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

[Brookhavens]

Brookhavers

Nice seeing you over here. Not setting any Serama for the hatch?

If the girls were laying I would have set some of theirs. Haven't gotten an egg from them in over a week.

 

[Bama1]

Sign me up if it isn't too late. I set 13 eggs today.

 

[Cynthia12]

My blue wheaten Ameraucana pullet just gave me another egg, which was still warm so I could just pop it into the incubator with the others that I started at 10:30 this morning

So my count has changed from 10 to 11 eggs so I have attached a new picture of the 11 eggs

Man those are purtty!

 

[msladyhawke]

This pic is to update my post earlier commenting that I set 28 eggs at 7:15am this morning.

 

[chickensnewtome]

They look great! Good luck ya'll, can't wait to see all the furry butts and hopefully hear some squeking from our little bator!

 

[FeyRaine]

So shipped Monday CA arrived today TN
but the gash on the box caused me to put plastic under it b/f opening...

But lots of Bubble Wrap by PapaBrooder (& lots of extra eggs too & super effort above & beyond to get them mailed to me)
All Eggs Shells GOOD

2 Layers of eggs , tons of bubble wrap per egg, plus around all. I assume from the gash on the box the air cells will be in a sorry state, so not even handling them to candle,
just let them rest 6hrs to get to house temp, then into bator - NO TURNER , will candle day 3 or 4 to see what we have, will individually hand tilt my 4 own flock eggs meanwhile.

SET 6PM Eastern Dec 11

TOTAL SET = 50 49Chicken Eggs by FeyRaine 6pmEastern Dec11, 2013
These include:
SHIPPED 45 EGGS of the following:
4 Millie Fleur Leghorn
2 BCM (the really dark two)
4 IM (<-- not sure what that code is?? the 4 choc. med. dark ones)
8 SFH (lovely cream the first 8 eggs starting top left going across)
5 CL? (Breeder was stranded by ice storm, noted that these maybe CL, otherwise we guess B AME, will know when they hatch...)
16 BAM (very pretty pale blue to slightly mint green shade eggs)
6 R2 (<-- ah? lovely pale olive eggs...the last row turner)

PLUS MY EGGS -
2 (Includes the one I hand carried in my hat, plus one today, CL roo "Prince" over misc brown egg layers, large tan eggs middle bottom row)
2 (light green layed today by 2 mutt EE pullets I hatched this spring, the Roo arrived Sunday so _maybe_ fertile? )
Ok so here is the odd part, the new Roo, a CL I intended to name King, as in Good King Henry , since my other one in Prince, as in hopefully Charming.

So I saw about the loose today of the Roo already named that, & so my new CL will be Good King Henry II
& if the person who lost the Good King Henry today would pm me, in the spring when I have my NIPI if you pay shipping I'll send you some eggs from GKH II if you would like just cause

WOOHOO 2014 is gonna be a wonderful year for everyone AND our chickies!!

 

[Jenslp]

I set 20 eggs sliver laced wyandottoes, buckeyes, Spanish and some hybrids. Hope my incubator holds temp alright! Maybe I will get a good hatch rate since they are all 3 days old at the most.

 

[SoManyHats]

Picked up my eggs today! Yippee! Thanks to the generosity of Sunnyskies and someone from Pet Chickens of Virginia, I ended up with... 38 eggs! Yowza!



There are EEs, OEs, Silkies, Cochin x Silkie, Marans, SFL x RSL...that's all I can remember. It's going to be fun rotating and turning the next 7 days until I can toss some. But I'm super excited! Here's my photo for the hatch rate contest. All snuggled into my homemade incubator. I set them at 7:30pm east coast.

 

[chickenman80]

Hi! here is 14leghorn, 6phenix\wheaten americana x, and 8 bbs orpington eggs. this is batch number 5. I love hatching chicks.

 

[chickengirl1193]

Here are my dozen eggs set this morning at 5. I can't wait to here the peeping!

did you put food coloring. in the water to see it? does that hurt the eggs? I wanna do that cuz I cant see the water for anything