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

[weegarden]

That's how i felt about it too! I think the huge vault got mine stuck, was zipped for 16 hours but couldn't get out of the shell so I helped

3 of mine that didn't make it had vaulted skulls too.

I don't even think 2 of them internally pipped. 2 more were peeping, so they internally pipped and didn't externally pip. 2 more looked like they stopped developing a couple of days ago, so out of the 7, there were 4 that were alive this morning, and didn't make it, 2 died several days ago, and 1 hatched. I'm so glad that I at least got 1.

Oh wow, it is a good thing you helped that one.

 

[TJordan]

I'm so bummed. Out of my 8 Plymouth rock and 7 silkie eggs, I hatched 7 Plymouth rock and 1 silkie. I purposely put my silkie eggs in my small circular Brinsea because I figured they would hatch all my themselves and do very well. They were alive last night and by tonight, they were dead in the shells. It looked like they didn't even internally pip, and there was a little yolk sac left. The one needed to be pulled out of the egg and was completely ready to hatch. He got his head out, but it couldn't unzip. He/she is doing great. But, I wish I knew what happened with my other 6 silkies. So bummed about them. I was so excited! I think I might just stick with my Styrofoam bater. I have been having really bad luck with my small Brinsea. I can't help but think they would be fine if I had left them in the Styrofoam bator.

On a positive note, my show silkie that hasn't laid in over a year, laid an egg about a week ago, and it is fertile!!!!! I am so excited, because I didn't think I would ever be able to get an egg from her. She is older. She is a blue silkie and she is in with a white silkie, who I think has black genes, because I have gotten blue silkies from this pairing a long time ago. I need for this little baby to hatch, because I would never forgive myself if it made it all the way until hatch and then didn't pip like the ones today.

I'm so sorry about your silkies.

Do you have any idea how to tell a rooster from a pullet chick in silkies??? I've got 4 cute little fluffs. 1 blue, 1 black, 1 white and 1 red. So cute. Hope they are pullets. Maybe 1 rooster would be ok. I would like some chicks next year.

 

[sasafras4u2]

Just playing with the kids! Lol

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Three external pips now.

 

[wabbit1964]

Lockdown 21 chicken eggs from my flock due to hatch Friday!

 

[trailrider330]

Sending out good vibes to everyone still waiting for eggs to hatch on this thread.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

The pictures are pretty blurry, but the first Dominique set has produced 4 very active peeps. The next set (the largest set) locks down tomorrow.

 

[cree57i]

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Just playing with the kids! Lol

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is that Izzy?]

 

[circ director]

@Chaos18
Final results
Americaunas 15 set, 15 at lockdown, 13 hatched
Mixed barnyard 25 set, 23 at lockdown, 21 hatched
Total at lockdown 38, total hatch 34

 

[sasafras4u2]

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Just playing with the kids! Lol

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is that Izzy?]

Why yes it is along with one very fiest leghorn hidden in my hair Sterling and a blue isbar.