February 2023 hatch-a-long

[WallyG74]

a mix of EE and Cochin

I have one of these but she looks like an EE with feather legs.

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

Well, my first hatch-date if the month (of four...) has 6 eggs in lockdown, and my first blue silkie of the year hatched out while I was there (My incubators are set up in my coop, and I don't live on the farm)! I had a 24+ hour period without power, and I didn't lose a single egg! Not sure how it's going to effect viability down the line, but so far so good!

Set 13 eggs yesterday from the blue/splash pen, and hopefully there's finally a fertile cuckoo egg mixed in there too...

Pic of freshly hatched blue baby for tax.

 

[Kikilu]

Arghhh! Reading all of your posts got me a little too excited I guess. Was watching my livestream from home in bed and SWORE I saw two pips. Drove 35 minutes into work for nothing

Did restart the livestream though so the new link is

for anyone else who wants the anxiety

Good idea for the mirror to show other side! I will be using that for my camera while away.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I haven't seen a mass before so can't help there. But a pip on wrong end can take 48 hrs to hatch as it is an internal and external pip in one. So they take longer. All of mine have been able to hatch on their own that pipped at the wrong end.

I failed to mention that he pipped sometime last night. I found the bloody pip hole at 6 am this morning, turned with the pip hole on the bottom, so I didn't see it at first. I don't know for sure how long it had been since the external pip. But I felt safe to assist his hatch early this evening since he'd made no progress since this morning in spite of being active all day long. And it looked like the dried blood had pasted the membrane to his body, so I worried about him being stuck and unable to spin around. The oil treatment made the membrane transparent and showed no active blood veins, so I knew he was about ready. After about 20 minutes to let the oil soak in, I went up with tweezers to start the real assist - but too late, he'd already hatched himself! It worked!

 

[LhickenChicken]

I failed to mention that he pipped sometime last night. I found the bloody pip hole at 6 am this morning, turned with the pip hole on the bottom, so I didn't see it at first. I don't know for sure how long it had been since the external pip. But I felt safe to assist his hatch early this evening since he'd made no progress since this morning in spite of being active all day long. And it looked like the dried blood had pasted the membrane to his body, so I worried about him being stuck and unable to spin around. The oil treatment made the membrane transparent and showed no active blood veins, so I knew he was about ready. After about 20 minutes to let the oil soak in, I went up with tweezers to start the real assist - but too late, he'd already hatched himself! It worked!

Sweet relief!

 

[junior67]

Gonna need some pics of these.

One of my blue roo and a bunch of my project boy. I also have 2 splash Cochin pullets, a splash project pullet, and a blue frizzle project pullet.

 

[LhickenChicken]

The one that was zipping hatched. It was a hard hatch I think. She got stuck in the rubber band and she couldn't get her feet out of the eggshell. But she is fine now, currently resting in between two eggs.

 

[junior67]

I have one of these but she looks like an EE with feather legs.

This breeder has been working on it for 3 years so not a first generation cross. I hatched a roo last year from my blue Cochin Roo and my EE. He looked like a mix of the 2. Lol

 

[FeatherProfessor]

Good idea for the mirror to show other side! I will be using that for my camera while away.

Thank you! I was trying to get creative after one of the kids said they couldn’t see theirs since it was on the backside. please share your stream if you go live too!

 

[junior67]

Mine finally hatched!!!!! Hopefully she encourages the others to hatch.