August Hatch-A-Long!

[BY Chicken Lady]

Have an external pip!!!!!!!e

WooHoo!!

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Sounds very confused to me. Usually a sign of a malpositioned chick.

It's curving now, maybe got itself in the right position. It did some rocking for a while, then started curving.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

No pips on my other three eggs. The 21 day mark isn't for another 12 hours (I put them in late at night) so I won't worry too much about them yet.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

My 5 hour old chick is eating and pecked at water nipple on its own after I showed it to her a few times!

 

[jnjmanning]

Have an external pip!!!!!!!

 

[CGinJCMO]

7 hatched on day 18. Still waiting on 20 or so more eggs. EE roo over 1 EE, 5 Red Sex link, and 2 Barred rock. 4 blue eggs hatched so 4 "pure" EEs - I think the pale grey in the upper left corner, and the 2 dark brown chicks (far top and far bottom) will be the potential blue egg layers because I had chicks 7 weeks ago look just like that from a hatch of only blue eggs. I think the red/brown striped chicks are from sex link eggs (of course I don't think it's a sex link chick) and the solid black one might be from Barred Rock (future green eggs). That leaves the more solid looking brown as my other potential blue egger. That is of course assuming they are all girls. My last hatch of blue eggs got me 5 boys and one girl. With those kind of odds, I wondering if I should try one more time to hatch blue eggs (before the sperm runs out of the hen-roo is gone so number of fertile eggs will be diminishing). I don't want to end up with chickens in the house all winter.

CG

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

CGinJCMO, you will end with some pretty cool colors

I have EE X Red Sex Link chicks too, the variety of colors is amazing.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

7 hatched on day 18. Still waiting on 20 or so more eggs. EE roo over 1 EE, 5 Red Sex link, and 2 Barred rock. 4 blue eggs hatched so 4 "pure" EEs - I think the pale grey in the upper left corner, and the 2 dark brown chicks (far top and far bottom) will be the potential blue egg layers because I had chicks 7 weeks ago look just like that from a hatch of only blue eggs. I think the red/brown striped chicks are from sex link eggs (of course I don't think it's a sex link chick) and the solid black one might be from Barred Rock (future green eggs). That leaves the more solid looking brown as my other potential blue egger. That is of course assuming they are all girls. My last hatch of blue eggs got me 5 boys and one girl. With those kind of odds, I wondering if I should try one more time to hatch blue eggs (before the sperm runs out of the hen-roo is gone so number of fertile eggs will be diminishing). I don't want to end up with chickens in the house all winter. CG

Oh my you have your hands full. Here I am fretting over one hatched, one pipping, and three others just sitting there in lockdown. I have 18 silkie eggs and three eggs from my own chickens in a separate incubator. Figured by the time these five hatch I will be over my nervousness and calm down for the hatching of the others, lol.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

So, does anyone know what breed of chick this might be? This is my mystery hatch. It was in a tan egg shell.

Here is 'Sunshine' all fluffed up.


Here is a back view, look at the size of those Feet!

 

[ChickenFox]

So, does anyone know what breed of chick this might be? This is my mystery hatch. It was in a tan egg shell.

Here is 'Sunshine' all fluffed up.


Here is a back view, look at the size of those Feet!

Hmmm....I'm taking a wild guess with no expertise but maybe a buff Orp? Or pretty much any red chicken that lays brown tan eggs.

I'm curious to find out though.

Oh and CONGRATS!!!! Go chickies go!