January Hatch-a-long 2018

[elizabethu42]

I just grabbed the other 8. I'm going to candle them right now.

 

[elizabethu42]

I heard a peep!!

 

[chickenmama109]

my chicks are doing really well and they are getting there feathers and i was wondering if i should get them some chick grit are they old enough

 

[gimmie birdies]

My chicks are active and hopping about! I have one who is little, even though the mom and dad were not, but it is soo cute!

 

[elizabethu42]

So I think I heard a peep... I don't know if it was my brain thinking I heard one or I actually heard one. Day 23 tomorrow!

 

[chickenmeadow]

Thank you so much! Best wishes to you too. Fingers crossed.

Last night I told my hubby that I heard faint little chirps coming from the eggs under my broody "Blue." He may have just "cracked" from hearing way too much about the chickens, eggs, hatching......; nevertheless, he replied that I must have a "ventriloquist hen" & lead into a very convincing act of the chick in egg chirping & the hen clucking back, this act went on for a few minutes til I was rolling with laughter. You gotta love a man that can still make you laugh after 38 years.

Of course, I'm not crazy & there's one or more pipped & chirping eggs today, the due day. So there's hope even after you find the eggs cold for I don't know how long one day, glad I set "Blue" back on her eggs & sectioned her off so she wouldn't be pushed off again by one of the other hens who want her eggs. Best wishes to you & all others awaiting a January hatch or so. Will post pics when practical.

 

[chickenmeadow]

same number of pips, I see the chick breathing through the pip.

Love your Avatar chicken pic. What breed is that? Frizzle Fowl? Lovely color too.

 

[elizabethu42]

Definitely heard a peep!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

chicken Meadow, she is a frizzle.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Husbands are funny, we were talking about male blindness how you can set up an incubator in the livingroom full of eggs and they will act like they cannot see it, recently he wanted to make some homemade kimche and asked where his old peanut butter jars were, "they were all just on this shelf and now they are gone." I threw them out over 2 years ago, and he didn't notice.