April 2023 Hatch-A-Long

[Iluveggers]

It does look like an internal pip to me.

Looks like an internal pip - you should be able to hear it now

Oh my goodness I might have two more coming then!

 

[Canadian Wind]

Three pips, one weeble, and loud chirps. Come on already!

I'm not a very patient person.

 

[junior67]

Perhaps give her another chance. If it was her first time, she may have been confused and unsure what the heck was going on. I'd worry more about the other chickens pecking at eggs and chicks.

I let one of my OEGB hatch out a clutch in November, while still in the enclosure with the roo and two other hens. three hatched although only two survived (found one chick dead with no wounds) and they were raised by the whole flock. There was one egg though that had started hatching that had it's poor feet sticking out and pecked. I tried putting it back under the broody, but found it kicked out again later. Thought the chick was dead but noticed very very faint movement from a very very cold (and injured) chick. I breathed on it to warm it up until the incubator was up to temp. That chick is now a lovely little cockerel, albeit missing toes!

I know, that had nothing to do with your situation, but I felt like sharing.

All my girls raised chicks last year in the coop with the flock. Only one small issue. Not sure if it is just the one year olds are jerks or what. With the egg pecking if you mean the one laid in the coop today? If they lay in the coop or run they will peck it, most times not hard enough to break it but sometimes they do. If in the nest box which is where they lay, besides the rare one a few times a year, they don't touch them.

 

[junior67]

So excited for the first time ever I had a 100% hatch rate!!!!! I did have some clears but no quitters at all!!!!

 

[Hucklekree]

At four hatched now out of 18. They are all chirpping little fluffballs of chaos. Might have to fish them out earlier than I expected.

 

[junior67]

My fluffballs.

 

[Canadian Wind]

My fluffballs.

They are so adorable!

 

[junior67]

They are so adorable!

Thanks. I am obsessed with a couple of them! hoping for some hens from the ones I LOVE LOVE!

 

[maceleneo]

Hi everyone, may I step in? Last Monday my OE Edgar sat on 10 eggs: 5 light blue from my little Araucana, 3 light pink from a barred EE and 2 from my favourite BCM. Apparently those were not enough, and on the 2nd day Edgar layed her own greenish brown egg, so now she has 11 eggs. They should hatch around April 24th, let's see what happens!

Here she is:

And this is my OE rooster, Napoleone, who doesn't seems to rejoice about his fatherhood, but maybe he just dissimulates well!

Hope some of those blu eggs will give me a hen who lays green eggs!

 

[Canadian Wind]

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!!!

Woke up to loud chirping, never moved out of bed so fast!

The wrong-ender still hadn't managed to get out of the egg, so I carefully assisted. Keeping my fingers crossed that Ponyboy makes it! That's not him in the pic, although he looks similar.

More eggs pipped, I'm going to be getting my exercise sitting up and back down and walking the several step to the washroom to check on them, lol!

Two down, ten more to go!