Lavender Orpington chick Pics are here ! Saint Patrick's day hatch-a-long EGGS ARE HERE!

[gimmie birdies]

Black ink didn't make it. (from when the guy put wet cloths on eggs.) Everyone else is going...Blue dots are adopted.

Day 16 (2 new quitters is Number 1 Lucky, 22 Anita Eggburg.)

 

[Slothinc]

Black ink didn't make it. (from when the guy put wet cloths on eggs.) Everyone else is going...Blue dots are adopted.View attachment 4071000
Day 16 (only new quitter is Number 22. Anita Eggburg.)

They are getting so close! Very exciting!!!!

 

[Zallix]

These are my eggs! All this started on a whim from getting the double yolker but so far the only quitters I’ve had were some eggs I was slotting into my spare spots from a feral pekin’s nest nearby that had abandoned it when we had a cold front come through a month ago. Of those eggs only one made any progress and it quit I believe on Thursday/Friday of last week. I gave it a day and a half from when I thought I saw a lack of movement before removing it so RIP little PekinxRouen.

4 and 5 were doing quite a bit of wiggling when I went to check on them last night so hoping they weren’t started incubating early by a wild mallard mix that ended up hijacking my runners nest before eventually deciding to go broody on it about the same time I started my batch of eggs

So far the double yolker is my big concern and even why I decided to drop by yesterday to see what others have had to do since I was expecting to need to jump in and assist with hatching. Number 9 also has had me a little worried since I noticed it was cracked on day 2 or 3 and quickly spread some superglue over it to hopefully make a seal and so far that’s worked and everything seems good so far.

The wife and I had a very rough day today after something got one of our girls in the middle of the night and ripped her apart leaving her body in the lake where the turtles got to it to the point I couldn’t even recover her to bury. We had a different girl pass away ~2 weeks ago after refusing food and isolating herself so March hasn’t been going well so far. We are now down to 5 hens and our drake spot whose in my profile picture.

 

[Slothinc]

View attachment 4071349These are my eggs! All this started on a whim from getting the double yolker but so far the only quitters I’ve had were some eggs I was slotting into my spare spots from a feral pekin’s nest nearby that had abandoned it when we had a cold front come through a month ago. Of those eggs only one made any progress and it quit I believe on Thursday/Friday of last week. I gave it a day and a half from when I thought I saw a lack of movement before removing it so RIP little PekinxRouen.

4 and 5 were doing quite a bit of wiggling when I went to check on them last night so hoping they weren’t started incubating early by a wild mallard mix that ended up hijacking my runners nest before eventually deciding to go broody on it about the same time I started my batch of eggs

So far the double yolker is my big concern and even why I decided to drop by yesterday to see what others have had to do since I was expecting to need to jump in and assist with hatching. Number 9 also has had me a little worried since I noticed it was cracked on day 2 or 3 and quickly spread some superglue over it to hopefully make a seal and so far that’s worked and everything seems good so far.
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The wife and I had a very rough day today after something got one of our girls in the middle of the night and ripped her apart leaving her body in the lake where the turtles got to it to the point I couldn’t even recover her to bury. We had a different girl pass away ~2 weeks ago after refusing food and isolating herself so March hasn’t been going well so far. We are now down to 5 hens and our drake spot whose in my profile picture.

Oh I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of two of your babies this month. I am excited to see your eggs hatch!! Ducklings are so adorable! Very interested in the twin egg. I have never read about twins that made it! I hope that yours is the first success story I hear about And if not, then I hope that all of the others hatch easily!!

 

[Zallix]

Well 5 has internally pipped and 4 is close behind it seems, those were the 2 eggs I had grabbed out of the nest to add to my numbers and rotate them out since they were the oldest in the back. All the other eggs were the ones my guys had been laying along the lake's edge and once we had 18 in the fridge and some extras in the house I started putting the extra into that nest after watching 2 of my hens and my drake hang around in that bush. Guessing I am now on double hatch-a-long watch and can keep an eye out on that mallard mix and the nest over the next few days, guess she's going to be hatching at least a few runners. Someone else has started laying eggs in a completely different bush about 5ft away but only 2 eggs in that one for now, one of my neighbors a few houses down went to go light his fire pit last week and found about 10 eggs piled up in it so I guess these pampered suburban ducks are just ready to start hatching lol

Here is a picture of her on that nest I took a few days after I started incubating mine. Since then we had a thunderstorm blow in last week that knocked all those dead stalks over around her making her nest even more hidden than it already was

 

[gimmie birdies]

Wow, busy month. My eggs are on day 17. I have 2 incubators going. For these eggs. 1 incubator for the ones that may hatch early, and one incubator for eggs that look like they will need more time.

 

[gimmie birdies]

#8 quit. Jayne Mangefield.

 

[gimmie birdies]

The man that gave me his eggs is going to eat his rooster because he is too aggressive. I have a nice rooster to give him that will not be. He is a big softy. (14 weeks old.) This rooster is such a softy, I cannot keep him with other roosters, they will beat him up, and all he thinks about is food, and sleep.

 

[Slothinc]

The man that gave me his eggs is going to eat his rooster because he is too aggressive. I have a nice rooster to give him that will not be. He is a big softy. (14 weeks old.) This rooster is such a softy, I cannot keep him with other roosters, they will beat him up, and all he thinks about is food, and sleep.

That is so nice! What kind of rooster are you giving him?

 

[gimmie birdies]

From Meyers splash with feathered legs. Could be a splash maran or EE I will check the earlobes.oh red earlobes so maran