HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

[cdobert]

Eeekkk, eggcited... i have 2 rocker eggs, got 1 on video. First ever incubator hatch. The anticipation is killing me. So bad i had a friend swing by my house twice today to check on eggs since i had to work (made for a long day at the hospital). When should i expect a pip/hatch? I do have 1 that has a small v shape crack, not sure exactly though this is started pipping. I want to stay up all night and watch...

 

[BantyChooks]

Any crack is a pip... Good luck!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

have you tried candling it? would be great to know what's going on inside

I will, after its been in the bator for a few days. It was just laid today so the air cell will be very hard to see. Maybe I'll try though, tomorrow, right before I set it.

 

[harmesonfarm]

well, ended up with 9 chicks hatching and found one zipping when I moved the others to the brooder.

Hopefully this little one makes it and i didn't mess it up too much!!!

It was zipping the entire bottom part of the shell, not a normal zip at all so I couldn't see it...

Pretty great hatch rate though! with the 9 it's an 80% and if that last one makes it then that boosts it to 90%

 

[BullChick]

I have babies e Or one baby when I left for work and another pipped that I expect will be out when I get home. The first one can't be used for breeding, which is a bummer because it was from another breeder's lines and it would have been nice to be able to use it, but hopefully the other one will be nice and dark

They are alone in the room. Alone; waiting for their fate. They are slated to be murdered by a hungry giant for their delicate flesh. Nobody cares about seven wet, cold, terrified ducklings.They wait. Just wait; for all else is useless. Waiting in the near pitch-dark. Waiting to be plucked, roasted, and canned. One closes her big baby eyes, slowly, then jerks awake, as if any display of weakness would hasten their demise. Death seemed unavoidable... Unless there was one, just one, who cared?

Won't you be "the one?"

Make up your mind. I'm running out of locks!

Eeekkk, eggcited... i have 2 rocker eggs, got 1 on video. First ever incubator hatch. The anticipation is killing me. So bad i had a friend swing by my house twice today to check on eggs since i had to work (made for a long day at the hospital). When should i expect a pip/hatch? I do have 1 that has a small v shape crack, not sure exactly though this is started pipping. I want to stay up all night and watch...

e It could be two days. Sorry!

well, ended up with 9 chicks hatching and found one zipping when I moved the others to the brooder.

Hopefully this little one makes it and i didn't mess it up too much!!! 

It was zipping the entire bottom part of the shell, not a normal zip at all so I couldn't see it... 

Pretty great hatch rate though! with the 9 it's an 80% and if that last one makes it then that boosts it to 90% e  

Great!!

 

[AlilSassy]

I guess I'll start here and jump to the November thread when it gets here. Shipped eggs just arrived today and I've got them resting. I'm nervous because in the quick candling while unwrapping them I couldn't see clearly defined air pockets in any of them. I'm hoping that it's a combination of untrained eye and trying to make out what's going on behind a tan/brown shell rather than bad eggs. Cross your fingers for me, guys. This is my first attempt and I'd hate for it to fail before I've even started.

I definitely recommend the link posted for you earlier, and the rest surrounding it. I've been hatching nothing but shipping eggs, and they were my first experience... cheap China made incubator, and I think I only now, after I think 2 months of trying, finally figured out their quirks and the best ways to use them. Don't take it too hard if the hatch rate isnt good, shipped eggs are much harder to begin with.

As an update on my 6 at day 21, got 1 pip, 1 I'm pretty sure is actually a bad egg and is in a corner now...they are actually filling the eggs now too, so I guess this is how they look when done right lol...had so many start hatching on day 19, day 21 seems mythical to me lol... got around 10 or more Easter Egger that just hit Day 19, and I didnt even realize since they are in same incubator and I've been focused on the Cornish and Sussex eggs... maybe tomorrow the White Laced Red will be out I may have to take a shot of Tequila so I sleep and not wake up to check them

 

[wornoutmomto3]

18 hours! That is how long this duckling has been trying to get out of the shell. The internal pip happened sometime before 6am thursday. It is now after 12am friday. Yes, this has been an assisted hatch. The aircell formed at the narrow end of the egg. To encourage the chick into a mal-position (so that it would pip into the aircell) I had to leave the egg narrow side up for the entire hatch; upto the time an internal pip was noticed.

An artificial external pip was done about an hour or so later, due to issues with hatching deaths in previous duck hatches.

The duckling successfully pipped about 10+ hours later, before getting stuck a few hours later.

A zip line was slowly made around the egg over the next few hours, and the ducklings head moved out of the shell.

The little one is presently working to kick off the remainder of the shell, and fully join the world.

 

[NysiaAnera]

Winter's sweet seven ducklings! We absolutely love our little Calls!

And, I'm thinking 3 bibbed, a magpie, and 3 greys?

Adorable! I definitely need to show these to Duke in my next attempt to convince him I need some ducks!

First baby out of the large blue egg ...Blue Isbar. Second baby out SFH

Ooh, so cute!!

 

[NysiaAnera]

18 hours! That is how long this duckling has been trying to get out of the shell. The internal pip happened sometime before 6am thursday. It is now after 12am friday. Yes, this has been an assisted hatch. The aircell formed at the narrow end of the egg. To encourage the chick into a mal-position (so that it would pip into the aircell) I had to leave the egg narrow side up for the entire hatch; upto the time an internal pip was noticed.

An artificial external pip was done about an hour or so later, due to issues with hatching deaths in previous duck hatches.

The duckling successfully pipped about 10+ hours later, before getting stuck a few hours later.

A zip line was slowly made around the egg over the next few hours, and the ducklings head moved out of the shell.

The little one is presently working to kick off the remainder of the shell, and fully join the world.

Another cutie!

 

[NysiaAnera]

I checked on our Buff Orpington momma several times today hoping to see little faces peeking out, but absolutely nothing so far. I kept trying to listen for noises, but I couldn't hear anything with other noises around me. She is really plastered down on the eggs too, so I am glad to see that. She is not alert, nervous, and overly excitable like the Australorp was. Hopefully that will mean better hatching success. So far, I have to say that I am much more impressed with the mothering skills of our Orpingtons. The Australorp is VERY protective, but NOT very careful, and as I said before, overly excitable and nervous. She gets worked up and steps on the babies or scratches right on top of them. But they are all doing great, so that is good.

We put eggs under 2 of our Buff Brahmas today, the third one decided to abandon the broody club. 12 eggs each. We decided to just leave them in the hen house, and marked the eggs so we can tell them apart from any new ones. Here's hoping all goes well!