April 2023 Hatch-A-Long

[Canadian Wind]

I am on day 4 on one batch, and day 2 on another, I cleaned out all my clears, and now do not have to candle again till lockdown.

Do not *have* to. But will you? I can't resist, I love candling!

 

[Dinoroar]

I am on day 4 on one batch, and day 2 on another, I cleaned out all my clears, and now do not have to candle again till lockdown.

You have such confidence I seem to always have a few from my first candling I’m not sure of so I usually candle again midway to recheck & I usually find 1 or 2 I’ve missed.

 

[Dinoroar]

I’ve spotted 3 pips in my 360 group. None in the brinsea and in the dickeys no telling because I can’t see a thing

 

[HipMystic]

Yes, I believe any barred chicks will be boys!

Great, thanks! Now I just need to convince the family that we can’t keep any barred ones just because they look like Barred Rocks

 

[winterwolf4]

Here are the 3 Beifehelder x Aracauna chicks that hatched. 2 of the beifehelder hens had a Maran dad. The Aracauna rooster is white. The last chick looks like a female Beifehelder chick should. I have purebred beifehelder chicks that I got in the mail.

 

[Dinoroar]

One out already! An early bird!

 

[microchick]

Can I play?

Set 12 SDW and BBR OEGB pure and cross eggs in my Brinsea Eco Mini on March 41. ETA: 3/19-3/2.

Did my first candling this morning officially and could spot vascularization in all but one egg. It looks very porous for some reason and is hard to visualize.

Scene the evening of the 31st right after loading so the numbers on my secondary thermometer look a little wonky.

I'm proud of this hatch. This will be my bantams 4th generation. I bought the breeding stock as vaccinated birds thanks to spending the previous three years fighting Marek's disease.

There is life with and after Marek's!

 

[Poodlemum]

I’m on Day 18 for my first batch of April eggs and all looks good! I think the one d’Uccles egg that made it this far may not make it to hatch, but everything else looks promising!

I set a new batch tonight of bobtail bantam Cochin eggs—12 eggs—due 4/23. I’m so hopeful we get a few to hatch!

D’Uccles haven’t been doing well here either, but one has pipped I think It was a guess on who laid it and all the others from my guesses were clears.

I hope your bobtail hatch goes perfectly!!! You deserve some cuties

 

[Poodlemum]

Can I play?

Set 12 SDW and BBR OEGB pure and cross eggs in my Brinsea Eco Mini on March 41. ETA: 3/19-3/2.

Did my first candling this morning officially and could spot vascularization in all but one egg. It looks very porous for some reason and is hard to visualize.

Scene the evening of the 31st right after loading so the numbers on my secondary thermometer look a little wonky.
View attachment 3454126
I'm proud of this hatch. This will be my bantams 4th generation. I bought the breeding stock as vaccinated birds thanks to spending the previous three years fighting Marek's disease.

There is life with and after Marek's!

Happy hatching! You are definitely very welcome to share your cuties with us! One rule though… Share tons of pics Kidding lol

 

[Poodlemum]

There’s a little silver one! So impatient for it to dry out…