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

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2 emus are awesome!!! 

Hi Steve! WELCOME!!
I bet the kids were even more excited than you to see those candles!!! wait till they pop out!!!  GOOD LUCK!!
outside hutch? they are inside rabbits?
Sounds like a half decent candle!!


sweetness!!!!  what breed is the big one in the middle LMAO!!
Morning Chaos!!!!!  Thank you so very much!!!

OHHHHH GOOD LUCK!!!!!

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


CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  so sweet!!!

The rabbits live in cages in the coop during the winter. The chickens have access under them to scratch around in there mess. In the spring we move them all outside to a covered area around the run. It's a bigger area easier to move around and more room for breeding.

 

[feedman77]

Hello, please correct me if I'm wrong, I've never been very good at math.  Anyways, I had 6 hens and a rooster.  The idea was to add 3 more hens to my existing coop (4x6 interior with an attached 4x11 completely predator proof run that they had 24 hour access to).  Alright, need to buy 3 new pullets.  :yiipchick

Went to Rural King.  They had a large LARGE selection, how was I suppose to choose????  So, I brought home a couple of pullets from this breed, one of those, three of those.  So, I brought home 6 new babies... Unfortunately, I lost one to an on-going battle with pasty butt.  Therefore, replacement chick. 

Not quite a week later we go back for the replacement.  They didn't have any more of the Rhode Islands...  but they did have a lot of new and different breeds!!  So, we brought home 16 new babies, cause you know, straight run.

Two weeks later, we made a quick trip to Tractor Supply, and they had Cornish X and RIR.  So I pick up 4 of each.

Meanwhile, our rooster (Fabio), who was always very mild was developing a particular dislike of my mother and even trapped her in the house one day.  We decided to invite him to dinner and started collecting eggs for the incubator.  (19 were collected, 17 hatched)

Went to Tractor Supply for supplies, THEY HAD A TURKEN!!!!  Only one.  Know the manager really well at this point, he lets me get a minimum of two.  I grab the newly dubbed "Pickles" and a strange breed that even Google never heard of, the Aquilla (Oggie).

Well, my aunt and uncle called me and they were wondering if I could help them start a flock.  SURE!! How many do you want?  30, with some roosters... No problem, 23 more eggs in the incubator cooking, afterall, straight run chicks are usually half roosters and we need 30 hens.  (as of this morning, 20 fluffballs hatched)


Meanwhile, back at Rural King, they had something called Rainbow Rangers.  We got 6, because, at this point, why the heck not. 

Also, did I mention that this particular aunt and uncle know how bonkers I am for turkens that they left a box in my foyer containing a surprise of one turken mix and 5 other fluffballs?  Turns out they are all silkie mixes but without the silkie feathers (from what I could tell).

So, that's how many?  86 total chickens?   
Yeah, we got our new (much larger) coop a couple weeks ago and just finished the new 9,600 sq ft chicken yard for them.  :cd    I never knew that chickens were a gateway drug to more chickens!!!

Chicken math ×2

 

[LeroySouthpaw]

Chicken math ×2

Same boat? What did you end up with?

 

[Josefina]

Thanks! I've hatched chicks before (too many to count!), but never from shipped eggs, so I'm more hyper aware of what the chicks are doing. A lot of the chicks I've hatched spend a whole day after hatching just resting under their mamma, so I would guess she is just in need of some rest after hatching (hopefully). This afternoon, when her older sister was getting some food and water with mamma, she climbed into the food bowl, so I think she's starting to get more active now.

Also, the last two eggs that had only pipped this morning, have hatched! Yay!

Everyone seems to be doing well today! Lena's youngest is still not very active, but I was watching the Buff's chicks (they are all around the same age as Lena's youngest) and they are mostly interested in staying under their momma hen as well. I dipped everyone's beaks in water this morning, and two of the Buff's chicks decided to drink. The others were not particularly thrilled about this, and only drank the little bit I made them drink. I also have free choice food out for the hens and they have been encouraging their chicks to eat.

 

[Susieq2015]

12 out of 12 Sapphires! 9 out of 12 CL/EE & EE, 1 out of 1 BCM/EE, and 1 out of 1 BL/EE. Pics coming when they are fluffed.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

It took me ALL morning to catch up on the thread from being away from my computer since Thursday! Whew!

Lots of new babies! I'm so eager for our hatch!

I candled on Friday and ended up tossing one egg that was infertile. So, we have 6 growing eggs left. They all looked great, with good air cells. Will candle again in a couple days. Due to hatch in 10 days! YAY! The class that I am hatching for was so excited to see the candling process. Then they asked me about 50 questions, they are SO inquisitive! They also talked me into cracking open the egg that was infertile, so glad it truly had nothing in it!

So fun!

 

[Chaos18]

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@BantyChooks 10 OEGB x silkie eggs under a broody 3/29! 4 clears, removed only 3 as she was getting a bit impatient with me right at the end. So 7 under her, 6 viable.... Still sitting tight! Hatch day is next tuesday.

Just set 17 eggs! (I thought I was setting 7?)
4 turken x polish, 3 EEx, 2 OEGBx, 2 dark brahma, 2 GLW, 2 cochin, 1 SLW, and one lavender orpington.

@Chaos18 set 17 Ancona Duck eggs 4/2

@campingshaws Candled last night and removed a few clears. I was panicked because they didn't look developed enough for day 17-18, then I went back and count led and I was actually at 15-16. I set in the late evening and that always makes things wonky.
Anyway, most looked good! A few iffy eggs that I left anyway, and a few late blood rings. I didn't count. I know I'm down to two merlerault, because two were clear. And my polish mix is cooking right along! 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.

@jnr005 Candled my eggs tonight. (Day 9 for all my wellsummer, amurucanas, deleware, olive eggers, and morans and day 6 for my silkies). Looks like 11 of 53 may be clear on the mix and then 11 of 18 silkies look clear.)
So set my eggs on Sunday.
8 wellsummer
6 deleware
23 olive eggers (don't ask, lol)
8 morans
8 Amerucanas
18 white silkies
1 random silkie
72 eggs...want to keep 6-10 hens. How is that for chicken math???

