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

[chicken hawk 33]

Took a pick while my broody Muscovy was off her nest.

 

[Chaos18]

Good Morning!!!

So out of my 23 eggs, 20 hatched and are in the brooder. The last three haven't pipped yet, but since it's only day19 they still have time. The others must have smelled the coffee brewing.

My eggs were a mix of GLW over either 3 Barred Rocks or 3 Black Stars. We can only identify the specific eggs of one of our ladies and that is the Black Star apply dubbed "Blackie". With our first hatch we suspected, with our this hatch (second) we confirmed. Blackie produces cute little golden chipmunks that feather out reddish gold with black lacing. All the other chicks are black and either feather out solid black or barred. I love mix breeds, it's a surprise with every new cross!!!

Congrats

7 Sapphire and 9 CL/EE & EE so far

Congrats

 

[LeroySouthpaw]

7 Sapphire and 9 CL/EE & EE so far

I'm sorry but I have to ask, what is a sapphire???????

 

[kimalulu]

So, I have a chick that hatched yesterday and it has been standing on it's hocks, hobbeling around. It doesn't appear to have have splayed leg( I don't think), it just stands on it's hocks and doesn't use it's feet. I have vitamin and electrolyte water available to them and make sure I dip it's beak frequently. I read it could have vitamin deficiency and it may right itself. Does this sound plausible? Any suggestions or advice?

 

[Chaos18]

So, I have a chick that hatched yesterday and it has been standing on it's hocks, hobbeling around. It doesn't appear to have have splayed leg( I don't think)

, it just stands on it's hocks and doesn't use it's feet. I have vitamin and electrolyte water available to them and make sure I dip it's beak frequently. I read it could have vitamin deficiency and it may right itself. Does this sound plausible? Any suggestions or advice?

If it's a vitamin deficiency than give it Poly-vi-sol without iron. It's a baby multi-vitamin.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

So, I have a chick that hatched yesterday and it has been standing on it's hocks, hobbeling around. It doesn't appear to have have splayed leg( I don't think), it just stands on it's hocks and doesn't use it's feet. I have vitamin and electrolyte water available to them and make sure I dip it's beak frequently. I read it could have vitamin deficiency and it may right itself. Does this sound plausible? Any suggestions or advice?

its very pretty! I have no clue sorry! I have a chick that one leg is normal and the other sticks out to its side dunno

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well after the longest 18 days of my life we have reached 'LOCKDOWN" you have not had children yet?

We started with 30 chicken eggs and are down to 27 ready to hatch. The 3 geece eggs were duds ...waaaa and the duck egg is Very active.

This is my first clutch with a brand new incubator.

Have sold these chicks already.

Easter Eggers and some white silkies .
About impossible to see through an EE egg but could see a lot with the silkies, duck eggs, and geece. We had nice large air cells developing. THEN they are developed!!

At what point will a baby begin to pip??? When can I expect my first baby? SEE BELOW TIMELINE
Will I sleep (already sleep deprived..lol)? NOPE NOTTA IXNAY on the SLEEPAY!!!
i would say i did the 1-18 on the dry side with a low of 18 to a high of 50% RH. Now I drilled a hole in side of inc. and placed a 1/4" piece of tubing through the side and attached it to my squeeze water bottle. Under the tubing on inside is a sponge to catch the water. Instead of cheezecloth i used gauze to help keep bator clean. you have the vents open correct?

Looking forward to a successful

Did I miss anything??? I am sure you have more! how about this ,......
.Incubation CHICK FIRST AID KIT Supplies post #71640

Anna

TIMELINES PIPS ZIPS!!! & MARKING AIR CELLS DAY 18, DRAW DOWN, INTERNAL PIP, EXTERNAL PIP, and ZIPPING post #35770

Does anyone have a vaccine for broodiness? yes, throw them in a different coop

It started with 3 turkey hens in the same pen. I now have 2 chicken hens that have gone broody.

1 caught it now it's spreading.

The years I wanted it couldn't catch it. Now I've got it and don't want it yet.

