12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[AmesHillFarm]

@casportpony
This is correct that I've set eggs. Will send my number. Sorry for the tardiness. Between grandma sitting and dealing with a rooster apocalypse I've been straight out and mostly offline.

Also, candled tonight. Out of 82 eggs, had 6 non-starters, 3 quitters, and 4 or 5 I was unsure of and left in the bators.

 

[AmesHillFarm]

Do they lay purple eggs?!!!

@BesideStillWaters the eggs are blue, the chickens are lavender.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Bummer! What days are they due? We're allowing +/- seven days.

I have set eggs but wasn't figuring on joining for the hatch because it wasn't the specific day. I guess this would include me.

 

[hysop]

I ended up not setting eggs. I really wanted to but there was no interest in my barnyard mixes so my husband asked to not hatch out anymore since we will have to raise the ones we hatched out a week ago.

 

[cherrynberry]

It's the mystery of this thread still waiting to be answered. @CluckNDoodle @Pyxis @ronott1 ???

Well...I think I found out why they were not developing. Maybe it’s because I did not let the eggs settle pointing end down for at least 12 hours...I did the opposite.

 

[DucksAreBest]

When? I set some on the 17th of last month

Oh, okay.

 

[Don 27]

Scrambled eggs have very little to do with weather. Eggs generally do fine from 10 degrees to about 80 degrees for shipping. The scrambled eggs are from mishandling, poor packaging or just bad luck. The further they travel also will influence how much damage they get. Try to order within 300 miles of you or less for shipping when possible.

Thankyou! I always thought ,heat damage when someone said scrambled eggslike breakfast.

10 degrees Fahrenheit!? Wouldn't they freeze? .

When did she start? How many eggs?

. Maybe 3 days ago, I can't remember. 15 eggs she's a game hen. Hoping we don't get any cold snapes that tends to break their sitting .

 

[DucksAreBest]

Judging by the size of mine on day 19 for one of my sets, that must've been at least the start of lockdown. I'll keep reading and find out

Oh, thanks. I'll have to be watching my eggs for some duckling feet.

 

[ronott1]

It's the mystery of this thread still waiting to be answered. @CluckNDoodle @Pyxis @ronott1 ???

The temperature could be way off or shipping stress has been claimed as a cause.

Most often the cause is infertile eggs though.

 

[BesideStillWaters]

Thats amazing and I will be stealing Nugget

Awesome!

Sadly, my Nugget ended up being a rooster and I couldn't keep all the roosters from my last hatch. I sold him and he's being spoiled rotten by the new owners.