@Pensmaster HELP my hens have come down with a contagious case of broodiness. 4 and counting. I moved two of the broodies to a completely different coop because not only did they stop laying but so did the other 20 hens. Since selling eggs is their way of making ends meet I'm trying to get things back in order.

So 18 eggs left out of 40 but I expect the number to go back up once they settle in.

@Yorkshire coop Brisea 20. Tolbunt polish hatched beautifully!!

@Razadia Got a broody sitting on mixes and Chanteclers. 3 out of 4 viable eggs have hatched under Azura! I am so excited.


@mumofsix

@Laurel Meadows Alias J&TRanch... My shipped bantam Cochin eggs had to be pulled.

All clears and very early quitters. So my bators are empty

But I do plan on setting again next week! More Marans and I'm looking for something else to set but haven't decided yet....
Suggestions anyone??

@howfunkyisurchicken 7 Emu eggs that are finally wiggling.

@tao chick 4/1 = 0/15 from shipped eggs
4/8&4/9 = 5/7 from my eggs
4/12 = ?/12 from shipped eggs
3 due 4/15 from a friend
20? due 4/24 from my flock
Three mixed breed due Friday. 20 mixed breed due 24th.

@Jessimom
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.

@mamahmendez Brinse 20
Hatch 1 -
2 eggs hatched 3/31
11 eggs hatched 4/1
1 egg hatched 4/2
1 DIS (14/15 fertile eggs hatched, 15 infertile clears)

Hatch 2 -
20 Ancona eggs set 4/2, due to hatch 4/30
- as of 4/15 11 eggs appear to be developing

@Phage

@jwlpoultry Hello everyone I am way behind on all of my threads it is so hard to stay caught up with life and byc. I have hatched geese and chicks so far this month and have more hatching every monday and then a few on some off days I just got a incuview xl cabinet incubator and will be hatching in it from now on. It definetly has, in the bator now are chicken eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, quail eggs, and turkey eggs and pheasants will be here around the 25th so definetly busy.

@sarah25bear I will be setting on April 10th not sure what all I will be hatching. I am going to take the weekend of May 1st off hoping they hatch on my birthday!!!

@deserteggs22 But last night I set my eggs. 22 in total. 8 Black and Blue Coppet Marans, 2 Olive Egger, 6 barnyard mixes, and 6 Blue Partridge Brahma eggs. I'm also going to put 4 Ohiki eggs in the Bator in 3 days so that they all hatch on the same day.

@FeatherCreek 2 Royal Palm Turkey eggs Due April 1

@Purpletie3 I set 127 eggs. Pulled the clears at day 10. I had 113 go to lockdown & only 14 eggs left un- hatched/unfinished.

Incubator is full again- I have way too much room in there! If anyone is in CNY and would like to buy any of these chicks above $5 each!

@blkjak Set my silkie eggs today. Set 31.

@mollybuck
I candled last night , day 10, i removed the clears 10 of them.. and 3 quitters, but i wasnt so surprised with the clears... I only have 3 blrw hens and i had been saving them for a while...they might have just been too old but I put them in.. just in case!
I also borrow my dads incubator, so I now have another 3 dozen + set in that!
Should have lots of chicks on the 23rd!!

@CLSranch Dark cornish due on April 2nd.

@dolfi

@MotorcycleChick

@Sueg4332 I set more eggs tonight.
amerucana, clb, wheaten marans, white marans, cuckoo/clbs
lets see how many are fertile.
I have 2 rhode island reds setting on RR eggs, a turkey setting on chicken eggs, 2 black marans sitting on Ranch eggs. And cochin bantam s sitting together on a bunch of cochin eggs in 2 different places....

@pjnbill22 Total hatched to date for April is 24.
There are assorted mutts, Naked Necks, White Plymouths, and Erminett type EEs.
Hatch-a-long update
Incu #1 on lockdown just now
It's been a near total loss

7/41 still going
1/6 Cuckoo Bluebar- (MPC) clears, quitters, saddle cells. The one remaining doesn't look too promising
0/10 White Leghorn- (mail) clears, saddle cells and scrambled eggs
3/18 (our birds) EE, White Plymouth mutts- threw them in after a no show for the fertile eggs x 3 days, early quitters -100% fertile
3/7(our birds) EE- same as above, no shows, early quitters- 100% fertile
Incu #2 (day 16)
8/10 White Plymouths (mail) 1 clear, 1 late quitter
9/12 EE- Erminett type (BYC auction/mail) 1 clear, 2 early quitters- saddled air cells
25/30 Nanci's mutts (coworker) 2 clears, 3 early quitters
Incu #3 (day 15)
1/7 Sebastopol geese (coworker Nanci) 5 clears, 1 early quitter - She's bringing me more to try in a week or two!
Incu #4 (day 4)
17 Columbian Wyandottes (mail)
12 Nanci's mutts (coworker)
Also in #4 (staggered)
10 Olive Eggers- Marans/Ameraucana & Ameraucana/Marans (BYC auction/mail)
Still to come:
12 BLRW
12 Langshan

@Susieq2015 Well its almost hatch day for my first Sapphires, plus some CL/EE, due April 18th! Also I coincided it with my hatchery order of Whiting True Blues, due to ship the week of April 18th so they can grow up together 12 out of 12 Sapphires! 9 out of 12 CL/EE & EE, 1 out of 1 BCM/EE, and 1 out of 1 BL/EE.

@rossfam06 So yesterday was day 14 on my SLP eggs and I lost 2 out of 18. So that leaves me 16/18 I am hoping to lockdown on Sunday. And on my Silkie eggs today is day 7 candled them all and 100% growing!!! So that's 15 eggs!

@flocktastic BUT...I still got to set 24...
8 Salmon Faverolle
8 Welsummer
8 of our own barnyard mixes

@Saris Just set 9 Bielefelders and 15 Ameraucana!
Down to 13 Ameraucana eggs, lost 1 choc and 1 unlabeled egg.
Down to 8 Bielefelder eggs.

