Hatch-A-Long (May-June)

[holmes0927]

First one to hatch! Lf Ameracauna, and I hear more peeping! Yay!

 

[Cknldy]

Congrats everyone on beautiful peepers 11 of 14 hatched for me. 1 had pipped and started to zip on wrong end. I heard it cheeping loudly before bed but never saw the pip and thought it had just internally pipped. By morning I saw where it had zipped and took it out of bator to discover it had drowned since zipping on little end. The two others were fully developed but quit-seemed to be upside down in shell too. Perhaps if I had not left the tray in they could have rolled the egg around and still hatched so lesson learned. Staggered hatches are off the list unless I have another bator for lockdown/hatching. After losing those 3 to something so simple (would have been 100% hatch rate!) the russian orloffs and other 6 rir had better do good;-) Am scheduled to pick up 4 russian chicks Sunday from same person that I got the eggs from just as a teaser til mine hatch next week. Anyone know where I might find some russians of a different bloodline?

 

[gbtwinsmommy]

First pip this morning! We are hatching this batch and then will have new eggs early next week. The next batch are lemon cuckoo orpingtons from a BYC member. The farm is going to have a great variety of heritage chicks and chickens by the fall.

The eggs hatching this week end are from the existing flock. Gotta get the brooder ready today.

 

[chickenpooplady]

I got my first pip this afternoon! She is still in there working. She did get a few of the others to wiggle but so far only one pip. Hatch day is tomorrow!

 

[caitanni]

Day 9, noticed last night a horrible rotten smell in the incubator while I was rotating. After reading horror stories about eggs exploding and killing the other eggs I decided to eliminate 1 that smelled and was just a dark blob inside, 1 that was clear, and 1 that was a blob and no detectable veins. Down to 8. On a positive note, I seen wiggly lil babies in all the other eggs

 

[Crafty chick]

Almost to lockdownn here! Yay! Due to hatch Wednesday

 

[AvianEgo]

My lone call duck egg has me pacing! I thought call ducks incubate for 26 days?? Well no one told this little one! Here i am at day 28 waiting and waiting. It has made some good progress but not fast enough! Started to pip last night and still slowly chipping away.

 

[AvianEgo]

Hard to see, but it's trying...

 

[chickenpooplady]

So is it normal for chickens to take a while after they pip? Because I had one pip this afternoon and it still has not zipped.

 

[AvianEgo]

So is it normal for chickens to take a while after they pip? Because I had one pip this afternoon and it still has not zipped.

yes. It can be awhile