Can't wait to start hatching soon! Anyone else with 10/14 hatch day?

[KalikoFarms]

I am waiting on Aracona's (rumpless) and am really nervous about them. They are due to hatch on the 14th but I have been told this particular breed is hard to get hatched.

So I am just praying

Rita

 

[bobbieschicks]

Woke up to find a Silkie in the bator with the Orpington! I think it's from one of the blue/black/splash eggs but I can't read it from this vantage point. Maybe someone else will hatch and kick the egg and I will be able to tell. Got to set up the brooder today. Wasn't expecting them until tomorrow or later so I'm a little behind. LOL! The kids will be happy to find two new chicks in our house. The other orpington didn't hatch so I'm worried it won't now. It had pipped last night but nothing since - so it might not have been going to hatch. It's so frustrating to see them pip and not be able to get in there and help them. I don't want to risk the whole clutch for one that probably wouldn't make it if I did help it out.

Praying for more chicks today!

 

[bobbieschicks]

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Cool! Hope they hatch for you! I have a rumpless chick that I think is Araucana - at least that's what the woman who sold her to me said. Her name is Smokey because she was smokey grey as a chick.

 

[Kelsey2017]

Congratulations to everyone that is hatching and best wishes to those that are about to! I am having so much fun with this. I have never had my very own chicks before. Our ducks did it on their own and that was really neat but this is way cooler. I just put my boys on the school bus and my 7 year old decided to bring in all the egg shells from the chicks that have hatched already. He wanted to show everybody the blood vessels and how cool it was that they just cut the egg in two and pop out. All of the shells have a hinge left even it is soo cute! It looks like we have three girls and one boy so far, but it is a little hard to tell until they are fully dry.
Boy did I make a mistake though, I don't have a turner in my incubator and so I was worried about the eggs rolling around on the mesh because no matter how careful I was some poor egg would end up rolling into the thermometer (and it was metal). So I placed a thin layer of fleece from my sheep in there to cushion and make the eggs easier to turn. It was thin enough that the air flows around it okay and seemed to keep everything nice and cozy. Well one of the little babies got wound up in the fibers and I had to cut her free and then this morning another one had it wrapped around her leg. I did notice that it was only a serious problem where I had inadvertently got the fleece wet but ARGH! Now I am committed to peeking which I don't want to do or trying to move the fleece but I can see that there are more external pips so I need to not move the eggs around. Hopefully things will go quickly but I am going to set up a temporary brooder to get the chicks off the fleece, it would be so easy for them to get it wrapped around a toe or something and constrict blood flow!
I do have to say thanks for the support I have gotten so far and this is a monumentous time for me. Gone are the days of buying chicks, and oh, I guess- here are the days of spending money on a turner and fancy incubator! Bring on the eggs! Next will be turkeys! (as in next spring) I am getting a little ahead of myself I should just go and tell the proud parents about their offspring and give them breakfast. Happy Hatching All!

 

[bobbieschicks]

2nd Silkie finally zipped and is chirping in the bator! I'll try to take a pic soon. There are at least two Orpingtons that pipped early today but haven't moved or zipped so I don't hold out much hope for them.

About to get a thunderstorm - hoping the power stays on!

 

[bobbieschicks]

Okay I pulled the two chicks that hatched yesterday because they are fully dried and were pecking the new baby - the temps are high enough and the humidity is still high so hopefully I didn't hurt any other chicks. Still waiting to see what the final count will be.

 

[Floridachicken1958]

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Hope they all hatch good luck

 

[KYTinpusher]

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I had one that had a tiny pip very early yesterday morning and then nothing until sometime overnight when it hatched! Don't give up, yet.

We have a baker's dozen! 5 Swedish Flower Hens, 4 Black Copper Marans, and 4 Barred Rock. One BR is still in the bator as it was put in 5 days after the others. It is still alive so we'll see. One BR didn't make it. It looked like it was full term, but the egg was very big compared to the others, and I think it just couldn't get the leverage it needed to pip.

Here's pics and video:



[ ]Day Old Chicks[/url]

 

[bobbieschicks]

yeah the tiny pip guy is hatching! That makes 2 silkies (black lavender splits) and 2 orpingtons (lavendar/black splits) so far! And tomorrow is hatch day

 

[ronniewayne]

well sounds like some great hatches going on...mine are supposed to be on sat the 15th and i heard one chirping this afternoon and looked and have about 8 piped the first one was halfway zipped at 4 pm and by the time i got back in at 7 2 were hatched...they sure seem to be early 2 days...oh well just glad to have them hatch ...happy hatching and good luck..