Ooooh, only a few days left! *update w/pics* We're hatching!

[KinderKorner]

I wasn't hearing anything last night. My store refridgerator eggs were being still and quiet and I thought maybe they were dead after all.

But I just peeked in there and I have one chickie out. It looks like a pure Australorp. But not positive. Also appears to be rooster. But we shall see.

Sure is a quiet little thing though. Most of my birds come out screaming. lol

2 eggs left. With no movement.

We'll see how it goes.

My old bator used to hatch them 2 days early. Now I got a brinsea and actually waiting the full 21 days is killing me.

 

[BlueMottie]

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Now you have to post pics of your new baby/ies!

Did you only have one or did the other hatch?

 

[CallyB57]

I'm so excited tooooooooooooooo!!! My Silkie hen, Sugar has hatched 4 of her 5 eggs.

This has taken 51 hours and #4 is still in the process of hatching - there is a big hole in the egg and I can hear the chick peeping. She hatched 2 black chicks that have a few white polka dots on them and the second two are very light smoky blue/gray. I can't wait for # 4 to come completely out of the egg. Sugar is an unbelievably good Mommy - very protective, and was teaching her first two to peck at warm mash this morning before I left for work. It's just amazing, people, amazing! I don't know if egg 5 will hatch...I don't hear any peeping or scratching or tapping coming from it...maybe it is not fertile? Anyway, I am so proud of my little sugar! Will try to post a few photos from work tomorrow if I have time.

 

[BlueMottie]

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Congrats!! Yes, photos are a must! Don't give up on that last egg-there might still be hope

I have two broodies as well, due for the end of Dec. They are so useful! Now I have more space for my bator, too! Heehee.

 

[CallyB57]

I am going to try and upload a photo of my Sugar with her first two chicks..will bring more tomorrow with photo of all the chicks if they will all come out from under her at one time.

 

[CallyB57]

The last little chick to hatch out was NOT a Silkie chick - I have no idea what the little chick is - looks like an EE with yellow legs, but I'm not sure. It has little stripes on its back and it is a very feisty little chick! I guess my EE rooster, Hannibal, could possibly have impregnated one of my Silkies...there is also a tiny bantam rooster with very glossy gold and red and black feathers - he also has access to my Silkies. Being honest, I'm not sure what chicken did what with which chicken. However, the little smoke-colored chicken looks just like my Silkie rooster, so I'm thinking there is at least one pure Silkie among the bunch. The ones in the photo I just posted are all black except for the couple of white polka dots on each one. The first 3 chicks have black skin and black feet and beaks with just a tiny white polka dot on the tip of the beak which I think is the 'egg' tooth. Okay...will post some more tomorrow. I will count the toes on them to see if any are 'most likely' to be full Silkies. This is so much fun, so much fun!!!

 

[BlueMottie]

Gorgeous!! Congrats on the babies! Given their parentage, they sound like they'll feather out beautifully!

UPDATE!
The other two cochin chicks hatched for a total of 2 blue mottleds and two black mottleds!

Two more cochins pipping!

ANDOMGOMGOMG- One of my valleys hatched!!

Pics of the new babies will be up shortly

First, gotta take care of a sick cow.

 

[CallyB57]

Will be back tomorrow and you better have those baby photos up!

- I'll try to get a shot of all 4 of Sugar's if they will come out. The first 2 are very adventuresome, the 3rd one plays 'I'm hiding I'm hiding and noone knows where' all evening long and the 4th one is feisty and comes out a good bit, so I'll try. When I get off work I have to drive 40 agonizing minutes to my house

...thank God for interstate highways!

Oh....forgot to say - hope your cow is okay and not too seriously ill.

 

[Jess N Jeff]

I had 5 hatch on Friday. Sadly 1 did not last very long, but the remaining 4 are absolute angels!!!

Cinnamon

Latte

Cocoa

Antoinette

 

[CallyB57]

I need a farm too ....about 200 acres will do me. I've wanted a barn forever...I worry more about housing for my animals than I do about the housing I live in...not a day goes by I'm wondering - are the chickens warm enough, etc etc etc and I want goats and a couple of turkeys and WIDE OPEN SPACES!