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That is so exciting. How many did you end up with and are they all out?
We post pictures here....just sayin'
We now have 19 chicks. 3 Welsummers and 16 French Black Copper Marans. We started with 24 BCM eggs and 4 Welsummer eggs. Found 3 that were no good early on, and had ? on 5 others. Those 5 were quitters, opened them up and they looked like they developed to day 10. I have no idea what went wrong, I had some temp spikes between day 11-14, so maybe they got cooked.
We had one baby who hatched over night and they were already dead in the incubator when I got up.
It was one of my welsummer chicks. He was still attached to his shell and it looked like he'd tried to pull away from it and it bled. Maybe one of the other chicks stepped on him, I'm not sure.
Other than that, I couldn't believe how fast it all went. They were pipping last night around 5:30, the first chick unzipped around nine and they keep hatching all night long. The last little baby hatched around 10 this morning. They all seem healthy, and everyone is up on there feet and stumbling around. They really are the cutest little babies, and my BCM chicks surprised me by being born with little legs all feathered out. I thought the feathers grew as they got older, but these little babies all have them.
Now for photo's, lol. How do I post them? Me and the kiddo took tons of pic's, from the first pip, to them unzipping and everything in-between and after. I'm going to look for a thread on how to post, and we'll get photo's up tonight
~*~ On a side note, I must say I didn't expect as many eggs to hatch as did. I've read a lot of people saying LG's are junk, nothing hatches, blah, blah, blah........this was my first time hatching, Used an LG, and ended up with 19 chicks out of 28. 3 were unfertile, and I only lost 5. I consider that a good hatch rate, especially for a beginner
