March Hatching Madness

[kathyinmo]

This hatch is complete ....
22 Delawares
3 RIR
4 Lavender Ameraucanas
1 tiny Cochin
3 B/B/S Orps
3 Silkies
My broody Silkie hatched out 1 herself! She and her sister were sitting on eggs. One day the sister got up to go eat and poo. While standing near the doorway of their little coop, a hawk came down and killed her. The remaining broody hatched one, despite having pooped all over the eggs!
A few pictures:

First ones to hatch.

3 of the 4 Lavender Ameraucanas (#4 still fluffing up in the bator)

3 Orps

3 RIR

The lone little cochin. She is now with the broody silkie mama!

Some of the gang ...

 

[allaboutdemchicks]

Kathy, well done. They are simply precious!! Congratulations on such a successful hatch!!!!!

 

[cherylcohen]

I'm just curious for all of you that hatch on a regular basis, or have just hatched a large number of chicks,.....what do you do with them. Do they all go in your flock, do you hatch to sell them?

 

[kathyinmo]

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Claudia, Your stock is just wonderful ! Your Delawares had 100% fertility, and the hatch was just great!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Right now I am hatching some for my 4Hers, some to sell, and some to keep! I have over 100 eggs hatching this month (hopefully).

 

[Egg_newton]

I ended up with 6 babies. 5 from my white hen/blue roo and 1 from purchased eggs. The lady I bought them from felt bad that I had such a bad hatch rate and sent me some replacements. They went in the bator today with some b/b/s and lav split orps and a bunch of mixed brown egg layers and I put three eggs under my silkie hen that just went broody. Itty Bit is the one I hatched on day 25. You can see he is so much smaller than everyone else. I thought for sure he wasn't going to make it. He still had his umbilical cord attached as was so weak. I think he may be an orp mix because of the white on his chest and he only has 4 toes instead of 5. What do you guys think? These are my first silkie babies so I have no idea what is normal for coloring but I do know that 4 toes isn't normal. You can see him pictured with the white chick and again peeking from the back of the group pic.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Mine are either going into my laying flock or the breeder Flock. I have a breeder project I am considering, that will require more chicks to be hatched and then the culls will go to the layer flock. As I only want to breed the best of the best.

I have a small community that may wish to purchase some chicks later in the Spring.

I also have one local farmer who would like me to hatch eggs from his hens for him to triple his flock. Since I have the Brower Galvanized incubator that might be possible. since he would like 100+ to help replace his older hens.

 

[Laurieks]

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This is my first year hatching... started last August... and now that I have enough layers I'm starting to sell the extras. Silkies I hatched because someone asked for Silkies, then disappeared when I had em. :lol

 

[greeneggsandham]

Mine went into lockdown last night. Temps are holding nicely and the humidity is around 68. I did have to discard another 5 eggs that didn't develop, but all the rest looked really promising. I should have 60+ chicks by the weekend.

 

[butterrflye81]

OK... It's my first time incubating and hatching as well as first time for everything else. Today is my day 20 for my 14 Wheaton Marans Eggs from Wheaties and I had to run on here and announce that I have found 6 eggs pipped and I am so excited to see that there is movement and life. I didnt candle or handle the eggs at all so the nervousness of not knowing if I was doing ANYTHING right and if any at all were alive was killing me. I can't believe just how excited I am. i feel like im skipping around my house today LOL... I bet you all are laughing at me. I just had to get on to share. Pictures will be available as soon as I have more. YAY