4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[SilkieSensation]

I guess ya'll missed my question before. Have they said how many eggs ended up hatching yet?

I believe it was announced a couple days ago. I'll go look & see if I can find it.

 

[TMNfarm]

You won't find the water. The feed soaked it all up. You will need to add more water.

oh... ok. Thanks. I'll add more tonight... DO I need to add more ACV? Or if I add warm water, will it reactivate the ACV??

 

[cochins1088]

I've noticed that it seems I have a lot more malpositioned chicks when the humidity runs a bit low and the air cells are a bit too large. I haven't ever noticed an increase in malpositioned chicks when the eggs are on their sides throughout incubation vs. air cell up. Lately I have been incubating them upright in cartons tilting them back and forth and then laying them on their sides for hatching. I have only been doing it this way because of the ease of turning but I then put them on their sides for hatching because it does seem more natural and if they pipped the wrong end while in a carton, how whould I know? I'm not sure what to think about that one... I may have to test that during my next incubation. Keep half of them upright and half on them on their sides and count the malpositioned chicks. I know that their are a ton of variables and it would need multiple runs from mulptiple people to prove anything, but what the heck. If one way is better than the other, I'd like to know.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I've noticed that it seems I have a lot more malpositioned chicks when the humidity runs a bit low and the air cells are a bit too large. I haven't ever noticed an increase in malpositioned chicks when the eggs are on their sides throughout incubation vs. air cell up. Lately I have been incubating them upright in cartons tilting them back and forth and then laying them on their sides for hatching. I have only been doing it this way because of the ease of turning but I then put them on their sides for hatching because it does seem more natural and if they pipped the wrong end while in a carton, how whould I know? I'm not sure what to think about that one... I may have to test that during my next incubation. Keep half of them upright and half on them on their sides and count the malpositioned chicks. I know that their are a ton of variables and it would need multiple runs from mulptiple people to prove anything, but what the heck. If one way is better than the other, I'd like to know.

I am going to keep researching and compiling my findings
I will share it all in the end.... but keep giving me your insites too!! Thank you!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

I guess ya'll missed my question before. Have they said how many eggs ended up hatching yet?

FOUND IT!!!

Originally Posted by chiqita

More winners!
I got a very bad responce rate to the spreadsheet, so the reported eggs are low I'd imagine, but its what we got.

Best small hatch: gabrille1976

worst hatch: bnews
2nd : corancher
GFF 1st:mnferalkitty
GFF 2nd:KVKCranch

Reported eggs:
1061


Ill be emailing everyone later today to connect you all with your prize coordinators. If you don't get something yell at me. Thank you to all who participated!

 

[SilkieSensation]

oh... ok. Thanks. I'll add more tonight... DO I need to add more ACV? Or if I add warm water, will it reactivate the ACV??

It should reactivate the ACV as long as you haven't removed too much with all the water that was soaked up. You need to keep an inch or 2 of water over the top of the feed to keep everything going.

 

[kvmommy]

I'm having a hard time getting mine fermented too. I also made too much. I put about 3 days worthv of feed in a 5 gallon bucket. It grew so much! But I thought they would still eat roughly the same amount. They eat soooo much less. So the three days worth of food is more like two weeks. How long can it ferment without going bad? Also anyone else have a dog on a grain free diet that steals chicken feed? Even fermented feed? First time I hatched chickens she was 4 and had neverBeen Around them before. My kids left the door open and I heard the sound of her eating and freaked out. I ran in the room and sure enough her head was in brooder and she was munching away. I screamed and ran in. She ducked down totally guilty with her mouth covered in crumbles and dust and all the chicks safe and sound. She LOVES her chickies.

 

[SilkieSensation]

I'm having a hard time getting mine fermented too. I also made too much. I put about 3 days worthv of feed in a 5 gallon bucket. It grew so much! But I thought they would still eat roughly the same amount. They eat soooo much less. So the three days worth of food is more like two weeks. How long can it ferment without going bad? Also anyone else have a dog on a grain free diet that steals chicken feed? Even fermented feed? First time I hatched chickens she was 4 and had neverBeen Around them before. My kids left the door open and I heard the sound of her eating and freaked out. I ran in the room and sure enough her head was in brooder and she was munching away. I screamed and ran in. She ducked down totally guilty with her mouth covered in crumbles and dust and all the chicks safe and sound. She LOVES her chickies.

My CAT loves chicken feed. She doesn't care if it's layer or chick feed. I catch her with her head in my feed bucket every time I turn my back while feeding. She's sneaky!!!

 

[Fuzzybird]

Still have some contests not announced yet. The Holiday Chicken Photo and The Short Story. I think another one but not sure.

 

[TMNfarm]

I'm having a hard time getting mine fermented too. I also made too much. I put about 3 days worthv of feed in a 5 gallon bucket. It grew so much! But I thought they would still eat roughly the same amount. They eat soooo much less. So the three days worth of food is more like two weeks. How long can it ferment without going bad? Also anyone else have a dog on a grain free diet that steals chicken feed? Even fermented feed? First time I hatched chickens she was 4 and had neverBeen Around them before. My kids left the door open and I heard the sound of her eating and freaked out. I ran in the room and sure enough her head was in brooder and she was munching away. I screamed and ran in. She ducked down totally guilty with her mouth covered in crumbles and dust and all the chicks safe and sound. She LOVES her chickies.

My dogs LOVE the chicken feed. They steal it every chance they get...

Still have some contests not announced yet. The Holiday Chicken Photo and The Short Story. I think another one but not sure.

The short story contest has 2 winners... Myself and Kvmommy!!! CPL notified us, but no one posted it on the site... I have no idea about the Holiday CHicken Photo contest, though...