february hatch along

[chickenmama109]

My BCM/LO egg hatched! maybe a day late, may be on time, if I slipped one more egg in last moment.

I am letting her dry in the incubator, then I will clean it up and put eggs from a diff incubator in the incubator she is in.

Congratulations on the chick

 

[Brooke215]

My BCM/LO egg hatched! maybe a day late, may be on time, if I slipped one more egg in last moment.

I am letting her dry in the incubator, then I will clean it up and put eggs from a diff incubator in the incubator she is in.

Congrats!!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Thanks!

 

[gimmie birdies]

blue egg chick with an older chick, Dad was LO younger is part EE, the older chick is Blue cochin

New BCM chick with blue egg chick

Black copper Maran/LO chick

I see hints of blue. I am going to call her "Penguin".

below is my latest setting- it is a few days along...the store eggs are on the right, my eggs are on the left. Who knows if any are fertile. My roosters have been gone 3 weeks and the store eggs are store eggs.

 

[worldbiker]

Second set batch was set last night. All Olive Eggers. My first hatchings (18) are all doing well at 3 weeks today and half are already getting friendly to my 4 year old.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have some that hatched at Thanksgiving I have not introduced to the other chickens, but it is time.

I have been introducing my 11 day (or so) old chicks to my new hatched chicks. The cute blue cochin was picking up food and dropping it for one new hatched EE chick, and then when my BCM chick was introduced to that EE chick it was doing the thing for the BCM. Then a different older chick came and lied down with one of the new chicks and the new chick crawled under her wing and she let it happen.

 

[Ahavati]

We have 11 eggs on day 7 right now. Mostly our ameraucanas but a couple rock/ameraucana mix (barred and plymouth) and a barnyard mix. SO far it looks like 6 out of the 11 were moving around in there! A couple were iffy, I will check in a few days. At least 3 were clear or had a weird look to them. I wanted at least 4 new ameraucanas as they are my best layers. Hopefully all 6 fertile ones hatch!

 

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

Hello everyone,

I was standing downstairs looking at my eggs and decided that since I only have one Olive Egger, I needed more. I just bought 8 Easter Egger chicks from our local farm store, they will be a week old Wednesday. I have a Blue Copper Marans Rooster, "Zaffer" and a Blue Ameraucana hen "Esmeralda" and one Olive Egger "Early Girl". I also have what we thought was a Blue Copper Marans hen "Lazuli"...but that girl is laying a pink egg. She was given to me by my sister-in-law who got her from someone she chicken sat for. So, I've decided to hatch 4 eggs from Esmeralda, 4 eggs from Early Girl and 2 eggs from Lazuli and see what I get! I should get 4 F1 Olive Eggers from Esmeralda, 4 I don't know what generation Olive Eggers from Early as I don't know what generation her mother was (I bought hatching eggs and hatched her). As for Lazuli...who knows??

I have my incubator setup and running now, and will either set the eggs this evening or tomorrow morning. Below are some pictures of the eggs I'm setting, "Dad" and the "Mom's to be":

Duh...clicked post instead of upload a file...here are the pictures
Early - Olive Egger

The eggs!

Esmeralda - Ameraucana

Zaffer - Blue Copper Marans & Lazuli - Looks like a Blue Copper Marans but lays a pink egg...so who knows...but I love her anyway!! LOL!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I named my blue cochin bantam Esmerelda, after the Renaissance Esmerelda.

 

[juliasflock]

Newbie help please! I am struggling to keep my temp up now that I took out my turner. It's been cycling between 98.4 and 99.9. I have been adding warm/hot water to the incubator to get the humidity up but it still seems to mess with the temp. I also have added what seems like a lot of water to the incubator, almost 2 cups since yesterday 10am I have 2 sponges and a washcloth in there. It does have a fan and we are in the driest time of year here, so I know that plays a part. I have calibrated my hygrometers with salt. I have been using a straw and syringe and not opening the incubator at all. I am hovering around 60% humidity.

Does all this sound ok? Eggs were rocking yesterday, and only saw 2 little bits of movement so far today on Day 19. So stressful!! Glad lockdown is only a few days and not a whole week!!