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

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Well I have to get the munchkin n hubby to bed ( currently both asleep on couch)

Good night all, catch you on the flip side.
Hugs

Good night, Liz.

 

[Pensmaster]

HELP my hens have come down with a contagious case of broodiness. 4 and counting. So I'm officially in on the April Hal. Approximately 40 eggs.
@Sally Sunshine

 

[Chaos18]

Thanks, Sir Chaos! After spending $80 for eggs, I'm hoping for a really good hatch!   

Only $80 for them? You buy the cheap ones or what?

 

[Chaos18]

HELP my hens have come down with a contagious case of broodiness. 4 and counting. So I'm officially in on the April Hal. Approximately 40 eggs.
@Sally Sunshine

Welcome over.

 

[Chaos18]

Well I'm calling it quits for the night. Night everybody.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Only $80 for them? You buy the cheap ones or what?

What can I say... I love a bargain.

The way I figure it, if I can hatch half of the 2 dozen, it'll be a lot cheaper than buying HRIR chicks or started birds. The shipping alone on live birds would probably cost as much as I paid for these eggs (including shipping).

Yeah... I can actually do mathemetrics.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

HELP my hens have come down with a contagious case of broodiness. 4 and counting. So I'm officially in on the April Hal. Approximately 40 eggs.
@Sally Sunshine

Welcome to the dark side, Pen!

What happened... run out of room in the bators???

Well I'm calling it quits for the night. Night everybody.

Good night, Sir Chaos. Come back and wreak some havoc tomorrow...

 

[Chaos18]

What can I say... I love a bargain.  

The way I figure it, if I can hatch half of the 2 dozen, it'll be a lot cheaper than buying HRIR chicks or started birds. The shipping alone on live birds would probably cost as much as I paid for these eggs (including shipping). 

Yeah... I can actually do mathemetrics.  

You sound like yur edgumacated. I think I paid $70 for my last batch of eggs and they hatched great.......although most are boys

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

You sound like yur edgumacated. I think I paid $70 for my last batch of eggs and they hatched great.......although most are boys

I like atheledemics better more, but as long as I have my fingers and toes... I can count.

Of course, after I'd ordered these eggs, I found out that this breed is male dominated. Just when I thought it couldn't be worse than my Barred Rock ratio... which were 9 boys and 6 girls!

 

[firedragon1982]

Ok, so did have 11 silkies hatch, but one passed this morning. It looked like it had a yolk sac infection Was a blue silkie, it breaks my heart. It also had fluid it inhaled possibly during hatch? It was still in the incubator, and when i took it out after it had passed, it had fluid leaking from its beak. Never had that happen before... But all others, including the black one are doing great, including the last hatch.

I did do eggtopsies on 4 (2 silkie, 2 D'uccle) unhatched eggs. Two were malpositioned, head above wing, one had head between legs. One looked like it had tried to internally pip (beak up towards aircell) but didn't get thru membrane. 2 others I didn't do eggtopsies on, one just by candling looked like it had quit around day 16-17 because of the amount of yolk/fluid in the shell, and the other probably shrink wrapped, but didn't want to open it up, too depressed with the rest of them.