Black Copper Marans hatch

BethJ · Aug 4, 2019

July 13

Bought 15 Black Copper Marans eggs from North of 89 Farm (Ontario, Canada)

July 15

After letting the eggs rest and letting the incubator (Brinsea Ovation eco) run all Sunday I placed the eggs in at 2:00 pm
Humidity was maintained at about 40%

July 16

Added 4 Cream Legbar eggs at 7:30pm

July 22

Candled the 4 Cream Legbar eggs, they all look good. Didn't even try with the BCMs. Nobody smelled bad. Left them all in.

August 2

Filled up water reservoir, went into lock down.

August 3

One good pip and several smaller ones around 9pm

August 4

9:15am the good pip started to unzip
9:50 the chick freed itself from the egg, it has giant feet and was face planting into everyone else

There are at least 5 other pips in the Marans eggs but none so far in the Legbars

Humidity went up to 80% after the hatch so I opened the valve a little.

My parents dropped by around 12pm and by 12:48 the second chick had hatched, we completely missed it.

casportpony · Aug 4, 2019

Congrats!

SantiagoHens · Aug 4, 2019

Congrats!! :ya

BethJ · Aug 5, 2019

Yesterday we had 6 Black Copper Marans hatch.

Four are now in the brooder

Mike was our first to hatch

Followed by Dotty

Then Fricassee, who has short third toes

Fourth was Eagle, who has very unique colouring compared to the rest of the chicks

Maverick had pipped last night before 6 and 7 but he didn't show up until this morning

6 and 7 went to break my neighbours broody Teddy

And then our first Cream Legbar, Iceman, showed up mid morning to hang out with Maverick in the incubator

So out of the 14 Marans eggs that went in, 7 hatched yesterday/last night. I'm not sure if anymore will today or if the others are duds. One looks like it pipped but I'm not sure.

Then we have one Legbar so far and another pipped