JANUARY 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[ChickenLady2014]

I have a silkie that just hatched and a crele orpington...So, there is life in my incubator still! Woot Woot!  Day 21 here!

Yay, congrats!

 

[hausfrau77]

Oh good! Those babes will keep you company till the others come along

 

[Renee572]

I feel like I've missed a lot! Sounds like some people are having great hatches and others are not fairing so well. I am so sorry to Gentry for the tough decision you had to make. Purpletie3 I really hope your babies start hatching For you.

My hatch is officially over. I cleaned out the incubator and oh my gosh. I knew it would stink but why didn't anyone warn me just how bad!?!? But oh well my 18 babies are totally worth it.

The 3 eggs left didn't make it, I eggtopsies them and I think 1 may have died before lockdown and the other 2 looked very close so I'm not quite sure what happened. However those 3 eggs did not end up losing enough weight before lockdown. I had 3 other eggs that did not lose enough weight and those chicks seemed to struggle a bit more to get out than the rest.

Here are some pics of my babies, I'm so in love! It's going to be super hard to not want to do this again real soon.

My polish/silkies and my black with the brown face are my most favorite babies but I am so in love with all of them! I am hoping I have lots of pullets so I am able to choose my favorites. If they are roos, I don't have a choice, I can't keep them. And whatever pullets we don't choose to keep we will probably sell! Oh how I wish I had a big enough yard to keep them all!

 

[blackgoat]

I feel like I've missed a lot! Sounds like some people are having great hatches and others are not fairing so well. I am so sorry to Gentry for the tough decision you had to make. Purpletie3 I really hope your babies start hatching For you.

My hatch is officially over. I cleaned out the incubator and oh my gosh. I knew it would stink but why didn't anyone warn me just how bad!?!? But oh well my 18 babies are totally worth it.

The 3 eggs left didn't make it, I eggtopsies them and I think 1 may have died before lockdown and the other 2 looked very close so I'm not quite sure what happened. However those 3 eggs did not end up losing enough weight before lockdown. I had 3 other eggs that did not lose enough weight and those chicks seemed to struggle a bit more to get out than the rest.

Here are some pics of my babies, I'm so in love! It's going to be super hard to not want to do this again real soon.







My polish/silkies and my black with the brown face are my most favorite babies but I am so in love with all of them! I am hoping I have lots of pullets so I am able to choose my favorites. If they are roos, I don't have a choice, I can't keep them. And whatever pullets we don't choose to keep we will probably sell! Oh how I wish I had a big enough yard to keep them all!

Yay! What a bunch of cuties! Congrats! I wish you many pullets, lol!

 

[Purpletie3]

Renee... They are super cute! I don't think you will be out of the hatching business for long! You enjoy it!

 

[PD-Riverman]

I'm so in love! It's going to be super hard to not want to do this again real soon.

Go for it Renee, Join in with me---LOL. I got almost 600 eggs incubating as I type this----with 500+ chickens already. I do not want To be alone!! LOL

 

[misfitmorgan]

If anyone would like to join the Vday HAL it is not to late!!

You know.....encourage the addictive behavior lol

 

[Purpletie3]

So,I woke up to the Hovabator and 1/3 orpington is out and 4 out of the 6 silkies are out. One silkie is totally zipped and stuck in the membrane...The other doing nothing. So, they must like a 5 degree difference in there.

The little Brinsea mini has one silkie out and one tying to get out. I shoved 7 silkies and 1 orpington in there for hatch. So there are like 5 eggs left one pip last night.

I am very pleased as yesterday I was so nervous about the temp swings.

At this point 6 chicks.

 

[jennianne]

So,I woke up to the Hovabator and 1/3 orpington is out and 4 out of the 6 silkies are out. One silkie is totally zipped and stuck in the membrane...The other doing nothing. So, they must like a 5 degree difference in there.

The little Brinsea mini has one silkie out and one tying to get out. I shoved 7 silkies and 1 orpington in there for hatch. So there are like 5 eggs left one pip last night.

I am very pleased as yesterday I was so nervous about the temp swings.

At this point 6 chicks.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Almost forgot to post my hatch.

No pics im sorry i will get some.

2 out of 4 frizzle/frazzle cochin eggs hatched.
The other two were fully formed, one had internally piped and died for some unknown reason.
The other was all black too big for it shell and even with assistance it died at about midnight last night, no reason why that i could see. Yolk was fully absorbed, fully formed chick.

The only thing i can think of is i keep getting these black chicks...black skin and all but they have these like beads all along their fluff shafts. i am thinking it must have something to do with the terminal frizzle X frizzle cross. The lady i get the eggs from has one straight feather roo, 1 fizzle feather....3 straight hens and 3 frizzle hens. So i think that the frizzle roo keeps mating one of the frizzle hens.

Anyhow the two i got were yellow...their older brother is almost all black including skin and feet.