january hatch-a-long

[Compost King]

Got my first pip tonight as I was sleeping, going back to bed and maybe a few chicks hatch by morning

 

[BlueBaby]

One of the green egg's is hatching over here!

 

[aliciaplus3]

I have 2 turkeys out one chocolate one..... speckled??? I will look again in the morning

 

[mitziworm]

Another chick hatched today that makes 2 from possible 8 now the dilemma do I dive in and pull them out as the first one has been there over 24hrs or wait, I have waited 48hrs before but it's stressful resisting...

 

[WVduckchick]

I pull chicks when there is a break in the action, but lots of people wait till it’s all done.

 

[mitziworm]

Had a good long look and there's a wobbly egg so decided to leave the chicks in a bit longer. Loaded up the next batch for staggered hatch and candled some that have been in for 8 days, looks like some life in a few so

 

[Kiki]

Got my first pip tonight as I was sleeping, going back to bed and maybe a few chicks hatch by morning

Woot!

 

[aliciaplus3]

I have 2 turkeys out one chocolate one..... speckled??? I will look again in the morning

Speckled looks like maybe some kind of bronze pattern? I will try for pics when I get home

 

[Compost King]

2 chicks hatched by morning, 1 hatched around noon... plenty of pips. I still have to get the brooder ready which I usually have ready by lock down. Been outside cleaning up after multiple floods in a short period of time. Wettest I have ever seen it here and my back yard was a mud soup. I had some ground level coops that needed a lot of work and every chicken is getting treated for mites/lice whether they need it or not. The off ground coops are covered in tracked in mud. So I am not putting a lot of energy into the hatch. I will post pictures after I get them into the brooder which I need to prep now.

 

[Tatuana]

I was explaining to one of the kids earlier how we check if there's a baby in the egg or not. I pulled out one of the white ones to show as an example. My only flashlight until tonight is my cellphone, but I figured they'd get the idea.
While I was showing the egg we spotted what looks like the first stages of the baby. A dark dot with a few "vines" coming off for about 1/4th of an inch. Isn't it too early to see the baby growth? We put the eggs in Saturday evening.

The kids are also enjoying flipping the eggs. I put an X and O on the top/bottom. Every few hours someone flips them from one side to the other. (They're in an egg carton to keep them upright) we have a chart above the incubator where you wright down the time flipped, and if it was an X or O and who flipped it. The kids love it. I had to set a limit on how often the eggs can be flipped!