12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[cppeace]

Look at what I just found in a nest outside!
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Definitely enter that pic in the hatching pic contest <3

 

[CSolis]

Try using your candler or LED flashlight on one end and a phone flashlight on the other end. Needs an extra set of hands and a very dark room. I find this works pretty well.

Well unless my pup, Gator can lend a paw, there's only two hands here. Maybe lay the phone flashlight on the table.. Or I can set it in the incubator LED and stick my small LED flashlight on top. I've been using my small LED flashlight that works for my Black Sex Link hen's eggs.

 

[CSolis]

and then it got its leg back inside!
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OMG he's doing the hokey pokey!!

 

[Poultry mum]

@casportpony i have duck eggs waiting Togo into the incubator just can’t get my incubator till next Sunday.... I know it will be too late but would love help along the way with it as I’ve never incubated any eggs before...

 

[Josip]

Does anyone named chicks before they even hatch? ( or am on whole new level of chicken craziness)

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Does anyone named chicks before they even hatch? ( or am on whole new level of chicken craziness)

I have done that. Well actually it was my daughter, who was 7 at the time. She named one Rover.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Well unless my pup, Gator can lend a paw, there's only two hands here. Maybe lay the phone flashlight on the table.. Or I can set it in the incubator LED and stick my small LED flashlight on top. I've been using my small LED flashlight that works for my Black Sex Link hen's eggs.

Short of training Gator in time, using the incubator LED and your flashlight may do the trick.

 

[Parront]

I have done that. Well actually it was my daughter, who was 7 at the time. She named one Rover.

My neighbor's daughter comes over to see our ducks and chickens, she is 7, and I told her the ducklings in the eggs could hear our voices. She sings to them, and is naming all 17 eggs! So far all have some growth, 1 less than the rest, and I was trying to tell her not to name them, they might not all hatch. Didn't stop her!

 

[Chookwagn]

Hatch day yesterday 16 from 17 eggs

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Hatch day yesterday 16 from 17 eggs

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Congrats on the adorable peeps!