

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