12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[WVduckchick]

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Congrats on every ones hatchings so far. In about 4 hours I'm removing the turner and doing my final candle. Then its just get the brooder cleaned and ready and sit and wait. And now I want to strangle 2 of my girls. Chicks due to start hatching soon, and what do they do, go broody on me in the last 4 days. WHY couldn't they have decided to do this about 2 weeks ago so I could have snuck these chicks under them. Oh well, I did what any normal person would do who has a terrible case of chicken math and hatching fever. Tucked 5 eggs under each. If they were not first time mommas, I'd have given each one about 10 each lol. Oh and for reference on other posts on this forum I've saw people say that Black Copper Marans are not normally broody or make terrible momma's. LIES!!!! Last year one of my original girls Holly went broody at 7 months old and hatched and raised 6 successfully. This time around, one of her daughters who is 8 months is now broody and the other 2 are starting to act suspicious. Holly is in the tail end of a molt and I'm hoping she'll go broody again for me this year. She was such a excellent mother that if she does go, she gets 12 eggs this year.

Leghorns have supposedly had broodiness bred out of them too...lol, But not my Leghorn.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

 

[stormgirl82]

Our first 2 have hatched!

 

[featherhead007]

My incubator:

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh, no, the peeps! The bobbles! The fuzzy pajama feets!! All the pictures were bad enough, but this? I'm done for! Just under a week to go still for me

 

[chicken1234]

It could be a mule duck.

Oh a muskovy/pekin mix? Had to google I will post a picture when he is dry because he is starting to look much more yellow. Incubator is a nightmare to view what is going on!

 

[CSolis]

Oh a muskovy/pekin mix? Had to google I will post a picture when he is dry because he is starting to look much more yellow. Incubator is a nightmare to view what is going on!

Me too, but couldn't resist the joke.

 

[goldbean]

Here's a picture. My dad and other sister tried to assist while I was gone earlier, but there wasn't a way to assist without suffocating the chick, so they did their best. Can you please tell us what the next step is? The chick just seems to be stuck, he's still breathing yet he just isn't making any progress.

--goldbean's older daughter

 

[goldbean]

If all of the blood vessels are absorbed then I help the chick out but you're still only seeing a pip without a zip so there's nothing to do yet, if at all.

If the blood vessels are gone it means they've been absorbed, correct?

--goldbean's daughters