march april and may hatch along

[chickensfordays]

He just hatched 25 mins ago

 

[quailtrail]

Love all the baby chick/duck pics! !!

 

[TherryChicken]

All the babies!!!!

 

[randerson846]

Another 8 chicks hatched

 

[TherryChicken]

Woohoo!

 

[randerson846]

One is in the middke if hatching alomost out and One hatched about an hour ago and his belly is really weird, any ideas

Will he be okay :/

 

[TherryChicken]

Im sorry I cant see the belly well at all.
I have mixed eggs going on lockdown today. However I am still fixing my new brooder. Came in bad shape so fixing it up

 

[randerson846]

This is kinda late lol, but how did it go @TherryChicken ?

 

[Wishapup]

I incubate nearly every year but this is my first batch this year. I have 52 eggs on Day 9. A lot of them are old and were collected in bad weather so I'm not hoping for a stellar hatch rate, but I see a lot of development in the ones I can see through.

I observed a strange thing today when turning. I have 2 Marans eggs that are thin-shelled with extra bumpy calcium deposits --- and quite light in weight, too. I have had my doubts about them developing. I can't see through the dark shell so I won't know until hatch day, but today when I turned them the small end of the egg tipped down like a magnet. They are on their side, but one end is much heavier than the other side. Not sure what this means. Haven't noticed it with any other eggs, just these light/thin-shelled ones. I wonder if it could have to do with humidity/the air cells. Has anyone ever experienced this?

Edit: Candled again. Couldn't see much but enough to see half the egg is dark/shadowy and the other half is taken up by a giant air cell.

 

[randerson846]

Wow 52 eggs! Ahahah, looking forward to hatch day for you! But about ur eggs, it could be that the air sack is taking up such a big space of the egg, that the chick has no other room to develops but the bottom, but I don't think it will be suck a big problem