Who is pipping and waiting right now??

[Mrs MIA]

Don't look Miss Prissy!!!

Another cute baby quail photo...

(Don't you want some???)

 

[marie_martin]

Glad you guys have babies hatching. My latest hatch was a complete failure. I don't know what is going on here. Out of 20 buff ameraucana eggs I got one chick to hatch and it just died a few hours ago. I just don't know what went wrong. Most did not progress at all. I am sure due to the stupid PO. Of the 3 that did, two died in the shell and the last one just died. I had a batch of cochin eggs in the bator and they were no go, all of them. Now I am down to 4 on the blue bantam orpingtons. I am not having good luck. Jody is sending me more buff ameraucana eggs and I have my may swap eggs coming and I just bought more serama eggs from Frank. So maybe I will have better luck this go around. I am going to get a new hydrometer and see if that is the problem. I just don't know unless the change of weather and all the rain we have had may have affected them. Anyway, just wanted to update. Congrats to all of you with new babies.

Marie

 

[equine chick]

We are ending day 24 and we have 5 live chicks out of 7 eggs. One died after hatching. it was a black maran dang it. I still have one hatching but it is just a few moments when it will be out.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Oh Marie!!! :aww You are not alone... the chick in the photo was one of 35... out of over 100 eggs. So many of them died in the shell, it's not even funny.

But I'm sending you positive vibes for the rest of your hatch... the PO REALLY scrambles my eggs. Only one chicken chick out of (gawd, I don't want to add it up) and only about 25-30% of my quail. I think I'm narrowing it down to the airsac and/or porosity. Most of the eggs I've received so far are VERY porous, and I've finally figured out that I have to bump up the humidity by 10% to keep the airsac from getting much bigger. I'm testing it out now, so that when Speckledhen sends me blue orp eggs, I'll have a successful hatch!

 

[Lisab]

Been quiet alllll day. Just checked eggs and one has a teeny tiny pip and the resident is chirping. The next door neighbor is chirping as well but no visible pip! Both are polish frizzled. I can't wait!!!!!
The 4 other eggs are very quiet.
Lisa

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Well it's getting down to figuring out my total hatch. Things look to be slowing down with the pips. I had 24 hatches and still waiting on 5 pips. I'm keeping the remaining eggs in for a few extra days just in case late bloomers are lurking in them. I lost two chicks that hatched they were weak looking and I was hoping they would perk up but no luck there. I have 5 Texas A&M quails, and the other 19 were regular coturnix. I might have had a button quail egg in there too because it is the tinest chick I have yet to see! And the egg on the inside was blue. I'm ketting the babies rest up in the brooder and will try to snap some pics tomorrow.

On a plus note my true araucana bantams from James are laying an egg everyday. So now I'm setting them and hoping to get some chicks from them.

 

[Mom 2em All]

four babies out, four pips of EE, and two Silkie pips....12 other eggs holding out for tomorrow, which is Day 21..

I feel rather bad, my four chicks keep standing on the other eggs in the carton- and touching their heads to the heating thingy in the incubator.
I want to take them out, but there is NO way I want to risk my silkies...I wish they would learn NOT to stand on the eggs and next hatch I will make sure my egg carton is smaller than the diameter of the heating element.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

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I know the feeling. It just happens sometimes. Either x-raying or like me...I bought an expensive pheasant omelet from Charles and Jody...somewhere along the way here someone played parcelball with the package or laid something heavy on top and 9 eggs of 24 survived the trip. and of those 4 are developing. Eggs through the mail is really a gamble sometimes it pays off sometimes you have to accept the losses.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Ooh! Ace... me wanna see a picture of your TA&M... I may be having to pick them out of a crowd soon.

Do they look totally different from the coturnix when they're chicks?

 

[shmooborp]

MEMEMEMEMEMEEE!!!! i got 3 pips and im waiting for 7 more !! AHHH!