MARCH 2021 HATCH-A-LONG 🌷🌸🌼

[ChloeSilkie08]

Yay!
Can't wait to see them!

Me too! These are my first ones with my 2 new roos and 2 new hens!

 

[JoJoM]

Mine are due to hatch Sunday. Barnyard mixes. I know someone selling 3/4 jersey giants 1/4 Americauna that I might throw into the incubator. I’ll have to sell some chicks! I have one coop that’s 7x 9 and one that’s 5x4 so I have to figure out how many I can actually keep!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Mine are due to hatch Sunday. Barnyard mixes. I know someone selling 3/4 jersey giants 1/4 Americauna that I might throw into the incubator. I’ll have to sell some chicks! I have one coop that’s 7x 9 and one that’s 5x4 so I have to figure out how many I can actually keep!

Sounds like chicken math!

 

[smfarman]

I candled day 14 for the American Breese 6 of 14 looking possible and 2 can't see for a possibility total of 8.

 

[ForTheLoveOfSilkies]

Queen Chickaletta shall join here!
9.5 year old Silkie laid her 8 eggs and went broody this morning as expected so I transferred her and her eggs to the broody coop where she seemed most pleased with the nest I have presented her with, and so she sat without a cluck about it
This is her majesty Queen Chickaletta standing upon her rock yesterday..

.. And this is her today on her nest...

 

[the_peanut_coop]

Oh, adorable! wish I could do silkies, unfortunately every time I order a silkie, it turns out to be a roo... Maybe I'll try again for the sake of fluff nuggets.

 

[Derangedplanet]

I have eggggggs! 3 dozen. He didn't have as many gold wyandottes as I hoped but his birds were just sooo gorgeous.. so many show qualities. He only got a singular buff polish egg. But one polish is better than no polish. Maybe my polish girl will get the idea and I'll join the easter hatch. She's only 9 mos tho so my hopes aren't high. Nevertheless I have tons of swedish eggs. I'm thrilled. I really am.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Queen Chickaletta shall join here!
9.5 year old Silkie laid her 8 eggs and went broody this morning as expected so I transferred her and her eggs to the broody coop where she seemed most pleased with the nest I have presented her with, and so she sat without a cluck about it
This is her majesty Queen Chickaletta standing upon her rock yesterday..
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.. And this is her today on her nest...
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Welcome to her royal highness, Queen Chickaletta and her human servant!

 

[Jaslynn]

I’ve got a batch of eggs incubating that have mystery hatch dates as they were previously owned by a broody hen. I put them in the incubator 14 February. 4 hatched 24 February. 2 hatched yesterday, 1 pipped and hatched today and another has pipped today.
The staggered hatch is very exciting and slightly less stressful - I have no idea who will hatch or when so there‘s excitement every day (I tried candling but I’m obviously not good at it because one that hatched today is one I thought had quit ). It’s less stressful because I don’t know if someone is late to pip. But the staggered hatch has meant that some eggs have still been auto turning when they pipped and I don’t think I’ll be able to do a proper lockdown if eggs keep randomly pipping between now and actual day 21.
Something I have found interesting is that all of the chicks have pipped/hatched in pairs - one black and one white each time. The black ones have been pipping into the air cell and zipping within 6 hours of making external pip. The white ones have all pipped in the top and have taken over 24 hours to get out.
Up to 7 more to pip between now and actual day 21 (Sunday).

 

[Derangedplanet]

I’ve got a batch of eggs incubating that have mystery hatch dates as they were previously owned by a broody hen. I put them in the incubator 14 February. 4 hatched 24 February. 2 hatched yesterday, 1 pipped and hatched today and another has pipped today.
The staggered hatch is very exciting and slightly less stressful - I have no idea who will hatch or when so there‘s excitement every day (I tried candling but I’m obviously not good at it because one that hatched today is one I thought had quit ). It’s less stressful because I don’t know if someone is late to pip. But the staggered hatch has meant that some eggs have still been auto turning when they pipped and I don’t think I’ll be able to do a proper lockdown if eggs keep randomly pipping between now and actual day 21.
Something I have found interesting is that all of the chicks have pipped/hatched in pairs - one black and one white each time. The black ones have been pipping into the air cell and zipping within 6 hours of making external pip. The white ones have all pipped in the top and have taken over 24 hours to get out.
Up to 7 more to pip between now and actual day 21 (Sunday).

I wonder if she was a dedicated step mom, stealing an egg every day from the same hen