Welsummers hatching!

[GracefulBantams]

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Thank you

 

[GracefulBantams]

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You haven't heard that Welsummer eggs magically multiply?

I actually had two dozen eggs to begin with

 

[okiehen]

I can't wait to see your babies.

 

[Western Chick]

Well, I got Welsummers and BLRWs, I think these are the Welsummers but I'm not sure:

Here's the rest of the bunch:

And mixed in with some BBS Orpingtons and Black Pendescecas:

Sorry for the bad pics...time to replace my crappy camera

 

[GracefulBantams]

Sad news.......
Last night we came back from church to a completely dark town (all the power was out)! My first thought was "NO! What about my incubators!". Well, the power was out for 1 1/2 hour before we got back

, so the 'bators were down to around 75*. I insulated them with towels and stuff, but buy the time the power came back on 30 min later, they still had dropped another 5*.
This set with the Wellies was due to hatch today

 

[GracefulBantams]

Western Chick, those are all cute chicks

Thanks for posting the pictures

 

[gabrielle1976]

maybe they will still be ok

 

[EweSheep]

I think they will be OK, I had one incident that power was out for three days and I kept the eggs warm by hot water bottling it before the power turned back on. They were fine but delayed hatching by three to four more days after their due date.

 

[GracefulBantams]

Ewesheep, I am so glad you mentioned that! For some reason "delayed hatching" was never an option that I though of

 

[Jamie821]

the welsummers are the chicks that look like little chipmunks. I have wellies and they are the sweetest chickens I own. They talk to me the whole time I am in their pen. You still have a good chance of them hatching maybe a little late though. At the end of the hatch they create some of their own heat. good luck hope all goes well. My wellies always hatch on day twenty and twenty one with some pipping sometimes on day nineteen'