HALLOWEEN HATCH!!! Anyone

[evonne]

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lol.. you want some LF EE's?? i don't think i could kill these short of the one i dropped.. i've opened the bator about 5 times today, and they keep plugging away...
granted, i wasn't really worried about humidity since there's no sucj thing.. it's a figment of y'all imagination....

i've heard the seramas are tricky anyway??? or is it that the eggs are tricky to get?? ah i don't remember anymore.. lol... i'm on breed overload with all the new stuff i've learned...

in the spring i should have some silkies or sizzle eggs if you want to try those... granted, that's if i get a roo out of this next hatch i'm gonna try.. they're shipped eggs though.. not ones out of my yard... keep it in mind and we'll see what happens ....

 

[kathyinmo]

Just checkin' in. I'm back at work. I went home for lunch. Amazing .... the first one out waited for me! I shined the flashlight in and saw it had zipped and was pushing. Then, POP, right as I watched! It is a Jersey Giant. It is grey colored ... is that a blue or a splash? I believe it is a blue. Very active fellow, this one is. Jumping all over, and was sitting on top of the egg carton when I left. I have half in a carton, and half on the bator floor. This one hatched from the floor. There are several pips, but I see no further zipping. Though DS says one is zipping, but that it is from the underside. Anyway, they are making me sweat .... it has been all day. I do hear chirping, but do not see zipping.

Come on babies ....

You guys are all doin' great! YAY! Keep me informed, as I check in every once in awhile. I can't stay long .... work. I will be home in 5 hours!

 

[neferset]

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I wonder if that's what some of my Orpington X chicks are going to look like? The mother is a Buff Orpington. The father of some of them is a Rhode Island Red. The other father is Igor, my avatar bird who is Old English Game Bantam x something barred or a black sexlink aka Mystery Rooster on the other side of my woods. The little buff colored ones are getting barring on their wings. I don't have a Buff Orpington Rooster. These are my yard pets' eggs.

Editing my Edit: I mean to say, the little Buff colored ones I hatched last week. The one from the day before yesterday doesn't have wing feathers yet.

I had said two, but the second chick from Monday night/Tuesday morning was an Orpington x Rhode Island Red for definite.

 

[neferset]

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The eggs have bad air cells. Every one of them. I candled before I set them because I wasn't sure which way was up on some. I don't think they would make the trip to you, but I'm incubating them anyway.

 

[evonne]

are they sposed to be eating the guck out of the eggs?? i think it's membrane?? one of them had a glop of it stuck to him and i thought it was the whole unabsobed yolk thing but then it fell off and it looks like what's in the other eggs but it's round glob of it... ??

 

[neferset]

Are they eating it? I don't think I understand completely. From your description I think it is unabsorbed yolk and maybe baby chick poo also. I wouldn't worry about it, as long as its not a glob dragging along behind them. (I've had that happen a couple times, generally with late chicks, and the results are not usually very happy.)

 

[evonne]

no.. it's not attached to anyone.. it's just a glob.. of gunky colored stuff at this point.. there's a little bit of it from a different egg laft in the egg too.. i'm not sure what it is.. lol.... but it's not attached anymore more than one bird left some in the shell and they're all up tripping around like idiots.... so i think they're healthy and strong.. i'm so proud of my oblivious problem child.. lol.. she doesn't even know she gave birth to ambitious healthy children... i mean.. first eggs, first hatch, and they're a day early with no problems.. Go Rocky!!!!

 

[neferset]

Yeah, probably yolk they didn't need and/or chick poo. Don't worry about it.

 

[neferset]

*distracts Evonne from the bator with the contents of her wok*

 

[mayapooh]

LOL Cute!