FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long, come join in!!

[ekemily]

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I go into lockdown tomorrow!! I'm hoping for lots of cute valentine babies....

 

[HHandbasket]

I have not really seen my eggs rocking per se, but three of the sebright eggs are not in the same position they were in when we went into lockdown yesterday. I made sure they were straight up in the trimmed-down paper egg cartons I put them in and they obviously have tilted to one side or the other. They are so ready to come out and peep at the world, I just know it!

I feel like the old guy from Jurassic Park talking to the baby velociraptor, trying to coax it out during hatch. "Come out, little one, come on!"

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Let the Experiment begin!

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[HHandbasket]

A sebright egg has a pip!!!!

 

[Illia]

Wow, I've got some reading to do!

Congrats on all the hatches, and best luck to the upcoming chicks!! ps - Need more photos going on here.

 

[sheila3935]

My first hatch of February started Wednesday with one black and white chick. Yesterday 2 yellow chicks and 2 black and yellow chicks hatched. Today so far 1 yellow and 1 yellow NN. 1 pip and 3 eggs left.

 

[8ROYALS]

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UPDATE: Hour 15 of DAY 21... 24 eggs in lockdown. 13 hatched, 1 zips, 3 pips and 7 taking their sweet time. 1 bantam cochin hen and OE roo, 2 bantam silkie hen x OE roo, 5 OE roo x GSL hen, 4 OE roo X OE or EE hen. Of those four I still have the black with orange. Now have a black/blue one as well....happy hatching everyone...pics to come...

UPDATE: Hour 19 of DAY 21... 24 eggs in lockdown. 14 hatched, 2 zips, 3 pips and 5 taking their sweet time. The newly hatched chick is from an 'OE' roo x 'OE' or EE hen.

Day 21 is over...19 hatched out of 24...2 started and stopped...3 never had the strenght to pip I guess
2 bantam cochin hen and OE or cochin roo, 3 bantam siliehen x OE or cochin roo, 8 OE roo x GSL hen, and 6 OE roo x OE or EE hen. I will post pics once they loadup...
4 more in lockdown tonight and then 22 on the 16th and 39 on the 25...happy hatching

 

[HHandbasket]

What gorgeous babies! Well, we had 11 make it to lockdown (woulda been 12... stupid me dropped one when I was turning them and got started on day 17). All 11 candled well. We had one pip last night in a sebright egg, but that pip has not progressed. This morning, another sebright has pipped, and an EE has pipped.

I hope we have at least one chick by the time we go to bed tonight, but if they all want to wait until tomorrow (day 21) to come out and it makes for healthier chicks, I'm more than happy to wait the extra day.

But DANG, I'm losing my patience! LOL!

I need to learn some of the finer points of staggered hatches.

 

[Heckel's Hens]

MUST have CHICKS!


SO CUTE!!!

 

[Tanichca]

alright i took 4 of my silkies eggs. She was up in the nesting box before, with all the other birds laying their eggs on top of her, including the big leghorn. She had 9 eggs! Poor little thing... i reduced it to 6. 3 leghorn, two silkie, and one dutch from dutch pair, just to check fertility on those. So... as i figure... its around day 5 today for all these. which means they are due around the 28, day 21 will be the last day of the month!