MAY 2016 "Land of the Free Because of the brave!" Hatch-a-Long Hosted by, Mike & Sally

[Jessimom]

Ok. Lockdown is doing great.

Details? Your great might be different than mine.....

Thanks! I had a bunch pipping when I was home.

I was right there with you. I purposely planned it that way, so I wouldn't pester them. I had one die though because it got rolled. It was a long day though.

Very beautiful!

I'm glad you had pipping! I came home to 2 hatched, and 9 pips. Only the bantams are doing anything. The 4 Polish and 17 BCM's are just sitting there. When I locked down, one of the Polish had a nice draw down, so I'm expecting at least 1 of the Polish to hatch. I'm guessing the Bantam are just earlier hatchers. I never noticed that with my silkies.

I now have 5 rocks and 4 beautiful blue silkies. That is half of the eggs. 3 more are pipped, and I think I have 5 quitters, and one that got rolled too much. Waiting patiently for the last 3 to hatch. Started with 18.

Yay!! congratulations on the cute little fuzzies! I hope that the 5 you suspect as quitters surprise you!

I agree. One of the roosters hatch mates has a crest. It was just a big surprise to see it come out of a leghorn egg when I thought they were isolated.


The apparent father.



The expected parents.



The outcome.

He is beautiful! That's funny about the fence hopping! I love his coloring!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I have a little oddity to show from the Easter Hatch along- This is a little guy (?) that was supposed to be a Dark Brown Leghorn...there WAS a fence hopping Swedish Flower Hen rooster on the loose when this happened. The rooster is not crested and you wouldn't thing a DBL would have any propensity towards a crest, but if you look closely you can see a little white top hat. He is a cutie pie. He acts more like a Swede than a leghorn, i.e. not insane.

He's very pretty but not at all brown leghorn lol!! I loved my brown leghorns

 

[generaldsherman]

Looks good! I have 10 eggs due in 2 weeks progressing well, though 1 of those is iffy. Looks like about 4% humidity lost. Anyone who weighs eggs, that sound about right for 1 week? I suck at judging air cells so decided weight would be good.

Washed out hatcher and will put my other 9 into lockdown tomorrow. Their weight also looks good, 11.5% weight lost. Air cells suck, though. Will need to hatch upright.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Who's keeping track this time?

Out of my 5 eggs due May 11 ish 4 have movement 1 looks like it has a blood ring but doesn't smell-so it stays

Woohoo!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

It's late here so I'll see y'all on the flip side

 

[sasafras4u2]

 

[Farmer Viola]

EE chick is out! It looks dark gray or blackish, hard to tell
OE is out!
SA is pipped
AMF is pipped
and.............. GM green magnolia is pipped! that's 5/5!!!!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I have 3 turkey eggs left

 

[sasafras4u2]

As of right now I have 52 eggs cooking! 30 of them are due on mothers day!!!! The other 22 in 17-18 more days..... but maybe I have more babies to keep me busy. About ready to start moving the last group of 14 outside. Not sure how the girls are gonna like that. I'm starting intros tomorrow. Lol

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

peep was the name of my rooster I gave to the neighbors when a fox killed there's