APRIL HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[krstms]

14 out so far and one more pipped.


So far
3\\8 BCM
2\\3 Ameraucanas
5\\6 Blue andalusian (last one is pipped)
4/4 mixed eggs (one BO/ameraucana, 3 WR/ameraucana

The rest of the bcm arent doing anything yet.

for them. This has already been my best hatch ever and most were shipped eggs!!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

Ok the score . The eggs turned pointy end down won. Three eggs didnt' hatch and they were pointy end up. Here's pics. 14 / 15 Dels, 3/4 CM's, 2/3 bant friz crosses, and one unknown. 20 for 23. The eggs that didn't hatch were 1 del, 1 cm, and 1 bantam friz cross , so it wasn't the breed. They were all stored pointy end up.

 

[rancher hicks]

Come on this is the last day of April. Aren't there anymore hatchings going on?

 

[ScratchesWithChickens]

Quote:
Yup! This is my second hatch this month. They started hatching yesterday morning. 15 have hatched, 5 eggs left in the incubator. They're partridge/millie/black mottled cochin bantams, quail d'Anver and gold/silver/white phoenix bantams. I'll have pictures as soon as I can find the camera. They are so cute and TINY!

-Alex

 

[princessmama]

One blrw out and two more pipped

Four eggs not showing activity so far. Plus two turkey eggs, one definitely alive at lockdown, one uncertain.

I'm so excited about the blrw, they are so pretty

 

[Madcap621]

Locked down a dozen French Black copper Marans eggs yesterday. Nothing happening, but then, nothing due until tomorrow! Anyone know where the May-Hatch-Along thread is?

 

[newduckie]

I am in a pickle... I had a broody on one egg. I didnt want any more babies, so I took all the eggs but one. It hatched this morning.. I worked a double, so when I got home a bit ago, I went out into the dark....scary.... to check on it. It was alone and mom was up on the roost with the rest of the chickens. It was all huddled and so I put her back on it and she freaked out and flipped it out onto the floor. I brought it to the house... I DO NOT want to raise a single chick. It is cheeping like crazy.. I gave it a little stuffed animal to get in under.. but it is soooo loud. I know it is lonely. I have another hen that is setting, but she keeps swithcing nests and leaving her eggs behind.. I wonder about seeing if she will take it, but I worry that she is to stupid to set on eggs, how will she be able to care for a baby, but the one that hatched it was a great setter and look how she turned out.... Thought I might do something tomorrow.. To tired tonight.

 

[twinlights]

Well, that hatch went badly. I only got one Mille Fleur d'Uccle, one BCM and one EE.
And no foal yet.
Here's to MAY!

 

[princessmama]

Final count for April--- 3 blue-laced red wyandottes and one bourbon red turkey. On to May

Found another pip this morning (halfway down the egg, close to the small end!)

They're all drinking, trying to crawl under each other and busily pecking at the hole in the towel

 

[Khyree]

Hello! I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on a tough dilema for me. I have had chicks in the bator that popped out a day early (thursday) and i have one that pipped externally thursday but is still making its way around the egg.... I know that they just absorbed their yolks and can last 3 days with it... but this slowwwww one is just so slow i'm not sure if it will make it out before tomorrow! i don't see any more pips (could be missing them) and don't want to shrink wrap anyone... but don't want to starve the others either... If the first ones made it out thursday morning before i went to work (lets say before or around 6am) how long can i safely wait before moving them over... and is there something i could do to help anyone that is still zipping if i have to?

my broody has 2 now!

the first one is either an ameraucana or an araucana... this next one i'm not sure... almost all black except for some gold under it's chin and near an eye...

can anyone point me in the direction of gold laced cochin chick pictures? i've got ameraucanas araucanas gl cochins and silkies all running around together... silkies are easy with their black beaks... but the others...???