4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Bettacreek]

The link is now open to post the total number of eggs set by you for the NYD Hatch. Post after you have set your last egg.

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This hatch along is getting confusing! I feel bad for you guys who are trying to keep this whole hatch along straight!

 

[coldupnorth]

18 Days Till Hatch Day!

*Today is the day to set Corturnix Quail at noon

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Taz I did too, emailed asking if they would split them up and they will!

Gamebird going for both of the sportsman cabinets and looking at the lager units. I need to see those so I can figure out if they adjust enough to hold our goose eggs. Everything in the ad is set up for emu sized eggs.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Thats the ones I would get. Of course if I had space and money I would've went for one of big ones.

 

[RavenWood]

My set is recorded! I have lots of Ameraucana crosses in my bator, but I suspect my roo wasn't doing his job so I'm not holding out much hope that the eggs I collected from my hens will produce. My son and I will candle them on day 10 and see what we have, then I can remove the duds. I'm afraid to open my hovabator though ... I haven't opened it since we set. The humidity was a bit high and is slowly going down, but I'll have to open it soon to put in more water. Scared! I don't want to compromise anything that might be growing.

 

[tadpole98]

the owl is getting fearless. we have ppl building the barn just a few yards a away from the chicken house using big machinery and the owl still comes down!! swooped down this morning trying to cat a chook, but luckily i had my scream on this morning. probably looked stupid but at least he freaked out and didnt get anybody.

 

[chiqita]

One of my ducks has turned broody and started sitting on 11 eggs a few days ago. Hopefully they will hatch for NYD too!

Pictures!

So eggcited, one of the eggs I se is a double yolker from one of my EE hens, really hope it hatches!!!

Read up on twins they are tricky.

Daily Chocolate Fix~~~ Post that sucker in the flapping bird contest. ~ Aspen

I love the Broodie stories. Early this year in a rainstorm my we broody cage with sparkles with her first chicks came close to flooding so I moved her inside. It was in the same room as my incubator that was in lockdown. She would call and call when the babies hatched until I gave them to her. She ended up with a whole another clutch 2 weeks younger ten her first one and raised them all. She is sitting on babies now I'll have to snap something.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Any body going or doing a dry hatch?

 

[SleepyOwl]

I am having humidity issues. I am not stressing about it, but I am just trying to get a handle on it. I thought I would incubate dry until lockdown, as the humidity in the house is always 45-50%. The first day though, the bator was at like 16%, so I added a bit of water. That brought it up into the 30s... perfect. The water ran out in one day, and it went back down to 20, so I added more water than the first time so it wouldn't run out so fast. That brought the humidity up to almost 70%. *sigh* I didn't think it would do that, since it is the same amount of surface area of water. (I am adding to a very shallow container, not into the bottom of the incubator.) I did this so it would be much easier to take water out if needed. Anyway, I took half the water out, and now it is down in the 40s again. Am I going to need to add just a bit of water every day, or is there an easier way?

 

[Brookhavens]

Any body going or doing a dry hatch?

I do the dry hatch method during the first 18 days and then up the humidity to the low 60's at lockdown.