Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

[CamiLynn]

I HAVE P

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I'm so jealous!! Lol. What a cutie patootie!!

 

[Outrun Acres]

These are my 3 BCMS (yes even the light colored one turned out to be a BCM) the one laying down in the fist pic is a blue cooper marans.
My chicks colors vary so much I am probably of no help for you to figure your chicks colors out

the one standing



So precious! I love the light colored one with the dark head. I have never seen maran chicks. They are super cute. How many more are you waiting to hatch?

 

[FeyRaine]

@ BroosterSpringsteen

This was my NYDH hatch, the yellow chick when wet looked like pure Silver & Gold, really intense.
That chick is a pure Maran, the Roo was Blue & I think the hen also Blue but maybe Black (not my flock)
Kandy Kane has feathers in a tiny row down each leg, and those were visable from the start also if that helps.
So bottom line, yellow face w/ some black mask could be Maran.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Thanks guys for all the pics! That does help. I had no idea there could be so much variety in BCMs.

There's no question the chicks are all Maran. The guy I got them from only raises Marans, but he has 9 different colors, all seperated. After looking at pictures, I'm fairly certain the solid yellow chick is White Maran, the black with a yellow mask is BCM, and the mostly copper one is probably a Golden Cuckoo Maran, which apparently can be sexed by color. Dark brown chicks are probably female. All the chicks have very feathered shanks. So cute! I'll post pictures once they're in the brooder!

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

4 hatched! My Brinsea is starting to get pretty noisy. My cat is going to lose his mind soon. The chirping is driving him crazy. And there's no way I'm going to be able to wait until all the hatching is done to move some to the brooder.

 

[Aschenfire]

I set two little Serama eggs from one of my young pairs on January 6th...they went into lockdown last night...here's hoping for two healthy peeps Sunday evening

 

[Shellz]

What's your humidity now? I have an LG still air. Apparently, you can get away with less humidity in it, but went with advice of Sally Sunshine on another thread. 65% + is working for me! I did a staggered hatch too & worried the last 3 would drown from the high humidity, but no! The last 3 are still rolling around & starting to cheep! Think they'll hatch tomorrow, a day early like the first bunch. I put in a microwaved damp cloth. Nice & hot - steam gets humidity up super fast! Like a minute or less. Best of luck to you!

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

What's your humidity now? I have an LG still air. Apparently, you can get away with less humidity in it, but went with advice of Sally Sunshine on another thread. 65% + is working for me! I did a staggered hatch too & worried the last 3 would drown from the high humidity, but no! The last 3 are still rolling around & starting to cheep! Think they'll hatch tomorrow, a day early like the first bunch. I put in a microwaved damp cloth. Nice & hot - steam gets humidity up super fast! Like a minute or less. Best of luck to you!

My is ranging between 60-68%. It goes up after a chick pops out, and then drops a little. Since this is my first hatch with the incubator, I wasn't sure what humidity level I'd want, but this seems to be working well. Whenever I removed chicks early in my old Hovabator, I'd drop in a folded warm, wet paper towel, and that always seemed to work fine to keep the humidity up.

 

[Shellz]

Totally normal for humidity to go up after chicks start hatching. Keep it up over 65%. I have a straw going thru an air vent down to a sponge. I can add hot water this way to increase humidity, without opening lid.

 

[Outrun Acres]

What's your humidity now? I have an LG still air. Apparently, you can get away with less humidity in it, but went with advice of Sally Sunshine on another thread. 65% + is working for me! I did a staggered hatch too & worried the last 3 would drown from the high humidity, but no! The last 3 are still rolling around & starting to cheep! Think they'll hatch tomorrow, a day early like the first bunch. I put in a microwaved damp cloth. Nice & hot - steam gets humidity up super fast! Like a minute or less. Best of luck to you!

I'm using a LG still air too. I have three sponges in there, one in a bowl of hot water. The other two were steaming and hot when I put them in. My humidity was at 40% and now t is only at 43%! So frustrating! The relative humidity inside the house is 50%. I'm thinking it should be going up! Maybe I will try the microwaved damp cloth next. How long do you put in the microwave for?