I purchased a hovabator on ebay today.
Vague description of it. But if the box is correct from what I think it read.
If it wasn't switched out.

I bought a genesis 1588 for 50 dollars. awesome!
Find out when it comes in the mail.


Congrats to all the successful hatchers.

Mine won't start til the 27th. Turkeys take forever.

I have some chicks scheduled to hatch next weekend and I'm getting some turkey eggs to put in bator just as soon as they do. I had a batch of turkey eggs that were all duds so I got some mixed chicken eggs from a co-worker instead last month to feed the hatch fever. I'm down to five eggs from the six that I put in (she gave me a dozen but six were for banties and I don't need more of them) but all five have good movement within the eggs. I've done a dry incubation this time which I've never done. I'll raise the humidity when it is closer to time to hatch. Here is hoping for an interesting week between the chicks and the new eggs coming.

sorry about the turkey duds

How soon can you tell if a chicken is frizzled, silkie or smooth? The breeder I bought my eggs from had all 3 varieties in a pen together.

So this chick is 3 days old you can see she, being the chipmunker, already has frizzle tips

So far 12 of 16 eggs I have in Lock Down have hatched. 5 Easter Egger, 4 Backyard mix, and 3 Blue/Buff Cochin. Backyard mix is EE roo with either RIR, BR, BO, LO or Black Cochin hens. Fun stuff!!

I also have 5 shipped silkies, 11 auto sexing EE's and 18 frizzled EE's going in to lock down tomorrow.
I have 15 Blue Wheaten Sulmtaler eggs that were set on 4/9
Also 6 BC Polish, 17 BCM, and 24 Mille Fleur D'Uccle set on 4/15,
I will be setting on 4/18 - 13 Olive Eggers, 4 BCM, 4 CCL and 11 Blue/Buff Cochins.

I might be a surrogate hatcher for Gotro17's eggs. If so, they will be set on Monday as well.

Lots of chikies!!!

Fifteen chicken eggs in bator on day thirteen so 8 days left. And nine eggs under broody muscovy day twenty one so two weeks left.

Lockdown for 16 GCM's and some other miscellaneous breeds tonight!

Set 19 Silverudd Blue and 7 Isabelle leghorns 3 days ago.

Setting 24 Black and Blue copper marans tomorrow.

I need more brooders. Over run with chicks!!!

Just went on lock down for my first hatch. 28 mix of RIR, red and black sex link, game fowl, and some barred rock mixes. I also have two broody hens with 10 eggs under each. I'm so excited/nervous to see how many hatch!

GOOD LUCK!!!

when i took them outta the auto turner temp dropped to 88, 3 hours later it is up to 92 is this going to affect them trying my best to get temp up

they are fine!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

If it's a vitamin deficiency than give it Poly-vi-sol without iron. It's a baby multi-vitamin.

and it tastes wretched! I was wondering one time when my baby was a baby why she kept spitting it out lol eww!

 

[Chaos18]

and it tastes wretched! I was wondering one time when my baby was a baby why she kept spitting it out lol eww!

That's why ya feed it to chickens

I think most children's medicines and vitamins taste nasty...........unless it's bubblegum or grape flavor.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Dont hold much hope for my sizzle silkie eggs this is how that box arrived.

From ebay shipped from washington. Arrived in 2 days. The 10 that survived the trip with out cracks have either saddle or bobbly air pockets they have rested and now they are "planted" in the bator. I also set 7 Ayam Cemani and 7 Isabelles that all survived the trip packed very well from cjwalden right here on BYC...

And 20 barnyard mix from missouri also packed well. Also from ebay.


Wish me luck! Hatch date may 8-9

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@Sally Sunshine

awwwww

Lockdown is on Tuesday and of the local Bielefelder eggs I set only 6 are fertile and I may have 1 quitter. Should I notify the breeder that only half of the eggs I purchased were even fertile?
And today is day 8 for the shipped Modern Game Bantam eggs and of the 11 set only 3 are developing along nicely. Lots of early quitters plus a few too damaged to develop or infertile eggs.

did you breakopen to check fertility?