@Brittsplace okay so my hatch went far better than any of my others, this time I had all 8 hatch out! All are doing great, set another 11 bantam/silkie eggs

@Nin315 Auction bought Black and blue copper marans. and white silkies from Elvis and Marylinn. My first HAL and experience w shipped eggs has been very frustrating and a disaster, to b honest.

@jphendrix 18 eggs set, hatchdate April 3 Aiming for a staggered hatch due April 10

@Sally Sunshine color coded calendar with color coded eggs in the bator right Overachiever.. lol (Hatching a chit load of eggs) yer silly LOULY LOVE!!

@mlm Mike I'm setting 7 Icelandic Eggs. 7/7 developing, air cells good, my own eggs so thats expected. I set 13 guinea eggs yesterday.

@lindalouly IS TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME!!!

@firedragon1982 Monday the dozen silkies and Mille Fleur D'Uccles go into lockdown... Not going to tell my husband about the 30 eggs I just received from the Post Office on Thurs...I have 12 random eggs that go into lock down Monday!!... Guess I should wash and bleach the hatcher again! Picking up a mixed dozen from a local byc member from a flock that carries both a frizzle and grey egg gene! Pretty sure my husband is going to have me committed lol.

@jewelsong i ordered some Orpington eggs and will also set some Jersey Giant eggs, some RIR's and some RIR/EE mixes... hopefully I will have them ready to set this weekend? that is my hope anyway.... can't wait for chicks!

@brightpennies 5 fertile chicken eggs under my banty (who has never been a mom before), 7 fertile chicken eggs in the 'bator, and 15 unknown duck eggs in the 'bator to boot. We'll see what we get. This is all for science since my only prior attempt to hatch with a broody Pekin went horribly awry. Potential due dates are April 4 and 11. I guess we'll see how it goes!

@shahtir101 I set 27 eggs. Broke one. Candles on day 7 and 5 aren't fertile. So I have 22 going strong! A hen went broody today, so I transferred 10 eggs from the incubator under her.

@KeyFlock Hi all! I set 37 eggs yesterday, due to hatch on April 4th. They are a barnyard mix. Rhode Island Red rooster and Barred Rock X White Leghorn rooster. Hen wise I have: Black sex link, Red sex link, RIR, Barred Rock, White Leghorn, Brown Leghorn, Barred Rock crosses, and a Light Brahma. Looking forward to adorable chickies!
Feel free to correct me. LOL

@butterfliesdoku I currently have eggs on days 12, 11, 10 and 2.
Day 12 update: EEs from EE rooster, Dorking hen, EE hen and Ameracauna hen. Removed two Dorking quitters and 1 clear Ameracauna.
Day 11 update: Shipped Gamefowl eggs 5/8 going strong.
Day 10 update: Local CCL eggs and Bielefelders. CCLs doing great, no clears that I can see nor quitters. I did get lots of clear Bielefelder eggs but I'll be happy if the few hatch.
Day 2: too early to report any development but I set 11 shipped Modern Game Bantams.
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.

@ChickenGrass I have a broody hen due to hatch 9 eggs
On the ninth of April
And I set 24 eggs today in my incubator Cream Legbars

@speney I will be setting eggs the first of April I'm just not sure what kind yet it depends on what I can get my hands on lol

@heatherledet We're set! Well the eggs are!

Day 2! Due on the 4th! I have 4 old english bb reds and 5 phoenix crosses(mutts) locked down today!

@country lovin day 20- 3 sapphires, 1 Sally's project, and 2 lavender Orpingtons are out 4 more pips. Final count 3 sapphires, 6 lavender Orpington and 1 sally project.
Day 6- 6 cream legbar.

@Honora So the remaining eggs are 6 black/lavender cuckoo Orpington sex links (males will be cuckoo, females solid black or lavender), and 2 chocolate cuckoo Orps. Really looking forward to chickies hatching next week! I hatched out 3 lavender cuckoo orpington cockerels, 2 cuckoo orpington cockerels, 1 black orp pullet, & 1 chocolate cuckoo orp chick & 1 chocolate orp chick. All are doing fine!

@CoopDeDoo I am getting some eggs to put under my broody this weekend - should hatch April 8th(ish)

@LocalYokel QuailI let 5 of the quail eggs sit in 100 degree vinegar, checked with a thermo, for between 5 and 6 minutes.
Broody hatch done.
Had tossed one of four that was clear.
Two hatched and she injured one to the point of death.
The other did not hatch, looks like it quit early.
Looking forward to lockdown in a couple days.
Just got some Silkie, and couple of Icelandic, SFH eggs yesterday.
They were shipped out on the 5th................
Got 3 broken eggs and 3 cracked ones.
Put clear nail polish over the cracks....

May end up adding roughly 40 quail eggs in a few days.........

@Coreenelane My incubator made by grandson and class mate will be free to set more eggs around April 10th. Right now eggs are being incubated for a science project that both boys are working on. The second clutch is in a large dog crate in the class mates garage. The hen was given 6 eggs from other chickens and showed signs of broodiness before the science project started. The next day she laid an egg and pushed out 3 of the original eggs. Next day she laid another and is sitting on them. Hope to learn a lot and incubate more eggs. Grandkids showing chickens in 4-H and selling eggs. Hens are paying for the feed and I want to breed and sell chickens. Candled some Sultun eggs today and so far so good. Trying to separate silkis and Sultuns so I don't have any cross breading. I think my silkis are starting to lay but not sure. I am finding very light cream small eggs but I thought I read somewhere that they laid peewee size eggs.

@emvickrey My English Orps are due to hatch tuesday.

@jrc85 firing up the incubator. OK well the duck finally got off the nest so I could see and she was hiding eggs so it is actually 10 eggs under her lol

@Mirajane Firing up the incubator to see what she can hatch

@chicken19 I have some chicks that I'm hatching right now. They are 12 americaunas, 12 production reds, and 2 caramel queens.

