16th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[Cynthia12]

Yes, it's a silkie. That's all I have here.

Yours are so gorgeous! Well, at least you aren't far from chickens when your neighbor raises them. That's sort of like I wanted a horse, but we really didn't have enough acreage, then the gal who bought the farm across the road brought her 5-6 horses. So I see and hear them most every day.

I'm a horse lover too. I also had the chance of having ..neighbor..horses back in the 80's. BYU put some of their horses in the area next to our yard. They would walk right up to me for loves.
I actually had the opportunity to ride quite a bit back in the late 60's and 70's. I rented in the 60's, same horse, loved her, then my in laws had horses and I rode in the 70's. Love horses.

 

[Cynthia12]

OKAY!


By midnight, three chicks had hatched. Based on the egg colors, they should be:

• White Leghorn
• Copper Marans
• Olive Egger

(My Easter Egger and the other White Leghorn are still holding out—clearly on island time after their massive jounrey. And the 'gifted eggs' will be a head scratcher).

But here’s the kicker: all three chicks are yellow. One even has fuzzy legs (the last one to hatch, which I think was meant to be the Olive Egger).

So... why are they all yellow? Did I accidentally hatch chicks in disguise?

Sorry for all the questions—I genuinely know next to nothing about individual chicken breeds. I was just going off the info I got from the Etsy shop I bought the eggs from... which has since mysteriously vanished. So now it’s just me, some surprise chicks, and a growing list of poultry mysteries.
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Cute little mutskies?
Now usually..not always, the Easter Egger has a hint of green in their legs and feet..or are quite green. Hope that one hatches out a girl. They give nice colored eggs.
The feathered legged one is a mystery all right.

 

[BoundlessLove]

So far, ten chicks hatched Saturday and Sunday.

 

[Slothinc]

For my Easter chicks - I had 11 OE/EE chicks hatch out along with 10 polish chicks this past week. I also had 1 call duckling hatch a couple of days ago and today have emus hatching! There are 3 emus out, 1 to go! Happy Easter!

 

[catsndogs4us]

Day 21 for mine pips on some, no zips yet. The waiting is hard!!

No pips at all on the two silkie eggs. They were fine and lively on day 17 candle. My silkies usually hatch on day 20. These are from a friend's flock so maybe different genetics has something to do with it? That has me a little worried though.

 

[LhickenChicken]

No chicks yet. Not even an internal pip. Candled them yesterday, saw movement, so maybe they're all a little late? Brabanter egg looks the same as on day 18. Might be dead if I'm being honest, so to prevent exploding eggs I put it in the corner of the incubator. The rest of them look all right, saw movement and development on most of them, so I'm just going to wait. I should have set them earlier but maybe the two temperature gauges are both wrong and they're delaying the hatch? I don't know. Are the chicks still part of the Easter hatch along if they don't hatch before Easter? I have thirteen eggs including the Brabanter that made it to today (but I'm not sure if the Brabanter is alive as part of the egg was not filled).

 

[SheaLoner]

Incubators are off and all that will hatch have hatched. Had some humidity problems with, of course, the one holding my bought eggs soo everyone in that bator got emergency air holes. All my bought eggs made it though 2 needed assistance, only 1 requires further care with a shoe.

And I hatched the color I wanted from my own flock! I wanted a chocolate Cuckoo roo so I can have sex links and sell sex link roos to folks.

 

[catsndogs4us]

I don't know. Are the chicks still part of the Easter hatch along if they don't hatch before Easter?

Yes you will be fine I believe we have until May 2 for them to hatch? Someone can correct me please if I'm wrong.

 

[SheaLoner]

Thank you, and I hope the rest of your hatching goes better too!

My last ones all hatched today. I did get some BCMs, and I am happy about that because those eggs in my last batch gave up a few days before hatch. Also got an olive egger, from my BCM roo and one of my Crested Cream Legbars. I think it's a hen because it is black like the rooster. I'd read somewhere that if the chick looks like the roo's color as a chick, it'll be a hen, if it looks like the hen's color then it is a roo. It hasn't worked on some crosses in the past, but in general it has held true.

If your Cr Legbars hen is barred then crossing her with your BCM would make the chicks sexeable at hatch. Little roos will have a spot on the top of the head and hens would not.

 

[SB907]

4 beautiful call duck babies hatched between 5pm Saturday and 10am Sunday! The BEST Easter present, I am so in love! I was dealing with a dog emergency so only got to see one in person, but I am making up for it and getting lots of quality time with these little quackers now!