Staggered hatching Hatch-A-Long

[LilyD]

2 more dozen choc mottled orps locally to set tonight. Let the staggered hatch continue

 

[Mvan42]

Give it lots of love or you will be having one sad chicky.

Of course she will be inside and loved alot... I am sure she will be one spoiled chick..

 

[Mvan42]

2 more dozen choc mottled orps locally to set tonight. Let the staggered hatch continue

My hubby would kill me if I continued to hatch eggs... he complained when I told him I was going to do a hatch for at school with the kids... lol. He says more what r u going to do with them... hehe

 

[LilyD]

My hubby would kill me if I continued to hatch eggs... he complained when I told him I was going to do a hatch for at school with the kids... lol. He says more what r u going to do with them... hehe

My husband is very tolerant and not terribly worried. I usually hatch around 100 each year. Keep around 4 or 5 hens and maybe a cockerel if I need one and then raise up the extra cockerels for meat. Anything above that goes to the swaps for either the 4-H kids or for people who need fresh pullets for the season.

 

[LilyD]

2nd pip on the egg closest to the camera and lots of loud peeping between the two. Chicks in the brooder are excited hearing the incubator lol.

 

[LilyD]

Oh yeah and I just got word another 14 eggs coming. Only room for 10 so guess I'm hand turning the last 4.

 

[Lins_BE]

First pip! Yay!

 

[LilyD]

Baby number 9 for the season is out all on it's own humidity spiked from 37 up to 47 after hatching and is starting to drop a little now that it's starting to dry off. Egg that hatched is the one closest to the camera. The one that pipped the wrong end of the egg is still makig noise but not showing any progress. Last egg is now showing a pip. Chick hatched about 5am. Once the next chick hatches I'll assist the last baby hopefully it will be okay waiting.

 

[LilyD]

Chick number 10 the backwards pipper is out of the egg around 8am this morning.

 

[Mvan42]

I am sooooo. Jealous I have to wait another week for the first baby to come out of its shell. Then another week for the rest....