October 2016 Hatch-A-Long!!

[Mylied]

It's day 10 so I checked air cells again. They're growing, so I figure that's a good sign. Saw chicks moving in 3 eggs, one's too dark to see, and I think 1 is infertile. Should I keep it in until the 14, just in case.

 

[darkbluespace]

Doubly in now. Just put 8 crested cream legbar eggs, 3 chocolate Orpington eggs, and 5 silkie eggs in with my Guinea fowl. As I added them at 1 week I think they both have the same hatch date, right? (Guineas hatch in 28 days, yes?) Guinea eggs look good. 10 are clearly veining.

Yes, they should all be hatching about the same time! Nice variety!!

 

[darkbluespace]

I moved batch #1 of Silkie eggs to the hatcher and set another 20 Silkie eggs in the incubator that I'll call batch #3.

I candled one of my Serama eggs from a breeder and it has quit : (. The first egg she gave me from the same bird also quit about the same time. Apparently she is a newly laying pullet. Bummer, but I still have 4 silkied Serama eggs. . I also have 3 eggs from my new hen under my broody!

 

[Cerise1924]

Am I remembering correctly that some of your silkies are white? If so, white is like a switch that covers up other colors so you can get lots of different colors from white silkies.

I just happen to have a handful of girls laying and they are lavender, paint, blue and Isabel I think(lavender and buff) and a variety of Roos so a number of colors are possible. When my younger birds start mating I will separate into paint and lavender and cuckoo pens but right now it is pretty mixed up! I don't know what to do with my blue girl... She doesn't seem to fit in anywhere. I am tempted to get a splash rooster for her but I have to stop myself from trying to get every color of Silkie!

The silkie colours are so lovely! It is exciting to hatch so many different pretty hues.

My eggs arrived in the mail! I bid on six, but the kind farmer sent a full dozen. I think she has separate breeding pens, because she actually labeled the eggs by colour:
LAV (3) -Lavender
BBS (2) - Is that BlueBlack Splash?
BlkSpl (3) - What is that?
WS (3) - No idea
Paint (1) - Those are pretty!

Hoping for a good hatch. I actually calibrated my hygrometers this time (turns out they are both accurate), and I am letting the eggs rest big end up overnight to settle from shipping at room temperature before I set them in the incubator.
However... I candled them to check for cracks (no cracks), and I cannot see an air cell in any of them. Is the air cell just too tiny to view when eggs are newly laid?

 

[BlueBaby]

The funniest thing about that article is that when you get to the end, there are ads for incubators!

Well, for the correct chicken math, wouldn't you need to have more incubators?

 

[AustralorpsAU]

Well, for the correct chicken math, wouldn't you need to have more incubators?

Did u see the vid of the eye moving?

 

[BlueBaby]

Did u see the vid of the eye moving?

No, but I did see eye moving in my eggs, and that was the real deal.

 

[darkbluespace]

The silkie colours are so lovely!  It is exciting to hatch so many different pretty hues.

My eggs arrived in the mail!  I bid on six, but the kind farmer sent a full dozen. I think she has separate breeding pens, because she actually labeled the eggs by colour:
LAV (3) -Lavender
BBS (2) - Is that BlueBlack Splash?
BlkSpl (3) - What is that?
WS (3) - No idea
Paint (1) - Those are pretty! 

Hoping for a good hatch. I actually calibrated my hygrometers this time (turns out they are both accurate), and I am letting the eggs rest big end up overnight to settle from shipping at room temperature before I set them in the incubator.
However... I candled them to check for cracks (no cracks), and I cannot see an air cell in any of them. Is the air cell just too tiny to view when eggs are newly laid?

BBS is blue black splash, I have no clue what WS is and BlkSpl is likely black split... Split to lavender probably?

 

[Cerise1924]

I just hatched out 5 chicks. One copper maran and 4 olive ethers. One died shortly after but the others are doing great! Tomorrow I am hopping to hatch out another 5 or 6! I also have two peafowl eggs in my incubator right now!

Congrats on your hatch and your survivors. Sorry about the little one that didn't make it. Looking forward to more pics - especially peafowl!

 

[darkbluespace]

I just hatched out 5 chicks. One copper maran and 4 olive ethers. One died shortly after but the others are doing great! Tomorrow I am hopping to hatch out another 5 or 6! I also have two peafowl eggs in my incubator right now!

Cute babies!!

Peafowl are very cool! My first ever successful hatch was peachicks (and ducklings). They are such beautiful, sensitive and intelligent birds!