Setting eggs this weekend! Aug 14th! any hatching buddies?

[acid_chipmunk]

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Yup, hubby (Sportsterjeep) and I were there. We actually came in Saturday night and stayed. I spent most of the day with Gretchen and Bob, while Jeremy slept off his hangover in the car!

 

[teresa-78]

My 2 silkies are here

Hope everyone has a great hatch

 

[BloominOrchid]

So I have 2 lil peeping Brahmas

the 2 silkies that hatched didnt make it

one more silkie quit around lock down and the rest I couldnt open up to see what happened. Hate it that they came so far then something goes wrong.
But I got 2 chicks, and they are doing good.

2nd chick light brahma

the two with the feather duster mom

 

[wekiva bird]

1st time i ever hatch eggs .

we got total of 20 chicks some from the homemade incubator and a freind let us have a hova-bator to use at the last min.

b/b/s/ BR , b/b/s/ amerucana, BO, BR, delawere.

 

[gryeyes]

One egg pipped and then didn't wobble, rock, produce tapping sounds or any peeping for nearly 48 hours. I thought it was dead, but it hatched yesterday morning!!!

And then this morning two more hatched! 3 little bantam cochins, OH so tiny - and I'm at work now! I can hardly wait to go home and take those 3 out of the 'bator and put 'em in the brooder. I was happy with the singleton but I figger 3 out of 7 is great!

If any more hatch, that will be SUCH a bonus!

 

[stallionhawk]

All done with this hatch out of 42 eggs 8 were not fertial and 8 quit during incubation. So I got 26 cute little babies. I am keeping 4 of the brahmas and the rest are listed for sale.

 

[BloominOrchid]

So how are all the babies??
Things you would do different?
Hatching again?

My 2 chicks are doing well, trying to convince them they are both ladies in waiting.
Things Ill do different, get eggs locally vs shipping, shipping the eggs seems to not work to well for me.
Hatching again? Why yes I have

72 eggs in 2 bators... 60 local eggs 12 shipped. due the 27th

 

[BloominOrchid]

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Yup, hubby (Sportsterjeep) and I were there. We actually came in Saturday night and stayed. I spent most of the day with Gretchen and Bob, while Jeremy slept off his hangover in the car!

Think I remember you... if you went into the barn were your chickens on the right side before Bobs super silkies?
I convinced Nat to give me here silkie she kept wining back in the auction

I cant wait for NY CS

 

[juliecox]

Well, all our eggs are hatched! We didn't have a great hatch numbers-wise, but since the vast majority of our eggs were from local $2-a-dozen farmers who happened to have roosters hanging around, I didn't expect high fertility from them. With the "special eggs," we got some nice olive-eggers, and a few special ones that I will definitely keep!

- A gray cochin that I'm pretty sure is a frizzle
- A gray Turken/Silkie cross with black skin, not sure if it's silkie-feathered, and hatched from a green egg
- A good looking black true Ameraucana from a sky blue egg
- Two picture-perfect bearded Silkies
- A blue Marans

So yay! Congrats on the new babies, everyone!