@DwayneNLiz I will be setting around 40 eggs I think, mostly barnyard mutts, and the guy at the Napa down the road is giving me 2 dozen bantam/Silkies. Going to use my neighbors incubator-she's had good luck with it. Probably set them on Saturday 3/26 So currently I have 41 eggs in my borrowed bator and daycare has 10, so in all 51 eggs.
AHHHH!! I have a chick!! Wasn't due to hatch until SATURDAY NIGHT, geez, so not ready!!!
The pip i posted last night was almost completely zipped as i was leaving for work, and i have another external pip waiting for me to check on it when i get home, it is hard being at work right now!

@kybyxbee 3 hatched 4/5
2 piping today 4/15
Had 5 hatch today, two ameraucanas and 3 mixes. Babies are so cute and fluffy.

@Penny Hen I set 54 mixed Coturnix quail and 10 OE eggs today. Got my SFH eggs today. I will set them on the 19th.

@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

@philyaw539 26 eggs

@ChickenLady2014 I have 3 hatches currently scheduled to hatch in April. Just finished my first April hatch. Had 8 Silkies go into lockdown, 6 hatched, 2 DIS.

@Cynthia12 I'm setting some Bantam Cochin eggs tonight. Should hatch around the 12th...I think. I did have 4 babies hatch. Those bad air cell ones. Had to assist. When I had waited long enough, and found that the first two I checked were DIS..I started opening others. Only got 2 little ones. :/ But, I think, one is a girl. These little bantam cochins have ridiculous feathers on those feets!

@draye Set 74 Naked Neck, some will hatch fully feathered, @ about 5:30 PM. Candeled the eggs at ones week. 70 of 74 are good.
I still have 70 eggs. They go into lock down late in the afternoon.
They may be delayed a bit on hatch, we lost electricity for about an hour on this past Monday

@chicken hawk 33 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.

@melnjerm I'm down to 1 buff Orpington/CCL, 4 blue maran/CCL's, but 1 may have quit, I just can't see too clearly in that chocolate egg, and still have 18 CCL's. Grand total is 23, so far!

@cree57i 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.
Also a cuckoo marans has been sitting for 3 or 4 days on at least 12 eggs. I put SB, isabelle leghorn and blue copper marans under her, but no telling what else she has commandeered. Today, an australorp decided she is broody. She has a BYM under her and as soon as I can catch her off the nest she will have some SFH's under there too. IDK how many eggs she has. All said, I have a minimum of 60 eggs set at this moment, but knowing my broody hens it is a lot more than that! I'm up to 3 broods as of today. No telling how many eggs are under them either.

@0wen Putting half dozen Svart Hona eggs in a Brinsea Mini Advanced (casual hatcher so only own a small capacity incubator) tomorrow (4/1) - setting at room temp currently trying/hoping to mend air cells and such courtesy of the USPS.

@generaldsherman
So: 11/11 runner duck eggs developing and due for lock-down on Sunday. I just put my duck eggs into lock-down.
1/4 Aloha eggs developing

10/12 Crested cream legbar-2 blood rings got pulled (one had a crack, so was expected)
4/4 buff orpington eggs developing
4/4 golden laced wyandotte eggs developing

@kimalulu Due to hatch 4-17
IN INCUBATOR
4 Bielefelder
4 SFH
4 Barred Rock
3 English Orpingtons
2 EE

UNDER BROODY
2 English Orpingtons
2 EE

Had 3 clears

Due to hatch 4-20
IN INCUBATOR
11 mix

1 questionable (still in bator)
1 early quitter

@arconfederate I set 10 Icelandic eggs yesterday (3/31/16) I candled this weekend on day 10 and am down to 2 developing, 5 blood rings and 3 clear. Lockdown last night. Out of 10 shipped eggs, only two that have gone this far. I saw movement in both, so I'm hopeful. Their hatch date is somewhere around Wednesday evening to Thursday evening if they stick to 21 days.

@sasafras4u2 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

@Feather duster I set 30 Australorp eggs on March 24th. Put the incubator into lock down yesterday.
When I got home from work this morning the one I was going to assist had died over night. The one that had the tiny pip that didn't do anything all day yesterday hatch out during the night. The three that didn't pip at all I candled and they had died. So I ended up with 21 chicks out of the 26 that went into lock down.

@Auroradream26 I have chicks hatching today at least 12 out so far. Ameraucanas, EEs, and OEs

@katsdar I had 19 go into lock down and 19 hatched!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!

@weegarden
Apr. 3 10 out of 11 hatched 6 white silkies and 4 Plymouth rock
Apr. 13-15 in classroom 7 out of 11 hatched, and one more internally pipped. My last little classroom chick hatched tonight. It is a little white silkie. So 8 out of 9 chicks hatched.
Apr. 23rd 15 eggs that are doing well, mix of Plymouth rock and silkies.
Pitched 4 ameraucana eggs that were infertile and due to hatch on Apr. 27th.
Set 55 eggs, that are due to hatch on May 2nd, but will have plenty of infertile, due to one rooster who is not doing his job.

@pickachick Just set 31eggs.
Taking notes on the chick first-aid kit (a wonderful idea!).
4 golden lakenvelders,
Few RIR crosses,
Few leghorn crosses,Easter eggers
Many dominiques's

@wabbit1964 My update so far
incubator #1 had 37 growing chicks at lockdown... have had 27 hatch and one of those did not make it through the night and a 2nd one can't get off his back and has a bigger belly than the others so crossing my fingers. There are still 7 eggs in incubator that have done nothing and 3 with pipping.
Incubator #2 chicken eggs from a friend and my backyard flock goes into lockdown tonight
Incubator #3 chicken from my backyard flock eggs lockdown 4/26 and 5 turkey eggs lockdown to hatch in May
turkey and duck eggs arriving by mail today for the May hatchalong

@redda I just put 25 eggs in my LG styrofoam bator tonight.I might add a few more tomorrow just to increase my odds and the FUN. This is my first attempt this year. I did one incubation last spring with the same bator. Hoping to hatch out Black Australorps mostly but a couple of buff orps. Last year I started my flock with eggs from our local hatchery. I am trying our own eggs this time. Grandsons ages 6, 3, and 2 are excited. Forgot to mention in my initial post that we will have barred rocks/buff orp mix too. Hatch date April 21 or 22.

