My Eggs from Sonew arrived!! I HAVE A BABY!!!!!!!!!

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ah your so sweet! all chicks are shes in my house too.. I hate to say it but my chicks will be 3 weeks old this weekend and I already see red in their combs!!! dang it I honestly think this was the motherload of roos! I sent you all pullet eggs:-) Id be very happy with a pair of each too...I love hatching silkies-my favorite chicks to hatch out...Hey did the olive eggers have 5 toes? Theor daddy does..even if they have 4 hes still the daddy but it is funny seeing that gene passed on..LOL..
 
Okay, done...

I had one olive ee who had pipped, on the underside of the egg and I did not know it. It was full formed, looked just like Rachel. But it had passed. There was good deal of yolk left unabsorbed, so I don't know if it pipped early and died or what. Seriously, two beautiful, perfect looking chicks who pipped and never zipped. The membanes were still moist, so I know humidity was not a problem. I don't know what to do stop that.

The other olive ee was no good and looked like an earlier quitter. One blue egg squirted nasty brown stuff out. The others I didn't bother to open because I had my doubts before I ever put them in there. And that one blue egg was enough to break me from just indiscriminately poking at eggs, lol.
 
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ah your so sweet! all chicks are shes in my house too.. I hate to say it but my chicks will be 3 weeks old this weekend and I already see red in their combs!!! dang it I honestly think this was the motherload of roos! I sent you all pullet eggs:-) Id be very happy with a pair of each too...I love hatching silkies-my favorite chicks to hatch out...Hey did the olive eggers have 5 toes? Theor daddy does..even if they have 4 hes still the daddy but it is funny seeing that gene passed on..LOL..

nah, they have four toes. Four cute toes!
 
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so your hatch is complete now! I never know what to do to stop those deaths..I just try never to intervien with mother nature. I do however opent he eggs to see anything that might get me to watch for next time "just in case"..Well you have 3 gorgeous chickies...hopefully a breeding team too! Youll just have to get more eggies when you return from your trip to hospital and DD is better:-)
 
Makes me happy and more than a little paranoid. I only put in 7... how many did you have incubating? But then, if I get 2 I'll be happy. Then they won't be lonely. Worse comes to worse I'll put out my feelers to get my hands on a chick if I end up with a solo hatch. My roo is young and not terribly... talented... if you get my meaning and the banties jump the standards, but that is more comical than useful
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makes lying look good hehe just kidding. "From Madeline to Max: a tale of two chickens..." I can hardly wait to see
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I had 16. Of the 12 I could see through (couldn't see olives), 8 had detached cells. None of those developed fully. They started but quit at different points. The one that I thought had a full size chick actually had a bunch of brown liquid in that was really dark. Not sure what that was, but no chick but when I candled it looked like it was full. So I really had 4 with good cells and the 4 olives.

I did have 5 fully developed chicks out of those, in spite of the early temp spike. The two didn't live. Not sure what caused that. But I did learn that the next time I see a chick pip and then appear to bursting out the side of the egg with it's feet I will intervene. If it can't zip with it's beak its head is most likely not in the right place.

I am not unhappy with the hatch. And if you put 7 in with good air cells, I'd say you have excellent chances. I think that when you ship eggs you take the chance of air cells being damaged. I think that's why they say a 50% hatch on shipped eggs. But with all the problems I had, I really thought I'd get nothing. So I'm happy and I'm going to do it again anyway. I want to hatch some of my own mutts, but I want some more of Natalie's too.
 
I am looking forward to my mutts. Purebreds are fun, but mutts are like a box of chocolates... you never know what your gonna get...
 

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