May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[LadiesAndJane]

Two of the blue birchen Marans have hatched. Photo of the “blue“ blue birchen in the drying incubator with the remaining silkies! There is a “black“ blue birchen just hatched in the incubator, will have to wait and see how the others progress! You guys are right about Marans taking their own sweet time to hatch! There’s about so far 12 hours between each egg compared to the silkies who all seemed to pop out at once!

 

[Silkie2005]

Silkie eggs have just gone into lockdown!! Ran out of the normal discs so had to fill in with some tissue.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

This weekend I have a ton of chicks hatching. The Giant Deathlayers (most are sold) and the assorted chickens from the person I got the assorted quail from.

Have to see photos of those Deathlayer chicks!

 

[Trisseh]

Peeping in the eggs this morning! Fingers crossed I’ll have some external pips when I get home today. Otherwise they’ll all be getting some safety holes to be on the safe side, since they all had internally pipped sometime yesterday. I’m especially concerned about the giant air-celled one. Not sure it’ll be able to externally pip properly with the shape and size of the cell...

 

[FortCluck]

Have to see photos of those Deathlayer chicks!

I’ll post them once they hatch. I’ll take lots of pics because I’ll be a grandma the pullets are my jersey giant crosses I hatched.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Three eggs under PomPom are due in a couple of days, as you can see and hear she’s very happy about that

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[gimmie birdies]

Egg of my avatar has pip, day 21 currently, and day 22 starts this evening.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Three eggs under PomPom are due in a couple of days, as you can see and hear she’s very happy about that

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Oh my goodness that is so sweet! Those are the cutest broody chatters I've ever heard!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Oh my goodness that is so sweet! Those are the cutest broody chatters I've ever heard!

I know she sounded so cute!

I’m just glad I’ve eventually got some babies on the way even if they aren’t from the Male I was hoping them to be from!

 

[Coykoi]

My broody has failed as a carer. I took the eggs away from her about a week ago and finished incubating them inside (too much fighting between hens for the best nest box). She had decoys and was faithfully sitting on them. I've tried introducing a couple of chicks to broody, but she's not having any of it. I guess I'm going to raise these babies too. I already have one brooder with two week olds and now another brooder for the new ones. The last chick has pipped and his siblings are awaiting his arrival. What a fun hatch along its been!