Setting eggs on Thurs. Nov. 10th - Any buddies? Hatch due Dec. 1st

[CarolJ]

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Thanks!

Out of a total of 31 Araucana eggs that were set (between me and a friend), I got 3 chicks. But I had disappointing results from all my shipments of eggs. And so far, the eggs that I picked up locally haven't hatched any. I'm going to go back over my records to see if there's anything I did differently this time than the first time I hatched eggs - and I had great results then. This time, I got just a little over 10% hatch. I'm keeping the unhatched eggs in the bator another couple day - just to be sure there are no stragglers.

I don't have any roosters old enough to be a daddy yet. I've four araucanas that should be old enough to start laying and/or fertilizing within a month or so. I think I have two pullets and two cockerels - although it's hard to tell with Araucanas. So maybe I'll wait a couple months and try to hatch some of my own.

And I don't know how to sex any of the chicks. None of mine are auto-sexing.

 

[bikerchic]

I have wanted to order araucanas since I got my incubator, but I am afraid

I have heard how difficult they are to hatch. I found someone local with a flock but he has mixed his in with his other birds for the winter and won't be separating them till spring. I might just go ahead and bite the bullet and order a couple dozen to see how it goes.

 

[CarolJ]

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Good luck! I sure hope you have better luck than I did. I want to try again because I think they're funny looking - and I love the pretty blue eggs. I may try again - especially if I can find some eggs. However, I won't be setting up the incubator again until the spring. I've got my brooder pen semi-full (only 8 chicks), my grow-out pen has 15, and my adult pen has 15. So I've got plenty of chickens for now! I may look around to find someone with chicks up to two weeks old to add to my 8 babies.

 

[MSH]

out of 4 eggs due today 1 was a dud early on and 1 hatched yesterday and one has finally pipped the shell and is rockin around I'm a little confused they are OEGB rooster is red pyle hen is a bbr and chick #1 looks blue ? and red right now I know I probably shouldn't be guessing at color yet but previously I've had either blackish chicks or yellow chicks out of these 2 this fluffer is bluish grey and yellow bellied lol any guesses what he/she will end up being ?

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

I had 25 in the bator at lockdown and 14 hatched on Wed and Thurs. 9 quiters as of today. They were fully developed with alot of yolk left but no pip and no movement. Here are the pics of my bouncing baby Black Australorps.

 

[dwegg]

Awesome..wellhere are my 10 catdance silkies (finally got a pic)...

 

[cmom]

 

[CarolJ]

Gorgeous babies!

 

[ChobeeChickenMommy]

OMGosh!! I am so sad! We just got home from a friend house & one of my Dom babies was dead.

I don't know why or what happened?! They were all happy & playing when we left around noon today and the temp in the brooder is right around 93... I had a feeling she may pass but I'm still so sad, she was my baby. She was the smallest of the 6 chicks & the last to hatch & had to be helped out because of the way her head was like "pinned" down against her chest inside her egg... I just knew I should have stayed home today.

 

[CarolJ]

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More than likely, even if you had been home, the chick would still have died. I'm so sorry, though, for your loss. It's sad to lose a little chick/