December Hatch:Who is going to have Christmas babies?

[speckledhen]

Five eggs due to hatch Dec 25th. Four Delawares and one Del x blue barred EE cross. Can't believe I'm giving in to that feathered angry gold beach ball, but yup, I am.

 

[debilorrah]

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I'm not sure about you, but I really love hatching. If I could, I would hatch all year long, and we now Wheaten OEG's that I will be working on......

Good luck!

 

[emvickrey]

I have an incubator full. I set 13 today and hopefully i'll have some christmas chicks or very close to it. Mine usually hatch early because I keep the temps a bit warmer. I would rather have a smaller chick that can get out of the egg than some that are larger that can't get out. I have staggared hatched till then all month but i'm hoping for a christmas chick. Maybe i'll name it Noel, or Jingle or something Christmas'y

 

[emvickrey]

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Same here. I'm hatching out the silkies eggs and they are all new at this so I get alot of clears also. Just tossed out over a dozen today myself. I added 13 more so I filled almost all the spaces that I emptied. Bater full again. I have white, blue, black on the silkies and white on the frizzle and sizzle and the polish/silkie cross.

I have a new pair of white silkies that are in quarenteen right now but all my whites will be in one pen in a few weeks and I hope the new roo gets right to work. lol My young roo seems to be overwelmed with having 8 girls to tend to. He wants to stand around and be pretty more than he wants to breed.

I do have some fertile but not as many as I would like. Like all of them fertile.

 

[sega]

Hatched 18 out of 28 mixed breed chicks. Will post story about this hatching later.

Here are some pics.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, I love hatching, I sure do! The problem is being able to feed them all, get rid of the extras before they are mature, having room for them all, etc.

 

[BooBear]

Mine are in lock down today. So excitinge
Right before leaving for work I peeked at them and some where moving.

Don't know if I can stand the wait much as I am all excited now

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

OH lord I have silkies due on the 17th and the 22nd. I just won an auction on ebay for some LF cochin eggs so....they will be (according to my calculation) due around New Years eve.

 

[mountainwhisper]

Hi,

I'm new to BYC, just got registered today. I have my first eggs incubating right now and due to hatch tomorrow. We started with eight eggs, 5 have developed and we are hoping will hatch. I'm so excited to see them

 

[emvickrey]

I've had 3 silkies to hatch so far today with 2 more to go.

These are the first to hatch from my silkies. There are 2 that I know are partrige and the other I don't know which hen laid it. The roo is a black lavender split. The very first one that was fertile didn't hatch and that was just a few days ago. It pipped internally but died. I got it out but it died nearly as soon as I got it out. Maybe I waited too long and maybe it was just meant to be.