Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[My hen house]

Salmon Faverolles had their photo shoot first since I'm taking a couple of them to their new home in less than an hour. It's impossible to get 10 chicks to hold still in a photo!
I made a mistake earlier, the Silkies were 100% fertility, 90% hatch rate. I had 2 infertile eggs (so 83% fertility) with the Salmon Faverolles and 100% hatch rate of fertilized eggs. Anyway, here's the first batch of cuties! Now to get the Silkies lined up.

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Cute I really want to hatch and sell

 

[LynnaePB]

Congrats on all the new hatches! My last little nugget went into the brooder. It’s astonishing how much they grow in just a week !! It finished its hatch yesterday was a good distraction. My aunt passed away yesterday after a tough battle with cancer.

I also have a little turd that started crowing at 1 week old! Igot a picture and a band on it. Luckily someone is buying some chicks tomorrow, and said they’d take him !View attachment 2031132

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I've had a few really early crowers too (I remember one crowing the day he hatched)! Their little crows sound so funny! what a cute picture catching the little guy in the act!

Salmon Faverolles had their photo shoot first since I'm taking a couple of them to their new home in less than an hour. It's impossible to get 10 chicks to hold still in a photo!
I made a mistake earlier, the Silkies were 100% fertility, 90% hatch rate. I had 2 infertile eggs (so 83% fertility) with the Salmon Faverolles and 100% hatch rate of fertilized eggs. Anyway, here's the first batch of cuties! Now to get the Silkies lined up.

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Oh gosh look at those fluffy little faces, they are just too adorable!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Oh gosh look at those fluffy little faces, they are just too adorable!

I know! These little peeps are SO fluffy! The Salmon Faverolles are almost perfectly round! lol

 

[LilyD]

Congrats on all the new hatches! My last little nugget went into the brooder. It’s astonishing how much they grow in just a week !! It finished its hatch yesterday was a good distraction. My aunt passed away yesterday after a tough battle with cancer.

I also have a little turd that started crowing at 1 week old! Igot a picture and a band on it. Luckily someone is buying some chicks tomorrow, and said they’d take him !View attachment 2031132

So sorry you're aunt passed away.

You're babies are absolutely adorable. I dread the early crowers in the bunch lol. They always make things much more interesting. I do have a few people looking for roosters so maybe if they aren't exceptional ones I want to keep they can go to those customers.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

And finally, the Silkies! I want to keep all of them!

 

[wolfwalker]

still 1 chick in the incubator when I got up this morning but 5 more pipped. Took the dogs to the vet and was gone an hour and a half and got home and was going to place the lone chick in the brooder and there was now 3. so to let them dry a little more I ran tot eh farm to water teh greenhouse and check feed and such of the chickens and came home to 4 and 5 pipped.

grabbed the 4 loose ones and placed in the brooder and now off to the doc for me, sinus infection, and will be gone 2 hours or so. Hopefully the last few will be out waiting for me when I get back. that would put this hatch at 90% and on shipped eggs to boot.

 

[Floydie]

Down to 4 eggs in the incubator growing well. All 4 have different air cells, egg NO4 has the air cell dipping further down on one side... But it's not loose and wobbly anymore.

Better photo of my mini chicks

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

I got the worst stomach flu of my life and have some serious catching up to do on this thread! Love the baby pics.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I got the worst stomach flu of my life and have some serious catching up to do on this thread! Love the baby pics.

So sorry you're still not feeling well!!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Just 6 days to go till hatch day!

All 6 of the eggs have development but one is looking a bit slower then the others, possibly a quitter but can’t say for sure.

Just leaving them all in.