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  1. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Ok final numbers.... 7 out of 8 turkey eggs hatched...but one passed over night and another needed special attention. Out of 36 chicken eggs set 9 were infertile and 2 blood rings so went into lockdown with 25, and hatched 19. one started to zip but got turned over during bowling and died, and...
  2. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I have 3 external pips in turkey eggs.... out of 8 but one doesn't look good. The chickie eggs look like they may take all the way till Saturday to hatch.
  3. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I just did a quick candling of my turkey eggs and I have 6 out of 8 that are internally piped.... they are due saturday..
  4. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I moved my easter eggs into my hatcher yesterday.... 8 turkey and 25 chicken..... I am a little early but I needed the room in the good bator for the new turkey eggs that were starting to age more than I like.... I set another 17turkey and 7 duck eggs to top off the 3 turkey and 15 chicken eggs...
  5. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I candled over the weekend and had to pull 9 clears and a blood ring out of the 24 that I put in for a friend. ... interesting thing is all of the eggs he gave me to put in are doing great lots of little bouncing embryos.
  6. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    They are for a friend he has standard bronze and chocolate all in the same pen do probably mixes
  7. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I set my turkey eggs this morn:D
  8. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    One of the reasons I can cover mine is all the works are in the bottom including air vents..... not the same with my brinsea everything is on top I might be able to wrap the bottom but not the top
  9. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I have a cheap Chinese one that I put a cozy over to help with the temp regulation, it also sits next to the plug in room heater..... does ok
  10. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Not bad.... I was bad this time a friend asked me to put 3 duck eggs in about 10 days after my batch was already going, so I had 3 eggs that still needed turned during lockdown and when everything else hatched I gave it a quick wipe down and put the turner back in and it's still going..... I...
  11. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I am running a brinsea ovation 56 ex with humidity pump. I love it my only complaint I had was getting the humidity up for lockdown.... I finally built a hardware cloth "tray" and put a glass pie pan under it to help with up the humidity. That worked well I coversed the hardware cloth with shelf...
  12. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    I have already joined the hatch-a-holics thread as I cant seem to keep the bator empty
  13. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    ok where is the thread for amazing hubbies??? I have one. he keeps putting up with my chicken and Fowl additions with out much of a complaint..... I have ducks hatching today and 50 chicks coming in on Friday(5 barnelvers, 5 buckeye, 5 dark Cornish, 5 white laced red Cornish and 30 black...
  14. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    most of the ones in my bator at the moment will go home with a friend.... so they don't count... right??? lol I only have to count the duckies that I plan to keep and they are still in eggs so don't count quite yet
  15. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    He is a keeper no matter what he is..... lol I am hoping to get some bigger boys for eating and have some decent layers maybe of a large variety. We have named the roo tree beard, he has 7 turkens, my biggest welsummer, 2 dark cornish, 2 light brahma and 2 delaware hens. I am excited to see what...
  16. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    Wow! Very close! What breed is your roo? Mine is a mystery he was given to me as a white leghorn but is not.... he weights 14 lbs and is very well behaved. I think I will be setting some eggs from his pen this go around.... depending on space in the bator. Lol
  17. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    weight loss or watching air cells was very helpful to me..... of course we live on the dry side of the mountains so that didn't help lol
  18. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    It took me a while to get my hatching figured out, I am at 6000 feet in Colorado and discovered that I have to do things differently than someone closer to sea level.... humidity seems to be the biggest change for me.... I did discover by accident that Very Dark Brown eggs do well at a much...
  19. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    should be fun I have an arrangement with a friend that has turkeys, he provides the eggs I provide the incubator and hatch them and I get some of the babies!! yeah lol
  20. aliciaplus3

    The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

    thank you! with any luck I will have barnyard mix turkey, duck and chicken egg to cook.... I mean incubate.
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