Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[ginbart]

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WAY TO GO.

 

[pinkchick]

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[pinkchick]

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maybe it's a bit behind the others, give it some more time

Agreed.....give it more time my friend! Patience!

 

[chicken stalker]

Woke up to ....

4 hatched (3 white ameraucana's and 1 olive egger)
1 75% zipped olive egger
1 piped lavender wheaten project egg!!!!!

That 's all I can see right now to many fuzz butts in the way. As soon as this olive egger gets out of its shell I am going to pull the dry ones out.

 

[featherz]

Ok, here's my 'cute chick' entry.. Actually, it's not the best of the pics I took, but I like it because I was posing the chicks in front of a stuffed chick and this little blrw kept scooting under the wing of the stuffed chick like it was a hen!

Finally got it to scoot 'out' and stick it's little tush out.

 

[jenjscott]

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Woo hoo!

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Still nothing going on here.

Candled this morning and there's one chick still moving about. I'll leave it in there today and see what happens....

I do have three sources of eggs (one local) for more eggs that will go in as soon as this one expires, though. Honestly, I wasn't sure I wanted to do this again, but many thanks to ChickyChickyBaby for offering her eggs. That made me think there could be a chance! This has been pretty disappointing. A chick or two would have been a great highlight for a sick 2-year-old, a bored-from-Christmas-Vacation preschooler, and a husband hard at work on a chicken mansion in the yard.

 

[dsqard]

featherz that is an adorable picture! They are so darned cute! Egg number 2 is getting down on zipping and got the egg that pipped first yesterday to get into gear. I guess it was just waiting for a "neighbor" to cheer it on. DH is just laughing at me since I have my nose just pressed against the bator! It was easy to walk away after a quick check and no pips, now not so much!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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maybe it's a bit behind the others, give it some more time

Agreed.....give it more time my friend! Patience!

Thanks. I just logged on to say it pipped! I'm sitting next to it concocting my Craigslist ad for the chicks when I heard it break through. Nothing since then. Hopefully this one I don't have to extract from its shell like the last 4 to hatch. I think my humidity problems have been fixed though.

Where do you guys get rid of all these chicks at?

 

[featherz]

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If I wanted to rehome them today (as day olds) I could probably rehome them in about an hour on craigslist. I can rehome day olds easily as there a bunch of chicken addicts around. I think I'll keep these this time and see how many roos I have to rehome. Now THAT's hard. I put ads up for roosters and get a lot of 'can you sell me hens' emails. They should be happy I don't do like some other CL sellers and tell them all the roos are hens!