Mahonri's First Annual New Year's Day Hatch/Jan 2010

[Mahonri]

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Keep them going!!

 

[Mahonri]

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Shucks... sending hatching vibes your way.

 

[Mahonri]

Well the 6 that I helped are all happy and healthy.

Wahoo!

Ended up with 41 total. 41/47 at lockdown.

I'm a big believer in dry hatch now.

Germaine... THANK YOU!

Thank you hinkj and Jean and all of you that helped me to have such a wonderful hatch.

I'll have to get more pics!

 

[pinkchick]

7 Marans...2 more have pipped
7 Wellies....almost 8 and almost 9
Haven't seen any movement in 5 Wellie eggs and 3 Marans.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I have two chicks in the brooder (OMG the Wyandotte x Faverolles is SOOOO cute!) Yes, Yes, Yes, I will post a pic soon - it's sleeping. The other one in there came from my Australorp hen. I have another black chick in the incubator, when it fluffs up we'll have to see if it's momma is my BR or SLW. Then I pulled out all the others and did a final candling...I had one that was practically jumping out of my hand, so I broke the shell for that one, and it's moving around really well, lightly spritzed the membrane and put it back, I opened all the eggs at the air cell end, and one of them had a little movement, it was so near death I don't think it will make it, but spritzed and put away just in case. Of the others, one had pipped the air cell and died (I've never actually had that happen before) two were fully developed without pipping, and the rest had either yolky or dark yucky fluid in them, obviously I didn't open membranes on those! P-U!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Here's the first chick that hatched. I am sure it was from a Wyandotte egg, I just don't know which one, because according to the online genetic calculator, any chick from those mixes should be black patterned, either cream laced or gold laced (sex linked with the GLW). The other option is that it was from a BO egg, but those should be either black patterned buff columbian or black patterned silver columbian (again, sex linked). Anyway, it has a white chest, and of the rest, what's not yellow fluff is chocolate brown fluff, and that's just on the back of the neck...hmm...oh, and the comb is 100% flat. Oh well! I'm not keeping these guys, so I guess it doesn't matter!

 

[geosheets]

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I had one that pipped the wrong end also... I figured it pipped and proabably died but 12 hours later I saw the pip get a little bigger. I went ahead and helped him out. There was some blood right around where the pip was but I kept going a little further and found it was the only blood. The yolk sack was fully absorbed and he was more than ready to be out. I'm glad I helped him as I don't think he'd have gotten out on his own with how he was positioned in the egg. He is fluffed out and doing fine now. When I went to lockdown I candled everyone and found one that I had been incubating upside down(don't know how I missed it at the first candle). I didn't mark the egg but I am thinking it was this one that pipped on the wrong end.

 

[LarryPQ]

Just got back home to 2 hatched babies: one chipmunky and one blackish! Woooohooo!

So of 4 at lockdown, 3 hatched! I will try to get a pic once the kids fall asleep.

Edited: The blackish one looks brownish now. Very exciting!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

You are welcome Mahonri!

 

[MuranoFarms]

Oh my goodness! So many cute chickies!!!!

Congrats everybody!