January 2024 hatch-a-long

[Kwoka]

Merry Christmas!

I think I’ve removed all the infertile eggs. There was one blood ring (the double yolker, as expected) putting my total eggs set now 39/58…not exactly the best fertility rate, but I think these two particular olive egger and marans girls just refuse to be mated and I set a lot of their eggs because they were nice and big.

I’m already collecting more of the speckled olive eggs for another hatch because they’re my favorite color, fertilized, and from a sapphire olive egger…putting the chance of getting splash babies higher!

 

[gimmie birdies]

The first 3 eggs that went under the hen did not make it.
Below,
The 3 that went directly to incubator are still going. Day 13.

 

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2 eggs are in lockdown, the blue egg, the blue egg was bouncing the air cell.

 

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Some of my MT egg chicks, are very small, I will put them in with these 2 egg chicks when they hatch, so these will not feel so alone.

 

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Xmarks the spot.

 

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They will not be hatching before midnight.

 

[Kwoka]

31 eggs in lockdown, and still another 24 in the 2nd incubator I really hope people want to buy mixed chicks in January. I shouldn’t hatch so many, because I have enough dang chickens, but my quest for splash Easter/olive eggers is consuming me lol. I want a whole coop full of them!

 

[friednotscrambled]

I plan to hatch some OE's this month - orpington and wyandotte over EE's. Collecting eggs now

 

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I hear peeping...

 

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