***JULY HATCH-A-LONG come join in***

[NaomiSarah]

I had my first outdoor hatch today and indoor hatches due July 15, July 21 and July 25. Bantam silkies and silky-shaver-leghorn!

 

[Tuppemor]

My hatch in total:

3 bronze turkey
2 brahma
2 silver penciled wyandotte
2 wild pheasant
1 australorps
5 new hampshire

Considering the error in humidity, that's not too bad.

Missing from the pics are a wyandotte and an NH - they're still in the bator drying off.

 

[laughaha]

Can I join in too?

I had 5 broodies on nestfuls of eggs. 1 hatched out 3 chicks and 2 other broodies decided to help her parent so I had to bring about 10 eggs inside. I threw in another 15 or so of the bantam eggs (probably mutts as everyone is freeranging now- I HAD decided I was done hatching for the year) just so I wouldn't have to cook with them. I have 7 or so that I got in the mail that are set to hatch in two days but not one has pipped yet and I can't candle them- eggs are too dark. I have 2 broody hens still plugging away at their nests.

So far I have had 5 hatch (the last one hatched about an hour ago), 4 of these are today's babies. 2 black and 2 yellow and 1 reddish. You'd think the mamma hens would adopt them but NOPE they are happily sharing their three chicks and don't want no more. Brats!! lol

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

Well, I had another broody join in on Wednesday so I now have 2 broodies on a total of 10 eggs, one due the 12th, the other due three weeks from this past Wednesday. All will be mutts we didn't plan on having, but I'm excited for them anyway.

 

[SweetMotherOfMars]

Quote:
Of course!!

Just a quick note to say "My, but everyones' chicks are cute!" and
"Ten, TEN little chickens!" *insert maniacal laughter*

Okay, to bed now... I have 12 more to go tomorrow.

PS to Ked: I have an eggtopsy photo set for you later this week. The ten that hatched were all the ones from the 13th, all but one from the 14th and 2 from the 15th. I decided to check the one straggler from the 14th. Couldn't hear peeping or movement, so I candled it in the bathroom (darkest room). No movement and it had pipped into the air cell, but there was a weird bloody patch on the interior shell. When we opened it, it looked like it had gotten into the air cell, but maybe pipped at a blood vein as the beak was still red with blood and there was blood were its beak touched the membrane. That spot was quite a ways south of the air cell line (were I'd found a clear spot to open the shell) so fluid could have been a factor as well.

not very quick after all, huh?
Okay, I'm off to bed to dream of more

ETA: punctuation

 

[NaomiSarah]

I got a look at my chicks outside this morning (my brooders aren't very friendly at all) and I saw one big fat yellow chick! Must be one of my silky-shaver-leghorns, since it's too big to be from my bantams!Can't wait to see if the rest of em hatch today! (I question whether the eggs are all even fertile, I stuck em under the hens after only three days with their rooster, but hey at least one of them was!)

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Congratulations

Everyone has such cute chicks, thanks for sharing the pictures too, I love looking at them.

Candled the 3 eggs that are due to hatch on the 9th, I have 2 eggs completed filled and the little green EE egg is not fertile, so I checked the rest of the green EE eggs out 4 in the incubator not a one is fertile. out of the 34 eggs due the 9 and 10th only 30 are left in the incubator, I will candle the rest later tonight!

So I will have to set the ones I have on the counter and they will be due later this month,
I think there are 7 or 8 (EE) in this next batch,

 

[NaomiSarah]

first time posting a pic so tell me if it doesn't work, I've seen one yellow and one black chick so far!

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Still waiting on a Broody to make my hatching easier? But none of my hens seem to want to actually brood, they want to fight with each other more......lol they fight over a single nest box, when there are many in there.....

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

My eggs get moved tomorrow.