March Hatch-Along Thread- Come Hatch With Us!!!!!

[hokankai]

As soon as these hatch I'm setting duck eggs for people!

 

[ceocka]

First batch of babies all made it but one. They are beautiful!

All5 of them! Next batch are only two on lock down now!

Then I will clean bator and fill it up all the way for the Easter hatch! Banies polish and my RIR and maybe done silkies or Cochin.

Yea!

Send link to web can!

 

[hokankai]

The webcam link is in my siggie!

I'll let you guys know when it goes live

 

[RoosterMoose]

I use a similar LED flashlight here in Thailand. Works great! Looks like we're hatch buddies as mine are also due on 21st. I've got 12 Brahma eggs in the bator. Candled last night, day 7, and saw 6 chicks moving around all over the place. Very wriggly!

Got one possible blood ring...maybe leave it another couple of days to be sure. However, there is a dark black dot visible too and no movement, so I'm thinking this chick has died. Am I correct? The other 5 appear to be clears, but again I'll leave them another few days and see if they develop.

I'm sooooo happy to finally have something alive.

I had 24 eggs under broody hens last year and not a single live chick hatched. This is my 2nd attempt now at incubating and the first possible success. Yaay!!!

Well good luck to ya... Make sure you drop a line in 2 weeks!

 

[Roxannemc]

Pug
That must have been so heartbreaking So sorry!!

My circuit flipped yesterday but i was home SOO luckily or all my bators and my brooders would have gone out
4 bators!!! GUH.
Well i will sound like a broken record this month b/c i have so many hatches of lavender orps but ppl want them so ....
Anyway in my home made hatch bator I had a pip tonight day 21 ..9 pm.
BUt last hatched on day 22 dont know why temp was right .but i guess these will too .
Only 6 eggs. this time.
I got just 2 chicks last time, Dont know why my hatches are so low
.A friend hatched my eggs the other day and got 9 out of 14!! My temps are right on , my humidity is 25-35..
I havent cleaned the bators in a long time b/c i have eggs on eggs going in so maybe the water gets bad.
They look clean and the water does too as the eggs are in cartons and i dont hatch in there but i cleaned them anyway today Only thing i can think of.Will see.

 

[Cynthia12]

I cheated! I do have 8 eggs left for my March hatch a long here..but I've wanted to get a bantam for my bantam favorelle outside. She needs a small companion. I found one today. The tub at Cal Ranch had an assortment of bantams. I think I picked out a Serama..she's tiny!


These babies are the ones that I hatched in the Feb hatch..so these babies aren't that
far apart! She's teeny..

There's my miracle baby that made it after struggling for a couple of days to wake up
after being in all the goo. The silver one. I think it's a girl. She is behind in growth, but
she's a goer!

 

[Friar_Tuck]

Woohoo!
Just did my day 14 candling, and had to take out one egg.
I started with 24 silkie eggs from Catdance silkies.
They were packed excellent, shipped promptly, but of course the weather turned bad.
It was -30 the day they were in transport, and -10 the day they arrived, and I still have 14 going strong!
I am more than happy with the way things are going considering the weather.
One week to go, should have my first ever silkies on the 14th!
Yaaaaaaaaa!
Jim

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

Cynthia12,
Probably not a Serama. Most hatcheries (actually all that I know of) don't have Serama's because of their small size and the lethal leg gene they carry that causes them to die in the hatching process. She's a real cutie though!

 

[threadgeek]

I just realized....This is SO facebook for chicken people.

YES!!!

That's how I turn my eggs except I use an egg carton wedged under to make a 45 degree angle.

So I just candled my eggs, day 20 for most of them and day 18 for the rest. I HAVE INTERNAL PIPS! Two are pipped internally, a couple are bumping the membrane, and the rest are taking their sweet time, but everyone's alive!

For anyone who cares my hatch cam will be live tomorrow to catch the action! I'll be checking them in the morning for external pips!!!

I LOVE the live-cam idea! I can't wait!

First batch of babies all made it but one. They are beautiful!

All5 of them! Next batch are only two on lock down now!

Then I will clean bator and fill it up all the way for the Easter hatch! Banies polish and my RIR and maybe done silkies or Cochin.

Yea!

Pug
That must have been so heartbreaking So sorry!!

My circuit flipped yesterday but i was home SOO luckily or all my bators and my brooders would have gone out
4 bators!!! GUH.
Well i will sound like a broken record this month b/c i have so many hatches of lavender orps but ppl want them so ....
Anyway in my home made hatch bator I had a pip tonight day 21 ..9 pm.
BUt last hatched on day 22 dont know why temp was right .but i guess these will too .
Only 6 eggs. this time.
I got just 2 chicks last time, Dont know why my hatches are so low
.A friend hatched my eggs the other day and got 9 out of 14!! My temps are right on , my humidity is 25-35..
I havent cleaned the bators in a long time b/c i have eggs on eggs going in so maybe the water gets bad.
They look clean and the water does too as the eggs are in cartons and i dont hatch in there but i cleaned them anyway today Only thing i can think of.Will see.

Pug - I'm sorry to hear about the chicks.

Congrats on the bunnies though! How about some pics?

 

[Cynthia12]

Cynthia12,
Probably not a Serama. Most hatcheries (actually all that I know of) don't have Serama's because of their small size and the lethal leg gene they carry that causes them to die in the hatching process. She's a real cutie though!

Really? I went to the Serama thread asking ... sort of...if that's what she is. I will have to post pictures as she gets older on the .. what is this breed! lol.. I was hoping it was. She'll be small what ever she is.