Clears at CANDLE are not always infertile!​

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1 of the Silkie eggs I put under my hen went missing so I candled the other 3 and they have all quit or look clear. I do not think they were all infertile. I think she is a good broody but the other hen likes to lay eggs in the nest and kick other eggs out. I should have taken the broody out, I don't know what I was thinking. I think I'll give her a few Serama chicks and move her to her own spot.

I have 5 seramas in the brooder and another hatched 7 in the hatcher all chirping away, and 4 more hopefuls. Please let me have hatched some girls!!

Next to hatch are button quail, then ducklings, then silkies, Cochins and mystery chickens!?! I am excited!

We ended up with 2 emus! Hatching was just too hard on the other two. I feel bad but it was my first time so I did my best. If all four lived, they would already be overcrowded and they are eating a ton of cut up kale everyday. They are eating more chick food thank goodness and drinking a lot of water. One chick scoops the water like a pelican and it all dribbles down its neck and comes out its nostrils, goofy thing. They have been outside a couple of times and today when I brought them back in they followed me to the door. I'd like to take them on some bigger walks when they are a little stronger. They are pretty darn adorable. I'll take some more photos of them.

2 emus are awesome!!!

Hi All, incubating for the very first time! We have 10 eggs, 2 X Cream Legbars, 2 x Aracunana, 2 x Rhode Island Reds, 2 x Copper Blue Morans and 2 x French Wheaten Morans. Currently on day 16, getting ready for lock down. Have candles the eggs many times now as we have found it absolutely AMAZING! Our children are so excited! All 10 eggs seem healthy so far.. Only concern I have is the size of the air sake.. It seems a little small on some of the eggs, I have tried lowering the humidity, however keeping the humidity at any constant has been a challenge!. We are using a cheaper incubator, a Janoel 12, which has no humidity control, so I've added an external probe. I've found you only need to add 5ml of water to send the humidity from 25 to 60... Which steadily decrease over about 7-8 hours!. Anyway nearly time for lock down so very apprehensive about getting and keeping the humidity up high!.

Brooder box is all ready, was concerned chicks will eat the wood shavings, but managed to find a large flake one now and will cover with paper for first 24hours to help them find there feet.

Good luck to all with your hatches, will post on here and let you know how it's gone!.

Steve and Family (Suffolk Uk)

Hi Steve! WELCOME!!
I bet the kids were even more excited than you to see those candles!!! wait till they pop out!!! GOOD LUCK!!

Well I just candled on day 13 and got rid of 2 out of the 40 set. 1 clear and one blood ring. I've been so busy cleaning out the coop and moving rabbits to the outside hutch I didn't have time to candle before today.

outside hutch? they are inside rabbits?
Sounds like a half decent candle!!

The brooder is filling up

. They like it so much more than the incubator. I just can't take all that crying, so I just move em over. I am glad to get some black chicks!

sweetness!!!! what breed is the big one in the middle LMAO!!

Morning all. Thanks for all the updates. Will be getting caught up on that later this morning.

Morning Chaos!!!!! Thank you so very much!!!

Congrats to all the babies!!

Tonight at 7:45 is lockdown, but I think I'll wait til tomorrow morning. Let them cook a little extra. I haven't decided the best way for me to keep the breeds separate, or if I care that much.

OHHHHH GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Good Morning!!!

So out of my 23 eggs, 20 hatched and are in the brooder. The last three haven't pipped yet, but since it's only day19 they still have time. The others must have smelled the coffee brewing.

My eggs were a mix of GLW over either 3 Barred Rocks or 3 Black Stars. We can only identify the specific eggs of one of our ladies and that is the Black Star apply dubbed "Blackie". With our first hatch we suspected, with our this hatch (second) we confirmed. Blackie produces cute little golden chipmunks that feather out reddish gold with black lacing. All the other chicks are black and either feather out solid black or barred. I love mix breeds, it's a surprise with every new cross!!!

Great hatch!!! congrats!! mixed chicks seem to ALWAYS be the cutest for some reason!!

7 Sapphire and 9 CL/EE & EE so far

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so sweet!!!