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

[TJordan]

Tomorrow night will be the start of day 18... Wednesday morning I will prep for lockdown. I want to put in a divider for the duck eggs so there don't get jumbled to bad. Friday is chicks next Friday will be ducks.

 

[altair]

One chick was pipping this morning and when I got home from work it was out and dry. There were no other pippers until just a bit ago, one more. Nothing from the others yet! Day 21 will officially start in an hour or two.

 

[Chaos18]

One chick was pipping this morning and when I got home from work it was out and dry. There were no other pippers until just a bit ago, one more. Nothing from the others yet! Day 21 will officially start in an hour or two.

 

[Chaos18]

Waffles (black on the left), Biscuits (lavender in the back), Gravy (lavender in the front) and Toast (black on the right).

 

[Chaos18]

I'm calling it quits for the night.....toodles

 

[Farmer Viola]

I was lucky enough to win half a dozen "rainbow" eggs in one of the Easter HAL contests here! I asked for primarily green/blue egg layers and boy did they deliver. they even sent me 7 instead of 6!

they were shipped, so I let them settle for 36 hours when they got here. today is now day 18 and I have moved them over to the hatcher! 2 were clear/didn't start, but the remaining 5 of 7 look good at lockdown.

they had saddle shaped air cells through incubation, but now 4 of their air cells appears to be reattached. 1 egg ("green magnolia") still has a saddle shaped air cell with 2 obvious detached areas when I candle.

I moved them over to the hatcher upright in a carton, and marked their air cells! can't wait!

1 olive egger,
1 easter egger,
1 splash ameraucana,
1 ameri-flower,
1 green magnolia

guesses on how many of these shipped eggs will actually hatch?

moved to MAY HAL! oops!

 

[butterfliesdoku]

I skipped about 120 posts. Too tired to catch up. The bantam egg my broody was over is now on day 23/24 so I removed, candled and confirmed it to be a quitter. She is now sitting on a day 10 egg (her "backup" egg). This egg is from a Rosecomb Bantam and La Bresse mixed hen and the rooster is an Easter Egger. Because it's only 1 egg I started another backup batch in the incubator now on day 3. Eggs in backup batch #2 are: 5 from a Red Ranger hen, 1 from a Cuckoo Marans hen and 1 from a Black Copper Marans/Black Australorp mixed hen. Rooster is an Easter Egger.

 

[swallace]

I NEED A SMALL FARM IN CENTRAL PA, NEAR HARRISBURG/HERSEY-STAT

So after setting eggs in the incubator we now haVe 10 chicks from our eggs from the three laying Easter Eggers we recently purchased. The farm had a few roos, but we did not see a naked neck roo, but there must have been one. At first I thought I messed something up when 7 out of the 10 hatched partially bald, lol. After asking questions here I have been enlightened and am now the proud mama of some naked neck chickens, haha. Maybe some will be green egg laying naked necks even.

Almost 1 1/2 weeks old. Anyone want to venture any guesses on how many girls we might have?
I want to keep them all, but have limitations in our suburban back yard neighborhood.


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#4-turkey vulture anyone? Lol

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#10 last to hatch, treating for spraddle leg, and the runt.
Mother's are the buff and blue Easter Eggers here

2 of the non naked necks are getting a muff like their mothers already. so cute!!
We can't keep them all in our suburban back yard. I NEED a small farm near Harrisburg. Anyone know of any, let me know so we can keep all these babies, ;-)
Best guesses on sex of these about 1 1/2 week olds? I know it's early, but I am dying to hear some opinions from those that know way more than I do!! :-D. Thanks!#

 

[swallace]

Forgot, here is a pic of their moms. The buff and blue Easter Eggers in this picture. Best I have on my phone.

 

[Chaos18]

I was lucky enough to win half a dozen "rainbow" eggs in one of the Easter HAL contests here! I asked for primarily green/blue egg layers and boy did they deliver. they even sent me 7 instead of 6!

they were shipped, so I let them settle for 36 hours when they got here. today is now day 18 and I have moved them over to the hatcher! 2 were clear/didn't start, but the remaining 5 of 7 look good at lockdown.

they had saddle shaped air cells through incubation, but now 4 of their air cells appears to be reattached. 1 egg ("green magnolia") still has a saddle shaped air cell with 2 obvious detached areas when I candle.

I moved them over to the hatcher upright in a carton, and marked their air cells! can't wait!

1 olive egger,
1 easter egger,
1 splash ameraucana,
1 ameri-flower,
1 green magnolia

guesses on how many of these shipped eggs will actually hatch?

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