Eggs Day 21...18 of 23 Hatched/ Pics post 76 (Superglued a Chick!)

[walkswithdog]

Luck Cyn, I've a few Dels or Del/mixes and some Sizzles due around then. I'll bator watch with you. OMG the first born son of Algernon is a TANK with what may be too much color. Wow he's marked up. I'll take it as a good sign, considering the hens I had. Lots of color to most of the babies except the really white downed ones. This is fun.

 

[speckledhen]

Glad you have the size on him, Cher. Among my 20 Del babies in the brooder now, one is a shrimp! No idea why so tiny, but it looks like a bantam. Probably, she'll catch up, but gee, she looks so small beside the other chubby Ikelettes!

 

[walkswithdog]

I had two hatch like that here, I banded them. If they don't out grow it, I know which hen they came from. But mostly omg lil yellow tanks... And I bet I could make you fall for the partridge rock del mixes, the babies are adorable! And talk about big birds...

And I have sizzled a few dels but darn it if they won't go curly and no feather feets. I'd have to persist for generations and that's not happening but they're fun colors...

 

[speckledhen]

Hey, that's a great name for them, Cher....Partridge Rockdels!

 

[speckledhen]

We are now into Day 10 with this batch. I set 26 Dels and 2 BBS Orps. Three Dels didn't develop for some reason and one Del had a blood ring, so I have 22 Dels and 2 BBS Orps. The BYCer would be fine with 10-20 Dels, so we're still doing good there. Why on occasion some eggs just don't develop is anybody's guess.

 

[justmeandtheflock]

Good luck with your hatch

I am on day 10 as well, mostly

I have 2 double yolkers left out of 11 that are on day 11 and 9 single yolk eggs on day 10 all from my RSL girls. Pulled the rest and opened them tonight and they looked mostly clear except the 1 double that I figured quit early and 1 of the single that I was able to open without breaking the yolk look like it had a disc. I have a hatchery silver phoenix roo who should be the daddy of this bunch but had an EE roo within a month of the eggs being set so we shall see. This is my 3rd hatch, I have 2 almost 5 week old silkies and 7 almost 2 week old EE x RSL chicks in the brooder now. I has to help chicks on the last 2 hatches so I am really trying to work out the bugs this time. My non-crossed beak silkie and 4 of my EE's were helped so I am sure I don't have something right. I am thinking it was the humidity. I am checking weight by the gram carefully this time and they seem to be losing the right amount with no water and 25% humidity in the bator this time. I didn't do a really good check tonight but all the remaining eggs are about 2/3 dark so I think they are doing OK. I haven't been able to confirm 2 chicks in the 2 double yolkers like I was able to last time. These eggs are pretty dark brown so it is kind of hard to see in. Hopefully my leghorns will be laying when I set my mext batch

If I get it right this time, I will be looking for some blue wheaten ameracuana's to hatch so I can start my EE project

Sorry for the novel

 

[speckledhen]

Blue Wheaten is a terrific color! Love those.

 

[justmeandtheflock]

Thanks!!!

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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I've wondered about covering the hova with a blanket or towel in case we lost electricity but also wondered if the eggs would get enough air with it all enclosed like that?

 

[speckledhen]

You can't obviously cover the airholes that surround the bottom of the bator, and I never do. I just cover the top since it loses heat through the windows, which tend to get looser as you pop them out over and over when you clean between hatches.