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

[JuNK GyPSY]

Set 40 Serama Eggs Happy Hatching Everyone

 

[Ramblin Rooster]

7 eggs set from my own flock!

Awesome! That must be fun, do you ever try to get a hen to adopt them?

2 FBCM
2 Leghorn
3 EE
all covered by Ameraucana Roos.

 

[Gardeningmama]

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[Ramblin Rooster]

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Good morning to you too!

 

[tadpole98]

Big icestorm tomorrow night. Might lose power!

Meaning i might lose 27 eggs!!! Generator isnt working, so what can I do if it does go out for awhile?

 

[tadpole98]

Set 40 Serama Eggs Happy Hatching Everyone

Sweet!!! What kind of serama?
Im hatching malaysian/american seramas along with some mottled cochins

 

[msladyhawke]

Big icestorm tomorrow night. Might lose power!

Meaning i might lose 27 eggs!!! Generator isnt working, so what can I do if it does go out for awhile?

I have a power converter so I can plug it into my car's power outlet. I think I got it at either Walmart or Radio Shack.

 

[msladyhawke]

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What a pretty good morning picture! Morning!!!!

 

[roostereggs]

CHICKEN PICKIN, your chicken village and property are beautiful! Do they stay outside all day and then go into their coops at night? And do they know which coop they belong to?

I have what I call their coop, but it is more like a run...a 3 horse covered/enclosed stall (here in AZ it is warm enough for that)...and their tiny coop inside is where they lay. Except for my lowest of the pecking order who sleeps in there and hides out to not get pecked. Then I have what I call their run where I let them out while doing chicken chores...it is basically the horse paddock but I just got aviary netting to put over it and will be planting pasture in Feb.

Wish I had your big trees!!! The tallest thing around here is the oleander and saguaro.

 

[ronott1]

Will my eggs be okay? I set yesterday at 1.15pm and sometime during the night the light bulb (brand new one) went out. The temperature when I woke up at 6am was 23 degr. Celcius, which is about 60 degr Fahrenheit. I changed the light bulb immediately and the temps stabilized quickly, turned eggs at 7am and all running again. Hope they didn't die?

It really depends on how long they cooled down and where in the incubation cycle you were. Given that you are early in the hatch and it was not really that long, the worst that will happen is a bit later hatch.

From having eggs cool down like yours many time over other hatch a longs, Yours will likely hatch fine and on time.

Big icestorm tomorrow night. Might lose power!

Meaning i might lose 27 eggs!!! Generator isnt working, so what can I do if it does go out for awhile?

Two of my incubators run on 12vDC. I have adapters and a Car Battery connected to a battery charger. If the power goes out for more than two hours I move the eggs into one of those incubators. For other incubators, the same set up with an inverter will run them or you can keep them in your car with an inverter until the power comes back on.