***SEPTEMBER HATCH-A-LONG come join in***

[chickee]

I Candled my 18 Ameraucana eggs last night at 7 days, and good news! 15 are growing!!

Last hatch from this breeder, only 4 out of 16 started growing with only one hatching. She was really great and sent me replacement eggs and these are exceeding my expectations!! Really looking forward to a colorful hatch of Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, Lavender and Lavender Split ( black or Lavender) chicks!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Tomorrow is hatch day for my buttons!

But they always hatch on day 17 so probably Monday.

 

[chickenpickens]

We have three pipping two days early at our house. We'll get to see the rest on Monday hopefully! It's three days of bator tv around here!

 

[Nekhebet]

BABY QUAILS

next to a battery
Only five have hatched so far, a few more eggs are wiggling however. I'm not super hopeful about the percent hatched but I AM super glad that SOME of them hatched. They're so cute and fuzzy, and the really fat looking one eats laying down. More pics to come when everyone is done hatching.

 

[EdistoChicks]

How cute are those!

 

[Nekhebet]

So we're up to 18 quail babies with two more pips. If we get to 20 it's a 1/3 hatch rate INCLUDING cracks/leaks/infertile. I guess factoring those numbers+ temp fluxes= not really a bad hatch rate. Plus the older babies are so chunky and cuddly looking

can't wait for the serama chicks hehe

 

[txmel]

alright did my first candling on this hatch. out of the 13 ee's that are on day 9 i am now down to 4. not a good start. the ones that are on day 6, i didn't see any that screamed "there is life in here" but they are marans egg so i left them all in until further notice. and i candled the serama eggs that are on day 3 just for fun and i think i have some developing

so fingers crossed that some of the marans are developing and i just cant see it and fingers crossed that the serama's are also developing. will candle again when i put the 4 ee's that are left into the hatcher for lockdown in 9 days.












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[Gerbil]

I candled my eggs and it does not look good, they look like they we're shook up during shipping.

 

[Morag]

mine (30 silkies) were only on day 2 yesterday but I candled a few last night. Some appear to have displaced air sacs so not a good sign, I think they get really shaken up in the mail here. One looked like it had started developing before it arrived but I've left it in to see what happens. I haven't had much luck with silkie hatching so far, the eggs have to travel quite a distance to get to me. I would be very happy with a 25% hatch rate.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I have 1 baby button in the incubator this morning!

2 or 3 more have pips in them .. so in a few more minutes I should have some more!

I am trying really hard not to get too attached to any because I am going to sell them all .. depending on how many hatch ...