Hatch with me! Placed in bator on 5-13-2010. First hatch!

[k7ailaan]

Quote:

goodness how many!

Hi Ashley ..
got 47 of them .. and i'm telling you .. they are PLENTY to take care of

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

I will update when I can! There is one more our who has regular chicken fuzz and has feathered legs so I bet it to is a cross between silkie and one of my hens. I am thinking it's from one of my Red Stars. The color is perfect for it. I wonder - does wing sexing work?

 

[eggseroneous]

Quote:
Thanks Chickee!
Sorry you had trouble with your shipped eggs. Sending good hatching vibes your way!

I guess it is a risk. My last batch were shipped and I hatched 28 out of 43.

This latest batch were given to me by a friend--(he gives them away as eating eggs at the cat rescue that my kids and I volunteer for).He had them in the fridge and I asked if he had a rooster-he said yes, so I said "I bet I can hatch those!". He was amazed! Probably would have hatched more had they not been refrigerated. I think for my next batch (this is addicting!) I'll try shipped eggs again.

I really love these little guys. It will be fun to see what they end up looking like.
Here's more pics:

This little one is taking her first "sun" bath. The first time I saw chicks doing this it freaked me out!

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

Quote:

Your finally getting your babies!

Since you can't take pictures you will have to tell us how many, what breeds and colors you get

I have a pathetic two eggs left out of fifteen shipped eggs due to hatch Wednesday. I'm trying not to get my hopes up because this has been a really bad bunch of eggs

and I REALLY want these BLRW bloodlines from Bill Braden! I think once you move to Maine it will be exciting for you to get the BLRW's. I love mine

I have had a Buff Orpington and she was so sweet. Some day I would like to get some blue Orpingtons. GOOD LUCK with your hatch!

Woke up this morning to 3 more babies out!!!! yes!! 2 of them look almost the same, feathered legs from the Silkies roo but regular chick fluff. Then one that came from my Ameraucana roo since she has the marking of one. Then there are some that are still pipping! I can't see well since the ones that are already hatched think the incubator is a raceing track and they keep rolling or bumping the eggs.

I'll update later tonight!

 

[VillageChicken]

Just wanted to add one last note here as things seem to be winding down. Congrats to all for the successful hatches, and thanks for letting me tag along on my first hatch ever. Something interesting about egg washing you might want to know:

I agonized a bit about "to wash or not to wash" because I had eggs from 4 different sources, some were immaculate, and some quite poopy. So I washed the poopy ones in warm water and then dipped them in something called Domestos which they have here in Hungary, and is basically a chlorine based cleaning solution.

Of the 10 I washed, one was clear, and one pipped but didn't finish, probably because humidity was too high the first week. The remaining 8 hatched beautifully. I had one each of each of the other unwashed eggs BCM and Australorp also pip but die before finishing. I washed one of the araucana eggs too, but they all hatched.

So for me, the washing made no difference at all in the hatch, and I even had the washed eggs touching the unwashed at times, had them moved all over the incubator at different times since I was hand turning, and rotating them a bit so they'd each spend the same amount of time near the heat source. It was WAY better than having poopy eggs in with the clean ones.

Folks were so adamant about NOT washing, but the brown leghorn eggs that I washed, developed and hatched as beautifully as the unwashed.

Just thought it might help if you're ever in a similar situation with some clean and some dirty - you don't have to wash/ sterilize them all!

 

[chickee]

Quote:
Thanks Chickee!
Sorry you had trouble with your shipped eggs. Sending good hatching vibes your way!

I guess it is a risk. My last batch were shipped and I hatched 28 out of 43.

This latest batch were given to me by a friend--(he gives them away as eating eggs at the cat rescue that my kids and I volunteer for).He had them in the fridge and I asked if he had a rooster-he said yes, so I said "I bet I can hatch those!". He was amazed! Probably would have hatched more had they not been refrigerated. I think for my next batch (this is addicting!) I'll try shipped eggs again.

I really love these little guys. It will be fun to see what they end up looking like.
Here's more pics:

This little one is taking her first "sun" bath. The first time I saw chicks doing this it freaked me out!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/52848_dscn8512.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/52848_dscn8513.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/52848_dscn8511.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/52848_dscn8510.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/52848_dscn8508.jpg

What a great variety! I've never hatched fridg eggs, sounds like a fun challenge, hmmmm . . .

This IS so addicting!

I forgot to mention I am incubating 2 of my own eggs from my blk x b Wyandottes to put under my broody. They are growing and it is so nice to see such healthy eggs compared to shipped!! I too still freak when the chicks are spralled out on their sides sun bathing

Have fun!

 

[chickee]

Quote:
How interesting about washing eggs! I had wondered about that, and I also read a post on BYC once where this guy did an experiment with washed and unwashed eggs and had the same result as you did!

Thanks for posting this info! It is so helpful when people share their experience!!

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

I have 7 babies now!! and 5 more pips. Then I have a duck egg due Friday. so out of 17 eggs, 3 formed blood rings, cuts the number to 14 and hopefully 12 chicks? I'm very content with that since it is my stocks first hatch!

 

[Peep Talk]

I'm sorry all. I haven't been around much to do an update on who has hatched lately. I will go through all of the posts tomorrow and get it put together. I have been completely swamped with building new areas for my mama hens to be put once everyone hatches so that noone gets picked on. Doing that in 98 degrees with heat indexes of 113+ is a little tiring.

Congratulations to everyone who has some hatchlings and good luck to anyone still waiting (if there is anyone) I just got inside from doing all of my touchups and I noticed earlier today that I have 4 pips on my bantam eggs. Guess we will see how many we get. 12 made it this far out of 15.

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

Quote:
Congrats on the 12/15!!! I had 18 but also took 3 out so 15/18. I still have some hatching, have 7 out with 7 chicken eggs left which i don't expect them all to hatch out but that would be awesome!

Then a duck egg due Friday sometime.

Update us on how many hatchlings you get!
Sending good hatching vibes your way!!!