Set eggs 5-12 Looking for hatching buddies

[anbsmom]

So just checked the eggs have two that look like they have cracks on the big end on the eggs but very small hairline cracks. I check them like every 10 minutes so the just happened. Could this mean they started to pip?

yep!

 

[ajneal30]

While I was gone today, Hubby decided to take a look at the eggs. When one of them moved, he wanted a closer look and OPENED the incubator!

I did not know this until this evening when we were looking at them through the glass. I still have no pips and yesterday was hatch day. I think there are still some alive because one them chirped LOUDLY this evening. Crossing my fingers I actually get some chicks out of this.

 

[Nsampsel]

I have 7 adorable babies hatched yesterday & today in my brooder: 2 Silkies, 1 Mottled Houdan (that was supposed to be a Silkie but was mis-marked), 2 Ameraucanas, and 2 Lemon Cuckoo Orps. I have 1 more LCO pipped & starting to zip and 3 more rocking & peeping. I still have 7 Call Ducks, 1 Black East Indie Duck, 2 Saxonies, 1 Runner, 6 Lavender Orps, 1 Silkie from my new Girls, 1 Mixed Banty from my Girls, 1 Assorted Orp, & 7 BYM including 2 BCM Mix in the bator and 4 eggs under my 2 Broody Banties. They are in the same nest box sharing 3 BYM Banty eggs & 1 of their own. All are due to hatch between now & the 24th.

Coming next week I have close to 3 dozen more Silkies, 6 Assorted Marans, 9 Assorted Cochins & 3 Jersey Giants coming to add to the mix. Good thing I found some more cages this week...lol

 

[Scifisarah]

I think I am up to 13 silkies and 1 bantam cochin so far. I can still hear somebody peeping in the incubator, but no more pips. I can see why they call it "shrink wrapped" now. The cochin had been pipped since yesterday morning, wide open to the air and every time I opened the top to grab the silkies out, it really dried the egg membrane. I had to take her out and run her under some gentle faucet water to get the dried membrane and yolk material off that was stuck to her feathers. I kept the water temp to 98-99 degrees with a digital meat thermometer so she wouldn't get too cold or hot. I imagine the right water temp is VERY important if you do this since the wrong temp will change the body temp too drastically. I had to make a ring of paper to put around the chicks just taken out of the incubator since the other ones are older and wanted to start pecking the younger ones. The cochin chick had a reddish brown beak and the silkies just found him irresistable to peck at since they seem to love anything red. I also added a sponge full of warm water to the incubator that will hopefully help my humidity. I hope I didn't do the remaining chicks in by grabbing out the other hatched ones, but I didn't think I was supposed to leave the other chicks in there for this long. I will post some photos tomorrow when they are finished "fluffing". One of the silkies has bright pink middles toes instead of black - I know it is against type, but I think it is cute!

 

[baconskatiedid]

I have 7 adorable babies hatched yesterday & today in my brooder: 2 Silkies, 1 Mottled Houdan (that was supposed to be a Silkie but was mis-marked), 2 Ameraucanas, and 2 Lemon Cuckoo Orps. I have 1 more LCO pipped & starting to zip and 3 more rocking & peeping. I still have 7 Call Ducks, 1 Black East Indie Duck, 2 Saxonies, 1 Runner, 6 Lavender Orps, 1 Silkie from my new Girls, 1 Mixed Banty from my Girls, 1 Assorted Orp, & 7 BYM including 2 BCM Mix in the bator and 4 eggs under my 2 Broody Banties. They are in the same nest box sharing 3 BYM Banty eggs & 1 of their own. All are due to hatch between now & the 24th.

Coming next week I have close to 3 dozen more Silkies, 6 Assorted Marans, 9 Assorted Cochins & 3 Jersey Giants coming to add to the mix. Good thing I found some more cages this week...lol

Where did you find the Marans? Every where I have looked they are sold out till Sept. or Aug. I want Black Coppers so badly.....

 

[LALOM]

So just checked the eggs have two that look like they have cracks on the big end on the eggs but very small hairline cracks. I check them like every 10 minutes so the just happened. Could this mean they started to pip?

10 Hours later and no progress

 

[anbsmom]

Here is our guys/gals. Now one day old. Any guesses on the breeds?

Belle: very fluffy and more gray than black with silver on "her" head. A victim of the Disney Princess era.



Boomer


Chip


Cinderella (


Moe


Nugget: The only brown chick, five toes, with feathers on her legs.


Peeper

 

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[anbsmom]

uggg. repeat post Sorry