Setting first eggs tomorrow - 3/23

[Partyfowl]

Lol!!! I reset the incubator today too!! I packed it full of barnyard mixes from 2 diff sources. Looks like the beginning of another hatch-a-long.

Yay! Hatching buddy!

 

[ScottLovelandCO]

Yay! Hatching buddy!

My next ones will go in this week. I have a shipment on it's way of "blue breeds" from MyPetChicken.

 

[Deerling]

Ready for some pictures? I think our hatch is done. We have nine eggs still in the incubator but I tapped them all and no sounds. It's been over 24 hours since the last one hatched. Here are some of our chicks:



Here they all are in their brooder




Lulu




This one is a little spitfire


This one is so cute!! Look at it's fluffy cheeks!


Seriously.


The yellow one is one I helped to zip. She's doing well. The other is the first of ours to hatch.


One of the grocery store eggs


Sticky. I love her! She was stuck so badly, her head glued to her stomach with her wing glued to her head. It was hard getting her put together and I wasn't sure she would make it, but she seems to be doing great!

 

[Partyfowl]

Oh seriously jealous Deerling!! Their adorable!

 

[gingerly1983]

Deerling!! Love those babies!!! I love seeing baby chick pics.

Scott, those are gonna fluff out and be super adorable!

Congrats guys!

 

[ScottLovelandCO]

 

[ScottLovelandCO]

 

[Deerling]

Oh seriously jealous Deerling!! Their adorable!

Deerling!! Love those babies!!! I love seeing baby chick pics.

Scott, those are gonna fluff out and be super adorable!

Congrats guys!

Thanks, both of you! I'm pretty excited. I keep looking at them in the brooder and just thinking I helped hatch those babies! It's so cool.

Oh my goodness!! They are so sweet! How many are you hatching?

 

[ScottLovelandCO]

Thanks, both of you! I'm pretty excited. I keep looking at them in the brooder and just thinking I helped hatch those babies! It's so cool.
Oh my goodness!! They are so sweet! How many are you hatching?

This batch was a test run of the homemade coolerbator before my shipped eggs arrive. I just used 24 eggs from a barnyard mix. Of the original 24, 18 made it to lock down. I have 12 hatched out right now and the last 6 still in the incubator. I'm not sure about the last 6. They showed really good signs all through the process but they have yet to even pip. Then again, that row was the farthest from the light and this morning at 6am MDT was the start of the 21st day. So there is still time! This barnyard mix produced some interesting chicks. I'll be curious to see how they grow up. There are three Buff Cochins crossed with the Ameraucana Roo, a Turken X Ameraucana, four Australorp X Ameraucana, and four that I believe are just EE X Ameraucana. I am just guessing on all of those. The only one that I am 100% on is the Turken!

Once the incubator is empty, I have a batch of shipped "blue breeds" coming from MyPetChicken. They will include 12 eggs of at least 4 different breeds. The possibilities are Blue Andalusian, Blue Orpington, Blue Splash Marans, Blue Copper Marans, Blue Hamburg, Lavender Orpington (self blue), Blue Ameraucana, and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte. To accompany those 12 eggs, I have a dozen of eggs from a farm just south of me. The eggs will come from[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] a pen of full blood Black Coppers, and 2 Olive Egger hens. Another pen with a Blue Copper Rooster and Blue Copper hen, and 2 Americauna hens, and another pen with 2 Americauna hens, a Black Copper hen that lays a very dark speckled egg, and a Black Copper Rooster, and an Olive Egger Rooster.[/FONT] So these should produce some pretty amazing little chicks too. We're super excited for this next run!

 

[Deerling]

This batch was a test run of the homemade coolerbator before my shipped eggs arrive. I just used 24 eggs from a barnyard mix. Of the original 24, 18 made it to lock down. I have 12 hatched out right now and the last 6 still in the incubator. I'm not sure about the last 6. They showed really good signs all through the process but they have yet to even pip. Then again, that row was the farthest from the light and this morning at 6am MDT was the start of the 21st day. So there is still time! This barnyard mix produced some interesting chicks. I'll be curious to see how they grow up. There are three Buff Cochins crossed with the Ameraucana Roo, a Turken X Ameraucana, four Australorp X Ameraucana, and four that I believe are just EE X Ameraucana. I am just guessing on all of those. The only one that I am 100% on is the Turken!

Once the incubator is empty, I have a batch of shipped "blue breeds" coming from MyPetChicken. They will include 12 eggs of at least 4 different breeds. The possibilities are Blue Andalusian, Blue Orpington, Blue Splash Marans, Blue Copper Marans, Blue Hamburg, Lavender Orpington (self blue), Blue Ameraucana, and Blue Laced Red Wyandotte. To accompany those 12 eggs, I have a dozen of eggs from a farm just south of me. The eggs will come from[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] a pen of full blood Black Coppers, and 2 Olive Egger hens. Another pen with a Blue Copper Rooster and Blue Copper hen, and 2 Americauna hens, and another pen with 2 Americauna hens, a Black Copper hen that lays a very dark speckled egg, and a Black Copper Rooster, and an Olive Egger Rooster.[/FONT] So these should produce some pretty amazing little chicks too. We're super excited for this next run!

I'm not setting my next eggs until April 25th, but we should all stick around for our next hatches! I'm getting 12 English Orpington eggs, 6 Silkies and 6 Calico Cohins. The cochins are coming from faaaar away, though, so I'm not getting my hopes up. The blue mix will be so cool! I love not knowing exactly what you're getting. That's what made the barnyard mix so fun. And with the amazing breeds in the mix I got it was such a variety!

I have no idea on most of mine. Well, there's the grocery store chicks, but other than that... they could be so many things! I'm going to go crazy if I try and figure it out.