March 2023 hatch-a-long

[MochaChickMama]

This one pipped around midnight last night and finally made a decent hole. But it looks brown inside and I don’t have a good feeling this is normal since the other 8 hatched beautifully with white membranes I believe. Anything I should do? I do see it’s still moving.

 

[Dinoroar]

This one pipped around midnight last night and finally made a decent hole. But it looks brown inside and I don’t have a good feeling this is normal since the other 8 hatched beautifully with white membranes I believe. Anything I should do? I do see it’s still moving.

That looks fine! There can be all kinds of variety in how the pips look but that looks totally ok. If it’s moving its likely resting up and absorbing!

 

[MochaChickMama]

That looks fine! There can be all kinds of variety in how the pips look but that looks totally ok. If it’s moving its likely resting up and absorbing!

Oh thank you so much, this is beyond stressful! It never quite looked right when candling but I’m new and it’s a dark welsummer egg. I didn’t expect it to get this far at all. And they keep pecking at it which makes me go all mama bear. I did move out the 4 biggest ones that were all dried off and going insane to the brooder so these newest little ones could get some rest. Humidity barely changed so hopefully that wasn’t a bad move. No pip in the last BCM egg, but leaving it in there another day for sure. Starting to get stinky in there

 

[Dinoroar]

Oh thank you so much, this is beyond stressful! It never quite looked right when candling but I’m new and it’s a dark welsummer egg. I didn’t expect it to get this far at all. And they keep pecking at it which makes me go all mama bear. I did move out the 4 biggest ones that were all dried off and going insane to the brooder so these newest little ones could get some rest. Humidity barely changed so hopefully that wasn’t a bad move. No pip in the last BCM egg, but leaving it in there another day for sure. Starting to get stinky in there

It IS stressful and very hard not to try and intervene. I’ve been hatching for years and still not as masterful at sitting on my hands as I’d like hope your last bcm egg shows sone activity. It if not it sounds like your having good success. There will just pretty much always be some that don’t make it and that’s the hard part. But helpful to remember that 100 percent hatch is rare not something to feel bad if you don’t attain it because most likely that’s not how it plays out.

 

[Dinoroar]

lavender muffy delight

 

[Canadian Wind]

As March closes and April crawls slowly/quickly closer, I just wanted to say congratulations to everyone, and welcome to the world to all the little hatchlings!

I lost two, but have 13 healthy peepers left. April is going to be much more insane, lol!

 

[Dinoroar]

My last march hatchers are sneaking in before 12:00 cut off

I have 3 eggs zipping. 72 fluffy in the brooder. 9 eggs left doing nothing I’m assuming are duds and 1 I found while transferring that died after pipping… not sure what happened on that one.

Anyway that make 75 chicks which is exactly how many I had in my last hatch weird right!

 

[Dinoroar]

One last update on this hatch ! I went to clear out the dud eggs this morning and one started peeping & I realized it was half zipped on the underside of the egg! That chick hatched shortly after. I opened holes in the remaining eggs and found 2 chicks still going so I put them back in!

I had eggs from this batch shifting around in all different shelves and incubators so it makes sense there would be sone hatching later… but I totally spaced that and took these all for duds.

Anyway a fitting April fools I think.

If the last 2 come through I’ll have 78 chicks!

I kept terrible record so I can’t remember how many I set originally or how many went into lockdown but surprisingly from all the shuffling and hand turning in the hatch tray etc I got a really good hatch

 

[junior67]

I moved the babies into the coop brooder today. They had outgrown the house one and was going to move them the other day but got nervous since temps were going to be really cold at night. I know they would be fine but I was nervous.

 

[abpatchy]

My last hatch ended up being 26 healthy chicks. Even though I always preach not to help, I helped. I am sooo bad at this. But like always it was a mistake and I culled the 3 I helped. That makes 59 Sulmtaler chicks for this breeding season. It will have to do for this year.
I also have 19 Augsburger chicks left. 2 had died suddenly. 4 I was able to rehome due to comb issues.
This was my breeding for this year... now on to raise those little nuggets and hopefully take them to show this fall.
I did hatch booted bantams for a friend. This is a picture I took of my Sulmtaler and this little guy who was a late hatcher. The size difference is amazing.
He has since moved to my friend to join the others.