My eggs are due to hatch tonight/tomorrow

[Sweetlilbaby]

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

They were supposed to be silkies. I"m going to be sending a message to the person i bought them from because so far out of 6 NONE of them are silkies. I'm not mad or anything, just don't like being lied to.

 

[JenBirdRansom]

Congratulations on the little peepers!! So if they aren't silkies, I wonder what they are! And idea?

They are terribly cute. I will be locking down my incubator tomorrow morning. I have a batch of Game Bird eggs from a friend of a friend. Nothing like "Hey can Jen hatch these eggs?" for me to end up with mystery birds. I don't even know what the parents look like!

Let us know if you find out what kind of babies you have there!!

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Congratulations on the little peepers!! So if they aren't silkies, I wonder what they are! And idea?

They are terribly cute. I will be locking down my incubator tomorrow morning. I have a batch of Game Bird eggs from a friend of a friend. Nothing like "Hey can Jen hatch these eggs?" for me to end up with mystery birds. I don't even know what the parents look like!

Let us know if you find out what kind of babies you have there!!

I have to wait til they are older to really tell what breed they are. I mean so far there is yellow, Yellow with black spots, Red with one black spot, and a light orangy/yellow color. I am thinking this person has silkies but also has several other breeds of chicken in one pen. I don't think it was on purpose giving me eggs that werent silkies after telling me they were.
The red with the black spot is supposed to be a marran (SP?) chick. It came from a deep dark brown egg.
1 came from an off white egg, the rest were from white eggs. Knowing the color of egg they came from might help me figure out breed later on

My mom is happy that my eggs hatched. Now she wants me to hatch 4 dozen for her. *sigh*

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

The green egg that had cracked the shell in half but never got out died. Noted at 8 pm no movement, again at 9, 10, and 11 no movement from it. Then a few minutes ago still no movement. so i pulled the shell off. The chick was dead. At least 6 successfully hatched. 5 more still might hatch. I consider a 50% hatch rate from shipped eggs to be pretty good though. Would have been 7 out of 12 if that one had survived.

 

[DanielaZ]

Congratulations!!!

..OMG they are so cute!
Our eggs strated to hatch today..until now 5 out of 11, no movement in the others yet, today is the 21st day..so I'm hoping they could still hatch in the next 2-3 days!

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Congratulations!!!

..OMG they are so cute!
Our eggs strated to hatch today..until now 5 out of 11, no movement in the others yet, today is the 21st day..so I'm hoping they could still hatch in the next 2-3 days!

No movement doesn't mean anything! 3 of my eggs didn't move at all then all of a sudden shake shake shake CRACK chick out. Within 3 minutes of the first bit of movement they were out. I never seen chicks hatch so fast. My first one that hatched was wiggling for days before it got out. Depends on the chick I guess Some are just straight to the point, others like to be dramatic and take their time.
As of 1 pm today, 6 healthy chicks. 5 eggs in the incubator. waiting til tomorrow to candle them and if no movement in them toss them. I know you aren't supposed to candle after lock down but I wanna make sure i'm not throwing out live chicks.
Hopefully the rest of your eggs hatch. If not remember 5 hatching is a success! Ironically I can legally own 6 and 6 successfully hatched. weird right?

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

I spoke too soon on the breed. Today looking at the chicks 2 have fluffy leg feathers. They didn't look like they did at all yesterday. I'm still hesitating to say those are silkies. Because i think some other breeds have feathered legs as well. seems like a weird mix of chicks i ended up with. 2 yellows, 2 yellow with black dot on head and feathered legs, 1 red with black spot on back (came from dark brown egg), and one red/black/yellow chick that came from a white egg.