April 2021 Hatch - A - Long

[wolfwalker]

I set another 20 Aloha eggs in the incubator this morning with a hatch date of April 5th. I ended up discarding 20 Aloha hatching eggs at day 10 last night. Not real happy with my Aloha Roo right now. He and I will be having a long discussion on differing chicken soup recipes later today

 

[kelseyk]

I have my BBS Ameraucana, Quail d’Aner, and Serama eggs in the incubator for the Easter HAL and then have Silkie and Isbar eggs on the way - shipping Tues and Wed.

 

[The Cave]

Is it so bad this will be the 3rd hatch along im joining all at the same time !? Spring is in the air I guess.
I will be setting shipped silkie eggs sometime this week for an almost my birthday hatch hehe.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Jumping in as my silkie girls just started laying today after almost 7 weeks!
Checked for fertility as my little cockerel has his favorites.
This egg had a weird shape, so I didn’t feel too bad cracking it open.
Beautiful bullseye!
Going to start collecting and hope to set in about a week.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Is it so bad this will be the 3rd hatch along im joining all at the same time !? Spring is in the air I guess.
I will be setting shipped silkie eggs sometime this week for an almost my birthday hatch hehe.

Impossible to be on too many hatch-a-longs!

 

[wolfwalker]

Sigh, I admit I was shopping large incubators today. The one I have my eye on sets 366 chicken eggs. About the same price as the sportsman GQ and has 3 times the capacity

 

[The Cave]

I set the little angels last night, praying for development in all! They all had good air cells somehow after shipping....I didn't think that was possible. One was cracked but the shell was very porous so I am not mad. I gave it the magic touch with some wax.

I have a lovely arrange of silkie colours: buff, splash, paint and cuckoo from an amazing breeder! Trying to contain my excitement because....shipped eggs.

 

[gunhoney]

Just set 18 more serama eggs today after moving my last newborns to my ICU to feather out. My last hatch was the most disastrous I’ve ever had so time to get on with hatching some chicks for a friend.

 

[LowcoMatt]

Well I’m in. My first hatch was a few weeks back, nine eggs and five hatched. Now I’m setting twenty four and so far looks like twenty three developing. On day four now. Expecting April 5th. +/- hatch day. Tried for Easter but got busy.

They are twenty silkie eggs and four largefoul eggs. LF = Two green eggs and two tan/light brown. There are miscellaneous defects and issues with a few of these eggs. Some have significant cracks, some are odd shaped and a couple have odd shell deficiencies that make candling difficult. I’m on the lazy mans turning schedule which is every morning and night, and afternoon of I remember. I figured in nature they may or may not know which to discard or which not too. So far everyone’s growing except one silkie egg, I think.
Here’s to going off the deep end.
One chick photo from hatch one.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Well I’m in. My first hatch was a few weeks back, nine eggs and five hatched. Now I’m setting twenty four and so far looks like twenty three developing. On day four now. Expecting April 5th. +/- hatch day. Tried for Easter but got busy.

They are twenty silkie eggs and four largefoul eggs. LF = Two green eggs and two tan/light brown. There are miscellaneous defects and issues with a few of these eggs. Some have significant cracks, some are odd shaped and a couple have odd shell deficiencies that make candling difficult. I’m on the lazy mans turning schedule which is every morning and night, and afternoon of I remember. I figured in nature they may or may not know which to discard or which not too. So far everyone’s growing except one silkie egg, I think.
Here’s to going off the deep end.
One chick photo from hatch one.

Yes the hatching bug seems to have exponential growth!
Yay, more silkies!