- Mar 7, 2014
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So, I got an incubator this year, and here's what hatched:
Most of them are about two days old, with a three day old and a four day old (hatched on day 19).
That's 17 chicks from 56 eggs. About half the initial number turned out to be infertile (only one rooster, but 10+ hens, making all of these a minimum of half-siblings; they're all mutts of some sort). One almost made it out of the egg, but died in the shell during the process.
One of the last ones to hatch did so with curiously damaged fluff:
I hope it's a hatching defect, not a lasting feather condition.
Most of them are about two days old, with a three day old and a four day old (hatched on day 19).
That's 17 chicks from 56 eggs. About half the initial number turned out to be infertile (only one rooster, but 10+ hens, making all of these a minimum of half-siblings; they're all mutts of some sort). One almost made it out of the egg, but died in the shell during the process.
One of the last ones to hatch did so with curiously damaged fluff:
I hope it's a hatching defect, not a lasting feather condition.