January 2024 hatch-a-long

[gimmie birdies]

I did not see a hatch-a-long in January for eggs due after New Years, so I am posting this one.

I have a broody hen, so I gave her 3 eggs to sit on. They are from a different farm. The hen is a Bluebell Egger, named "Bluebell."

These will be due the 4th. The temps here are in the mid 30's, and I will raise any chicks she hatches.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Poppy hatched , Paul is working on his blue egg, pip.

 

[Flockking]

She started sitting on the 2nd of January so today marks her 5days in
I decided to candle them and they're all looking good and healthy

 

[The Welch Chickens]

Gorgeous hen! I have a Prairie Bluebell Egger named Storm who looks just like her. I love their black feathers that peek out in between the gray

 

[gimmie birdies]

Xmarks the spot.

 

[Kwoka]

Two babies on the green/blue side! One is a black and yellow penguin baby from a speckled green egg, the other a silvery blue…not sure if splash or just light blue i may have been mistaken about who lays those speckled green eggs tho I guess we’ll see in a couple weeks because the 2nd incubator is practically full of them lol I could have sworn that I saw my blue pullet with the dark blue head/neck laying those speckled eggs.

 

[Kwoka]

OK sorry for the spam, my kids and I are just really excited about these babies. Each egg is a surprise! Idk how I got a gold/chipmunk baby out of these green eggs - that coop only has BlueCopper Marans and Blue/Red Araucana roos, and the OE girls are cuckoo/barred or blue…perhaps one of my Cream Legbar girls threw a light green/sage egg instead of blue? ‍♀ usually they’re very distinctly light blue, especially when candling. My crele Araucana roo in the next coop also could have gotten into the OE girls, that rascal. Who knows!

 

[friednotscrambled]

Let the hatching commence! The blue eggs are in the lead. I divided the incubator with a piece of cardboard to keep the brown eggs separate from the blue. The blue will be f1 OE's

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

I have 29 Silkie eggs I set today, due to hatch January 6th. They're from another breeder, a mixed bag of colors - Blue, Black, Cuckoo, Lemon, Lemon Cuckoo, Mauve/Chocolate Cuckoo, Mottled, Paint, Splash, White, and a few mystery eggs.

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

Ok, so I held-off on candling until yesterday and again today (day 4). I'm using the built-in candler on the NR360 as my good candling flashlight is at the coop, and it's just not as strong so I'm having trouble with a few, but for the most part here are my numbers:

29 Eggs total: 14 fertile, 9 clear, and 6 questionable.

I'll wait until day 7 to officially pull any clears, but I'm think I'm definitely going to cough up the money to ship hatching eggs via transporter instead of USPS in the future - this is by far the best fertility outcome I've had on shipped eggs, and the air cells were all perfectly intact, which I've never had happen with shipped eggs before.