October Hatch-A-Long 2017

[Crooked Chicken]

Just so I know next time -- what is the clear jelly/white poo stuff in this photo? Is it normal? Chick is doing great!

Asking once more because I'd really like to know. Anyone know?

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Start of day 20. Three hatched yesterday, all from blue eggs. Two typical EE types and this super dark chick with a dark beak and legs. I moved them to the incubator just now where they got to inaugurate my new heating plate, which works just as it is supposed to. I have one more looking like it’s staring to zip and several more pips.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Asking once more because I'd really like to know. Anyone know?
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I don't have a good answer but it's normal. Like a 1st poop. Just make sure it comes off cleanly. It's difficult to remove if it dries on. I've also had the stringy part wrap around a leg. Could easily have dried and turned into a mini tourniquet cutting off circulation! I caught it when he was still wet. Had the chick fluffed out I don't know if I would have caught it

 

[Peep_Show]

Second wave of hatching underway today. My Cuckoo Bluebars are pipping and popping. The first one out was a beautiful silver blue. The second was..... a chipmunk?

I sincerely doubt this will feather out blue.
I think I got sent a Cuckoo Bluebar x Cuckoo Bluebar cross, which means hybrid on hybrid equals whatever's in the gene pool. If so, this is probably a throwback to the CCL in the mix.

I am more amused than upset. Not the first time I've been sent wonky "oops" eggs.

 

[Peep_Show]

More pics of the first batch...

 

[Harmony Fowl]

My three so far. I’m mildly freaking out at the lack of progress for the others and trying to remember day 21 isn’t until tomorrow!

 

[Crooked Chicken]

I don't have a good answer but it's normal. Like a 1st poop. Just make sure it comes off cleanly. It's difficult to remove if it dries on. I've also had the stringy part wrap around a leg. Could easily have dried and turned into a mini tourniquet cutting off circulation! I caught it when he was still wet. Had the chick fluffed out I don't know if I would have caught it

Thank you -- normal is good. It fell off right away and not stuck on stuff. Just a quick wipe to clean off incubator.

 

[Poultrybreeder]

I'm back, none of my eggs hatched unfortunately, cute chicks! God Bless!

 

[Harmony Fowl]

#4 hatched a short while ago and its cheeping is driving the egg next to it crazy. I count eight more with pips of various kinds now.

Any thoughts on the small black chick? If the orchard had a bantam hen, no reason to think they might not have a bantam rooster, too. Egg was blue, so half EE. Small because it may be half bantam, or small because it hatched early? That other early Hatcher is a monster!

Latest chick is yellow, from a speckled tan egg.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

#5 is out, a dark chick from a speckled medium brown egg.