4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: trust me it dont matter how you shake them.... try and you will see what I mean

 

[cluck-cluck]

Awwww Those articles didnt start as articles....
they started as the diary & notes thread alot of us hang in..... LMAO and it sure grew very large fast! Everytime we found some more info or added pics or issues I tried to keep adding them there. I am sure I missed some, but finally I took an entire weekend in Dec. to straighted the chaos and make them more user friendly since so many started to refer to them....

I cant edit that first page in the thread, which stinks as I am afraid some will refer to it and not even notice the link for the undated inforomation, as alot of things have changed and more reasoning and info has been added... I had asked mods to link that first page to the article so I hope people realize they need to click article titile to find it... anyway, thank you, I sure hope it helps people find stuff easier now.

I have all of my info and links in a word file on my computer, sometime I will add my chick info and basic chicken health info articles too. But not now, lol I had enough for now! lol

You've had enough? What makes you think you can rest????

Cluck cluck...there are 5 road island reds from Jim and the rest are from my dual purpose birds. They are twice the size of the RIR's now. The mom is a RIR/cornish and the dad is a silver pencil rock cross. He is a huge bird and not done growing. I need to get some recent pictures of him.

I have catdance silkies and a few eggs from Jim in the bator now. This last experiment was kind of a bust. I had way too many infertile eggs to make it a fair experiment. But I have found shipping eggs in the winter needs a heat pack and fertile eggs. I had 4 dozen eggs shipped all together and out of them I have a dozen fertle eggs. To much money invested to make it worth the fun. My DH would kill me if he know how much I spent. I hope and pray I get some nice chicks out of this experiment.

Very cute! Never tell hubby exactly what you spend,

Thanks for the caring thoughts. Work is kicking my butt, but need the money bad. I was seriously going through BYC withdrawal. It did give the time to work with my Pyrenees baby she is so smart and getting big, weighs close 90 lbs at 9 months. They are the most beautiful dogs. I don't think I would own any other after having her. I hope you had a great hatch. Mine So-so only hatched 17. But that's alright, I managed to get sex-links from my Barred Rock under Lavendr Am. Spots on their heads were clear as can be. Hatched all my six d'Uccles also. Olive eggers a couple wheaton Ams and Marans.

So glad you had a good hatch! Hope your stamina increases! I remember going back to work after having my baby (and 6 months bed rest!) Ugh, that was hard!

Some pics of the IBs from the NYD hatch. Forgive the specks of food...they really get into the FF, if'n ya know what I mean.

Yup, I sure do know what ya mean! I'm now trying to take the time and a colander to dry out my feed as much as possible to feed out. It's been helping to clean up my birds quite a bit! Funny buggers, especially my white birds, they were so messy!! Pretty funny!

I will probably do my own too.... so sick of shipped eggs... why do people ship eggs laying on their sides? I only ever got one set, wrapped and set the correct position and had all good air cells..... I am not sure why they lay them in the box?????

I had NO idea that it mattered which direction they sat! I've never shipped eggs before but I will keep that in mind if ever I do! Thanks for that knowledge!

we are doing an egg test on the diary notes thread.... yall can try this with an egg and realize that its NOT rough handling that does the eggs in.... its the position and constant shaking onboard..... everyone is PM'ing me their results and when I have enough we will open for discussion over there in the thread.....

here is what we are testing.......... this is a paste, its pretty amazing so go ahead and try it, you can always eat the egg too! LOL

DO THIS IN THE DARK, its all about the candle results............

STEP ONE ~ Get a few days old egg, 3-4 is fine, make sure its not frozen like mine lol......yes you can use bought eggs, but the air cell wont be the same size as shipped but if its your only option, have at it.... results will vary for store eggs and I am assuming BIG TIME.....but we can add it noting the difference.
STEP TWO ~ Candle the egg and if you can see an air cell, mark it with pencil
STEP THREE ~ Shake the egg for just a little
STEP FOUR ~ Candle and note if air cell changed
STEP FIVE ~ REPEAT step three and four UNTIL you have a rolling air cell
STEP SIX ~ SEND ME A PM OF YOUR FINDINGS in much detail, what breed, how many times shook, how much you laughed and a pic of your original air cell marking (so we can compare sizes)

When I have most of our results I will copy and paste them for everyone to discuss openly, I have a pretty good idea of what everyone is doing SO VERY WRONG when shipping eggs! Lets see if we all agree in the end......

GOT IT???

Do we count how many times we shook the egg?

Blackberry and Chocolate Ancona Ducklings 27 days old and Clementine is from end of November hatch!
And of course my 3 youngest!

Those ducks are getting huge! And your kids are truly beautiful! What a lovely family! Bless you all!

How about trying eggs upright and eggs sideways and compare? They'll both be shaken up, better to test both ways, otherwise you're just scrambling your eggs for breakfast.

LOL, more complications again, gotta keep Sally busy!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Cluck I just adore you!!

thank you

sure you can count your shakes!!

 

[cluck-cluck]

Wait wait wait, if I do this, I don't understand how/what or why I'm doing it, LOL How do I do it??? again please???

