April 2022 hatch-a-long (non-Easter, and Easter welcome)

[Bananer86]

Day 16 & so far 3 Coturnix have hatched & 1 more pipped. They get bonus points for hatching on hubs bday it’s kind of my new tradition to have hatches on the kids or now his birthdays
He also got 2 new brahma chicks this morning

 

[Bananer86]

we now have 4 hatched + 1 pip
I’m so excited for this hatch. This is only day 16!
& another Brahma chick pic

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have 13 chicks that so far in this group
chicks from last night The yellow was also a MT egg, (late hatching) not a NN though.

The same 3 new chicks with 3 barred rock chicks hatched yesterday, (they have no names.)

In a separate pen I have chicks from earlier in the week Montana chicks below chicks are more fluffy. These 2 NN are "Rusty" and "Boze" The fat chick has no name...maybe "Fatty."

Below is the third NN she has no name.

RIR's are Flame, Fyre, and Flicka

and a group shot...

2 eggs still in incubator, day 22 (they have safety holes.)

 

[JoJoM]

Excuse me, is that a chick, or a tardigrade?!

I had to look that up!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Here is a pic of the chicks this morning, they are in the southern 1/2 of this big box. I have second hand place mats under foot, I toss when dirty. Screen separates late bloomer chick. Eventually I will combine birds, and take away screen.

14 here, and 4 more cuckoo maran eggs in incubator to hatch next Mon. (from store, but local eggs.)

 

[Dinoroar]

I’m finally trying out the old Dickey’s cabinet incubator I got over a year ago. So far it’s been pretty smooth except something is off with the auto turner timer so I’ve been running it manually 3 x a day. I’ll try and sort that out after these eggs are done. I started with 82 eggs in there and I’m down to 75 on lockdown. I pulled seven early on that were mostly clears and then 2 came out at the end. One was a pullet egg that quit and one had a smashed spot which I’m guessing I did when I candled last week (oops).

Hatch day is April 10/11 (I set them kinda late at night)

I put some of the eggs from my daughters flock to hatch in smaller incubators to keep them separate and also just insurance so in case something goes afoul hatching in this thing it won’t be a total loss.

 

[GingerRose]

3 days old today!
My first hatch with an incubator. Out of 24 eggs, 19 hatched and 18 survived!!

 

[JoJoM]

First April hatch was a success. Set 6 goose eggs and two duck eggs. Pulled one duck, one goose around day 10 and the rest all hatched! Not bad for my cheap generic incubator!

Chicken eggs are on day 10. 2 appear to be non starters but the rest look good.

 

[SelfSufficientMe]

We’ve got babies! Woke up to three having hatched at 19.5 days. Four more to go but I had to leave for work Hopefully we’ll have a nurturing momma and not a homicidal one All are currently in the main coop and exposed to all other chicks. Nervous but hopefully they’ll all be alright until I get home.

 

[wolfwalker]

So I am setting 180 eggs tomorrow for a hatch date of may 3rd