July Hatch-a-long

[SilkieStepHen]

SO CUTE!!!!!

 

[Heidisgran]

 

[Shellz]

Super pics folks! I love the joy of new chicks!





Here's a couple from my last hatch. They're Belgian Malines.

 

[Crissie]

My 4 eggs are starting to hatch! I can hear the chicks peeping inside. It's time for bed but it's hard to sleep. Part of me wants to stay up and wait. Wish it was the weekend still. My broody girl has done such a good job... Oh chickens, I love them

I hope they all make it

Yay!!! How's it looking this morning?

 

[Crissie]

i am allso comming in late mine are due 4 of august i will join your agust hatch along i have got 3 black buff orpingtons 2 pekin 2 polish i bougth them ones and i have 2 of my own 1 silkie and 1 ligth sussex cross with a silkie father is silkie mother is ligth sussex DD AHH cant wait

Ooooo - I've got some due on August 1st. Wasn't sure if we could continue this here or if we're supposed to be in an August thread. I big puffy sparkly heart love all of my July hatching buddies though!

 

[Crissie]

Such adorable babies this morning!!!! How exciting!!!!!!!

I'm Day 20 over here (although I did set the eggs in the evening, so I don't think I'm freaking out....yet). No pips, peeps, dancing, prancing. Big fat NOTHING. I've got 24 eggs in there. Something HAS to hatch, right? (Please say yes...)

 

[CGinJCMO]

And y'all need some pictures ...


That's Ava (hoping it's a SHE!!!), born 7/4. She was a shrink-wrapped, assisted hatch.

You can still see some shell attached, didn't want to rush her. We both stopped here for a rest (and one of us needed a nerve pill).

All the way out and fluffed up

Someone's spoiled already. And so is the chicken

And she gives kisses. (Love those 5 toed silkies!!!)

ok, I'll spare y'all anymore cuteness ... unless you want to meet Sam, the chick-sitting Chihuahua.
In that case...

Your curious pup reminds me of my kitten. I kept finding him in the box with the baby chicks (just hangin' with them, laying in the box watching them and sleeping with them). I now have a window screen over the box but he keeps trying to get in when I add food or clean waterers.

CG

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

So many cute chicks!! Congrats to all the new hatches

Brooster but where does the color come from and why has it change what color are they now

Dolfi, the base color of a chicken's egg shell is either white or blue, depending on the breed. And then many breeds coat the egg with a brown tint, some darker, some lighter. The Ameraucanas lay bright blue eggs. The Easter Eggers are a mix of blue egg layers with other breeds, so they lay a blue egg with a brown tint on top, which usually makes some shade of green. The color of the egg depends on how dark parent's egg was. So if you pair a blue-egg-laying Ameraucana with a dark brown egg layer, like a Marans, you get a dark green egg. EEs can lay eggs that are just about any color. There was someone in one of the spring hatchalongs hatching purple EE eggs! They were so cool. My eggs are brightly colored in winter when the chickens first start laying, but by midsummer, they aren't producing as much pigment, so the eggs aren't as brightly colored. They're more pastel.

I did a day 10 candle last night. It looks like 6 of the 7 eggs are progressing nicely. I think the double yolk egg may have stopped developing, but I can't say for certain. The egg is so big, that it's hard to see the tiny chicks inside.

 

[Shellz]

Nice egg color education Brooster! Interesting stuff!

 

[Shellz]

[COLOR=800080]Well crap, I think I spoke too soon- it looks like it might be a spot on the egg???? Not a star pip- good grief- I know better

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No worries! Been there, done that. Sometimes we want them to pip so badly, we even imagine it! I could think of worse things to go crazy about.