@Harborotter
I currently have Ameraucanas, Saipans, ducks, goose and Bantam Wyandotte eggs. I am so excited.
My Saipans are due to hatch in 2 days. I have had bad luck with hatching Saipans so far.

@Sahwithchicks Today I set 4 yellow gold pheasant eggs and 24 Pharoah coturnix quail eggs

@h2oratt Went into lockdown last night. No movement seen yet.

@Balloonjuice currently in lockdown
In incubator:
35 barnyard mix (from the RIR and Black Stars above)

@akaruby Just set some Salmon Faverolles and Blue Partridge Brahma eggs today! Lockdown April 22nd.

@Scovy Momma So, I set a couple more quail eggs...20 is a couple, right? The banty eggs are still looking well, down to 4 now. 2 due in a week & 2 the week after.

@feedman77
5 going to lockdown tonight.
25 to hatch on the 27th.
54 to hatch on the 5th.
23 set on monday.
20 eggs under 3 hens tues. Began setting solid. So gave them eggs.
All turkey.

@PaisyQ I set 8 barnyard mix chicken eggs today.

@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!

@JadedPhoenix 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.

@ToddQ Im hatching 13 RIR and 18 Ameraucanas on or about April 21st!

@RattleCan This morning is day 6.5 for the 24 EE/OE eggs and 12 royal palm turkey eggs I set so I went ahead and candled to see what's going on. The EE eggs were shipped and arrived with nearly destroyed air cells again (most roll freely around the egg) but at least 11 of them are currently developing. That's exactly how many started to develop out of the last 24 I was shipped and only 2 were able to hatch, so I guess we'll just have to see how it goes. BUT 11 of my 12 turkey eggs are developing! This is my first time incubating turkey eggs and my first time incubating eggs that were laid on my property and not ordered online, so I'm super excited to get some poults!

I have a good many eggs in my incubator, i have 3 amerucana, 2 bramah, 9 barred rocks, and 6 guinea eggs.( my guineas wont hatch for a while ) Hey guys im going into lock down tonight wish me luck

@Lozuufy
5 silver coturnix quail eggs due to hatch April 18
5 khaki campbell/welsh harlequin mix duck eggs (from my ducks) due April 25
10 chocolate orp/cream legbar cross eggs developing due April 29
5 silver/choc cross ameracauna eggs developing due April 30
Plus the bantam eggs I ordered that should arrive in a couple days

@caeti21 I added eggs to the incubator today i have 14 eggs total

@wornoutmomto3
My hatcher is going to be working overtime LockDown day:
First Lockdown day is Wednesday 4/20 (the RIR, bunch of mixed, and bantam eggs)
Second Lockdown day is Saturday 4/23 (first bunch of Dominique eggs)
Third Lockdown in Wednesday 4/27 (first set of duck eggs and second set of Dominique and quail eggs)
Forth Lockdown in Wednesday 5/4 (second set of duck eggs)

@billiejw89
Serama hatch complete - 18 shipped eggs, 1 clear, 12 hatched chicks (1 died) 5 DIS. Another one i tried to assist going into day 24 but was unable to save it. We have 11 happy healthy chicks!
Mixed/orpington eggs in LG went into lockdown today. 26 viable eggs. Started with 34. A bunch of clears and a few that died early on.
Broody hen on day 11 - sitting on 9 eggs mostly BO with a few barn yard mixes.
The Brinsea has 18 turkey eggs in! Already on day 2!
@teamfreewill Candled today (day 4) and all 10 are developing perfectly

7 fluffs due on Tuesday!

@Bryam I have 8 silkie eggs due to hatch in 2 days!!!!

@hereorthere Went into lockdown last night. Humidity is at 60-62% in the past 8-9 hrs since I left, but hovered around 57-59% all yesterday evening/night.

@CGilbert Joining in with my white, buff, and bantam self blue Ameraucana eggs.

@nanceann First time hatcher. I have a buff who seems to be broody so I thought I'd leave americaunas eggs under her. We have one roo and he stays busy.

@slordaz Putting 47 in the incubator this afternoon.They are barn yard mixes. set 42 barnyard mixes this morning.
candled one egg from under the hen and she was gonna kick my seat end when went to look at another so will call that one good should be hatching any day, will see how many of the 24 hatch.
10 day candle of the 42 in the incubator, have 7 that are questionable but veining out so will recheck next week

@banannalee
Well after the longest 18 days of my life we have reached 'LOCKDOWN"
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.

@Eps32 Ok guys so 30 chicks out. Well actually 32 left two in the bator cause they were wet. Still have eggs pipped and moving ready to hatch. Just had to get these guys out cause it was crowded. Out of a full egg turner witch I think is 41 or 42 eggs 32 so far and more coming!! I'm happy with that hatch rate!!! Well out of the 41 eggs. Thirty five are out and healthy.

@SilkiesForEver Still trying to hatch my Rosecomb's eggs. I've got 6 eggs in the incubator.

@stiles1113 Hello I'm new! This is my first time incubating and I have call duck eggs, white pekin duck eggs, khaki Campbell duck eggs, and mallard duck eggs. 5 were set Friday and 7 were set this morning. Any tips are greatly appreciated! I'm using the little giant still air incubator

@Madonna m Everything looks good so far. Starting on day five. All 24 eggs just rollin along. Keeping humidity in check this time.

@SH HoneyBadger I have eight eggs that I just set on April 3. Four eggs are Svarthona and four are lavender Orpington.

@Choco Maran I have EE/Dominque crosses and cochin, silver lace, or blue lace crosses due to hatch on April 11th. So far I have four hatched.

