5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[msladyhawke]

They are adorable! Your hatch is going great! What is the yellow one that just hatched?

My first chick just hatched and it is an OE! Its color looks just like a golden cuckoo Marans pullet! Keeping my fingers crossed that it is a girl!

Oh my goodness! That is a gorgeous color! Congrats!

 

[ronott1]

Can I get an AWWW? Chick # 1 wobbled its way across the bator and onto the cartons to go offer up-close help!

Next time I will take out the thermometer and use a sponge in the tupperware. This is chick #1 a Brahmacauna (EE)

Wobbling over to offer moral support to chick #2 What appears to be a BOxBrahma

Swimming across the eggs

Here it is: the AWWWW moment!

Sticking close to offer a wing if needed.

Awwwww!

 

[chickee]

Oh my goodness! That is a gorgeous color! Congrats!

Thanks, and congratulations to you too!

So tiny and adorable! I love d'Uccles! What color is it going to be?

 

[msladyhawke]

Thanks, and congratulations to you too!

So tiny and adorable! I love d'Uccles! What color is it going to be?

Porcelain

 

[Aphrael]

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MY FIRST EGG EVER! in the second pic mine is on the right and a store bought one on the left! I'm so happy! it might be frozen tho

but still

Congrats! The first egg is sooooo exciting.

and I JUST GOT MY FIRST PIP! first egg then first pip!

I heard it crack it was awesome

I love being there to see when they knock that first bit out. Heck, I like being there to see all of it, who am I kidding?

Congrats on the pip. You'll have

soon!

my brother just looked at my piped egg and said to my mom " mom that's the first challenge he's going to face in this world! " it's so true

Very perceptive statement!

I think I have a fail - the chick that was pipping and zipping in the pretty green egg suddenly turned and started zipping down the side of the shell, and the next time I looked there was yolk dripping out of the shell and it was trying to breathe but the shell is filled with liquid. I opened up one side so it could get air, but it looks bad, yolk and what appears to be something that should be inside is outside. I think I will have to remove and cull. The one that was pipping at the wrong end, as long as I had the lid lifted I put on clean gloves, picked of a couple bits of shell and saw blood so I stopped, put it back in sideways so it was more correctly oriented. I think that one might be okay, fingers crossed, but the other one I'm almost certain is dying anyway and I think I should remove it from the hatcher.

Oh no! I'm so sorry about this.

Can I get an AWWW? Chick # 1 wobbled its way across the bator and onto the cartons to go offer up-close help!

Next time I will take out the thermometer and use a sponge in the tupperware. This is chick #1 a Brahmacauna (EE)

Wobbling over to offer moral support to chick #2 What appears to be a BOxBrahma

Swimming across the eggs

Here it is: the AWWWW moment!

Sticking close to offer a wing if needed.

Awww. So sweet.

They are adorable! Your hatch is going great! What is the yellow one that just hatched?

My first chick just hatched and it is an OE! Its color looks just like a golden cuckoo Marans pullet! Keeping my fingers crossed that it is a girl!

That is gonna be a real beauty.

Porcelain

Congrats on the chick! And a porcelain.

Porcelains are sooooo pretty.

 

[scotter]

First chick is out!
It was running around the hatcher 30 min after it pipped.
It came from a tan egg and is covered in blond down. I guessing it's a Production Red Cornish X mix.



No pips from my Faverolles eggs yet

 

[chickee]

Porcelain

My favorite color!

I have a porcelain d'Anver pair.

 

[ChickenDoodleMI]

My first hatch to be successful!

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[ronott1]

My first hatch to be successful!

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One of many to come!

 

[Aphrael]

Well my last EE egg is pipped now. The orps are still sitting there stubbornly doing nothing.