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[Jen4]

Pretty Chickies incubatingisfun

 

[jlgoinggreen]

Hey Everyone.....I'm back. Sorry I was MIA for those who were watching my first attempt at hatching eggs. My mom, sister, niece/nephew were visiting from out of town. And Yay, they got to see the hatching in progress.

My last hatch went great (well at least in my eyes, still would have like a better hatch rate). I am in love with my fuzzy butts! Out of 38 eggs we ended up with 13 Chicks.

7 Ameraucaunas (5 black/2 blues), 5 Easter Eggers, and 1 Black Copper Maran. I would have LOVED more BCMs as those are my favorites, but what can we do. I will try to post pics later. I've tried to take pics, but they move around too fast for me. The one good pic has a weird coloring due to the red lamp glow and me forgetting to use the flash.

Lessons I learned from my first hatch that I will "try" not to do again for future hatches.....Not to do big hatches. At least until I have more experience. Not to open the bators to help out chicks. The one I helped (which I believe ruined the rest of my hatches) died anyways. Everyone was hatching steadily until I opened the bator to help out the chick, then everyone just stopped hatching including one that was halfway zipped. And from now on I will be using two bators. One to incubate, the other to hatch. I will also try to keep my hatches about a week apart.

What I have now in the bators:
10 Bourbon Red Turkey eggs on day 27 in my Genesis 1588 (which will now be my hatcher)
4 EEs also in my Genesis with my Turkeys on day 20. Put in to help turkeys learn to eat and drink.
10 White Silkies on day 2 of incubation in my Brinsea Eco 20.

Happy Hatchings Everyone!

 

[mayberrygirl]

We have 3!! and last one pipped, and you can hear it going at the shell. The 3rd one out (this one hatched this morning) was shrink wrapped so I cleaned it up and put it back in to dry, I am also raising the humidity for the last one. The first 2 from last night are in the brooder and loving life!! I have pics up (slide show), since the web cam was a bust

http://www.sweetchicksfarm.com/chickenpictures.html

 

[mrbstephens]

It's day 20............. I HEAR PEEPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it! I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!

 

[kelliepulido]

sounds like the may hatchers are moving along

 

[moorechicks]

I just wanted to check and say congrats to all the ones hatching away!!

!! Mine havn't even been a week and i am bout to go crazy it seems it has been years ... I am ready for some babies...

 

[Illia]

Congrats to everyone!!

Here's some pics of my $80 (ea) chicks, before they got pulled out of the bator.

 

[Patchesnposies]

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They are cutie-patooties. I love baby chicks. What are they that they are $80 a piece? Were these SHIPPED eggs?

Congratulations! How many babies did you get?

 

[Illia]

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They are cutie-patooties. I love baby chicks. What are they that they are $80 a piece? Were these SHIPPED eggs?

Congratulations! How many babies did you get?

Yep, shipped eggs. I got 2 babies out of 12 eggs. The whole dozen cost me 163, so with two chicks out of that - those two cost me 81 each.

I originally had 6 fertile, which I was SOOO excited for (that's pretty high for shipped Tolbunt Polish eggs) but two ended up sticking to the shell for some reason, and 2 never hatched.

 

[KellyHM]

Very cute (and expensive) babies! My fingers are crossed for you that you get a pair and can make some of your money back...and share with your BYC family.

ETA: I have 2 Cochin broodies who are currently hatching eggs! Also, my turkey, Cuckoo Marans, and Cochin that are all co-nesting have 5 adorable EE babies!