BYC's 13th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along - 2022

[TORIMILLS]

I have four hatchlings this morning. Three made it out themselves and I broke my "no assistance" rule with the fourth. Instead of zipping a straight line, it had made a large triangle - and I'm kicking myself for not taking a photo. After I split the shell properly, it booted the shell apart with surprising strength, like "See, human?! I'm fine!"

I don't see any more pips, but I'll let the bator run another 24 hours just in case. 4/50 tells me to not bother incubating unattended stealth nest eggs like these, so in the future I'll just scramble them up for the dog and chickens.

Edit: @TORIMILLS any joy at your end?

Not a bit.

 

[TORIMILLS]

That is a pretty egg! Congratulations!

Thanks. I love the color! One of my hens from Alchemist Farms.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Two more Welsh Harlequins joined the four overnight, and there are several more pips. Draaaaggy hatch this time.

 

[Silkie Princess]

View attachment 2948983Two more Welsh Harlequins joined the four overnight, and there are several more pips. Draaaaggy hatch this time.

So stinking cute!

 

[TORIMILLS]

My eggs are just sitting there in the incubator and I am wondering what I've done wrong. Today is day 23 for 6 eggs and day 22 for 2 eggs. Do I candle them or just keep waiting?

 

[Silkie Princess]

My eggs are just sitting there in the incubator and I am wondering what I've done wrong. Today is day 23 for 6 eggs and day 22 for 2 eggs. Do I candle them or just keep waiting?

Candle

 

[AgnesGray]

My eggs are just sitting there in the incubator and I am wondering what I've done wrong. Today is day 23 for 6 eggs and day 22 for 2 eggs. Do I candle them or just keep waiting?

I'd candle also.

What incubator are you using and is this the first time it's been used or it's one that's proven? Were the eggs shipped?

 

[AgnesGray]

I set 34 eggs for the HAL.

9 hatched
13 quitters, which I think is a record percentage-wise and I won't get into why I think that happened (again) lol
12 clears

I also set one bonus egg a day or two after from one of my marans and that egg hatched a very adorable bonus baby which I have named Queenie. I am not 100% sure if her dad is our Bielefelder who loves the hen who laid this egg with undying love and has found his way back to the pasture she ranges in over and over again, or if it is the Zen Hen BCM rooster we adopted last summer, who is her official "husband" that she roosts with every night and no matter where she is, she's never more than a few feet away from him.

 

[TORIMILLS]

I'd candle also.

What incubator are you using and is this the first time it's been used or it's one that's proven? Were the eggs shipped?

It's a Little Giant styrofoam incubator that we've had for years. The eggs are from my hens. I have 8 eggs that were developing nicely. Now nothing. I'll go candle and see what I can see

 

[TORIMILLS]

I candled and definitely could see movement in a couple eggs. I can still see veins in them also. It is hard to see though. I feel better now.