12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[DucksAreBest]

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Mystery duck # 2 just hatched moments ago! This is the egg I thought was a runner duck. This is seriously SO much fun!

Beautiful duckling!

 

[BullChick]

My hatch is nearly complete. Check out this SuperFloof. Most chicks are pretty fluffy but this one is insanely fluffy. I think it needs to be named Santa.
One egg has not pipped yet so I think it’s likely not going to. I have 16 live healthy chicks, 1 vigorous chick who hatched from the wrong end and has an umbilical hernia, but I think it will make it if I can keep the others from pecking it (it’s alone in the incubator for now), and 1 unpipped egg. The one with the hernia (or whatever) is looking better already than these photos. I saw it hatch at 3:30am. I thought I’d have to assist but I didn’t. We had this issue once before and after a week, it dried up and fell off. I figure it can safely stay in the incubator until tomorrow morning, giving it 24+ hours for that to harden and dry out a bit and also for the fluff to cover it a bit, so it’s less visible and less likely to bleed if pecked.

May I spend an evening with your family?! I want to play lots of games!!

 

[BullChick]

Quail people: How long can the quail chicks stay in the incubator? It's been about 26 hours since the first chicks emerged. Eggs are still pipping and hatching. I'm nervous to open the lid and lose humidity.

It’s not in danger, but yeah. Twenty-four minutes, umm hours, is a good cutoff for quail. I think I made it three hours once, but I was sleeping.

 

[Rysktal]

44 moved to the brooder and eggs still hatching!

 

[goldbean]

Hooray! We successfully assisted and he is healthy and wobbling all around our 'bator. With a lot of prayer power, this little fella will be with his buddies in the brooder in no time. Thank you guys so much for all the help and info you provided. I really can't thank you enough.

--goldbean's older daughter

 

[sekeyslaks]

What are these? Because I have Ayam Cemani x Easter eggers plus maybe some other breeds in there, and I’m getting this look too. The skin is actually mottled gray and pink.

Very Cute! My chicks Dad is a Buff Orpington/Easter Egger mix(he is my avatar) and I have Buff Orp's,RIR/??,Easter Eggers, and Speckled Sussex hens in the pen with him.

 

[elizabethu42]

we have two pips!

 

[sayga]

Oh my goodness! That one chick is ALL FLUFF!!! SO CUTE!

The hernia is pretty bad so I do hope it absorbs some more in the incubator! Was the navel sealed around it already or does it just look that way in the pictures?

It is off center, which is weird, and no, it’s not fully sealed around the edges. I mean, there’s no opening into the body cavity from the outside, but it looks like a mouth blowing a bubble out of bubble gum. You can see that the “mouth” is open and the bubble protrudes.
I was wondering if I could tie it off with dental floss or if there are intestines inside it.
Sorry, it’s bum is wet in the photos because it did a dribbly poop all down itself and I washed it all off with wet Q tips.

 

[chicken1234]

Mystery Duck # 3 just hatched. This is the egg that looked like a muskovy egg

 

[elizabethu42]

one of the eggs pipped on the wrong side