June 2025 hatch-a-long

[junior67]

for those that don't know me I have a candling problem. LOL

so checked last night. I have 4 orpingtons for sure, 2 maybe? out of 14 eggs. not the best. was hoping to be able to sell some to cover some of the egg cost since I am only keeping 1...

the owlbeard I have I think 3 and 1 maybe.... out of 8 eggs

I only checked a couple of the BCM since I knew I wouldn't see much. some looked brighter than others so hopefully that means that some have babies in them.

AND in good news. I went to put away my incubator that stopped working and figured my husband could look at it later and see if he could fix it..... well I noticed that somehow it was unplugged at the little junction box that it has.... I don't know HOW I missed that before since I checked ALL the other parts that plug in. so I plugged that in and tried again and it is working! PHEW!!!!

 

[RoseHawke]

I have a pip .

Day 19. These are bantam cochins. The average weight of the eggs was only about 38g.

Color me astonished. Still a long way to go, but I suppose that's something.

 

[junior67]

I have a pip .

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Day 19. These are bantam cochins. The average weight of the eggs was only about 38g.

Color me astonished. Still a long way to go, but I suppose that's something.

woohoo! I have heard that bantams a lot of times hatch early.

 

[RoseHawke]

4:10 this morning.

I was fretting about this chick/egg all night so didn't get very much sleep. I was terrified it was going to get shrink-wrapped. At least I could check via my phone.

Oh, and the other egg appears to have a pip!

 

[Tex452]

4:10 this morning.

I was fretting about this chick/egg all night so didn't get very much sleep. I was terrified it was going to get shrink-wrapped. At least I could check via my phone.

Oh, and the other egg appears to have a pip!

Got to love it when they can hatch with no problems.

 

[PrettyCoolChicks]

Congratulations! It's so lovely to see them come out of their shell <3

My duckling hatched too!

Then it took me two tries but I have successfully given the duckling to broody. I'm now super careful not to interfere because mommy leaves the nest for a break any time I get near now...

Here she is sleeping/drying a bit more in the incubator after my first attempt at putting her in the nest (hence the bits of straw).

I'm betting she's a she because of the black tips on her tail fluff, but we'll see.

 

[RoseHawke]

When little Ms. Fuzzball moves around my Blink cam notifies me that "There is a person at your chicks."

Methinks they need to work on their ID technology a tad.

 

[Artscape68]

I have a batch of Speckled Sussex in the incubator. We are on the last week.

 

[Tex452]

I have a batch of Speckled Sussex in the incubator. We are on the last week.

I would like to have some of those, I might have to order some.