 

[cochins1088]

Sorry that I haven't posted those pictures yet, I've been having trouble uploading them.

Otherwise, that sounds like a very cool experiment Sally! I sure hope you'll be sharing the results with us. I would do it, but I honestly haven't seen an egg in over 3 months now. This is a new record, hahaha. Cochins aren't exactly known for being the best layers and most of my current flock are either pullets or 4 - 6 year old birds. Some are at their prime laying age, but they just aren't cooperating. Hopefull I'll see eggs again next month.

 

[Daloorashens]

I haven't been able to keep up with this thread.. have all the winners of the contests been announced?? I just looked on the contest page and it hasn't been updated if they have been... just curious, also was curious how many chicks did hatch out, not just for the prize, but also just out of curiousity????

 

[mstricer]

I put up a thread to vote on the holiday photo contest plesse go vote.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs

Sally I will post some pics tonight when i get home.

 

[mstricer]

Awwww Those articles didnt start as articles.... they started as the diary

You've had enough? What makes you think you can rest????

Cluck cluck...there are 5 road island reds from Jim and the rest are from my dual purpose birds. They are twice the size of the RIR's now. The mom is a RIR/cornish and the dad is a silver pencil rock cross. He is a huge bird and not done growing. I need to get some recent pictures of him. I have catdance silkies and a few eggs from Jim in the bator now. This last experiment was kind of a bust. I had way too many infertile eggs to make it a fair experiment. But I have found shipping eggs in the winter needs a heat pack and fertile eggs. I had 4 dozen eggs shipped all together and out of them I have a dozen fertle eggs. To much money invested to make it worth the fun. My DH would kill me if he know how much I spent. I hope and pray I get some nice chicks out of this experiment.

Very cute! Never tell hubby exactly what you spend,

Thanks for the caring thoughts. Work is kicking my butt, but need the money bad. I was seriously going through BYC withdrawal. It did give the time to work with my Pyrenees baby she is so smart and getting big, weighs close 90 lbs at 9 months. They are the most beautiful dogs. I don't think I would own any other after having her. I hope you had a great hatch. Mine So-so only hatched 17. But that's alright, I managed to get sex-links from my Barred Rock under Lavendr Am. Spots on their heads were clear as can be. Hatched all my six d'Uccles also. Olive eggers a couple wheaton Ams and Marans.

So glad you had a good hatch! Hope your stamina increases! I remember going back to work after having my baby (and 6 months bed rest!) Ugh, that was hard!

Some pics of the IBs from the NYD hatch. Forgive the specks of food...they really get into the FF, if'n ya know what I mean.

Yup, I sure do know what ya mean! I'm now trying to take the time and a colander to dry out my feed as much as possible to feed out. It's been helping to clean up my birds quite a bit! Funny buggers, especially my white birds, they were so messy!! Pretty funny!

I will probably do my own too.... so sick of shipped eggs... why do people ship eggs laying on their sides? I only ever got one set, wrapped and set the correct position and had all good air cells..... I am not sure why they lay them in the box?????

I had NO idea that it mattered which direction they sat! I've never shipped eggs before but I will keep that in mind if ever I do! Thanks for that knowledge!

we are doing an egg test on the diary notes thread.... yall can try this with an egg and realize that its NOT rough handling that does the eggs in.... its the position and constant shaking onboard..... everyone is PM'ing me their results and when I have enough we will open for discussion over there in the thread..... here is what we are testing.......... this is a paste, its pretty amazing so go ahead and try it, you can always eat the egg too! LOL DO THIS IN THE DARK, its all about the candle results............ STEP ONE ~ Get a few days old egg, 3-4 is fine, make sure its not frozen like mine lol......yes you can use bought eggs, but the air cell wont be the same size as shipped but if its your only option, have at it.... results will vary for store eggs and I am assuming BIG TIME.....but we can add it noting the difference. STEP TWO ~ Candle the egg and if you can see an air cell, mark it with pencil STEP THREE ~ Shake the egg for just a little STEP FOUR ~ Candle and note if air cell changed STEP FIVE ~ REPEAT step three and four UNTIL you have a rolling air cell STEP SIX ~ SEND ME A PM OF YOUR FINDINGS in much detail, what breed, how many times shook, how much you laughed and a pic of your original air cell marking (so we can compare sizes) When I have most of our results I will copy and paste them for everyone to discuss openly, I have a pretty good idea of what everyone is doing SO VERY WRONG when shipping eggs! Lets see if we all agree in the end...... [COLOR=008080]GOT IT???[/COLOR]

Do we count how many times we shook the egg?

Blackberry and Chocolate Ancona Ducklings 27 days old and Clementine is from end of November hatch! And of course my 3 youngest!

Those ducks are getting huge! And your kids are truly beautiful! What a lovely family! Bless you all!

How about trying eggs upright and eggs sideways and compare? They'll both be shaken up, better to test both ways, otherwise you're just scrambling your eggs for breakfast.

LOL, more complications again, gotta keep Sally busy!

 

[mstricer]

Sally your kids are so adorable. What a nice looking family you have

 

[TMNfarm]

Go vote people! Lots of cool pictures to choose from.