JANUARY HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[quenston]

Well I came home today and have a total of 10 chicks and more pipping!! Now I have the hatching fever time to fire up the sportsman and see how it works for the first time!!!

 

[Madcap621]

My eggs are on the way

My new bator will ship tomorrow

BYC is back up and running after 4+ hours of not letting me on!

LIFE IS GOOD

LOTS of hatchin' hapnin'

go peeps

Go Peeps

GO-O-O-O PEEPS!!!!

 

[quenston]

OK I am up to 16 but I think that I only have 3 more that is going to hatch so I am going to cross my fingers for more!!!

 

[txmel]

nothing yet, hopefully will start to see something soon the wait is driving me nuts.

 

[hcammack]

My little guy is about a quarter of the way out

 

[Lop333]

ok started with 26 just pulled out 6 1 smelled real bad had a dark cloud in it and the remaining 5 were clear so 20 left and there all looking good and i just added 4 more and have 4 more going in tomorrow!!!

20 out of 26 on my second hatch im real happy about those numbers.......

 

[chickenmeadow]

Well, I was all calm until I saw Madcap621's post. Now, I'm all hyped! Will have to go & give those "freeloaders" in the incubator a pep talk! Well..... maybe just some encouragement for the 27th.

Quenston & hcammack: Go peeps! Go!

texmel: Hang in there!

 

[Madcap621]

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GO ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Little guy!

Henry, I've been reading your SF thread and am entranced! have to catch up here!

 

[Ariel301]

I'm on day 13 and have a question...I was candling a couple of eggs tonight to check on how they're doing, and while I was holding the eggs, it seemed that I could actually feel something moving around inside it. Like feeling a baby move through the skin of someone who is pregnant. Has anyone else noticed this before, or am I just crazy?

 

[SilverPhoenix]

With the four eggs remaining and several days of lockdown, no pips, nothing. Candled the eggs today, and while there are forms in there, I can't describe it but I feel like they're dead. Somehow they didn't look or feel alive to me, though it's hard to say exactly why. I'm not that upset, after all I got two beautiful, healthy serama chicks and I have plenty of time and means to incubate more serama eggs (after all, I've got a trio in my garage breeding and laying away!), but it is a little sad. I think I'll give 'em another three days and then open them up just to check out what happened. I think they may have gotten too cold when my broody decided to abandon them in favor of her chicks.

Anyone happen to have links to pictures of how late quitters look in candling? I'll go hunt around and see what I can find myself.

Next hatch will be much less complicated, like I said in another post! I'm setting them all at once, they're staying in the 'bator, I'm keeping track of what day they are, and so on. This time the broody, while I'm so happy with her mothering skills and I'm so glad she went broody, did certainly complicate things!

Congratulations to all who are getting chicks!

I just love my two little ones!

They're doing really well!