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Easter-to-Mother's Day hatch-along?
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And I just stuck 8 under a broody hen! Success!
One has a gimpy leg and one last one is still pipped but not anything more. I think the slightly low temps might have affected chick development
All 10 babies under mom. 2 are a little iffy (Shipped eggs, incubated w incubator, hatched Thursday, Friday, and 2 late bloomers Saturday & introduced under her yesterday am and the last 2 today). 1st time mom doing great.
They have a vitamin mash in the little dish (Scratch and peck chick feed soaked in water plus polyvisol), chick feed, polyvisol in water.
May introduce corrid into drinking water later this week when they start going out into the run.
The only thing theyll need now is some chick grit.
She mostly sits there and eats and drinks and broods, teaches the babies to do that. They come out, run around, poop, eat and drink, and then go back to hiding / getting warm under mom.
She had a gigantic poop yesterday, even for a broody hen.
When it gets warmer in the afternoon (70s/80s this week!) they come out more. They are already little flying daredevils, launching themselves over each other and trying to climb on moms back.
They have a vitamin mash in the little dish (Scratch and peck chick feed soaked in water plus polyvisol), chick feed, polyvisol in water.
May introduce corrid into drinking water later this week when they start going out into the run.
The only thing theyll need now is some chick grit.
She mostly sits there and eats and drinks and broods, teaches the babies to do that. They come out, run around, poop, eat and drink, and then go back to hiding / getting warm under mom.
She had a gigantic poop yesterday, even for a broody hen.
When it gets warmer in the afternoon (70s/80s this week!) they come out more. They are already little flying daredevils, launching themselves over each other and trying to climb on moms back.
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Day 9.5 and cautiously optimistic. All three remaining eggs have visible veins, although the distribution doesn't look completely normal to me in a way that's hard to describe. I think I saw movement in both Favaucana eggs this morning, but couldn't tell if the bantam egg was moving or not. The air cells look a bit large to me for this stage. I've been running my humidity at 35-40%; I guess I'll try to bump it up just a tad and see how things go over the next few days. 
A local BYC member is putting some Wheaten/Blue Wheaten/Splash Wheaten Ameraucana eggs into the incubator for me that should hatch over Memorial Day Weekend; I'm going to pick up three of those to brood with whatever I (hopefully) get to hatch out of this bunch.
A local BYC member is putting some Wheaten/Blue Wheaten/Splash Wheaten Ameraucana eggs into the incubator for me that should hatch over Memorial Day Weekend; I'm going to pick up three of those to brood with whatever I (hopefully) get to hatch out of this bunch.
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Hope everybody’s hatches are still going good, I’ve got one week left!!!
Hazel is sitting on an EE egg, d’uccle egg, and a SLW egg, all were developing good last time I candled, but I only got to candle once so far...(Hazel’s bite is worse than her bark
).
The dad of the EE and SLW eggs is Barney, he’s a black Cochin/ RIR mix!
The dad of the d’uccle egg could either be my porcelain d’uccle roo or my polish roo, so these chicks are gonna be very interesting lol.
Good luck everybody!!
Hazel is sitting on an EE egg, d’uccle egg, and a SLW egg, all were developing good last time I candled, but I only got to candle once so far...(Hazel’s bite is worse than her bark
). The dad of the EE and SLW eggs is Barney, he’s a black Cochin/ RIR mix!
The dad of the d’uccle egg could either be my porcelain d’uccle roo or my polish roo, so these chicks are gonna be very interesting lol.
Good luck everybody!!
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HATCH TIME IS FINALLY UPON US!
Just did the D18 candle/weigh and set up for "lockdown" (I do a soft lockdown because retaining humidity is not a problem I've had, rather quite the opposite).
Of the 20 I had going strong at D14, one more quit, and that was the other cracked egg I had tried to repair, so not altogether surprising. This puts my final tally in lockdown at:
(2) 55 Flowery
(2) Tolbunt Polish
(1) TolPol x Jubilee Orpington
(1) Salmon Faverolle
(2) Welsummer
(3) Marans: 1 FBCM/2 BBS
(4) Olive eggers of various provenance
(2) Easter Eggers
(2) Cream Legbars
That's 20/26 shipped eggs making it to day 18, and two of those that failed were straight up infertile, and two were cracked. A lot of them had wonky air cells that more or less straightened out over time (using a side-lying auto-turner); only a few stayed loose-ish.
I also have 2 more coming on a 4-day lag that I don't anticipate any problems with, 2 on a 14-day lag that are doing fine so far, and, FOR SCIENCE, I just threw in 3 oldish eggs just to see if they do anything. I like to test the fences.
Fingers crossed for the final hurdle . . .
Just did the D18 candle/weigh and set up for "lockdown" (I do a soft lockdown because retaining humidity is not a problem I've had, rather quite the opposite).
Of the 20 I had going strong at D14, one more quit, and that was the other cracked egg I had tried to repair, so not altogether surprising. This puts my final tally in lockdown at:
(2) 55 Flowery
(2) Tolbunt Polish
(1) TolPol x Jubilee Orpington
(1) Salmon Faverolle
(2) Welsummer
(3) Marans: 1 FBCM/2 BBS
(4) Olive eggers of various provenance
(2) Easter Eggers
(2) Cream Legbars
That's 20/26 shipped eggs making it to day 18, and two of those that failed were straight up infertile, and two were cracked. A lot of them had wonky air cells that more or less straightened out over time (using a side-lying auto-turner); only a few stayed loose-ish.
I also have 2 more coming on a 4-day lag that I don't anticipate any problems with, 2 on a 14-day lag that are doing fine so far, and, FOR SCIENCE, I just threw in 3 oldish eggs just to see if they do anything. I like to test the fences.
Fingers crossed for the final hurdle . . .
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I wish one of mine would go broody in time to adopt babies! So cute.
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HATCH TIME IS FINALLY UPON US!
Just did the D18 candle/weigh and set up for "lockdown" (I do a soft lockdown because retaining humidity is not a problem I've had, rather quite the opposite).
Of the 20 I had going strong at D14, one more quit, and that was the other cracked egg I had tried to repair, so not altogether surprising. This puts my final tally in lockdown at:
(2) 55 Flowery
(2) Tolbunt Polish
(1) TolPol x Jubilee Orpington
(1) Salmon Faverolle
(2) Welsummer
(3) Marans: 1 FBCM/2 BBS
(4) Olive eggers of various provenance
(2) Easter Eggers
(2) Cream Legbars
That's 20/26 shipped eggs making it to day 18, and two of those that failed were straight up infertile, and two were cracked. A lot of them had wonky air cells that more or less straightened out over time (using a side-lying auto-turner); only a few stayed loose-ish.
I also have 2 more coming on a 4-day lag that I don't anticipate any problems with, 2 on a 14-day lag that are doing fine so far, and, FOR SCIENCE, I just threw in 3 oldish eggs just to see if they do anything. I like to test the fences.
Fingers crossed for the final hurdle . . .
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WE HAVE CHEEPING!
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