I finally tossed the green egg! I never could see through it! I need to order a better light for my dark shelled eggs!
My final count: 16 of the 17 eggs that went into lock down hatched with no assistance! 3 of the 5 eggs that Alice was sitting on hatched with no assistance. The other 2 never...
I'm in Okla and both TSC and Atwoods chicks looked really pitiful this year! They looked so rough, I wasn't even tempted! I learned my lesson last year bringing in new chicks! Hope yours make it!!!
Soooo...We have had all but 2 eggs hatch now, and one of those is pipped! The only one with no action is the Olive egg! I'll leave it in there for a few more days and see what happens! The Americauna egg that cracked hatched with no trouble!
If this last pipped egg hatches, 16 of the 17 eggs...
3 pipped eggs left to go! They are cheering on their Americauna sister (🤞)! Besides her, I still have a possible wyandotte and a mystery chick to go! Both are pipped at the narrow end but doing fine. They were given to me by a friend, and I did not rest them after travel. I found out after they...
I've got 8 left in the brooder and 5 have pipped INCLUDING the Americauna egg!!! 🤗 1 of the 3 left I was iffy about, and another is an olive egg that I never could see anything but shadows in!
1 more hatched and I have 4 more pipped (not counting the Americauna egg that I'm 99% sure was cracked and not pipped☹️).
Also my incubator is DISGUSTING! I will definitely be reevaluating my numbers next time I hatch! We were very crowded! When they say it will hold 22 eggs, I don't think...
My dancing egg finally hatched! She had a rough go of it, and there was a little blood on the paper towel afterwards but it stopped on it's own!
I have 4 more pipped also!
I put a warm wet paper towel on this egg last night and moved all the others to my broody silkie Dottie! She is a happy...
They are just so cute!
In the 2nd pic you can see a pip. It's at the wrong end of the egg but the chick seems to be doing fine in there! I can see it's little beak poke out occasionally. Any advice on if I should intervene or not?
3 More have hatched since last night! And I have 2 zips working their way out! The 2nd one to hatch was a tiny mixed bantam egg that I wasn't sure had anything going on but I put into lock down JIC! Glad I did! The 3 and 4 are bantam cochins
Incubator eggs are on lockdown!
I have one maran mix egg that's rocking and squirming (no pip), but they aren't due til Friday/Saturday-ish. The first egg that Alice hatched (several days early) was also from my blue maran mix Mary Kate! Her twin Ashley laid the Olive egg that hatched 2nd!
Those wittle feathered feeties! 😍
This one is blue bantam cochin hen with black bantam cochin roo! I included pics of them too! I'm thinking this baby's gonna be blue!
The bantams are my hobby flock! This is the 2nd chick I've hatched from this pair, and they've both been perfect! They have...