4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[cluck-cluck]

We have a chick!!!!!! Hatched at 2:21PM CST!!!!!!

SUPER, I really love those baskets!!!!

 

[delisha]

So my chick that has externally pipped didn't go through the air sac... is that a problem?

If it has externally piped, it can breath..it is all good!!

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Aspen
the hatcher

 

[cluck-cluck]

Yay!

Quick question for ya'll ... can I use shavings for my brooder footing or pelleted bedding?

I use shavings but put two layers of paper towels on top, and when that gets really messy, in about a week or two (depending how big/many birds are in there, I take it out. By then they've usually dug up a few bits of shavings, and have gotten their footing so they transition to the shavings really well.

I like brinsea as well , I think If I could get anything for my sons school this year it would be this
http://www.brinsea.com/prod-Mini_Classroom_incubator_and_brooder_pack-240.aspx

Oh, you'd be a hero! LOL, that's nice!

 

[crissycriss]

I think I love Brinsea!  They have such cool incubators and that warmer is awesome, and they gave us such nice prizes!!!  That was really great of them.

And no, I don't work for them, LOL, I just think it was really nice and want them to know that it probably will create a customer.... when I have money to spend, ROFL

x3 Im gonna save up for one too.Im done with homemade bator at least for now.

 

[TMNfarm]

My first chickie..... I'm so excited!! It's a loud little bugger! Hoping maybe it will stimulate the rest to get their little behinds in gear! I think II have one more zipping...

 

[Pele]

Yaaaay! I just watched my second baby hatch! He was a trooper, and zipped in under 15 minutes. Right now he's trying to come to terms with a world bigger than 3 inches long, and his older brother is helping out by stepping on him and peeping loudly. Oh siblings.

 

[gabrielle1976]

I wonder if Im gonna only hatch 3 this time as well like last time wonder if thats the magic number with serama .

 

[cluck-cluck]

Aspen
the hatcher

Are those the eggs you just hatched?

x3 Im gonna save up for one too.Im done with homemade bator at least for now.

I don't see myself ever hatching that many eggs again, I just started up with chickens, and hatching eggs was a great way to get some variety, as well as cheap chickens (trader joe's leghorns, LOL) But now, I'd like to hatch out a few of my own chicks once in a while, and 7 eggs sounds plenty to me. So that little Brinsea mini advanced would be perfect!

 

[TMNfarm]

Ahhhhh!!!! I just saw one pip!!! I happened to be looking right at it and the shell popped!!! This is SO COOL!!!!!!!