Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[Lobzi]

One of the smallest eggs pipped! Im so excited.

 

[BarrettG]

I'm going through a hatch as we speak! Easter egger hen and Lavender Amerucana roo.

 

[Madisan]

I'm going through a hatch as we speak! Easter egger hen and Lavender Amerucana roo.

Awwwww sweet sweet babies!

 

[mom of silkies]

I'm going through a hatch as we speak! Easter egger hen and Lavender Amerucana roo.

They are precious! Congrats on your hatch!

 

[Lobzi]

Well here is the first to hatch from the very delayed hatchings. One of the three eggs I brought in to the incubator is pipping and another pipped and the baby seems a bit distressed. I decided the best was to put them back under mama. I removed two more of the late eggs and candled them. They are alive but much more delayed. Im not expecting them to hatch for days based on what I can see inside.

 

[BarrettG]

Well here is the first to hatch from the very delayed hatchings. One of the three eggs I brought in to the incubator is pipping and another pipped and the baby seems a bit distressed. I decided the best was to put them back under mama. I removed two more of the late eggs and candled them. They are alive but much more delayed. Im not expecting them to hatch for days based on what I can see inside.

How can you candle an egg that is full term and tell it's alive? Isn't the egg all black inside? Majority of the eggs should hatch consecutively. If you have one or two that don't hatch, and candeling shows there is full growth inside, then maybe wait another 12 hours. Odds unfortunately are that chick is dead. I just finished my hatch, had one egg that didn't hatch, when I broke a bit of the shell I saw the baby was dead and not moving :-( it happens. Why did you have a late hatch? Did you not have the temp up to 100-102 degrees?

 

[Lobzi]

In a post earlier I asked if anyone had experienced such a delay (4+ days) to hatch if the eggs were found nearly frozen in the beginning of the brooding process, which I did. The broody mama had returned to the wrong nest and her original eggs were ice cold when I found them and replaced them under her. I didnt even expect them to be viable. I have a very very strong light to candle late-term eggs with. It is so strong that is surprises the baby and causes him/her to flutter around enough for me to verify they are alive. This is only near the aircell. I cannot see the actual developed chick but I do see the flutter and movement.
The eggs that hatched yesterday I had marked on Dec 16, the one now yet to hatch were marked Dec 21. I expected the Dec 21 eggs to hatch today but based on the delay of four days for the Dec 16 eggs I am not expecting the remaining eggs to hatch until the end of the week or maybe next weekend. Candling does indicate they are way behind in development. I love this little light. I have no idea about it other than it is incredibly bright. I was given it to view and scare predators that were coming up on my deck at night. It is the size of a mag light so very small. It is too bright to view early-term eggs. It totally washes out the view of the egg contents.

 

[gimmie birdies]

For future I hear it is best to have her sit an odd number of eggs because they fit inside the nest better, How many eggs is your hen sitting on?

 

[Lobzi]

She is on two eggs yet to hatch and has two healthy hatchlings. I have two more of her eggs inside in the incubator that are from a favorite gray frizzle hen, Rockie. Her boyfriend is a favorite roo, Bunky who is a blue faverolle/cochin mix, straight feathered. Im very anxious to see what offspring they produce. Pics to come.

 

[Lobzi]

Mama and her two early-late hatchlings. Four more to hatch yet.