frizzle,silkie,Cuckoo Maran,Showgirl,EE,Polish-Follow up thread

[TNChicks]

Congratulations.

I love the pic of the duck baby.
We have one remaining egg that has not pipped yet in our bator, and we believe it is also a duck egg. It is much larger than the other eggs and does show a baby inside when we candled at 18 days. Was your duck egg much bigger then the chicken eggs?

Out of the original 30 eggs, two were cracked, sixteen were fertile and developed into a chick, the rest were not fertile. We hatched all of the fertile eggs in the bator with the exception of the possible duck egg. We will give him several more days to pip.

Under our broody hen I saw at least four chicks and one egg that had not hatched yet. So we are somewhere around the 50% mark. I cant wait to see the chicks under our hen, as one looks to be a cochin and at least one WCB and some I can't identify yet. She hides them very well.

I ended up purchasing the digital probe thermometer for the bator. It showed the one that came with the bator as being four degrees to low. I then placed the digital probe under our broody hen to check the calibration, and it measured 100.2... So we set the bator to match. Now that's one way to calibrate your thermometer.

This was our first experience with a broody hen and with a bator. All in all, it was quite successful and a rewarding experience. One that we will be repeating once I get the time to build some more housing!

 

[chickencoop31320]

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I PMed to ask "thepetpaw" what kind of eggs they were -both chicken and duck- but she hasn't got back to me...
YES!!! This was our first duck. After looking around the house and yard I realized I dont have room for him/her and gave it to a friend of mine who has loads of ducks and space for them.
It's a cute lil bugger regardless of breed

 

[chickencoop31320]

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The egg was light blue and about the same size as the other eggs. I thought it was going to hatch an EE chicken... very surprised to see a DUCK! LOL
I think I am done hatching until my silkies start laying and then we'll see what's next

I too am OUT OF ROOM!!! Like my sig says... 58 chickens... and we only have 3/4 of an acre to work with, most of which is my FRONT yard.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Today is Day 19 and I have a pip in one egg out of 41 that I can see. I was checking humidity and I saw a piece of eggshell on the floor of one of my 'bators and saw a little pip in one of the eggs! YAYYYYYYYY!

Pip and zip little baby, pip and zip!! Wooohoo!!

And for those that were wondering about duck eggs...Joni aka thepetpaw said that yes, there are some duck eggs in with some of the eggs.

So be patient and you may have some little ducklings!! I'm hoping to have a couple myself!

Good hatching vibes!!

Laurie

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Two pips now! I can hear them chirping the second I walk into the room! Hatch babies hatch!

Laurie

 

[nhnanna]

good luck

 

[TNChicks]

Good hatching vibes

I had my first pip, zip and hatch within 20 minutes on day 19. The next one that pipped took 16 hours to start zipping... Day 21 was one after another... Quite exciting.

I had seven eggs under my broody hen and noticed on day 21 that there was an egg in the rear of her nest box that she was not sitting on. I picked it up and it peeped at me

It was at room temperature and had a pip in it, so I placed it in the bator. The little feller hatched several hours later and is a normal healthy fuzz butt.
We did not hatch out a duck, missed out on that little surprise.

Enjoy your hatch day.

Hope you end up with 41 healthy fuzz butts.

 

[chickencoop31320]

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I remembered in the orginal post that she said that she would put one duck egg in the order. I just thought the one that came broke was the only duck egg... I'm thinking now that the broken one must have been a chicken egg. I was only surprised to see a BLUE egg hatched a duck because I thought it was another EE egg.

Lil quackers is now living happily at my friend's house... Going to visit in a lil while

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Well I have 3 little fuzzbutts right now and another one is pipped!

One looks to be a Polish chick.
One looks to be a Cochin bantam.
The last one looks like a banty as well.

I'm so excited. You know I'm nuts when I'm outside the incubator peeping at the eggies! LOL

Laurie

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Thought I'd update. There are now 10 chick hatched, several more pipping. All the eggs that are hatching are in one incubator. I have another incubator that has eggs in it but there's nary a pip or a peep yet.

This was the incubator where I woke up one morning and there was a temp spike of 120. I can't say for how long it was like that either but the chicks continued to develop after that so I'm hoping for miracles!

Laurie