"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[mlm Mike]

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So much exciting stuff this weekend!

I have duck eggs pipping! Seramas hatching. Emu eggs wiggling.

And... I got my very first ever Silkie egg! After all my hatching and loosing my first flock to raccoons, I have never gotten an egg before. So exciting

I also scored some Sebastopol goose eggs yesterday so I hope they will develop.

. All my other goose eggs have been a bust.

Congratulations! That is a pretty exciting weekend!

I have 13 eggs collected to set! Have to ask the house sitter if she collected any eggs rom the seramas, if so I might have even more.

Fantastic!

Oh darn, Sally has no internet. Can anyone else experienced with serama eggs check out my candling photo on the previous page? It's day 10. I need to know if I should adjust my humidity which has been at 55 from day 1.

I'm sure she'll get it back eventually. Someone experienced with Serama eggs would also be good to ask.

 

[canadachickens]

So my hens have figured it out for me, I will be setting:
7 americauna, 3 Columbian Rocks, 13 EE's, 6 white leghorn, and 9 silkie this evening.
I also have 8 silkie eggs under a broody who started to sit last Tuesday. Hopefully the mild weather holds and she stays put.

 

[DannBlyth]

This will be my first hatch along though I've read through a lot of old ones that got me hooked! I just hatched out 9 out of 11 chicks from my own mutt flock on March 20th all are doing great. I've just set on the 1st of April some eggs I bought in from a local breeder. I put in 12 black blue splash Ameruacana, and 30 black australorp. I'm pretty darn excited lol thanks for this fun opportunity!

 

[canadachickens]

This will be my first hatch along though I've read through a lot of old ones that got me hooked! I just hatched out 9 out of 11 chicks from my own mutt flock on March 20th all are doing great. I've just set on the 1st of April some eggs I bought in from a local breeder. I put in 12 black blue splash Ameruacana, and 30 black australorp. I'm pretty darn excited lol thanks for this fun opportunity!

Welcome! And don't hold back, if you have questions ask away!
If you have pics, post them freely, there are more than enough enablers here to encourage 'chicken math'

 

[mlm Mike]

So my hens have figured it out for me, I will be setting:
7 americauna, 3 Columbian Rocks, 13 EE's, 6 white leghorn, and 9 silkie this evening.
I also have 8 silkie eggs under a broody who started to sit last Tuesday. Hopefully the mild weather holds and she stays put.

Great! I can't believe you are getting broody hens up there and I still am waiting.

This will be my first hatch along though I've read through a lot of old ones that got me hooked! I just hatched out 9 out of 11 chicks from my own mutt flock on March 20th all are doing great. I've just set on the 1st of April some eggs I bought in from a local breeder. I put in 12 black blue splash Ameruacana, and 30 black australorp. I'm pretty darn excited lol thanks for this fun opportunity!

Welcome! Sounds like you just had a good hatch. glad you are setting again and joining us here!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I have TWO gEESE ready to hatch tuesday!! one pipped the other internal!

@Sally Sunshine

Here is the only picture I have handy while at work. I took it yesterday sitting at my dining table while drinking my morning coffee!



Our porches were just poured (dry enough to walk on, not drive or park on tho), and the dirt work has to be finished. But you can see my shed coop and the hoop coop in the background blocked by the sliding door jambs. Nothing on the bantam coop yet (next weekend! yay!) We just got my miter saw set up yesterday, so we'll be doing that, and working on the permanent run for the chickens.

Awesome!!! pretty too!! is that a tree farm? cool!

So nervous this morning, put eggs in lockdown last night, waiting for some kind of movement is hard. I just want some sign of life.

8:22 1st chicks out

its out of the egg and moving around all wobbly and chirping bit i think the egg and cord are still intact it not bloody but its like stuck to it. It seems to be dragging it to get free. Is this normal?

Awesome!! congrats!!

FINALLY!!!!!! I caught up.
Update Foal doing fine. He had a very bad day 3 days ago. He wouldn't eat. Blind staggers, very weak. I decided to give he another selenium/ vitamin shot. Within 2 hours he was nicker at me Hungry again. he been do good ever since.
My hatch is almost over today . Chicks can go in brooder today. RRs, N/Brahma crosses, Amerucanas, clbs, and Blue maran/ N/N. I think their ready to get out they are all staring at me...
I have 4 trays of eggs in the incubator. One group set 3 21 Due 4-11, the other 3-28 Due 4-17. will set more today. Have a open shelve in the Dickie. Set all the eggs. probaby Amerucana, clbs, N/N crosses, a few white marans..
Time to feed llf ( Lenas Last foal) haven't named him yet. I need to get him a goat friend or something...
Happy Hatching

oh so glad the foal is good!! awwwww the poor thing musta gave you a fright!

