February 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[Sc_chickengirl]

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While none were pipped that I could see, I quickly took the Araucana girl out.

Adorable !

 

[Jaime918]

Everyone is off their rollers, and the camera is placed. Excited and nervous at the same time!

 

[Silverwulfess]

Everyone is off their rollers, and the camera is placed. Excited and nervous at the same time! View attachment 2980616

Yay! Fingers crossed for an awesome hatch!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Today is day 15 of incubation over here. One of my broody hens stopped sitting, she had already been broody for about a month once I finally gave in and gave eggs to them because a second hen went broody with her. So now I have one hen sitting on all 5 eggs. I have a little kennel that I'm going to put in the exact spot where she's sitting in a day or two. Most of my broody hens freak out if I try to move them before the chicks hatch so I'm taking a different approach and I'm going to try to keep her comfortable in a kennel while her chicks hatch and then move her to my actual broody pen once they're hatched. The kennel is way smaller than I would like which is why I'm trying to wait a bit before putting her in there. Fingers crossed this works! lol

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I made the decision and I evicted the Silkies as the one was picking on the araucana who’s still drying out. I put a wet paper towel in and humidity barely dropped. Here’s the new Silkie babies. Sorry they're so dark. Weather here isn't great today. The last one's covered in dried up goop.

Congratulations on your new babies! The last one has quite the vaulted skull. I have to always assist mine when they have vaults that big! They have a hard time turning in the shell.
It does look more Partridge to me in the photo as well.

 

[Jaime918]

Yay! Fingers crossed for an awesome hatch!

Thank you!

 

[Silverwulfess]

Congratulations on your new babies! The last one has quite the vaulted skull. I have to always assist mine when they have vaults that big! They have a hard time turning in the shell.
It does look more Partridge to me in the photo as well.

The partridge Silkies are still in the incubator. Those photos are of the mixed colour Silkie batch. So many different types haha. But it popped out of the shell fine. The only one I've assisted so far was the black one, who is quite a bit bigger than the others it looks like! It had just made one huge hole and no progress for over 24 hours. I finished the zip for the most part, popped it back in and it came out fine after that.

 

[Silverwulfess]

The three “partridge” Silkies. Ones really interesting and showing a picture of its back, like lighter strands mingled amongst black. One of the blue Silkies, the same one who followed Solo around everywhere, keeps coming out from under the brooder for attention whenever I take the lid off and is quite happy being picked up lol

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I made the decision and I evicted the Silkies as the one was picking on the araucana who’s still drying out. I put a wet paper towel in and humidity barely dropped. Here’s the new Silkie babies. Sorry they're so dark. Weather here isn't great today. The last one's covered in dried up goop.

Oh! They r so precious!!!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

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While none were pipped that I could see, I quickly took the Araucana girl out.

She's a cutie!