SEPTEMBER HATCH-A-LONG!!!

[jeepgirl13]

Hopefully these are better. I'm thinking this one is a loss. But some experienced input would be appreciated

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Hopefully these are better. I'm thinking this one is a loss. But some experienced input would be appreciated

Looks like a blood ring to me but will wait for more experienced input

 

[ValerieJ]

How many days in incubator?

 

[Kat MacK]

Hopefully these are better. I'm thinking this one is a loss. But some experienced input would be appreciated

Thanks for sharing the pics! Very helpful for comparison as I candle my batch. Batches. I just started a second set. I mean, hey, I have two broodies, someone offered me more eggs....voila! Chicken math in action!

 

[BlueBaby]

Hopefully these are better. I'm thinking this one is a loss. But some experienced input would be appreciated

I'm seeing that you had marked the air-cell in it. I am not seeing any of the spider vein's that should have clearly been seen in an egg with an air-cell that big. That egg is done.

 

[ScottyGill]

I just set 10 BO eggs in the incubator on Saturday. My first time, so I have no idea if I'll ever see a single chick out of it.

I felt like that with my first and second hatch. I now have 3 beautiful 5 weeks and 3 gorgeous 1 week chicks. It’s a miracle.

 

[ScottyGill]

BO = Buff Orpington. They are my favorite hens, so sweet and lay nice big eggs. And they don't fly! The incubator is called the Little Giant. It's a styro type, and definitely not my first choice, but all I could get in a day's notice. This wasn't something I planned. I had a broody hen and thought I'd give her the opportunity to hatch out some babies, so I ordered some, since I don't have a rooster. Then she decided she wasn't broody anymore. Probably my fault because I kept taking her unfertilized eggs. So eggs arrived and I needed to do something. Now I am learning as I go and hope for lots of help from my friends here on BYC! It will be fun hatching together!

In spring I’m going to hatch Buff Orpington’s but gah this makes me want to do it now. I must resist.

 

[ScottyGill]

First Casualty of the september hatch. I dropped a Golden Phoenix egg while turning it by hand. oops! I had 13 of those and really only need one female to hatch so not a big loss. I need to grip them a little better.

Aw I broke 2 of mine on my very first go at incubating. I felt like a murderer!! Glad your not too upset

 

[jeepgirl13]

How many days in incubator?

I'm seeing that you had marked the air-cell in it. I am not seeing any of the spider vein's that should have clearly been seen in an egg with an air-cell that big. That egg is done.

I just set them yesterday. My guess is this one got forgotten in the coop a couple days before it was found and given to me with the others. I candled them all and marked their air sacs, dated and labeled them all, so I could have better records. Some had really large air sacs, a couple had tiny ones, and a couple I couldn't see the air sac in.

My last bunch I incubated only had 3 out 40 hatch. But those eggs came from a flock that was older and possibly not healthy. These ones came from someone different so I'm hoping for better results this time. I've never had such a disappointing hatch

 

[SilberHenne]

I'm joining the hatch-a-long for the first time ever. I'm hatching eggs from my two favorite sweetheart BSL hens and a silver-laced Wyandotte. Dad is either a golden neck D'uccle or a lavendar Orpington. We are choosing good health and temperament for our barnyard mix flock, but we are expecting some fun colors.

We have 9 eggs total due to hatch September 5th. One of my BSL hens is the only out of my mostly black flock with a purple sheen, so that will hopefully carry on to her 3 chicks. If orpington is dad, chicks will be black. If d'uccle is dad, we are looking forward to blue laced red, gold, or blue chicks. The 2 Wyandotte eggs might hatch out either solid black or blue laced gold. I love suprises!