Refrigerator eggs HATCHING!!!!! YEAH!! 2 hatched 7 pipping

[DutchChicky]

Excited isn't the word, elated maybe !!!

MY Polish chicken lost her live 3 weeks ago to an attack of a Hawk. So I was so destraught that I figured, he, I haven't used my bator this year yet, let's try to hatch the 4 eggs I had in the Fridge from her. Nothing to lose right?!?!? I let them come on room temperture for about 6 hours and put them in with some other eggs that my chickens laid that day. 1 BR, 1RIR, 2 white leghorn a little black Bantam (lays blue eggs)and 4 sexlinks. Some weren't fertilized and others quit along the way. So ended up with 2 leghorn eggs that where moving around like crazy last night, but now haven't done anything this morning, 2 brown eggs that could be from the RIR, BR or sexlinks and 2 blue ones from the little Bantam Then the 4 Polish and 15 Buff Orpingtons that I put in a day later, that I bought to add some color to my flock. They also had been refrigartored (bought 2 dozen, only 15 made it, but only paid $2.50 a dozen , so who can complain!)
So here we are 3 weeks later and 2 hatched and the other 5 are pipping!!

My Rooster is a pretty Bantam boy (Hendrik) and maybe my little light Brahma got on one of the girls when Hendrik wasn't looking

Can't wait to see how the're all coming out

 

[hinkjc]

Good luck with your hatch!

I'm sorry for your loss and hope you get her babies.

I lost one a few months back to a hawk too, but sadly I didn't have any of her eggs grow.

I pulled them out of the frig too. I wish you lots of luck.

 

[jay1995]

Congrats. There BETTER be pics soon. LOL Goodluck with the pips, -Jay
p.s. Sorry for your loss. Hawks are mean.

 

[TheNewMrsEvans]

I'm so happy you were able to hatch some of her babies! Hope they have her great personality...

can't wait to see um!

 

[DutchChicky]

OK you asked , here I go

 

[DutchChicky]

 

[DutchChicky]

'Mieke' on the right is the mother of the 2 babies


'haantje' possibly the father, but doubt it



part of the bunch with 'Hendrik' on the foreground, the most likely father

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Aw, a great BIG congrats to you!!

 

[daisychick]

So did the eggs from your polish that you lost hatch??

 

[DutchChicky]

Yes the 2 that hatched first and so far theonly ones, are the one from the Polish.I was so suprised that from the 4 eggs I put in from her al 4 made it and are first to hatch. The other 2 are pipping and zipping as we speak, have 5 other ones pipping, 7 in total!!