Hatch-A-Long; GemmaGA's Very First Incubator Hatch!

[GemmaGA]

Hello fine people of BYC!

So my husband bought me an incubator for Christmas. We lost some chickens to a predator including my totally awesome, super spectacular roo, Scuba. May he rest in peace.

So I decided to try my hand at hatching some eggs - I set them yesterday (02/16/2022). Here's what we've got cookin' over here - the 'mix' eggs could have either a Langshan pappa or a Double Laced Barnevelder pappa:

4 - Silkie (possible Frizzle!)

4- Lavender Orpington

Backyard Mix batch:

1- Copper Maran mix

1 - Sapphire Egger mix

1- pure Barnevelder

1- Australorp Mix

1 - Silver Spangled Hamburg mix

1- Pandenseca mix

1 - Cochin mix

1 - Buff Orpington mix

1 - Brown Leghorn mix

3 - Mystery eggs

Wish me luck! I seem to have quite the variety and it will be interesting to see what hatches out of these and what kind of funky chickens I get out of the mixed batch!


Edit: Did I mention I bought them off ebay? I'll report back on my success - I bought from sellers near to me so the eggs wouldn't spend a lot of time in transit. All of the eggs got here in a day or two max. I'll candle @ Day 4 and see how it's going.

 

[AmeraucanaHank]

Hello fine people of BYC!

So my husband bought me an incubator for Christmas. We lost some chickens to a predator including my totally awesome, super spectacular roo, Scuba. May he rest in peace.

So I decided to try my hand at hatching some eggs - I set them yesterday (02/16/2022). Here's what we've got cookin' over here - the 'mix' eggs could have either a Langshan pappa or a Double Laced Barnevelder pappa:

4 - Silkie (possible Frizzle!)

4- Lavender Orpington

Backyard Mix batch:

1- Copper Maran mix

1 - Sapphire Egger mix

1- pure Barnevelder

1- Australorp Mix

1 - Silver Spangled Hamburg mix

1- Pandenseca mix

1 - Cochin mix

1 - Buff Orpington mix

1 - Brown Leghorn mix

3 - Mystery eggs

Wish me luck! I seem to have quite the variety and it will be interesting to see what hatches out of these and what kind of funky chickens I get out of the mixed batch!


Edit: Did I mention I bought them off ebay? I'll report back on my success - I bought from sellers near to me so the eggs wouldn't spend a lot of time in transit. All of the eggs got here in a day or two max. I'll candle @ Day 4 and see how it's going.

keep me posted!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Fortune favor your efforts!

 

[GemmaGA]

So it's day 3, I candled some of the eggs and looks like we have some action! A few of the eggs have very dark brown shells so it's hard to tell, and one has a green shell - going to try again tomorrow (Day 4) and then the next day (Day 5) to see how things are progressing!

Feeling optimistic about my first incubator hatch!!!!

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Fallowing!!!

 

[MysteryChicken]

 

[GemmaGA]

So I just added a few more eggs - ones of my own that may be fertile from my roo that recently died after a predator attack.

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm doing my first hatch too: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/first-time-hatcher-hatch-a-long.1511216/

I hope you get a chick from the rooster you lost.

 

[AmeraucanaHank]

what breed was the rooster you lost?

 

[GemmaGA]

what breed was the rooster you lost?

He was a blue Cochin Bantam (see my profile picture of the beautiful boy, Scuba).