12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

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EggSighted4Life said:
It was many hatches back and several years ago while I wasn't home for 8 hours +.

Silkie hatch rate was 50% that round, (4/8) much lower than usual. And 50% of those (2/4) had very bent, sort of folded under feet (for the first and only time ever).. it didn't seem so bad when little but discomfort grew with age and limited roosting.. I WISH I had culled at hatch.. but I figured I harvest them anyways.. Chick shoes might have fixed it.. but they to easily become mixed in with breeding stock. The bent foot pullet went to a disabled pet home and boy was harvested. The other 50% that survived were GOOD in all aspects! :yesss:

I NOW get text alerts when a power outage is reported in my neighborhood.. noting one time it was no big deal I waited all day and when I finally called I was the first to report it. So no guarantees. :p

I haven't secured a generator just YET.. even then.. we do our best and party bout the rest! :bun
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We had an outage yesterday. I didn’t get a text either. :rant
 
BesideStillWaters said:
Soooooo... I decided to candle the eggs to make sure I didn't have any double yolk eggs in the incubator. (Don't want to try to hatch something that has a high chance of dying on me.) I discovered this one has a small crack:
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It's been in the incubator for three hours. Any chance it will hatch or should I pull it out? I had one last year that I didn't realize had a crack in it and it never started to show signs of life.
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Is that actually a crack? Hard for me to tell from the picture, but it looks a little like a bit of the brown has just rubbed off.
 
The electricity went out last year on my first time hatching. I got a gallon bag of warm water to 100 degrees and put that in there and put the eggs around it (not touching it) and most of mine hatched. It was only out for a few hours though.

I did have two that came out with curved toes... I wonder if this is why...? Their toes straightened out the older they got but my one boy had roosting troubles for a bit. He's all good now, but I was afraid to sell him as a rooster to be bred because I didn't know if it was genetic or not. 🤷‍♀️

Edit: I tried to quote @EggSighted4Life talking about losing electricity but it didn't quote and I don't know how to fix it. Sorry! 😂
 
BesideStillWaters said:
The electricity went out last year on my first time hatching. I got a gallon bag of warm water to 100 degrees and put that in there and put the eggs around it (not touching it) and most of mine hatched. It was only out for a few hours though.

I did have two that came out with curved toes... I wonder if this is why...? Their toes straightened out the older they got but my one boy had roosting troubles for a bit. He's all good now, but I was afraid to sell him as a rooster to be bred because I didn't know if it was genetic or not. 🤷‍♀️

Edit: I tried to quote @EggSighted4Life talking about losing electricity but it didn't quote and I don't know how to fix it. Sorry! 😂
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:clap That is exactly what to do! Hot Hands, heat sinks, wrapping the incubator in a towel...
The toe thing is from fluctuations.
 
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