September Hatch-A-Long!

[Kyochan]

Morning of day 21. no chirps, peeps, or pips. Hopefully we get some action later on in the day.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Morning of day 21. no chirps, peeps, or pips. Hopefully we get some action later on in the day.

 

[Chuckfriedrice]

A few hours from day 21 , but so far 2 chicks have hatched . 4 have pipped in the incubator . This is way too cool .

 

[DeannaA]

One more baby Langshan. It pipped a flap on the side of the egg and couldn't get out. I made it just a bit bigger and he exploded out of there. Yeah! Finally a black one. Two I opened the shell. It has been really hard to maintain the humidity and as I suspected, they were very dry. I am going to be one for awhile and I didn't want them to die in the shell. 1 already did since last night. Mispostioned and dry. I hope they will be ok when I get home.

 

[DeannaA]

ANd of course Max is going to. We are going to tour a local free range chicken farm. But Max has to stay in the car of course. I am aslo selling some of my chicks. Bittersweet.

 

[Heidisgran]

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silver laced and gold laced! and they are almost fully top heavy now! people come to pick up eggs and see them they ooo and aww over them

 

[familypendragon]

Making sure you all know that when eggs get shipped to you and aren't hatchable you CAN get reimbursed from USPS if they were insured. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-truth-about-insuring-hatching-eggs Since learning this I have been reimbursed $59 twice by USPS when they delivered my Priority Mail (includes automatic $50 insurance now) eggs with them cracked or with rolling air cells. Doesn't make up for the eggs but you can use it to try again.

 

[Heidisgran]

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silver laced and gold laced! and they are almost fully top heavy now! people come to pick up eggs and see them they ooo and aww over them

I'll try to get some pictures...I get busy with everything and forget to get pics.....my babies the raccoon got yesterday I sure wish I'd remembered to snap their pic!

 

[familypendragon]

Making sure you all know that when eggs get shipped to you and aren't hatchable you CAN get reimbursed from USPS if they were insured. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-truth-about-insuring-hatching-eggs Since learning this I have been reimbursed $59 twice by USPS when they delivered my Priority Mail (includes automatic $50 insurance now) eggs with them cracked or with rolling air cells. Doesn't make up for the eggs but you can use it to try again.

Oh, and now days you do the whole filing online - I submitted photos of the box as it arrived with "Hatching Eggs" and "FRAGILE this side up" written on the outside. I took a photo each step of the way as I unpacked them to show that due care had been taken in packing. I photographed any cracked eggs and splattered eggs, and I took a photo in the dark of me showing a rolling aircell on the SIDE of the egg using my camera's "Fireworks" setting. I listed the loss under "Live Animals". I have been reimbursed by check in a bout a week and a half.

 

[familypendragon]

I have another White Leghorn cross hatched from the 2 egg batch now due - the other is pipped, and one from the next batch has already pipped. And here are some new pics of my precious Huastec and Colloncas that were assisted hatches.


I have no idea why his leg looks backward in this pic - its not, LOL! The dark chocolate brown/black is the Huastec and the other is the Colloncas. I will paste info on the breeds at the bottom for anyone interested.

From here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/823212/colloncas-huastecs-quechuas

The Huastec is one of the rarest breeds in the world. It's an ancient black-boned fowl from southern Mexico and Ecuador.
The Huastec produces lots of medium to large eggs, is calm, confiding, personable and fairly quiet.

Whereas the breeds of some roosters, like the Leghorn, tend to fiercely exclude other roosters from access to hens and shelter, the Huastec is a cooperative breeder. They can be run in braces; three to five roosters to accompany a little bevy of hens. Each rooster has a favorite hen and vise versa. The Huastec is incredibly cold hardy and make wonderful parents. The roosters are just as attentive to the chicks as the hens.

Colloncas (very nice line)
Colloncas are one of the original and most ancient breeds of the Mapuche Indian culture of Chile. They produce generous numbers of colourful eggs and like many South American fowl lay well into the winter. Some hens will produce a pale sea foam hued egg, others robin blue, ash grey and even lilac. A single pair of Colloncas may produce hens that each lay a different colour.

Colloncas are best known for innate tameness. They enjoy being held but unlike Silky fowl, which also enjoy human companionship, the Colloncas is completely winter hardy and can evade predators ably. It is a fairly strong flier and one of the more quiet breeds. Colloncas are very good at tick and fly control and are traditionally kept with sheep and llamas.
The Colloncas is one of the two primary ancestors of the Araucana. It is advisable that the poultier keep at least two roosters with a flock of hens, three is the ideal number as Colloncas have strong pair bonds and the roosters work in cooperation to defend and chaperone hens and chicks. As a rule, true Colloncas roosters do not fight with one another and are never aggressive with people.