Official Christmas Hatch! c'mon and join

[Luvs chickens]

candled everyone yesterday!

everyone is moving around! can't wait until Christmas hatch!

 

[LaSombra]

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Well, according to the local feed store, she's a blue orpington... and she does look it, all except that she has a rose comb. She must have a bit of Wyandotte in her too.

 

[Bock_Bock]

i set mine on the 5th hoping for a day early chick, i started with 3 dozen fertile trader joe eggs, as i cant find any other fertile eggs around where i live at this time, so i candled all before they went in took out 6 that had cracks, so the 30 went in, candled on saturday and it seems maybe around 8 or 9 are developing, which is pleanty for me, but this is actually my second chance for december babys, as i had another batch going but i lost electricity and they all died got down to like 55 degrees or so in middle of the night for like 9 hours, so i started over with 3 new dozens, but i will do another candling this saturday to make sure of developing ones and the non developing ones, and get a final count, but i am hoping for a christmas born chick, so wish me luck

 

[Poco Pollo]

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Intriguing. There were a couple threads last year following folks who were hatching store bought eggs. Do you know what the Trader Joe flock is made up of? Curiouser and curiouser. You'll need to post pictures of your hatch so that we can all guess what they are.

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

Mia (8) and I will candle eggs as soon as she finishes her dinner. I'm going to go ahead and move them straight to the hatcher (another Sportsman) now and leave the turner on unil the 21st (a day early for the bantams). I want to thoroughly clean & disinfect my other incubator and unplug it for the winter break...like 3 weeks~LOL Of course, I now have Serama eggs, so the suspense may be too much and I may have to start all over.

All of my extra trays are soaking in bleach water in the bathtub as I type, to be boxed up so I can put out my Christmas decorations where they have been stacked

We also hatched out our first Silkie baby 2 days ago. He/she is doing great and is bullying it's only hatch mate, a Wheaten Penedesenca. I just tossed that one in at the last minute, good thing! The Silkie baby looks to be blue or black. Hens are black, blue & splash, roo is a splash.

 

[Bock_Bock]

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Intriguing. There were a couple threads last year following folks who were hatching store bought eggs. Do you know what the Trader Joe flock is made up of? Curiouser and curiouser. You'll need to post pictures of your hatch so that we can all guess what they are.

Hyline w-36 is most likelt the chickens used to lay store bought eggs. you can read up on this breed and other hyline breeds here:
http://www.hyline.com/aspx/products/products.aspx?navid=3

 

[j.luetkemeyer]

Candled my eggs today for the second time. I had 12 eggs doing well out of 16. Not bad for shipped eggs. The air sacs were a little on the large side so I increased the humidity 15%.

 

[Cornychick]

j.luetkemeyer :

Candled my eggs today for the second time. I had 12 eggs doing well out of 16. Not bad for shipped eggs. The air sacs were a little on the large side so I increased the humidity 15%.

I am so glad you brought that up. How can I know that my air sacs are progressing at the right rate? I am biting nails right now. This is my first hatch and I still have 31 out of the origional 41 growing nicely, but I am over whelmed with dry hatch/not dry hatch and I would realy like to have something to compare my air sac size to.​

 

[Poco Pollo]

12 out of 16 is awesome for this time of year. Hope they all keep wiggling!

 

[rarebreedeggs4u]

Looks like only 4 viable of 16, *but* I expected that. I had left these eggs in the nests for WELL over a week, in temps 20-50 degrees. I was hoping that a full nest would inspire a hen to go broody, but it didn't work. The night it was supposed to get down to 10 degrees, I just scooped them all up, let them warm up a bit and put them in the incubator figuring any eggs that were bonus babies.