12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[BullChick]

I just did! I used a pencil, though.

That works! I moved to a sharpie because it’s hard to rub off under a broody, and easier to see.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Advice please: What should I do with the dirty eggs? Finish filling the incubator with dirty eggs or destroy them?

Wash under running water that's hotter than the egg.. is what I do when desperate. Forget about the bloom, blah blah.. good rules of thumb are NOT absolutes.

In addition there are many homemade "wash" solution recipes that have shown effective.. some including peroxide I THINK. Maybe even sold at TSC and feed stores or wally.. "egg wash".

Otherwise, scrape of what will scrape off still dry.. and set it.. see what happens!

 

[BullChick]

I have a heated reptile room. So I put eggs in there the day of set usually. But I'm also only setting 2 eggs

I should have a warmer room, but I ain’t moving 55 and 20 gallon tanks.

 

[goldbean]

16 eggs set and in the 'bator!

 

[JCaseyHammond]

A paper towel, or your nails.

Here are my fertile eggs. For the eggs coated with dried egg -those get trashed, right? I’m scared to put dirty eggs in the incubator.

*****Edited to add, washed and labeled the eggs in incubator.

 

[ronott1]

I just set the eggs, and now I am wondering if we should set one more, the blue one in the picture. It is really small though. Although we only have one blue egg to set today.

It looks big enough to me!

 

[Cynthia12]

I set my eggs last night,....... wondering what I'll do if they all hatch.

This morning, I noticed a little serama flattened in the nest box, doing the broody growl.


Great timing! If she follows through and stays broody, she'll adopt my batch of incubator chicks!

This pic was from last year when a little serama went broody and adopted 20 orpington chicks.

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Adorable! Calender worthy.

 

[ronott1]

Now setting 13 eggs!

Yay!

Send a pm to @OneMountainAcres with the set number

 

[sekeyslaks]

30 min to go!

 

[BullChick]

16 eggs set and in the 'bator!