Valentine's Day Hatch

[Melissa Rose]

My Nellie's did not want to wait for valentine's day and are coming on out

They are Blue Black Splash Ameraucanas and I am sooooo very egggcited

. Nellie got a new roo for her girls and let me have the eggs for just the shipping cost so they are another Dear Valentine's Day giftie

I am soooo hoping for a Roo for my older girls

. I have 5 of her beauteous chicklets from an earlier hatch and they need a handsome roo to keep them company

. My first hatch had 4 blacks and one splash and what I can see of these is they will be Blue

. Jim I have 10 of your babies tucked in waiting to hatch

. I ended up losing one of the three I hatched for the New Years Day hatch. It went into the water bowl and I found it stiff and cold in a brooder corner. I never could revive it. The two I have left are a definite roo and pullet so I'm hoping for some more ladies and maybe another roo

My dream hatch on these would be 9 ladies and one roo that would give me a two roo to ten pullet flock of your beauteous chicklets

. I also have some more Double barred lemon cuckoo Orpingtons in the incubator

. My first hatch on those was a rooster yahtzee so I need a few pullets for my handsome roos

. I ended up with Ten Quail one is a dark one and all the rest are yellow

!!!

 

[anderson8505]

I love it too!!! Well done!

Thanks ya'll

happy, healthy hatchings

 

[kellyn]

Debs_Flock: that's cecrtainly better than mine. 33/45. every time the weather drops, so soes my incubator. My fixed hovabator has dropped to the lowest of 97 and highest of 102. Isn't that great? I have a winter and a summer incubator! And plus the one at school... I wonder how it's doing... I have 21/45 of mine left and a couple are questionable.

Melissa Rose: wow, sounds like your eggs are doing great too!

Anderson8505: awesome poem!

Y'all know what stupid thing I do? I load a BYC page and... I fall asleep with the page up.. since it's on a cell phone. Kinda random, but yeah. I'm stil hibernating bc it's like 30/40 ish degrees in FLORIDA!!! It rained yesterday... too bad I wouldn't have snowed.

 

[silkymom1986]

Oh how eggciting for you Melissa!!!

Can't wait to see pics!!

Wish mine would come early, I will be at work again as I always am on hatch day! DH gets all the excitment, lol.

My Nellie's did not want to wait for valentine's day and are coming on out

They are Blue Black Splash Ameraucanas and I am sooooo very egggcited

. Nellie got a new roo for her girls and let me have the eggs for just the shipping cost so they are another Dear Valentine's Day giftie

I am soooo hoping for a Roo for my older girls

. I have 5 of her beauteous chicklets from an earlier hatch and they need a handsome roo to keep them company

. My first hatch had 4 blacks and one splash and what I can see of these is they will be Blue

. Jim I have 10 of your babies tucked in waiting to hatch

. I ended up losing one of the three I hatched for the New Years Day hatch. It went into the water bowl and I found it stiff and cold in a brooder corner. I never could revive it. The two I have left are a definite roo and pullet so I'm hoping for some more ladies and maybe another roo

My dream hatch on these would be 9 ladies and one roo that would give me a two roo to ten pullet flock of your beauteous chicklets

. I also have some more Double barred lemon cuckoo Orpingtons in the incubator

. My first hatch on those was a rooster yahtzee so I need a few pullets for my handsome roos

. I ended up with Ten Quail one is a dark one and all the rest are yellow

!!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'll be working, too, most likely. With my power outage, I'm not even sure when my eggs are due. I'm also having a heck of a time keeping the humidity above 30%. Obviously in addition to winter here we've got 2 wood burning stoves going, which sucks the moisture out of the air. You should see my hands, looks like I borrowed a lizards skin, but I digress.

I don't think my humidity was that high for NYD hatch and I did fine, only one left dead in the shell...

We'll see. I had back luck putting a maxi pad or wet washcloth in the bottom well and draping it onto the inside of the incubator. I had severely shrink wrapped chicks when I did that that were sticky for days after hatching.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Yeah for everyone who's got hatchlings!!

I had 1 Bantam Welsummer hatch this morning and 1 Chocolate project Ameracauna hatch! Now I'm up to 3 of the chocolate Ameracaunas and have 3 more pipped plus another Wellie pipped!

Whoot!!

 

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[mrheinz77]

I put 74 in lock down last night along with 2 goose and 3 duck eggs. This is out of my 142 chicken eggs. Some looked questionable though.

 

[karimw]

OK, last night I locked down 24 out of 50. Ugg!
I have 6 shipped eggs left of 23, 2 from each swapper. Of my own I have 11 Iowa Blues and 7 Iowa Blue/Ameraucana mixes. Humidity is 54% and steady, temp is 100. OK to Go!

 

[chick-among-us]

edited for stupidity,sorry!