October Hatch-A-Long

[Chickadee-23]

My little fluff butts started hatching yesterday evening, they were due to hatch today so thats good, the dad is a birchen game & moms are red laying hens, i put 5 eggs in 4 hatch so far here's the babies

 

[kada6305]

7 more days until lock down! So exciting! I can't wait to have some more fluff butts walking around. Right now we have have 2. one from Sept hath and one from beginning of this month hatch

 

[Cathy Corbett]

since it is the beginning of OCT.. can we still participate in this hatchalong? I have some quail eggs that i would like to try, for my first ever hatch.. I will be putting them in the incubator tomorrow..

 

[Peep-Chicken]

since it is the beginning of OCT..   can we still participate in this hatchalong?     I have some quail eggs that i would like to try, for my first ever hatch..      I will be putting them in the incubator tomorrow..    

Of course

 

[Cathy Corbett]

Of course

Thank you!!!! I cant wait to get started!!!

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

I have had two bright blue eggs that pipped, but didn't zip. The first one I assisted. There was virtually no blood. It went really well. This is my first incubation ever, so I'm really a virgin at this all.

The shell was soooo thick compared to the lighter blue one that pipped and zipped and hatch within about 2 hours. I'm glad I helped because it was not doing the zipping itself. I have a second bright blue egg that was in the same situation. I've peeled back the egg shell around the pip to about halfway down. There was a spot with blood that came through the membrane. It just pooled; it wasn't free flowing. I put it back in the incubator, in the egg flat with some moist face-cleaned towellettes around it and under it. I'm giving it some time to absorb the capillaries before I try to help again. This eggshell was really thick, too.

I have a bantam blue wheaten that just started peeping, but no pip. Does that mean it's internally pipped? I hope it manages. I also have a Silkie egg that I candled because something was smelling in the incubator. It looked fully formed, but no movement. I pipped the aircell end and there was no movement whatsoever. I put it back and am going to give it some time. I had an olive egger yesterday that had air sacs at both end and was really light. That one had mold in it and seemed to have died a while ago.

I just replaced the cover and am going to go back to my reading for grad school. Appropriately, I'm reading Frankenstein. I may just call myself the Modern Chicken Prometheus.

The Crested Cream Legbar chick:


The splash Amerecauna chick:

 

[ChickyChickens]

Congrats on the new fluff butts !!!! Its always so exciting to see the pips and watch everyone get to experience the thrill of hatching!


Day 17 here... Going to candle tonight and see where we are.. I haven't really done full candling, my light is good enough I can shine it on the top of the egg and see the veining well enough to know who made it and who didn't..
Grandson is here with us for the week, Momma had to go out of town to care for a sick parent and having all three boys during this time was a bit stressful for her, so he gets some time with Poppy and Nanny by himself while daddy is working..

He was so cute last night when we went out to feed and water the flock last evening, checked and had a late egg layer so I gave him the egg to carry back to the house and he was so very careful carrying it because as he said, there is a baby in there nanny, I explained to him that no, there wasn't a baby in there we are going to eat that egg, that only when Nanny puts the egg in the incubator will their be a baby.. Hard trying to get a 4 year old to understand why we weren't going to put that egg in the incubator...lol, to him every egg should be put in the incubator!!

He got the Tom turkey to gobble at him, I never get tired of children's laughter

Yeah, little kids laughter!!!

I have had two bright blue eggs that pipped, but didn't zip. The first one I assisted. There was virtually no blood. It went really well. This is my first incubation ever, so I'm really a virgin at this all.

The shell was soooo thick compared to the lighter blue one that pipped and zipped and hatch within about 2 hours. I'm glad I helped because it was not doing the zipping itself. I have a second bright blue egg that was in the same situation. I've peeled back the egg shell around the pip to about halfway down. There was a spot with blood that came through the membrane. It just pooled; it wasn't free flowing. I put it back in the incubator, in the egg flat with some moist face-cleaned towellettes around it and under it. I'm giving it some time to absorb the capillaries before I try to help again. This eggshell was really thick, too.

I have a bantam blue wheaten that just started peeping, but no pip. Does that mean it's internally pipped? I hope it manages. I also have a Silkie egg that I candled because something was smelling in the incubator. It looked fully formed, but no movement. I pipped the aircell end and there was no movement whatsoever. I put it back and am going to give it some time. I had an olive egger yesterday that had air sacs at both end and was really light. That one had mold in it and seemed to have died a while ago.

I just replaced the cover and am going to go back to my reading for grad school. Appropriately, I'm reading Frankenstein. I may just call myself the Modern Chicken Prometheus.

The Crested Cream Legbar chick:


The splash Amerecauna chick:

Love seeing just hatched chicks...

 

[ChickyChickens]

Moonshine, had a 100% hatch rate(10/10) but 4 of those got taken by hawks!!

As I took this photo, a hawk flew past!(that's why she is looking like that)



Having fun with her chickies!!!
(SHE IS A FIRST TIMER>>>))

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Moonshine, had a 100% hatch rate(10/10) but 4 of those got taken by hawks!! As I took this photo, a hawk flew past!(that's why she is looking like that) Having fun with her chickies!!! (SHE IS A FIRST TIMER>>>))

Aww sorry about your chicks What breed is moonshine?

 

[Rainier]

Sorry to be a downer when all these cute lil' fluffy butt pictures are being posted but I could use some input.

Candled last night and pulled four eggs two were clear and one had a blood ring. The last egg was really weird looking. It had, what looked like, this cloudy floaty thing in the middle of the egg. It almost looked like part of the yolk was free floating away from where the chick should have been but I didn't see the eye of the chick that I look for and there was not a lot of veining that I could see.

When I did the eggtopsy on it it was on 7 day (right where it should have been) but it was dark red. I think the cloudy area that I saw floating was the circle of the white part of the egg. It was the weirdest thing.The other chicks (from first hatch) that were about that far were not red like that.

I hope I didn't kill a live chick!