4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[NotAFarm]

Wow, busy night over on the nydh contest6 thread!!

Congrats to MarineCorpFarmer and gamebirdsonly for winning random post prizes there!

Only 15 days until Christmas......how am I ever going to get everything done if I try to keep track of this hatchalong!!

 

[michaelf]

[COLOR=0000FF]Who here thinks Michael has extraordinarily good eye sight?  Okay, there is the possibility that he knows what he's looking for.[/COLOR]

I try to candle as LITTLE as possible.  If it smells, I take it out.  [COLOR=0000FF]I don't want to risk dropping an egg, since I can hardly tell what I'm looking at.  On Day 18 that aircell (or lack thereof) is fairly obvious ~even I can see it.  So that's the day we clean house and keep the good ones.[/COLOR]  

lol , I candle about at week one I do take the eggs out of incubator and check by " candling method" with the light I made reference to. If no devolpment I trash them. Then I recandle at lockdown. I do open when there are a bunch of chicks running around and put them in a broody pen.other than
that it is not messed with, just ocassionally to put water in to keep humidity right. It works for me so I am not changing my method.

 

[TMNfarm]

Morning! I can't believe there were still over 60 posts on the contest 6 thread after I went to bed!! I'm gonna be so far behind when I get home today. I have a busy day, so I'm not sure I can keep up. I get to go watch my youngest son play basketball! It's his second game, but I had to work last time. Good thing he has wonderful grandmas and aunties to go watch and cheer for him! Then I have my office Christmas party tonight... Maybe no one will olive if I sneak my iPad in and glance at it occasionally??

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I had to be quick, I was trying to write on three threads INCLUDING the CONTEST for posting thread!!!!!

Dutch is more "choppy" lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Marking my place. See ya tomorrow 100s of posts later .....

MORNING Sailor!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I candled my eggs tonight too! It wasnt what I expected, most showed up clear....Im thinking it's fertility. I have pekin duck eggs, and i dont think they breed as much in thee winter as they do in spring/summer. Well good luck to everybody.

Oh!!! how many are ok??? you still have plenty in the bator?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Ok, So earlier I was telling you guys that my single combed roosters end up with frostbite every winter. Well I finally did something, it's not very good, and needs work but here is my little prototype comb protector. It need to be tighter, maybe using a more stretchy yet thick fabric? I can't justify any sort of chin strap. The rooster in the pictures in named Tom Jr. and he didn't mind wearing it, but it wouldn't stay on for very long. He would peck at the dirt and fly his head back and it would just fall off which is why I'm thinking a slightly tighter, more stretchy material would help.

What do you guys think?

LOL why dont you just add a red heat light to the coop?? adding... it is adorable..... you could do something with that pic inthe look alike contest too!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I couldn't go to sleep thinking none of my eggs were developing, so I candled all of them. I found 4 of them developing and one possibly developing, or else it's a blood ring. I'm not throwing the others away yet, they could show something in a day or two, but I'm relieved enough to know I have possibilities tonight!

What really made my heart soar is that my one frizzle egg from bhep has the clearest strongest spider vein of 'em all, and I really want that one to hatch!

That one and please, one more (don't want any singletons!) Just gotta make it 18 more days 'till hatch!

awwwwwww frizzles!!!!

look my Brahma are all ending up to have been had by the Frizzle ROO!!!!
HOW CUTE and some are pencil looking and some are laced LMAO!!

But OMG look at those chest feathers!! I didnt notice them before now!!!
Maybe we should wait a week to see how they look all filled in, some are different than others!!! some look penciled and others look laced!!








look how tall and big they are!!! I love BRAHMA!!

 

[champer]

Morning! I second the congrats to MarineCorpFarmer and gamebirdsonly, but there were a ton of seriously dedicated posters in that thread.

I randomly selected an egg from each batch in my bators and saw only 2 with good development, I think I might be in the running for worst hatch rate.

I don't usually look this early, now I wish I hadn't!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good morning every one just stopping in before head off to work

Be careful!! Good morning!