Mid-May Hatch-A-Long 2018

[RowanTheRed]

Great photo! Yes, the advice and help from veteran members here is so helpful. Congrats on your chicks!

I had to drive my sister to our parents in NC yesterday morning and drove back home this morning. I have been home about an hour now and here is the tally now. After the first 2 hatches from Tuesday and Thursday, we had another 2 last night and then 1 more by 5 am with 2 trying to make their way into the world.

By the time I got home there were 9 wee ones running amuck in the incubator and I was able to capture the hatch of another. So that makes 2 already a few days old in the brooder, 11 now in the incubator, 2 eggs with pips and 3 not doing anything

Edited for count update

 

[GldnValleyHens]

Eggs in lockdown, day 18. Awaiting, nervously!

 

[Cerise1924]

I had to drive my sister to our parents in NC yesterday morning and drove back home this morning. I have been home about an hour now and here is the tally now. After the first 2 hatches from Tuesday and Thursday, we had another 2 last night and then 1 more by 5 am with 2 trying to make their way into the world.

By the time I got home there were 9 wee ones running amuck in the incubator and I was able to capture the hatch of another. So that makes 2 already a few days old in the brooder, 11 now in the incubator, 2 eggs with pips and 3 not doing anything

Edited for count update

Yay for lots of little chicks!!

 

[Cerise1924]

Eggs in lockdown, day 18. Awaiting, nervously!

Good luck to you!

 

[Cerise1924]

@GldnValleyHens - how was your hatch? Was yesterday Day 21 for you?

-Cerise

 

[GldnValleyHens]

@GldnValleyHens - how was your hatch? Was yesterday Day 21 for you?

-Cerise

Thank you, I have a chick out! Pipped this morning, made an opening so I can see progress, and it hatched a couple hours ago! Here is a picture of it, I will get more current ones in a bit! Sure is a feisty one!! It was a great first hatch, she absorbed the yolk and had virtually no trouble!

 

[Cerise1924]

Awww, yay!! Do you have a name for your first, feisty little chick? Looking forward to more pics. Congratulations!!

-Cerise

 

[GldnValleyHens]

Awww, yay!! Do you have a name for your first, feisty little chick? Looking forward to more pics. Congratulations!!

-Cerise

Chloe or Chip is the name!

 

[GldnValleyHens]

This chick is so adorable!

 

[Cerise1924]

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This chick is so adorable!

Beautiful little chick!