13th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[pinewoodacres]

Do the rest of the eggs look ok even though they haven’t pipped yet?

I came home to one more pip in the olive egger eggs so that’s two for my F2 gen. I have a hard time seeing into them but I removed one a few days before lockdown that looked to be infertile/no development. The rest had good veining near the air cell, a solid mass further down, and no obvious blood rings, so I left them in.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Argh! Going to be gone until 4:30 today.... how can I leave the little peepers? 2 pips so far

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Argh! Going to be gone until 4:30 today.... how can I leave the little peepers? 2 pips so far

Lol, staying busy will help!

 

[Renee97038]

I have the Janoel 12 and there's only one little vent hole on the top and it's open. The humidity has now dropped to around 61% so I'm just going to leave it be for now. I hear some chirping! Also, I think I figured out why my temp dropped. I've had it wrapped in a towel for the whole first 18 days. My son just told me the towel was not on it when he went down this morning. I had just assumed he took it off when he first went down. Anyways, now that it is wrapped back up, the temp is climbing back up! Now I just have to make sure it doesn't go up too high since I adjusted the temp on the incubator a lot.

Just make sure your towel leaves the vent hole open. Those chicks need lots of air during the hatch! Good luck!

 

[Bananer86]

Exciting! I have very little experience with quail. I hatched a batch of button quail a few years ago but didn’t enjoy them. I’m trying again with these guys because I wanted to join the Easter hatch along. I just hatched a batch of fawn and white runner ducks last month and then read about the hatch along. So trying with these quail. I’ve had chickens forever and ducks the last five years and am now ready to give these guys a go.

I just started with quail too mine are 4, 3 & 1.5 weeks I kinda got addicted this is my first chicken hatch since Feb bc I started hatching quail

First chicks is out! & the EE is zipping

 

[muddy75]

Ive gotten all 8 calls free of their shells other than cleaning up any stuck pieces

6 calls and 1 pheasant in the brooder

 

[JustBabyMargo]

8 chicks have hatched!!

Here’s one of the Moss Eggers-

 

[Mvan42]

Well my hatch is finished. It was a weird on for sure. After checking the ones that hadn't piped yet non were moving. I had 4 or 5 who had completely absorbed the yolk and internally piped and didn't external pip.pips.. never had that.

I had one who had busted its yolk sack. Another had a big blood clot looking thing near the umbilical area.

A few still had alot of fluid inside the membrane. Not sure why

Learn something new each time.

 

[craxyjaxy424]

Just make sure your towel leaves the vent hole open. Those chicks need lots of air during the hatch! Good luck!

Oh yes, don't worry, it's uncovered! That's one thing I did right.