@rottlady So now my incubator has 12 Barnevelder, 12 Delaware, 4 Crested Cream Legbar and 4 Sizzle

@chickygirl7 Welsh Harlequins just went into the bator! Im so excited!!! I just candled my shipped Welsh Harlequin duck eggs (day 8)- 6/6 are fertile, with no separated air cells!!!

@Ur-ur-ur-urrr you can count me in this hatch-a-long... I just set 30 HRIR eggs in the bator and 3 penguin eggs.
Set # 1: 11 viable, 3 blood rings, 1 highly questionable (will give it more time), and 1 slightly questionable. A few have good veining, but can't see the embryo.

Set # 5: 11 viable, 2 blood rings, 1 clear, 2 highly questionable (will give it more time), and 1 slightly questionable. A few have good veining, but can't see the embryo.

I pulled the 5 blood rings and 1 clear, and put the questionable eggs back in the bators. There are 24 eggs cooking, and all will (most likely) stay in until next candling. I'm almost positive that the 3 highly questionable eggs won't make it, but I'll be extremely happy if I only lose those 3 from here on...

@mrleeroy 10 Cream Brabanter expected to hatch on 4/28! Set 5 more eggs in the bator Yesterday 4/11 to hatch on my Birthday!
I candled the shipped eggs last night, and all had movement inside but 1, and it did have veining. Day 7 for them. The newer group of eggs are still riding the turner, waiting to be candled Monday evening.

@Jetblack2004
I have 21 eggs in an incubator now.
They are Glw x RIR and Lsx x RIR and due to hatch on Sunday!

@melaniekemp I set 14 shipped eggs on March 26. Day 19. Just now had one external pip and one internal pip. First time trying to hatch eggs so I super nervous that even now I could lose them all. 14 shipped eggs and only 6 made it to lockdown. I'm so nervous : (

@karenerwin Just set 13 Black Penedesenca eggs on Thursday, April 7th. tomorrow/ Sunday is day 10 for the 15 Black Penedesenca eggs. So I will be weighing & recording the weights. I'll let you know what they are compared to the original weights so that hopefully someone can let me know how they are doing.

@circ director Well I just candled on day 13 and got rid of 2 out of the 40 set. 1 clear and one blood ring.

@Hawk12 total in incubator/s = 27 set on the evening of 04/06 and 04/07.

@bbgranch Have 7 guinea eggs in the incubator. Day 14 update for 7guinea eggs. Candled today and all looking good. 14 days to go. Scheduled hatch day is April 24.
Three more days until guinea egg lockdown. I have been good and haven't candled since day 14. So, its killing me! Hatch day should be Sunday.

@darkbluespace Yesterday I set Silkie eggs under my two broodies, more in the bator. 7 Bantam Cochin eggs, a couple of mystery large chicken eggs and 25 button quail. I already have mini chicken, duck, goose and emu incubating so I believe that is the most varieties I have ever incubated simultaneously!
My Broody hens hatched 7 Serama babies yesterday and this morning I have 6 out in the incubator and another 8 or 9 eggs in there. I obviously can't count because I only thought I had a dozen.


@junebuggena I managed to squeeze 3 dozen Easter Egger eggs into my Incuview. Day 5 candling here for my overloaded Incuview. Out of 3 dozen set, I pulled 18 clears.

@KHoward Tonight I set 18 Icelandics and 48 FCBM's in two Janoel incubators. And because I couldn't leave well enough alone, I set 8 duck eggs under a broody chicken!

@Corwynnde I'm so egg-cited to join you! This is my first time incubating so I'm sure I'll have tons of questions. Just got a GQF Genesis 1588 set up today, and a dozen serama eggs ready to go in tomorrow morning!

@Tchefunky Chick I wanna join this hatch-a-long. I have 29 eggs incubating. One chick hatched on April 7.

@Shay1Bear April 1st I set 30 Americana eggs. Hatch 4-21
April 3rd I set 17 Button Quail eggs. Hatch 4-20

@mammat Just set 8 lav orphington,14 german bielefelders,14 barred rock and 12 silkies in the incubator on 4/7. Also have silkie momma on 5 due to hatch any day now and another silkie momma on 10 due to hatch in 2 weeks
Had five hatch under broody #1!
Cleaned out 6 clears and 2 blood rings today.

@heatherfeather7
Just set 7 eggs on April 7, looking for an April 28th hatch day!
Day 6 here. Last night, I went in and candled (I know it's a little early, but I am working on a timeline as I am hatching for a class of 2nd graders, and I had to know by today if I needed to discard eggs and start over to beat the end of school year). Anyway, out of my 7 eggs, 6 show lots of veining already! YAY! I put an X on the one showing no development and will check it again on Friday. I candled on Friday and ended up tossing one egg that was infertile. So, we have 6 growing eggs left. They all looked great, with good air cells. Will candle again in a couple days. Due to hatch in 10 days! YAY!

@chickendreams24
Update on my hatch. Put new batteries in my candling flashlight tonight. Wow so much better, I hadn't realized how dim it had gotten. Day 9.5 here and after my temp spike of 113 a few days ago I couldn't wait any more, as expected I lost a bunch of the eggs. I don't know how many exactly. I'm still sick and stupidly didn't count before eggtopsying them all into a big bowl. Ugh well I want digging through that of course. It was probably about 20-30 I can give a better total tomorrow or day 14 for sure.
There were some inferts and a couple really early quitters but most of the eggs I pulled look to have quit BC of that temp spike. Since that fiasco the incubator has been right on. There were two eggs that I got some really good looks at the embryos when I opened them up. Which was neat. We have always cracked eggs in Ziplocks previously which are neat but kinda amoosh the embryo.

@chickiebaby1 I just had a hatch yesterday and still some coming and I am also setting eggs on a weekly basis. I have 21 eggs in one bator hatching on the 19 and 41 more the 24th and I have 3 broodies sitting on over 30 eggs right now. It is defiantly hatching season here. So one of my broodies ( i had 3) decided to up and leave her nest today. She had been off her nest the last few times I checked on her. So i grabbed her eggs and put them in the bator. Tomorrow was supposed to be day 18.

