February Hatch-A-Long

[shaila]

Update for my February chicks...

From Feb 9th hatch, Bronze (brown with subtle pattern) and Gizmo (brown and white)


From Feb 22nd/23rd hatch, Rocky (brown), Cookie (white with multiple dark spots), and Cream (white with distinct head spot and couple faint spots)

 

[PioneerChicks]

I should have reported earlier because I forgot the hatch rate! I think it was around 60%. I'm not too pleased, but I think the incubator temp was low and I went a little odd on the humidity.

@LadiesAndJane the little silkie didn't make it. I helped her out of the egg, I think she was just positioned wrong. I think she would have made it, but I think she was dehydrated and I didn't get water to her soon enough. (Woah, that was a lot of "I think"s!) But, lesson learned; there is a hurry and I shouldn't put off helping a chick in need.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I should have reported earlier because I forgot the hatch rate! I think it was around 60%. I'm not too pleased, but I think the incubator temp was low and I went a little odd on the humidity.

@LadiesAndJane the little silkie didn't make it. I helped her out of the egg, I think she was just positioned wrong. I think she would have made it, but I think she was dehydrated and I didn't get water to her soon enough. (Woah, that was a lot of "I think"s!) But, lesson learned; there is a hurry and I shouldn't put off helping a chick in need.

Sorry you lost the little one. Sometimes no matter what you do, they still do not make it. I lost the only one that hatched out of 25 in March, also an assist. So hard sometimes. The one I hatched out of 10 for February, hatched on 2/27, is doing great though.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Sorry you lost the little one. Sometimes no matter what you do, they still do not make it. I lost the only one that hatched out of 25 in March, also an assist. So hard sometimes. The one I hatched out of 10 for February, hatched on 2/27, is doing great though.

None out of twenty-five stinks
But I'm glad your Feb chick made it!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

None out of twenty-five stinks
But I'm glad your Feb chick made it!

Thanks! The eggs I have on the Easter hatch along are my second attempt from the same breeder.

 

[Mellowmalt]

This here is a 5 day old cuckoo dutch bantam that I just wiped off its pasty butt
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Nearly one year ago I posted my little dutch cuckoo male. Time flies. He is all grown up now and is my main breeding cockerel.

He has now officially become a dad and this is his new offspring, one of them is a week older than the rest

 

[PioneerChicks]

Nearly one year ago I posted my little dutch cuckoo male. Time flies. He is all grown up now and is my main breeding cockerel.

He has now officially become a dad and this is his new offspring, one of them is a week older than the rest

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They're cute! What a great success!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Feb was a bad idea for hatching....this is what I got

That right here is of a hen that has yet to even start laying!! Shes almost a year old! I need to know what color the egg is to see if Mr Cheeks is staying or going as his brother a true ameraucana aswell but only had one blue egg gene!

 

[gimmie birdies]

My avatar's baby a couple years ago, she is very fat now like your hen. She also lays a dark gray egg. She is BCM/EE

 

[electrycmonk]

Feb was a bad idea for hatching....this is what I got View attachment 2950033
That right here is of a hen that has yet to even start laying!! Shes almost a year old! I need to know what color the egg is to see if Mr Cheeks is staying or going as his brother a true ameraucana aswell but only had one blue egg gene!

I have a couple girls like this.
Light greenish-blue eggs.