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

[Aphrael]

sniff. Mail came. No eggs. This means they will arrive in the middle of the day when I am at work, and be set on my porch to freeze in this extreme cold spell we are having.

worry worry worry

Oh no! I hope they end up coming at a time when someone can get them in.

The ones tooo early for the hatch. They are Cochin bantams and 5 hatched yesterday, 6 today...I will be adding my standard size chicken eggs by the 11th for the hatch-a-long! Just had to show off my new babies!!!!

Sooooo cute!

Love those chipmunk stripes.

The obvious answer is to call in sick with the "chicken flu"

There ya go! Problem solved.

 

[Avlana]

OK I need some help with making sure that my eggs will be okay to hatch.

This egg seemed very porous and I don't want it to affect my soon, hopefully babies. The egg is from my SLW.

Here is a better picture of one.

My question is is this bad and if so what do I do about it because I don't want to have to order any eggs?

I just had porous lav orpington eggs just like that. They hatched out just fine for me a week ago

Since they were porous, I didn't candle/handle them as often. I have an automated turner in my incubator. Apparently bacteria and humidity can be an issue. Though I didn't keep an eye on humidity and they still hatched fine (they were even shipped!).

 

[Ramblin Rooster]

wanna be part of this so bad.

Hopefully next year's will come fast. Do y'all do hatchalongs other times of the year?

 

[ronott1]

wanna be part of this so bad.

Hopefully next year's will come fast. Do y'all do hatchalongs other times of the year?

Yes! The next one will be Easter.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Are mine going out today?
                                              Or did they?

Had an ice storm here last night. PMed you.

 

[Whoops]

The obvious answer is to call in sick with the "chicken flu"

I like that one!

 

[fosterson]

wanna be part of this so bad.

Hopefully next year's will come fast. Do y'all do hatchalongs other times of the year?

Easter's the next big one, but there's usually a monthly informal hatch a long too.

 

[bantambury]

wanna be part of this so bad.   Hopefully next year's will come fast. Do y'all do hatchalongs other times of the year?

Sam!!! Wish you could!! Hopefully you could do easter!!! I wouldnt....id have too many chickens! Haha just got 22 eggs for this NYD hatch!!!

 

[Ramblin Rooster]

Really? Why didn't I think of that? Then definitely will do easter, if I last that long...

. Hopefully I will have some room left, since as soon as I get a bator I'm going to be hatching out new chicks every week!

Great to see you here on BYC @bantambury

 

[SoManyHats]

You can candle any time you want to! For Duck air cell development:

Do you have one of these for chicken eggs?