So we will see if she killed them or not. I candled them and they looked ok, but I'm not sure.

I guess we will have to wait and see. I also set 88 more eggs today and I have 24 ordered "crested" breeds arriving this week from Ideal.

@mlbuttercup Looks like we're joining in the Hatch-a-Long. My little rescued chicken is out and doing great! Yay!

@vonrow
We finally set up an incubator today with 45 eggs. (4 mottled Houdan, 8 olive eggers, and the rest are a mix of Wyandotte and Austrolorp brown eggs.)

We have 4 different roosters: Blue Polish, Golden Wyandotte, Silver Wyandotte, and one mystery Rooster with feathered feet and bright red eyes ...so our hatch should yield a neat mix of "barnyard" surprises this year.

@Dubrovnik On April 9th I set 36 eggs; a dozen Rock Island fertile brown eggs from Andy's market, a dozen multi-color fertile eggs from Red Rose Half Acre farm (the Community Market sells these), and a dozen sage green Ameraucana eggs shipped from North Carolina to California. They will begin hatching on April 30th, if all goes well.

@sjturner79 I wasn't going to set for this one, but I now have 4 eggs between 2 Broodies, so I'm in.

@GitaBooks I've got some bantam eggs under a broody hen and some in the incubator (in case something should happen to those under the hen).

@lizzy14
Anyways here's what I'm entering lockdown with:
approx. 9 Rhodebar/CCL , 3 Welsummer/CCL, 2 Blue Andalusian/CCL, 6 Dominique/Rhodebar OR CCL (one of these is the smooshed one though!)
We are one day 20 and have two pips, both in my Dominique's eggs (paternal lineage either CCL or Rhodebar)!

@Josefina I decided to try ordering hatching eggs for the first time this year, because I was having trouble finding Calico/Mille Fleur Cochins as day old chicks. Out of seven eggs, five are developing, and should hatch this week!!

@hershy5252 After my first hatch in my incubator, I have a Silkie that went broody. She is currently sitting in 7 Wyandotte eggs. And due to hatch the 19th.. First broody too!!! Lol been a exciting month.

@samandemsmommy Tomorrow is lockdown day! First time using the Brinsea Mini Advanced! I have 3 cream legbars in and 2 welsummer/cream legbar mixes Also have a broody in the coop due in about another week and a half

@chickenjoe12 hatching 8 eggs each has a name on them (shanique,ralph,lofty,dizzy,pilchard,bird,travis and spud) under rico (a booted bantam) and they should hatch on the 24th and she is such a good mum last time she hatched all her eggs. so eggcited

Getting eggs for incubator next week!!!!!

@CherriesBrood
Put 7 in
2 maroons- 1 clear 1 forming
1 blue Cochin- forming
2 EE- Both forming
2 salmon Favorelle- both forming
They are due to hatch in 14 days.

@chickenraiser22 I have about 21 buff orpington/black sex link and 20 barred rock chicken eggs in incubator!

@dlp40
I have several april hatches going all at once 2 incubator and 2 broody.
Silkie broodies, 1 momma has copper marans x EE hatching as i type.
The other momma is hatching silkies( some are her's).
In my incubators i have 42 that were set yesterday. EE's, Austrolorps, goldenlaced brahmas, bantam cochins, silkies, and buff orps. This batch is due may 2nd
I also have and incubator with 60 eggs in it, more bantams but about the same as above. This batch is due 22 apr.

@chcknluvr Hello y'all! Got olive eggers, easter eggers, wyandottes, and dominiques all in the incubator! The big day is April thirtieth! Also got some wellies and sultans coming in May second! So excited! Love my girls!

@chickhatcher96 I have 41 eggs (mixed variety breeds-Easter Eggers, barred rock, Rhode Island, golden laced Wyandotte etc) in my genesis 1588 incubator at 15 days! I set 44 and have thrown out 1clear and 2 quitters. I'm doing it at school for my kindergarteners!- they're very excited! It's so much fun to candle them and show them the chick "swimming" around! They're just amazed! My chicks are due the 19th. They usually hatch a day or so early though.

@Blooie Got two hatched and snoozing happily under Mama Heating Pad. Um, I did enter this, didn't I? Got one little Cream Legbar cockerel and one Olive Egger, gender as yet unknown. I forgot to add that I also have 11 eggs in the incubator, set on Friday the 8th, due to hatch on Friday the 29th. I have 3 Australorps, 1 Naked Neck, 3 Bantams, 1 Easter Egger, 1 Nankin, 1 Silkie, and 1 Leghorn.

@LeroySouthpaw 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.

@hesklj2008
out of 10 for sure viable eggs (this was my first time incubating-I am not in the group's league quite yet!), 7 hatched. Four are doing fabulously, into the brooder and eating and drinking. Two are weak and one keeps falling over, not sure it will make it. One died-it pipped and started to zip bit then seemed to get stuck. All around it the other ones were hatching fine, so I don't suspect a humidity issue. I did leave it alone for 12+ hours but ended up assisting. He died sometime during the night. Not sure if I killed him but I am pretty sure he would have died in the shell if I hadn't helped.
We still have 6 eggs in the bator that I was never sure were viable-dark brown eggs and since it was my first time with everything, not sure I really could see what I thought I should see. I am leaving them in for 2 more days but having no pipping at all.
For a first attempt, I am quite pleased. Learned a lot and know some things to do differently next time, and that's always a good thing.

@PAchickenlover I have two broodies sitting on eggs. One is sitting on my Svart Hona/Phoenix cross eggs (due to hatch next week sometime, i believe). The other is sitting on my Americana/Phoenix cross and BBR Phoenix eggs ( she just started sitting).

