5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[SoManyHats]

I heard chirping and tapping last night. Woke up to 1 pip, and 2 more have pipped since then! Come on chickies!!

 

[chickengirl1193]

this is so super eggciting! I need to go take care of my outside animals but every time I go to get dressed i hear peeps.. they havent pipped yet. I set at noon on the 11th

 

[Gardeningmama]

2 Marans pipped wrong end! I haven't lost a wrong end pipper yet. We shall see. Lol, this is hatching..I was already nervous about how thick those Marans shells were, turns out that's the least of it!

Lord please be with my chickies!

 

[Aphrael]

Still no pipping for me yet.

They are just sitting there looking like boring eggs still. I set at 12:30 on the 11th.

 

[CackleJoy]

Closed the lid at 12:08 AM 12/12.

Pipped last night about 8:00 p.m.

2nd pip about midnight.

Up with the baby at 5:00 a.m. We have a chick!

and another pip!

Can't believe it! The early bird is an EE aka Brahmacauna

A little gold chipmunked feathered legged cutie. Pictures later!

 

[ronott1]

Well my eggs are being eggy so was going to check out your cam ron and it says file is corrupt.

I restarted the broadcast. I need to check out that file. I will try to catch one hatching and record it. For now, click on the social media stream to see comments.

I have one with a pip!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ron-s-hatch-cam

 

[GAGE]

My daughter called and said we have one pip so far, and it is one of the two questionable's that almost did not make it into lock down, so I am pleasantly surprised!

 

[roostercluck]

I have one hatched, and four others have pipped and are rocking around. I will get pictures up later. This is so exciting!!!!

 

[roostercluck]

Congrats to everyone with pips and chicks. To those that are waiting I hope everything goes okay.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Eggs were set on the 11th timed to hatch on 1/1/14. Day of set is day zero. I think it turned out there were more set than the guess contest winner guessed, a lot of folks piped up to let us know they were hatching along after the game was done, but either way it was a good number, I think over 2000? A lot of people had pretty serious challenges getting eggs delivered in time to set.

Speaking of delivered eggs - I've received eggs wrapped in paper towel three times, and the first two times had zero hatch no matter how the outer wrap was built. Right now I have a dozen Dominique eggs under broodies that were wrapped in paper towel, the ones I put in the incubator did not develop and I am considering candling the ones under broodies to see if they have developed. One person said they had had great success shipping that way, but so far I sure haven't as the receiver. Has anyone else had success hatching eggs wrapped in paper towel?

Guilty. I try not to get lost online, and when I set mine at midnight on the 10th it was just a personal decision to aim for the ball drop - then I popped in and realized I'd timed along with lots of other folks, and...

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