12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[Lynda720]

I think I may have missed this one. My eggs hatched all ready. lol I do have Duck eggs in I think they hatch around the 16th of April. I hope. My duck also has some eggs she is laying on.

 

[BullChick]

I need advice!! So i have 10 eggs in incubator .. today is day 18 and .. one of my hens become broody today ..and funy things is that she is biological mother to 5 eggs in incubator.. can u give her chiks when they hatched or is better to give her eggs now.. i think its better that she lay 2 days and then give her chiks ..what do you thnik? Anyone with experience??

Can belive this happend and i put egggs in incubator just for jer beacuse she is my favorite.. i would love let her be Mother but i dont want more chicks this year

I know it’s been done with success, and I’m still contemplating it myself despite that the broody happens to be my flaky one. She’s 100% broody, but doesn’t keep the babies in her sight.

 

[StackedSfarms]

Happy Easter 8 babies in one incubator 6 in the other. Still pips everywhere!

 

[Oldhallchicks]

Oh my goodness. Dixie abandoned her eggs today and I found them cold.

I candled them and thought they were both dead. (All the ones in the incubator had died and I’d already switched it off and cleaned it.)

So I opened her eggs up to be sure before I tossed them and one of them is alive

Trying desperately to save it now

What do I do @CluckNDoodle ?! @JaeG

 

[MandaRae]

Almost done
But look at this cute little Barnyard Mix chick! So cool looking!

 

[BullChick]

Oh my goodness. Dixie abandoned her eggs today and I found them cold.

I candled them and thought they were both dead. (All the ones in the incubator had died and I’d already switched it off and cleaned it.)

So I opened her eggs up to be sure before I tossed them and one of them is alive

Trying desperately to save it now

What do I do @CluckNDoodle ?! @JaeG

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Put it in the incubator with high humidity,

 

[Oldhallchicks]

I double checked the other one and it is alive as well. I am scarred for life...never opening another egg that isn’t more than 4 days overdue.
I oiled both membranes with a qtip and have them in the incubator with humidity up to 75%

is that high enough @BullChick or should it be higher?

 

[CSolis]

10 down, 2 to go... Big sigh of relief as Henrietta's two eggs hatched this morning.. Those are the last two by Charlie Sheen the Cockoo!

 

[BullChick]

I double checked the other one and it is alive as well. I am scarred for life...never opening another egg that isn’t more than 4 days overdue.
I oiled both membranes with a qtip and have them in the incubator with humidity up to 75%

is that high enough @BullChick or should it be higher?

Yes, you just don’t want them to shrink wrap.
Give eggs three days past due, but one member found eggs hatching a week later! He’d forgotten to shut off the incubator, and went to toss them. Peep peep! A bunch of chicks.

 

[BlueBaby]

I had 7 that hatched, but one of those died in the incubator after hatch. There are 5 more egg's that haven't hatched yet.