December Hatch:Who is going to have Christmas babies?

[daze333]

I love the red/brown one too!

I have one silkie chick this am, looks to be white. And 4 or 5 more pips! Yay! Today is hatch day!

 

[emvickrey]

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I had a lavender orphington that when hatched had pink toes but as she grew up they turned grey. I also had one of my silkie chicks hatch with 4 toes. It had other problems and it was a sruggle to get it to live and after nearly a week it just gave up.

 

[emvickrey]

All but one of my december hatches are done. I have one more to go and they are due on Christmas eve. The last four I have to take out of the hatcher. I don't normally leave them in this long but I wanted them to get a little stronger and some size to them before I put them in with the others. I've got 20 silkies so far with 13 more eggs to go. I haven't candled them lately so some may be quitters.

 

[IdealisticRoo]

One of my silkies has 4 toes on one foot and 5 on the other, but she is healthy.

I have 2 (out of the 62 I set on Dec. 3/4) eggs going into lockdown this afternoon. I figured with only 2 eggs in there; space was not a concern, so I have 3 preheated bricks to provide some stability to my hovabator. I am not really worried about these 2 because they are mix eggs from ebay and after what they have been through (shipping, handling, candling and some wild temp & humidity fluctuations), they will probably survive ANYTHING! I am also expecting both to be roos, because I have read that male embryos are MUCH stronger.

I hope both hatch, mainly because I DO NOT want a lonely, chirpy chick that I will have to buy mirrors, toys and feather dusters for! I do not want to get ultra-attached to a surrogate chick that will probably be a roo!

 

[mustangluvrjen]

Lockdown has begun for my 5 duck eggs..all of them quivering/wiggling from time to time. My only concern is that my fan is loud so I don't know if I'll hear peeps

 

[daze333]

I now have 4 silkies hatched out and lots more pipped! I will get some pics once they are moved to the brooder. (tomorrow)
It is fun to see all this hatching in the middle of winter!

 

[vebyrd36]

Okay only one out of 10 eggs made to lockdown yesterday. I have not seen movement in the egg yesterday befor lockdown. I'm not really sad cuz the eggs wer 10 days old and it is my first attempt at a bator. Now that I have figured out temp and humidity. I also have 7 eggs in the bator that were put in on the 12/ 6&7. They all have movement in them. Question should I see peeping tomorrow. In the one egg? Also I was running my temp at 99.5 for a still air. Well I figured it out finally it had to be at 100 to 102. Any help is welcome.

 

[MuranoFarms]

All 3 hatched! The little mutant has 2 friends.....both look to be pure silkie, but I wonder

Actually, I took these eggs off of Pepper after she was sitting 3 weeks and they were behind. She couldn't figure out the 'stay on the eggs' part! I kept finding them in front of her, behind her, buried in shavings. So I popped them in the incubator. I know she didn't lay them all though. I was hoping they were from my sizzle

 

[daze333]

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Congrats on the babies! Any pictures??

 

[daze333]

Well this am I have 11 babies and one last pip. 10 are dry and in the brooder;

This little blue one already has the typey stance down!