May hatch-a-long

[chickenmama109]

Hi I just set 18 eggs in my incubator on Friday is it too late to join?

It’s never to late to join every one is always welcome to the hatch a long thanks for joining what breeds are you incubating

 

[chickenmama109]

Ok update time!
Good and bad news. Bad news first...I’m pretty sure I lost one egg. Good news is the rest still look viable. I had a gut feeling and decided to candle them after I made sure none had pipped. One egg it looked like the blood vessels had dissolved and I couldn’t see any for sure movement, just a dark blob. There’s no smell coming from it so I put it back, in case I’m wrong.

But there was definitely life still in the other 5. One egg is actually rocking in the bator now! It’s small, but there’s definitely movement. This is getting egg-citing!



Oh lord I’d go insane worrying about something going wrong if I couldn’t be here when they hatch.

I hope you have better luck on your hatch this time!

Good luck with your hatch it is so hard to wait for pips. on my last hatch I would wake up in the morning and have a couple chicks in the bator when it was lock down then I would sit there and watch them and name them LOL hopefully when you get back home all of your eggs are hatched

 

[Mraya]

It’s never to late to join every one is always welcome to the hatch a long thanks for joining what breeds are you incubating

I am hatching BOxBR crosses and silkies.
Here is my hatch from this passed weekend 25 out of 36

 

[Mraya]

Oh and I have 32 going to lock down on Wednesday

 

[chickenmama109]

I am hatching BOxBR crosses and silkies.
Here is my hatch from this passed weekend 25 out of 36View attachment 1341476

They are adorable and the chicks grow so fast I have three chicks that are already getting use to the flock they spent there first night out side last night and they really liked it

 

[chickenmama109]

Ok so here’s an update on my eggs today is day six and I’m super excited to see which ones are fertile

 

[Mraya]

They are adorable and the chicks grow so fast I have three chicks that are already getting use to the flock they spent there first night out side last night and they really liked it

I think they grow twice as fast when they are outside.

 

[chickenmama109]

I think they grow twice as fast when they are outside.

I’m sure of it

 

[Mraya]

My first hen ever is now broody. I hope she sits, I think she will she has not left the nest yet and last night we had a bad storm. She made a nest in the run under a crate. (She has a perfectly good coop with nesting boxes, and she makes a nest in the run outside )

 

[Mraya]

Still nothing. No rocking, no chirping, no pips....

I hate to say it but I’m starting to worry. It seems everyone else is seeing or hearing some action at this point in their hatch. I hope my babies are ok.

Sigh...this is maddening

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