MARCH HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[Jen4]

Sav the Favs Wrote:
Thanks so much for sharing the pics of you beauties with us. Your blogs are really fun, well designed, pretty, love the pics of you & your family, your farm & your animals. Oh yeah, the recipes look delish!!!!!

Thank You

 

[Woods_Woman]

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Adorable Polish chicks. Wonderfull pom-pom heads, they should be lovely when they grow up too.

Thank you, I got the egg's from Baregretchen here on BYC.

 

[catdaddyfro]

I candled my eggs last night it was the 14th day and all looked good to go. So far I only had one infertile this round I'm sure hoping for a better hatch than last month's disaster. Happy hatching everbody.

catdaddy

 

[chickenmeadow]

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Sending "super positive" wishes your way for a good hatch. You're getting closer!

 

[Madcap621]

Hi Folks! Madcap here with a delayed report on the "traveling hatch"

. I put 26 eggs into lockdown on Friday evening. 15 Australorps that passed the last candleing, plus 6 more I wanted to give the 'benefit of the doubt' but didn't think would hatch. I also put 5 Speckled Sussex eggs in - 4 looked good, one very doubtful. Started with 46 eggs, locked down 24. Not great but I've done much worse. The SS were shipped, so I felt pretty good about 50% going to the hatcher.

At 4 am Sunday I laid down a 4-thick pad of bubble-wrap sheets, set the incubator in the van, plugged in the converter thingy. We loaded 4 dogs, a cat, 5 3week old chicks, four 5 week old chicks, two 8 week old roos and a 5 month old cochen pullet and the adventure began! Twelve hours later we arrived in Maryland, still speaking

One of the Aussies had pipped. The pc fan I had installed stopped about 3 hours jnto the trip but started up again when I plugged it back into 'house' current

The roos and chicks were settled into their new quarters, the pullet was introduced to her new SO [the relationship was consummated within 20 min.] - she took yesterday off from egg laying, but she usually takes every 4th day off - and presented me with an egg today.

I went to bed with 4 pips, woke yesterday [Mon] to a newly hatched chick, one zipped - hatched while the coffee brewed and 3 more pips. By midnight one of the SS had hatched, 8 more BAs, [the last one from an egg that was doubtful - that chick is still very weak and looks under-developed

]. By 2pm today those chicks were running all over my weak baby and pecking at the heating unit and bumping their heads on it. There was no sign of progress on any more eggs, so I set up the brooder and transferred 8 BAs and the SS into it about 7. Left my poor weak baby in the hatcher. Another SS hatched about 10 tonight. I have to leave tomorrow evening for the PA portion of my trip, so will transfer all hatched chicks to the brooder and leave all un-hatched eggs in the hatcher until I come back on Saturday to pick up chicks, fertile eggs [See APRIL Hatchalong thread for THAT story], bartered-for Silver Spangled Hamburg pullet and head back to Tennessee. Meantime I am having a ball playing farm-girl and caring for [and gathering eggs from] beautiful Heritage and endangered breeds of CHICKENS! I am guessing more than 20 breeds, both LF and bantam. I will try to count them and report tomorrow - OOPS - today! Good night

 

[chickenmeadow]

Just picked up my "new to me - broody hen to be" today & have here quarantined. I was told that she was a Partridge Silkie at 2-3 yrs old. Hoping she has some experience with hatching or will be good at making it up as she goes. Have never had a Silkie before, it will be fun spoiling her.

Does anyone have any advice on how to "jump start" a Silkie for setting eggs? Only things that I can think of are feed her well inculding vits/mins & homemade keifer (like yogurt), dust her with my "natural homemade chicken dust," supply a comfortable coop, nest box, & put some plastic eggs in the nest box to stimulate.

This is "Sukie" the Silkie.

 

[chickenmeadow]

Madcap621: Oh my, that was a fun report! Congrats on your challenging travel hatch. Talk about multi-tasking, you're on a roll! We take our dogs with us on vacation, but this takes that whole pet thing to another level. Amazing that you've got it all worked out. Brilliant! A vacation to be remembered by all!

Tell me more about the converter thingy & what type of bator is it? Also, looking forward to hearing about what new eggs were picked up? Interesting breedings ahead for you! Thanks for the update!

 

[vegaschick]

Been lurking ... 20 eggs went into lockdown tonight. It's my first time hatching AND I'm using a new homemade bator. So excited. Yeah, and a little scared. Now ... to hurry up and wait!

 

[Daidohead]

My very first.

 

[Jen4]

Daidohead - Cute