Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[Allie Grace Sanders]

By dry do you mean just white and leathery, or do you mean turning yellow and brown? If the former and it's actively making progress, it's totally normal

It’s white and leathery.

 

[julskinka]

D21 (well, technically around 2 PM)

In lockdown I have:
1 opal legbar
1 BBS marans
1 autosexing olive egger (the deep khaki egg)
2 rhodebars (light green eggs)
All but the marans should be sexable at hatch this round.

When I went to bed last night, I only had a single internal pip (the OL), but everyone else still seemed to be moving. This morning I woke up to 2 external pips (the OL and a Rh, the two on the left).

The thing that's throwing me is that in my first clutch this month (this was a staggered hatch, done entirely in a single incubator), half of my shipped eggs and all but one of my local eggs had hatched by this time! I've never had a hatch go that early before, but I figured this one would be similar due to sharing the same settings. Some of these air cells are definitely weird, so I'm a little worried.

Now we waaaaaaaiiiiit.

 

[julskinka]

Also here are the babies from the last clutch! They are 2 weeks tomorrow and feathering out nicely. I LOVE my mama brooder pad!

 

[julskinka]

It’s white and leathery.

The external membrane just looks that way once it dries a little. Totally normal. I expect you'll have your chick soon then!

 

[julskinka]

They're so cute

Cream legbar boys are like, uniquely adorable chicks. It's such a shame they inevitably turn into roosters!

ETA: corrected an autocorrect that had changed "uniquely" to "unlikely." I KNOW WHAT I SAID AUTOCORRECT.

 

[julskinka]

Jules maybe you should back away from this one haha.

 

[Jules929]

I went to bed with four eggs left in lockdown, one was barely pipped. I woke up to another male Cream Legbar hatch. That makes 6 out 6. Of the 3 remaining, two have pipped and one is zipped and just needs to push out. Hoping they are all girls!
It appears that this batch of 11 will be 100% hatch on shipped eggs making it to lockdown, yay!

 

[julskinka]

Oh no, my mini7 temperature dropped to 96 degrees and I don't know how long it was at that temperature, are they going to be ok, 2 are on D20 and 3 on D12

The D20 ones should definitely be fine. The D12 ones will probably depend on how long it was like that. But I think up to a couple hours probably fine -- it takes a little while for the internal temp of the egg to shift.

 

[Jules929]

Jules maybe you should back away from this one haha.

Yes, but... maybe I'm taking the hit for the team!

 

[Jules929]

Woo hoo!
Maybe today is my lucky day!?!
The zipped chick pushed out and it does not have a head spot!