WOW!! Extreme eggs from ONTHESPOT **UPDATED PICS**

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Yup! Hi ChanceRider! Good to see you

Yes, I am sitting on the floor in front of the cabinet door staring at 1 sleeping baby and 55 eggs doing nothing. 2 Olives are pipped so you can get an olive egger!

If you need to see chicks while we wait...... you can see my baby bantam welsummers that hatched a few days ago.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I can't wait to see photos. I'm hoping to bribe her for some eggs later this Spring...

Beautiful assortment of eggs... c'mon chickies!!!!!

 

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I will make you a picture with words as best I can. 3 chickies so far. 53 eggs still sleeping.

Bottom shelf. there are 3 olive eggs and 5 cream colored mottled java eggs.
2 mottled javas have pipped, one has a little bit bigger hole than the other, but not yet zipping. They are taking naps.
2 Olive eggs have hatched and I have wet floppy babies. They keep falling over on their backs, legs stretch out in a tiny little spread eagle .... rest rest rest, chirp chirp chirp, flop flop, rest rest, chirp chirp, flip... oh hey, I'm upright again, how did that happen? oops, chirp, chirp chirp... I'm on my back, dang it.
They are black down, one is a tad lighter, so maybe a dark grey, looks like some yellow on her belly. Just baby colors.

middle shelf... zzzzzzzzzzz, nothing happening

top shelf. There are dark BCM eggs and 3 blue ameraucana eggs. 1 of the BCMs hatched earlier today. She now looks like a big fat fluffy unhappy, lonely chick. She is black with creamy underside. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, chirp chirp chirp chirp, flop to window hi momma, chirp chirp, let me out of here, chirp chirp, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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2nd BCM egg has a tiny pip!!!!!!!!!!!!

that means lonely chick will get company soon.

honest, pics when I can get them out

 

[onthespot]

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Do all of yours hatch out lavender? I had a hatch of 16, and it included 2 or 3 blacks, and 1 very very light yellow mottled. Do you get that with yours?

Not all my orp eggs hatch lavender. I only have one lavender hen. The other three are unknown split blacks. Since this was the "extreme half dozen" I made sure her lav orp were actually lav x lav, to be the most extreme eggs possible that I had to offer. I have five little lave chicks hatched already from her, plus a couple of blacks. I have not been studious enough to write down who lays what with the other eggs. I THINK the one with a yellow zip tie lays the satin finish even toned flesh colored egg and is split to lavender. The other two, not sure who is laying what, or which egg hatches what. One of the other eggs is larger and tends to be porous finish, but they hatch. The other one I don't really know what she lays. Someon laid an egg that landed in their water bucket the other day and broke, fouled their water, yuk. Was probably the one I don't know what she lays... If she don't smarten up some and use the nest box soon.... all I'm saying is, I could use a nice bowl of chicken noodle soup, and not Campbell's either...

 

[ChanceRider]

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LOL, you always make me laugh with your hatching reports! Hope the morning brings you lots of new little fluffy butts!

 

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Good Morning! It's hatch day!
The early birds that have already hatched:

bottom shelf: all three olive eggs have hatched
2 mottled java, 2 out and drying (miss yellow fluffs)

middle shelf: no pips yet on the Penedesenca and 2 red brick baby has hatched. Hard to see back there

top shelf: 3 BCM babies, 1 BCM pip and 1 Ameraucana pip, Lonely baby is lonely no more

in the brinsea: LOPs not doing anything, 1 Bev Davis Marans egg has hatched, 2 BCM pips

Edited to show 11 babies have hatched so far!!

 

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So what am I going to do with all these chickies?
I need to set up a couple more brooders... need a couple more warming lights
need more space to put all the brooders

need some foster moms

need some sanity

 

[kathyinmo]

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NO.... What you need is:

 

[onthespot]

mark your babies with food coloring, toss them all in one big box. Two lights to sit under, a couple feeders and put some chick starter in the blender and grind it up fine and put a thin layer over the whole floor, which you have studiously covered with several layers of newspaper and topped with paper towels so they can grip and stand. That should hold them for a week at least with daily paper roll ups and tosses. Big box needed though for 55 chicks...

 

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Excellent idea. I have pine pellets for the floor. I still need the food coloring, darn, I knew I forgot something.

I now have 13 chicks!

2/5 Mottled Java (no more pips)
3/3 Olive eggs
0/12 Wheaten Penedesencas (no pips yet - they were late last time too)
3/12 BCM x Ameraucana Splash Roo (not sure how many are pipped but at least 2 more)
5/9 Presley BCMs (2 more pips)
1/3 Ameraucana (1 more is pipped)
0/3 Lavender Orpington Project
1/9 Bev Davis BCMs (2 pipped)