Pigeony's Farm Journal

[Pigeony]

Chick 7 has joined the world! I'll have to get pictures of him soon along with the others

 

[Pigeony]

Welcome to the world, little ones!

I'm doing a staggered hatch with 3 rounds of shipped eggs because of when they arrived, luckily I have 3 incubators so there's not too much additional adjustments I've been having to make.

Round 1 is Cream Brabanters and Olandsk Dwarves

Round 2 is Swedish Orust

Round 3 is Mosaics

Technically, I have a Round 4 of Tolbunt Polish eggs but there is only two surviving eggs halfway through incubation (not so happy with how the seller handled shipping in regards to timing and communication), so it's not really much of a hatch and I have my doubts I'm getting anything.

Currently Round 1 is actively hatching with 7 chicks, only 2 of them Brabanters so far, out and potentially 9 more to go.

Round 2 goes into lockdown on New Year's Eve, Round 3 goes into lockdown on the 2nd, and the Tolbunts go into lockdown on the 4th if they survive to that point. There's 6 Orust eggs that have made it this far and 5 Mosaics. Hatching eggs is just so fun, I absolutely adore both the meticulous science side of it and the cute end result. And then the fun just continues when you get to raise the little fluffballs!

 

[Pigeony]

An 8th chick has hatched! Another Brabanter, so now I have 3 Brabanter chicks and 5 Olandsk Dwarf chicks

 

[Pigeony]

The 8 chicks have been moved to their brooder, there might be more impending but I'm happy to have what I got!

 

[Pigeony]

The 8 chicks have been moved to their brooder, there might be more impending but I'm happy to have what I got! View attachment 4016521

No more impending chicks :/ It's Day 23, I checked out all the remaining eggs and they were all unfortunately no longer alive. But 8 is great! 50% hatch for the Olandsk Dwarves and 22% for the Brabanters.