Day 11 now. I candled last night all 10 are dancing I could even make out little legs kicking in a few. So darn cool.

Still hanging in there - 6 eggs going strong ( 2 broke and 2 were clears that were removed when I candled). We should have babies by the end of the week

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Get some of the drawer liner material. You know the one that keeps the silver ware from sliding. It will protect them from the wire but is porous enough that it doesn't block the water vapor.

I put it in the bottom of the little wire crate separator but not up the sides, my bad!!! ughhhhh oh well dont plan on setting ducks again for some time anyways!!
I have eight out and an egg to go yet thats pipped.


LOL it sure is!!!

 

[canadachickens]

  Great! I can't believe you are getting broody hens up there and I still am waiting. 

 Welcome! Sounds like you just had a good hatch. glad you are setting again and joining us here! 

They are silkies.. I had one go broody in January with daytime highs of -10.
Silkies just don't seem to care, it's like 'oh, look, eggs, must sit! ' :lol

 

[Peachickie]

April 2 hatch: 11 of 12 Guinea Fowl

Due 4/4 Silkies, Olive Eggers and Mutts
Due 4/16 Gold Laced Orps, Silkies, Olive Eggers, and Bourbon Red turkeys
Due 4/22 Gold Laced Orps, Silkies & Olive Eggers
4/29 ? ... still plotting

 

[feedman77]

I have 1 pipped turkey egg.

Had a 2 hour power outage today. Hope it didn't mess them up.

Had to work all weekend but got home in time to get my turkey eggs collected. My hens have given me 28 eggs in 3 days. So I should have at least 40 plus when I set on thurs.

I've had this one in the past.  It worked well for me too.  I just didn't like the messing with keeping those wires just right for the door. 

I have that one too. I got tired of fighting the turner wire so I taped it place.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I set 8 barnyard mix chicken eggs today. Can I join the HAL?

of course you may!!! WELCOME!!!!

Just trying to get caught up here after a whirlwind past couple of days! I had most of my 1st group hatch day 21 Friday

We had a couple pip the wrong end but hatched quickly on their own!
Woke up Saturday to a migraine and struggled through the day. We had one straggler in the bator left yesterday with a pip. It got stuck zipping and was wearing out so as I was just getting the tweezers on the shell at 8:15pm . Power outage from high winds

I was seriously stressed. I had 8 babies in the brooder, a struggling zipping chick in one bator, and more eggs in the second bator in lockdown.

Let me tell ya I'm so glad I had read @Sally Sunshine 's helpful posts for what to do. We fired up the wood stove, I moved the brinsea next to the stove and covered with a blanket. I heated uncooked rice in a pan, put it in baggies along the zipper in the hovabator and wrapped with a blanket. I also filled up mason jars with water (I keep several gallons full for emergencies) and heated them to place in with the live chicks and in the big bator.

About a half hour in, the babies heat plate had cooled to the point they were getting upset so I decided to line a plastic laundry basket with an old towel and paper towels. Set the basket on a chair right in front of the stove. The chicks were able to get warm through the holes in the side of the basket and I put a tap light in there since it was so dark in the house and covered with a blanket.

They settled down after a while and hung out by the sides and seemed fairly comfortable.
2 hours later we got power restored. The bators stayed at 84 degrees so hopefully the other eggs will be ok.

I managed to help my last chick out about 10:30pm. It was a slow process and it did push out on its own but this morning seems to keep one foot slightly forward of the other foot but walking ok. Wow what a day that was!
I'll be getting some pics posted of our new babies soon

WAY TO GO!!!!! I feel your pain, OMG when we lost power for so long I was so stressed and no sleep over eggs in the bator!!! NOW WE HAVE A GENERATOR lol

Hi. First chick hatched this morning. The rest have just done an external pip. Can they get o2 through the crack? No hole made yet.

Here is a picture of the first chick

Out of my 8 fertile Saipan eggs, I have 5 healthy babies. One quit, I am guessing 4-6 days ago from the looks of it. One drowned this morning. I tried saving it but it only last about 30 minutes after I freed it's head and got the water out of it's beak the best I could. And one is still trying to hatch. It is doing well just seems to be a bit late compared to the others.

sorry abiout the lost one

My next hatch is due April 9th. Easter Eggers from my flock. Only 18 in this batch but hopefully it is a good hatch.

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Here are 3 of my new Saipan babies from yesterday.

This one is so sweet isnt she!!!

Just picked up a Sapphire rooster from the flea market today. After quarantine and once placed in with my hens, in how long should I expect babies from him?

oh Vanessa I hope your not in PA and bought on I sent to auction lol!!!!
here is a link, if you can figure it out, let us know please lol
http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/avianreproduction.html