13th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[ElectricDaisy]

Good to hear, I have eggs coming from them in May!

Oh, good! I’m toying with ordering from them again already. They have lovely Celadon quail eggs.

 

[ronott1]

I had 2 of my jumbo coturnix eggs hatch. I was hoping for more but happy I got 2 so 1 isn’t alone.
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They are so cute!

 

[AgnesGray]

Have you tried Meyer Hatchery? They’re very reasonably priced and my quail eggs were packed remarkably well.
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/Turkeys-c39791181

I've bought some of my egg-laying flock and meat birds from Meyer and they do seem to do a great job with packing and such. Just ordered meat birds from McMurray and they also did a great job.

I try to put some fun colors in every carton and surprisingly the ones I've struggled to get good hatching eggs from have been the expensive hard-to-find breeds and special egg colors and speckles from breeders that offer those types of eggs.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

 

[AgnesGray]

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How adorable

 

[3KillerBs]

I dealt with the non-hatchers.

One had clearly been dead for quite a while -- still very small. My notes for the 14 day candling say "lots of veins" with no movement noted.

The other two came very close to hatching. One seemed quite normal but had simply died without absorbing it's yolk. The other had a mass of some kind in the region of it's belly. I'm still too ill to have the energy to investigate deeply, but here are photos under a spoiler tag.

Spoiler: Eggtopsy photos

Poor little alien baby!

So close! But no internal pip.

Two photos, to better show the odd mass. I'd have definitely investigated more closely if I'd been feeling better.

I left the chicks in the woods for the wildlife. It seems the least wasteful way to deal with them.

 

[muddy75]

3/4 of my pheasant eggs set 3/28 hatched yesterday
I also cleaned and warmed up the shed brooder to evict everyone from my living room

 

[muddy75]

I have 1 3/29 egg and 2 3/31 eggs im still waiting on

 

[chickfused]

Most chipmunk colored chicks can be sexed....... at least brown leghorns can..

I think it translates to all chicks with that down pattern.

I tried to say that the other day and someone got all over me. But it's true in my experience as well.

I should have Pavlovskaya babies today. 5 of 5 eggs have pipped and 5 more go into lockdown tomorrow.

Live stream if interested. We have a zipper right now:

 

[ElectricDaisy]

3/4 of my pheasant eggs set 3/28 hatched yesterday
I also cleaned and warmed up the shed brooder to evict everyone from my living room

See. This is one of the reasons that I love BYC! I currently have a quail brooder in my bedroom and my friends just don’t understand.