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

[Jessimom]

I,am so excited to see what pops out the eggs.

It will be a long 21 days! But yes, to me too - surprises are WAY more fun than knowing what you are going to get!!!

 

[darkbluespace]

Here are my first ducklings of the year. Next batch has a bunch of eggs from my lilac girl, I am excited to see what colors I get. I got several blue in this hatch which makes me happy.

 

[Honora]

Oh no! I was taking out the turner in my incubator just now for lockdown & I noticed that there was no water in it! I have not been keeping track of humidity but the air cells were the right size at Day 14. I have not added water since my husband left town last Wednesday though. I have a Little Giant styro incubator & the humidity is usually pretty low in the air here.

I just filled it up with water, should I also add a sponge or wet paper towels or something? Also, are there any problems I should be ready for in case the humidity has been too low the last few days?

 

[darkbluespace]

Here are a few tiny Seramas with vintage chick that makes a good mama for them.

 

[Cynthia12]

Here are a few tiny Seramas with vintage chick that makes a good mama for them.

First your duckies, and now these...adorable!

 

[mlm Mike]

Here they are. One has curled toes. I have her in corrective shoes.

Cute!

I got my serama eggs down to about 43% humidity...I will candle again tomorrow. (Day 11)

My LG with 34 eggs is doing great. I candled some of the lighter colored eggs and could see small veins. (Day 5)

I just went out to look for eggs and one of my BO hens fluffed up and growled at me. I collected from the other nests (5 eggs) and placed them next to her and walked away. I came back and she has pulled all the eggs under her so I'm thinking we have a broody! I'm not sure how many she was already on, maybe 1 or 2. I will give her whatever other eggs we get today as well.

Hooray for a Broody Hen!

First poult of the year.



Looks to be pure palm.

1 out.
1 half out.
3 more pipped out of 8 eggs.

Wonderful!

The chicks really liked this mirror. I think the roo is thinking he is a really good lookin' guy!

Very Cute!

 

[mlm Mike]

I,am so excited to see what pops out the eggs.

It's going t one a long 21 days.

Here are my first ducklings of the year. Next batch has a bunch of eggs from my lilac girl, I am excited to see what colors I get. I got several blue in this hatch which makes me happy.

Cute little ducklings!

Oh no! I was taking out the turner in my incubator just now for lockdown & I noticed that there was no water in it! I have not been keeping track of humidity but the air cells were the right size at Day 14. I have not added water since my husband left town last Wednesday though. I have a Little Giant styro incubator & the humidity is usually pretty low in the air here.

I just filled it up with water, should I also add a sponge or wet paper towels or something? Also, are there any problems I should be ready for in case the humidity has been too low the last few days?

If the air cells look good don't worry. Do you know what the humid is now? For lockdown get it between 60%-70%

Here are a few tiny Seramas with vintage chick that makes a good mama for them.

Cute tiny little things

 

[darkbluespace]

 First your duckies, and now these...adorable!

Thank you!! I think I am a hatching junkie, I want something else to hatch now! Come on emus! I do have more ducks in the bator still . I have sprouts coming up too and that is fun.

 

[darkbluespace]

It will be a long 21 days!  But yes, to me too -  surprises are WAY more fun than knowing what you are going to get!!!

Surprises are the best, right?! I don't have any birds that hatch anything too predictable. It is so fun to get different colors.

 

[Chaos18]

Lockdown is day 19 with humidity between 60-70%. I've set my own eggs along with the shipped eggs and my eggs hatch everytime. That's two batches of shipped eggs that didn't make it. I haven't done eggtopsies on the shipped eggs yet but I will soon.

Not sure what advice to offer, specially since it only seems to affect shipped eggs. Hope this go around is better for ya.