4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Brechin]

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YES! That is why I am freaking out a little over here. Never thought I would have so many chicks to worry about and already have eggs for the hatch along coming tomorrow!! I have a few friends who would love the TJ day olds but that leaves me with 20+ chicks after the hatch along. I only plan on keeping 5 chicks! I might have to sell the extras here on BYC

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

LOL I wish i only had to worry about 5 dozen.... my life would be a much simpler one thats for sure

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

My 'fridge that isn't turned on, that I'm storing my eggs in, is getting full!! Ahhh!! Oh well....*sigh* ; )

~ Aspen

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

1 massive set or multiple smaller sets?

 

[caj1985]

LOL I wish i only had to worry about 5 dozen.... my life would be a much simpler one thats for sure

Oh, my. How many do you hatch at a time?

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

I'm beta testing my incubator still and currently have about 130 in there. The link to it is in my sig, Ultra-bator. Its taking my girls about 3 days to fill a flat for me so I'll have about 3 flats of my own to set plus eggs I'm buying. My largest hatch to date was 122. I should be able to bury that number come late spring

 

[TMNfarm]

Still waiting for my eggs to get here... The waiting is driving me NUTS!!!

My girls were gracious enough to give me plenty of my own to hatch out too, but I'm just so excited to get my mystery eggs and the other eggs I ordered... I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning...

 

[SleepyOwl]

I got my ebay eggs today. She didn't wrap them super well, so I have low expectations. They were each wrapped in one layer of small bubble wrap, then put into an egg carton which she just surrounded with newspaper... that's it. I don't have a candler yet, (and wouldn't know what to look for anyway) so I will just set them all on Tue. and candle them on day 10 and see what is up then.

I am also picking up some mixed chicks locally tomorrow, so I will have a much better chance at hatching something at least. It will be my first hatch, so I want to make sure we at least get a few fuzzies out of the deal. I do hope at least a couple of these eggs hatch though, as I don't have any silkies yet.

 

[SleepyOwl]

Still waiting for my eggs to get here... The waiting is driving me NUTS!!!

My girls were gracious enough to give me plenty of my own to hatch out too, but I'm just so excited to get my mystery eggs and the other eggs I ordered... I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning...

It's so fun, isn't it?

 

[cluck-cluck]

I got my ebay eggs today. She didn't wrap them super well, so I have low expectations. They were each wrapped in one layer of small bubble wrap, then put into an egg carton which she just surrounded with newspaper... that's it. I don't have a candler yet, (and wouldn't know what to look for anyway) so I will just set them all on Tue. and candle them on day 10 and see what is up then.

I am also picking up some mixed chicks locally tomorrow, so I will have a much better chance at hatching something at least. It will be my first hatch, so I want to make sure we at least get a few fuzzies out of the deal. I do hope at least a couple of these eggs hatch though, as I don't have any silkies yet.

Well, to be honest, all you can do for packing is keep them from breaking, there really isn't much more a person can do, as the damage inside, like loose air sacks, comes from how rough the package was handled. The post office guys throw the boxes, play catch with 'em, and drop em all the time. That's just something you can't do anything about except hope! The other thing people speculate on is that perhaps if they are traveling by airplane, the eggs might not take to the plane pressurization well. Hopefully, yours didn't get too mishandled and are fine. I think out of 12, I got 4 loose air bubbles, but I'm giving them time to settle so I hope they will hatch anyway