June Hatch-A-Long

[FortCluck]

My May Hatch a Long Polish Deathlayers... I honestly wasn’t sure about this cross at first, but I will continue with this cross. Very good temperament and weird part is the cockerels got Cushion Combs...Not sure if that’s a coincidence or not. We will see

Polish Deathlayer #1

Polish Deathlayer #2

Polish Deathlayer #3

 

[Skyfyre]

We have a chick! Externally pipped this morning, rocked in its shell all day and then started unzipping about an hour ago. It was fast, like 10 minutes. The kids have named it Sonic.
The one next to it is starting to slowly make its external pip larger, and the one next to that is slower still. The first one to pip is still doing what it's supposed to do and resting LOL.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Long night and I cant see straight.
9 out so far, um, nevermind. Make that 10 out so far, 8 eggs left.

I'm already in love with these silver beauties.

 

[Austrian Chickens]

It's day 19 and we have our first pip. A little bit early but we ar very excited

 

[jolenesdad]

I finally did it! I hatched and grew marans to laying age that actually lay as dark as the eggs they hatched from....Woohoo! All of my pullets from this year are now laying.

 

[RoseHawke]

Was checking the eggs (13 Cream Legbar) in the incubator, like I do several times a day, and saw one move . Did a double take. Wasn't really expecting that. Fetched hubby to come look, he was totally bemused - "There's somebody in there!" Tomorrow is day 18.

 

[rebeccaH86]

I'm so excited first one is breaking through the egg , oh I can't wait its chirpping away

 

[Trisseh]

I hatched my ducks and sebrights in the same incubator, but the sebrights were 2 days behind in setting so I could adjust as necessary. The ducklings were removed and put in the brooder as soon as they were semi dry so it didn’t get too crazy humid in there. I think it would be different if they weren’t due to hatch close together though...

Speaking of sebrights, these hatched on Friday/Saturday so technically belonged to the May hatch a long but hey. Haha.

My Belgian d’uccle, Swedish hedemora, and jungle fowl eggs are all doing amazing still, on day 14. I’m impressed so far because they were shipped eggs. No really bad air cells, no quitters thus far... and, I put these in within about an hour of receiving them. The ambient temps were high so I didn’t need to worry too much about them coming up to temperature. I thought I would try setting them right away and seeing if it made any difference. The duck eggs I had shipped were left to rest for 24 hours and I wound up with a 50% hatch rate, which still isn’t bad, and those eggs had atrocious air cells. Crossing my fingers these little chickies all hatch!

 

[ShrekDawg]

11 out now!!

 

[speckledhen]

I never allow them to go past Day 22. There are reference materials that say late hatchers are sometimes genetic and should be discouraged. Generally, I have found over the years that a chick that cannot hatch by that time is weak or is actually deformed and shouldn't hatch at all. There are exceptions to that like a chick that grew like a Baby Huey or is mal-positioned and is having a hard time of it in a small or elongated egg.

Today is hatch day. I have 8 pips of the 20 Brahmas so far, no zipping yet. They sure are taking a snooze and making me wait for #1 to get out. I expect, as usually happens, they'll soon begin popping like popcorn.