HALLOWEEN HATCH!!! Anyone

[Freckle Face Farm]

I keep hatching olive eggers but havent kept one for myself yet.. I hatch and hatch and 3 light ones poped out. I was sooo going to keep them.They had little feathered legs..

My hubby sold them..

So I am going to keep hatching till I get some more light ones... Most look like my Marans.. But I want them to look like my ee's so when they run across the lawn I can tell them apart

 

[kathyinmo]

5 pips! One is a Marans! OMG .... I just can't leave and go to work today!

 

[kathyinmo]

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Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that ... about looking more like a Marans. I was thinking of it looking like an EE!

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

My first hatch I thought OOO I am never going to be able to tell them apart...But my OE hatch with the little fluffy cheaks like my EE's..
Go chics go!!

Good luck with your first pips...

 

[walkswithdog]

Gahhhhh

I did candle the marans. Only five are viable, one is backwards and very dry. Too dry. All of them lost too much water, as I figured, they were badly shipped, hello postal gorillas, one egg was totally shattered when the package got here. Two of Halos are hatching, two are trying - again postal gorillas, two of the eggs were broken when the package arrived. I have three more sizzles that are going. One is pipped...

At least there was only one among the shipped eggs that started and quit and that yesterday from the look of it. Too dry. Now we wait and watch and probably help the backwards chick, possibly the other marans that are so dry...

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

walkswithdog Looks like a long incubation..I have opened up my bator letting the humidity out..

And have had to help out some chicks...Now I still have to tell myself never open never open...

 

[walkswithdog]

In many cases I find "don't open" not a thing.

Unfortunately with shipped eggs, don't open or open, doesn't often matter, they're just too dry, despite humidity adjustments and all you try to do right. Over time I've gotten pretty aggressive with shipped eggs that get to 20 days. When I wasn't I often got one or no hatchlings. Now I still manage to get fifty percent or more of those that do make it to 20 days.

I'd rather they could hatch normally but paid for eggs are generally important eggs and after long practice I'm good at finding and fixing problems. Often all they need is a nudge in the right direction, but dried out and tired they're not going to do it themselves.

Most of the time, saved chicks are fine, and their own chicks hatch normally. Artificial incubation is ... artificial. I got them into that situation, I'll help them out of it.

 

[mtcookie]

If this little chick makes it I will call it happy feet. We had power go out again last night for about an hr or two. When I noticed it was out I went and put it in my bra. LOL
The temp was down to 78. I was so glad the power came back on after an hr. I had almost no sleep last night due to the new puppy, happy feet and the chicks.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Alfred (Hichcock)
Banshee
Beezil Beetle Juice
Black
Boo Bob (for apples)
Bones
Casper
Candy
Creepy
Crawley
Count Dracula
Devilish
Evil
Fang
Frankenchicken
Frankenstein
Flame
Gastley
Gremlin
Goblin
Gory
Ghost
Ghoul
Ghouly
Hocus Pocus
Hob Goblin
Ick
Icky
Icabod
Jack (Jack o Lantern)
Killer
licorice
lantern
lick
lollipop
Munster
Mummy (for a potentially broody girl )
Monster
Midnight
Moon
Oogey Boogy
OOhm
Potion
Pumkin
Phantom
Quarantine
Quiver
R.I.P
Rigor
Raunchy
Rope
Red eyes
Scare Crow
Swamp
Spell
Spook
Spooky
Shock
Storm
Scarey
Screetch
Scream
Slaying
Surprise
Shadows
Skeletons
Skull
Spirit
Spider
Stretcher
Toad
Terror
Tut
Trick
Treat
Thriller
Tombstone
Toothache
Ugly
Vampire
Vampris
Vanish
Villian
Witchy
Witchcraft
Wizard
Warlock
Wand
Wanda (the witch)
Windy
Wigs
Werewolf
Web (spider webs)
Well

 

[kathyinmo]

Good luck HappyFeet! and all the others!