My chicks are two weeks old today. I had put in what I wanted and then added extra eggs to the incubator to fill in some spaces. These I thought were marans' (to make olive eggers) and I knew some were olive eggs'. (But not sure whose.)
I was cleaning the brooder today and looked...
17/18 Hatched yesterday through overnight. 17 are in the brooder and the 18th egg is pipped and we can hear the baby. We have 10 super blue egg layers, 2 olive eggers. 2 Easter eggers and 3 Ameraucanas.
And to make everything even better, the super blue egg layers are sex linked and...
Yipidee, 16 of my 18 eggs have hatched so far. The incubator was being overrun so we made the decision to open up and get the babies out of the brooder. We couldn't tell how many we had but I took 13 out (8 super blues, and 5 others, olive eggers, Ameraucanas and Easter eggers)) I was using...
Evening of day 20, 7 pips out of 18 eggs. This is the batch I've fought high humidity with the entire time and think I've lost two of the super blues. What I find interesting is that my only BCM egg is pipped, My olive egg is pipped and 4 of the Ameraucana and Easter egger eggs are pipped...
The air cells don't look too bad. I did think the chicks in the eggs looked big but I didn't candle until yesterday, day 16, afraid of what I would find so I guess they would be big.
Humidity problem? If so, how to fix: Potential hatch date of eggs in incubator is Saturday, May 7 so tomorrow, Wednesday is lockdown. With minimal water, humidity has been a high normal the entire incubation process, perhaps because of the constant rain, nonstop drizzle and humidity we are...
18 eggs. Hopefully 11 should produce super blue egg layers (The reason I'm doing this hatch.). I added a BCM egg which would produce an olive egger, one olive egg because it was so pretty and five that are EE's or Ameraucanas. I think 2 will be EE's and 3 Ameraucanas.) Now to see what...