@Chickens 2016

@TJordan Ok. 15th day of April. I just placed 17 duck and 57 chicken eggs in the incubator. Yes that's more than my Easter hatch

The chicks due on the 6th and ducks on the 13th.... Oh great. Another hatch on a day I'll be gone most of the day. Field trip with my son on the 13th

FRIDAY THE 13TH

for those who are scared of that date

@Bantambird Hello! I am hatching cream Legbars and Birchen Marans, and Birchen x Cuckoo Marans. I got this fancy new phone, and I've been offline for so long... Not like I ever did anything before but lurk and peruse. Still! I am ready to participate! To be honest, I would look up things on this site years before I even made an account, and even after making the account I didn't say much. Always too busy! Plus I had another baby... I have 3 young kids and a husband makes 4... But I love my birds. I have a small flock of 40, 25 Cream Legbars, a mix of the 1st and 2nd import groups I believe, from Ewecrazy farms, but shipped from Texas several years ago. I have 11 Marans, 3 are English type Cuckoo, 6 are beautiful French Birchen, and 2 are solid black from crossing the Birchen and Cuckoo. I got my Birchen from Rodney Reeves, and their color is soooo beautiful. The rest of my birds are wonderful randomness, adding color and variety. And turkeys! My newest hatch should start pipping any time now... Have rolling hatches for this and next weekend in my ancient 1266 sportsman! And an early 1502 model as the hatcher, since my great uncle put an acrylic door on it. Whoo hoo! Yay!
Dancing around!!!

@sarasweatman Hello! Well let's see in my beautiful Sally coolerbater, I have geese and ducks. And in another i have chickens. I also have a broody chicken sitting on duck eggs (and some chicken eggs her lazy Mazie friends squirrelled under her). April 22 is my 40th birthday so i getting myself some jubilee Orpington eggs (yay) if it works out

@PeepsForUs We started our first batch of eggs ever in a Hovabator 1588. We purchased Swedish Isbar eggs from a lady who sells them on eBay. I ordered 18 and she sent 23. One had a detached air cell. We started the eggs on April 12th after letting them sit for 3 days. We just found out last night that our egg turner isn't working. My DH was able to fix it today, thankfully but we are a bit worried that it hasn't been working since it started.

@snowy Mtns We have 29 eggs growing in the incubator. Due Friday night the 22nd! Black Jersey Giants, Polish, Ameraunas and Cochin. It's our first incubator hatch!

@Sambi89 I set some eggs in the cabinet incubator a few days ago. I have one broody ready to hatch today and one broody only a few days in. Plus the brinsea octogon is due tomorrow. Yikes what was I thinking!!!!

@Family Affair I have Copper Maran chickens in the incubator. I ordered Araucana hatching eggs at the same time and I'm disappointed that they haven't arrived yet. They were due to arrive last Wednesday avow is Saturday and they were laid 11 days ago. So maybe I won't have blue eggs this year but I'm excited about the prospect of getting copper/brown eggs this year.

@chicken04 I'm hatching 10

@Puddin Fluff I just set 12 under my broody last night so today is day 1 for me. I set 6 LF Lemon Blue Cochins and 6 breeders choice banty Cochins.

@GoalieChick35 I put 7 eggs under my broody and 6 eggs went to a friends incubator on April 9th,and set my very first incubator group of 32 eggs from my own birds on April 14th. All are bantam cochin of various but pure colors Blue, Partridge, Blue Mottled, Black Mottled, and Buff Barred. The Blue Mottled/Black Mottled have potential of being Frizzle. I'm beyond excited

@altair
We set 52 eggs, I don't know what we were thinking. They should hatch May 2-7 as I couldn't resist tucking in more eggs to stagger the hatching a little bit. Last night we candled 36 of the ones that were 5 days old and only tossed four, two were candling clear and two were developing but had pretty big cracks. We replaced those 4 with fresh eggs.
Incubating Hedemora, Bielefelders, and Barnevelders!

@YellowDuckK 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!

@mrmotherhen 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..

 

[LeroySouthpaw]

@Chaos18 Day 19, 20 out of 23 hatched, still have high hopes for the remaining 3. Sorry, forgot to tag you this morning.

 

[mlm Mike]

Day 19 for Jace!!!! If all goes well, should have babies by tuesday.

Good luck Jace!

Quote:
Sally said what?

No, we are working on another one together.
LOL ha ha ha hah ah hahh aah yes TOGETHER we work on it! But I will make you do most of the work ok?

All these cute baby butts and I JUST put mine in. I have another 20 days before I see babies here. Again. Granted I do have over 40 babies between the ages of 2 weeks and 5 weeks in the brooder. Guess that's babies.

The time will go quick, especially with all those other chicks you have.

We set 52 eggs, I don't know what we were thinking.

They should hatch May 2-7 as I couldn't resist tucking in more eggs to stagger the hatching a little bit. Last night we candled 36 of the ones that were 5 days old and only tossed four, two were candling clear and two were developing but had pretty big cracks. We replaced those 4 with fresh eggs.

Incubating Hedemora, Bielefelders, and Barnevelders!

Oh my goodness, that's a lot of eggs, good luck!

SQUEEEE!

He has feathered foots!

Awwwww! Love feathered foots!

Since the Bantam egg in this second set of eggs we were "giving" to Katie shows no signs of life, and since we only hatched 2 out of the first set, we bought some companions for them -including two Bantams. So Sweet Pea and Little Yokel now have roommates!


First to hatch 4/12/16. Yokel, named after our own @LocalYokel


Sweet Pea, 2nd (and last) to hatch



Katie getting ready to put one of her 2 Bantams in the brooder.


Found the food, found the water, and found the heat. Life is good!


Yokel and Sweet Pea, center, and their new buddies. Today was their last day inside the house.


Bucket of chicken, getting ready to go live in the great outdoors!


A quick bite to eat, then time to get warmed up.


Single file they marched into their cave like they've lived out there all their lives!


Tucking themselves in for the night. Supposed to be 34 degrees tonight. Sleep tight, little ones!

Cute!

 

[Chaos18]

@Chaos18 Day 19, 20 out of 23 hatched, still have high hopes for the remaining 3. Sorry, forgot to tag you this morning.

Thanks. I found your update from this morning.