Hands on hatching and help

[SunHwaKwon]

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Originally Posted by Pyxis View Post

Pictures as promised!





I think you are right about the top one being pied. This other one is not lavender. The lighting is not good so I can't tell what it is but the head stripes are not right. Coral blue looks similar to lavender except with wavy head lines (lavender has head line patterns like pearl), though the keet looks more along the lines of buff or something but it could be the lighting

 

[RubyNala97]

So I was going through my emails and saw a junk mail for a tactical flashlight. Subject was something like "brightest flashlight in the world"....of course I thought about candling! if I was hatching marans or something I may be tempted to buy it. I decided to set the eggs I had that were collected when I was on vacation. They are pretty old now, so not sure how many will develop. Also as I candled each egg as I was putting it in the incubator 3 of them had veins in them. So obviously those must have snuck by whoever was collecting and got sat on for awhile. There were a couple girls sitting when I got home and I'm sure it wasn't fun for someone who doesn't have chickens to stick their hand under the hen's butts looking for eggs! So I set 21.

 

[WVduckchick]

So I was going through my emails and saw a junk mail for a tactical flashlight. Subject was something like "brightest flashlight in the world"....of course I thought about candling!

if I was hatching marans or something I may be tempted to buy it. I decided to set the eggs I had that were collected when I was on vacation. They are pretty old now, so not sure how many will develop. Also as I candled each egg as I was putting it in the incubator 3 of them had veins in them. So obviously those must have snuck by whoever was collecting and got sat on for awhile. There were a couple girls sitting when I got home and I'm sure it wasn't fun for someone who doesn't have chickens to stick their hand under the hen's butts looking for eggs!

So I set 21.

Good luck. Will be interesting to see if those slightly-incubated ones hatch much sooner. I'm resisting setting more.

If you consider buying that flashlight, check which batteries it takes first. My son bought me an awesome tactical flashlight, works great for candling, but the bad news is the batteries. It uses a non-standard size, takes two of them, and they are like $5-6 each. Price wouldn't be so bad if they lasted longer, but it dims fairly quickly. Lasts a while after that, but dims to the point of my next brightest flashlight, and that one uses AAA's, so I don't bother keeping the tactical in fresh ones.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I use an 850 lumen headlamp. The batteries are nonstandard but rechargeable, and I bought a spare battery on ebay pretty cheap. Rechargeable is the way to go, imo.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Pictures as promised!

First the keet that I was confused on that I now think is pearl pied and not royal purple (and who was very unhappy about this photoshoot):

The two pintos:

And lastly the little possible pinto of a different color, maybe lavender (the color is not 100% accurate here but maybe enough to make a guess at its color):

Oh, and you do guys remember the blue chick that hatched with the white head spot that I wondered if it was going to be barred? Here it is now:

Not barred, but the feathers are tipped with white at the ends. And a frizzle

And just for fun, this little guy is my future flock leader:

He's got big spurs to fill.

And I will now stop spamming the thread with pictures

Omg they are soo cute. I love the expression the little frizzle is wearing lol. I've never seen keets before but they look really cute. I'm guessing they are pretty small... even though I'm not big on naked necks your future flock leader is pretty cute lol.

So I was going through my emails and saw a junk mail for a tactical flashlight. Subject was something like "brightest flashlight in the world"....of course I thought about candling! if I was hatching marans or something I may be tempted to buy it. I decided to set the eggs I had that were collected when I was on vacation. They are pretty old now, so not sure how many will develop. Also as I candled each egg as I was putting it in the incubator 3 of them had veins in them. So obviously those must have snuck by whoever was collecting and got sat on for awhile. There were a couple girls sitting when I got home and I'm sure it wasn't fun for someone who doesn't have chickens to stick their hand under the hen's butts looking for eggs! So I set 21.

Your bad lmao I had to set eggs too. This is why it's an addiction. Hehe...

 

[jenniferlamar70]

So I have a ton of jubilee eggs and 3 ameracauna eggs went into lockdown yesterday afternoon. They are due to hatch friday. This morning I woke up and 2 of the ameraucanas have externally pipped and one is a wrong end pip. Why do I keep getting these.. :/ this time all these eggs were set in the brinsea fat side up and still it pipped the wrong end plus they have pipped 2 days early. This is not boding well for this hatch.

 

[WVduckchick]

So I have a ton of jubilee eggs and 3 ameracauna eggs went into lockdown yesterday afternoon. They are due to hatch friday. This morning I woke up and 2 of the ameraucanas have externally pipped and one is a wrong end pip. Why do I keep getting these..

this time all these eggs were set in the brinsea fat side up and still it pipped the wrong end plus they have pipped 2 days early. This is not boding well for this hatch.

Temps could be a bit too high

 

[SunHwaKwon]

@Pyxis Here is a lavender I hatched this morning, for comparison. See the head markings?





Here is all of yesterday/this morning's hatch - seven d'Uccles and 4 keets. I did have to help out the final two (the lavender keet and a tiny buff d'Uccle) because the humidity dropped despite two hatches during the night and they both got glued in place as they zipped.

 

[WVduckchick]

@Pyxis Here is a lavender I hatched this morning, for comparison. See the head markings?





Here is all of yesterday/this morning's hatch - seven d'Uccles and 4 keets. I did have to help out the final two (the lavender keet and a tiny buff d'Uccle) because the humidity dropped despite two hatches during the night and they both got glued in place as they zipped.

Very cute!

I notice in your signature you have bantam Am's?? Do you still have them and what colors?

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Very cute!

I notice in your signature you have bantam Am's?? Do you still have them and what colors?

I do, just hatched them ten days ago. I sold two to another member on here that lives not far from me but I'm holding on to the rest until I can sex them because I would hate to sell them and then hold on to two that end up being roos lol.

Here are some right after hatch


All came out white or yellow except this little bandit



Here are the eggs that they came from next to one of my tinted Japanese bantam eggs:



And here are some of them with two of the foster moms



I'll have to get updated pictures so you can see how they are feathering. Here is a picture of the two that I sold, taken yesterday. All but the dark one look similar so far:





These were shipped eggs and I had pretty good luck with them, with 9/14 hatching. They came to me from Kentucky, if I recall correctly. The d'Uccles were also shipped, and I have some shipped guineas and Cream Legbars coming along nicely as well.