DECEMBER Hatch-A-Long!😊

[LadiesAndJane]

NN is Naked Neck. Not an aesthetic I'm personally fond of, but I didn't know it was possible to get that when I purchased the eggs I hatched my cuckoo girl from. She's so stinkin' nice that I'm willing to overlook it, lol!View attachment 2439896 Cuckoo lady at 5 months old back in warmer days when she didn't have her crest plastered with dirt... she's obviously only partially naked neck. They have a technical name for it, but I don't actually care...

4 have the eyeliner, two are just deep colored with gold tips.

She is beautiful!

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

Congratulations on your new silkies!

Thank you! I'm excited to watch them grow! Now I just have to wait for the hatches starting in 9-ish days...

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

She is beautiful!

Thank you!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

So the next 3 in my staggered hatch have internally pipped yesterday. Impatiently waiting for them to externally pip. Figured out my recessive white cockerel is likely carrying blue as the third chick in the last batch is indeed blue. Verification will be if he throws any splash with my splash ameraucana. These are not due to hatch until later this month.
Was trying to color test him, so I can use him with my splash and blue partridge silkies in the Spring. So far, so good.

Was not planning to keep any of these hybrids, but this little blue one is so cute!
Please save me from chicken math!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Thank you! I'm excited to watch them grow! Now I just have to wait for the hatches starting in 9-ish days...

Got to love these staggered hatches!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

So the next 3 in my staggered hatch have internally pipped yesterday. Impatiently waiting for them to externally pip. Figured out my recessive white cockerel is likely carrying blue as the third chick in the last batch is indeed blue. Verification will be if he throws any splash with my splash ameraucana. These are not due to hatch until later this month.
Was trying to color test him, so I can use him with my splash and blue partridge silkies in the Spring. So far, so good.

Was not planning to keep any of these hybrids, but this little blue one is so cute!
Please save me from chicken math!

They are really cute, and apologies for the laughing emoji in the post itself, but Chicken Math is like Gravity - you can fight it for a time, but eventually...

 

[seeingreen]

Is that condensation on your windows? What is your humidity at?

My incubator says 70, it’s plastic inside a styrofoam casing, I just cut out a window and that is the only place there’s condensation. I don’t have a secondary thermometer or hydrometer though.

 

[WAchickychicky]

We are on day 14, the move to the new house was successful. I had the broody hen in a protected kennel for 24 hours. She just took her first break off the nest and returned to to kennel nest like normal after 10 minutes. Big relief! I am so happy she has accepted the new nest. Once she was settled, we transferred the incubator eggs under her and switched out the golf balls she was protecting .

Our other 3 hens have resumed their "sentry duty" standing outside the kennel like little guards. They did this at our last house, where they stood in the shed she was nesting in. Supportive sisters! So excited to see the babies soon!

 

[seeingreen]

So the next 3 in my staggered hatch have internally pipped yesterday. Impatiently waiting for them to externally pip. Figured out my recessive white cockerel is likely carrying blue as the third chick in the last batch is indeed blue. Verification will be if he throws any splash with my splash ameraucana. These are not due to hatch until later this month.
Was trying to color test him, so I can use him with my splash and blue partridge silkies in the Spring. So far, so good.

Was not planning to keep any of these hybrids, but this little blue one is so cute!
Please save me from chicken math!View attachment 2439926View attachment 2439927

That first chick looks so fluffy and very grumpy cute!

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

My incubator says 70, it’s plastic inside a styrofoam casing, I just cut out a window and that is the only place there’s condensation. I don’t have a secondary thermometer or hydrometer though.

I would recommend getting a few - I had one of that style, and the built-in hygrometer would never go over 50, and I had major condensation. Used a separate hygrometer and it was in the high 90's. I lost that entire hatch.