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

[Yorkshire Coop]

@Chaos18

12 Tolbunt hatched are doing fab
I'm going to be setting Columbian black tails, Pekin bantam & bantam Orpington agian in the last week of April. These will be the replacement eggs from the Easter Hal that had poor fertility.

 

[Chaos18]

@Chaos18

12 Tolbunt hatched are doing fab

I'm going to be setting Columbian black tails, Pekin bantam & bantam Orpington agian in the last week of April. These will be the replacement eggs from the Easter Hal that had poor fertility.

Thanks for the update. Good luck with the replacement group.

 

[Josefina]

@Yorkshire coop

Awesome! Where did you get your Tolbunts? I was thinking I might try to get hold of some, but ended up getting Calico/Mille Fleur bantam Cochins instead.

Out of 7 shipped eggs, 5 successfully hatched on Sunday and the chicks are doing well today! I am SO thrilled, I was only counting on about 3 hatching!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Thanks for the update. Good luck with the replacement group.

Thank you!

@Yorkshire coop


Awesome! Where did you get your Tolbunts? I was thinking I might try to get hold of some, but ended up getting Calico/Mille Fleur bantam Cochins instead. 
Out of 7 shipped eggs, 5 successfully hatched on Sunday and the chicks are doing well today! I am SO thrilled, I was only counting on about 3 hatching!   

I'm over in the UK, I got them from a breeder that was thankfully pretty close so I could collect them.
That's good going with 5 out of 7 shipped eggs hatching

 

[mlm Mike]

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.

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.

At what point will a baby begin to pip??? When can I expect my first baby? Will I sleep (already sleep deprived..lol)?
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.

Looking forward to a successful

Did I miss anything???

Anna

Good Luck!

Does anyone have a vaccine for broodiness?

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.

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 need the broodiness disease here!

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.

Good luck with your hatch. I hope you get some good turkey eggs!

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!!!

Congratulations! Sounds like you are about to overrun with chicks!

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.

Good luck Chicken Hawk!

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!!!

Better make more brooders quick.

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 with your first hatch!

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

Sorry the one box was such a mess. I'm glad you received a couple more much more successfully.

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.

Good Luck!

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.

Good luck with you broody and her Serama chicks. Two Emus!!

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)

Good luck with your hatch!

 

[Blooie]

Lost a chick yesterday. So cold, so lifeless....all stiff and non-responsive. Just dead. She and another trouble maker escaped from their brooder pen from a small gap we didn't notice - but they did! While trying to catch one, we found the other behind the dust bath. So sad. Put the one we had to catch and I laid the lifeless one up on the shelf while Ken and I found the parts and fixed the gap. Then I had a trash bag in my hand and was starting to wrap her up when her mouth opened just a bit. I didn't know if it opened because I was kinda flopping her around while I opened the bag or if she was making one last gasp, but it was enough for me!

Brought her in and stuffed her in the incubator until we had a warm spot ready, just to try to revive her. It didn't look good, but by golly the battle was on and I had no intention of losing!


Totally lifeless in the incubator. Stayed that way, too.


Got a small basket and put her in it on top of a heating pad, then flipped the top of the heating pad over her.

I was pretty rough with her trying to get a response...she peeped! Ken was at the back of the house coming up to the front and I was so excited that she was finally responding I kept hollering.

Less than 2 hours from what you saw at the top, to her going back outside with the rest of the chicks. Checked her this morning and the only way I could tell her from the other 2 White Orpingtons out there was that her two little wing feathers were split from her adventure.

Never give up. Whether it's a chick or eggs that don't show signs of life, as long as a heart is beating there is hope!

 

[lizzy14]

Hatch update @Chaos18 -

We have hatched 15 so far and just moved them to brooder! It is day 21, there are 4 more eggs in the bator that may or may not hatch. At day 18 these eggs looked lively, especially two of them.

So we have
2 Welsummer x CL roo
4 Dominique x CL roo (or possibly Rhodebar roo)
9 Rhodebar x CL roo

Here's a pic of the crew getting acclimated to the brooder. My daughters are going to be over the moon when they get home from school.

 

[Chaos18]

Hatch update @Chaos18 -

We have hatched 15 so far and just moved them to brooder! It is day 21, there are 4 more eggs in the bator that may or may not hatch. At day 18 these eggs looked lively, especially two of them.

So we have
2 Welsummer x CL roo
4 Dominique x CL roo (or possibly Rhodebar roo)
9 Rhodebar x CL roo

Here's a pic of the crew getting acclimated to the brooder. My daughters are going to be over the moon when they get home from school.

Thanks for the update.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Lost a chick yesterday. So cold, so lifeless....all stiff and non-responsive. Just dead. She and another trouble maker escaped from their brooder pen from a small gap we didn't notice - but they did! While trying to catch one, we found the other behind the dust bath. So sad. Put the one we had to catch and I laid the lifeless one up on the shelf while Ken and I found the parts and fixed the gap. Then I had a trash bag in my hand and was starting to wrap her up when her mouth opened just a bit. I didn't know if it opened because I was kinda flopping her around while I opened the bag or if she was making one last gasp, but it was enough for me! Brought her in and stuffed her in the incubator until we had a warm spot ready, just to try to revive her. It didn't look good, but by golly the battle was on and I had no intention of losing! Totally lifeless in the incubator. Stayed that way, too. Got a small basket and put her in it on top of a heating pad, then flipped the top of the heating pad over her. I was pretty rough with her trying to get a response...she peeped! Ken was at the back of the house coming up to the front and I was so excited that she was finally responding I kept hollering. Less than 2 hours from what you saw at the top, to her going back outside with the rest of the chicks. Checked her this morning and the only way I could tell her from the other 2 White Orpingtons out there was that her two little wing feathers were split from her adventure. Never give up. Whether it's a chick or eggs that don't show signs of life, as long as a heart is beating there is hope!

What wonderful news Fab videos and what a difference, so glad you didn't give up Blooie!! Go Blooie go Blooie

 

[LeroySouthpaw]

Lost a chick yesterday. So cold, so lifeless....all stiff and non-responsive. Just dead. She and another trouble maker escaped from their brooder pen from a small gap we didn't notice - but they did! While trying to catch one, we found the other behind the dust bath. So sad. Put the one we had to catch and I laid the lifeless one up on the shelf while Ken and I found the parts and fixed the gap. Then I had a trash bag in my hand and was starting to wrap her up when her mouth opened just a bit. I didn't know if it opened because I was kinda flopping her around while I opened the bag or if she was making one last gasp, but it was enough for me!

Brought her in and stuffed her in the incubator until we had a warm spot ready, just to try to revive her. It didn't look good, but by golly the battle was on and I had no intention of losing!


Totally lifeless in the incubator. Stayed that way, too.


Got a small basket and put her in it on top of a heating pad, then flipped the top of the heating pad over her.

I was pretty rough with her trying to get a response...she peeped! Ken was at the back of the house coming up to the front and I was so excited that she was finally responding I kept hollering.

Less than 2 hours from what you saw at the top, to her going back outside with the rest of the chicks. Checked her this morning and the only way I could tell her from the other 2 White Orpingtons out there was that her two little wing feathers were split from her adventure.

Never give up. Whether it's a chick or eggs that don't show signs of life, as long as a heart is beating there is hope!

I'm over my limit for liking posts! Thank you so much for posting this!!! It was so nice to read!!!