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

[msladyhawke]

Candled 4 of my eggs today that were over 15days old before they went into the incubator, 3 have little veins. I am so excited. Happy egg hatching everyone

AWESOME!

 

[msladyhawke]

Me too. I have a Giant Food store right up the street. I may have to try this

Blarney stopping enabling...I'm bad enough on my own! LOL

Avlana, I saw the eggs marked "fertile eggs" in the organic isle.

 

[Cynthia12]

14 Chickens
6 Chicks
12 Eggs in the incubator
2 Dogs
1 Cat
and on my wishlist is a Birman cat and a miniature pig

... and still always praying for a baby, but I'm only 29 so it can still happen!

Yes! It can still happen and you will be fine if you don't until even later. I had my last just before I turned 40. I wondered about how he would be when we were this age. Oh my goodness..so thankful we had him. So well behaved and mannered. Also a very spiritual young man. On a mission right now for our church. He loves the Lord! You are still very young...praying now, that this will happen for you. And, only 2 dogs? What? You need one more. We have three.

And one just had pups..won't be doing that again though. lol...I'm getting way to old.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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No one saying you mean,, I will stop all conversation here,,,

I think you have an addon on or something running on your comp your not aware of cause I don't get that when I mouse over you pic nothing happens.

Yes I restored my PC setting ,,Things are better now,, I don't understand what the issue was,, I change no setting from last week and past several weeks. Posted pics several weeks ago, no issue, Its all good now. Whatever!

I see this has already sorted itself out but have to say: This sounded like a plea for help to me rather than a complaint. I know I would be extremely annoyed if I was suddenly bombarded by ads when there were none the day before. I would be trying to figure out how to fix it as well. It's best to assume the positive side of things when all we can see is someone's written words & not the look on their face or tone of their voice. Better to give the benefit of the doubt than assume the worst.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I love my GFM.....it expires soon though!

I considered a GFM but I'm too poor at the moment. However, I have won 2 GFMs in contests. I won a year for guessing when we would reach 5 million posts, or something like that. Then I won a 6 month one in a best comb picture contest.
I did enjoy them and will probably purchase in the future.

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quick question guys. say i set 10 eggs in an incubator... and 2 end up being not fertile... and the other 8 hatch. would that be a 100% hatch rate or 80%? i want to know if un fertilized eggs count towards your hatch rate

I would say it is total hatch rate. It is too hard to tell (did I say impossible?) if an egg is truly infertile or didn't develop for any number of other reasons once the eggs have been cooking a while. In research, they open eggs every day during incubation to determine fertility and development before the evidence is lost which often happens within a couple days of the embryo failing.
An egg can have no development and still had been fertilized. (blastoderm without embryo) Some of the causes are:
Excessive storage time prior to incubation
Stored under poor conditions, temperature too high or too low. Fluctuating temperatures
Incubator improperly sterilized -- too severe or just prior to incubation
Incorrectly disinfecting eggs or egg wash temperature too high
Eggs damaged during handling and transport by jarring, temperature shock when the temps changed too rapidly
Eggshell respiration inhibited
High temperature in early incubation - this one is very common
Very young or very old breeders
Heredity, inbreeding, chromosome abnormalities
Breeder flock diseases
Failure of a basic organ system to develop normally - usually genetic
Infections vertically or by contact like salmonella
Drugs, toxins, pesticides, etc.
Infrequent or incomplete egg collection

Much of that list comes from the University of Florida and the incubator company 'NatureForm'.

With all those possible problems, those of you that always have excellent hatch rates

I don't get any pop ups at all on this site. The top right corner is an add but that stays there when I scroll down I have blue to the sides of my main area. I guess there is advertisement at the bottom of the page also.

I've never had pop ups either, whether I was basic or GFM.

Hi! I hope all is going well for everyones eggs! The lost eggs are going to be reshipped. Would be nice if they developed too

I have been reading the posts.... y'all are too kind. I am not a mad scientist.... well maybe a little. If you guy ONLY KNEW some of the stuff I have cooking at the farm LOL.

I have seen several posts about my Marans eggs I and I wanted to CLARIFY the colors I have. I have a Blue Copper roo over Blue and Black Copper pullets those are in pen 10 so you would get blue black and splash chicks. Not all blue and splash or just splash. Some got eggs from pen 5 and those have a black copper roo over blue and black copper so only blue and black copper from that pen.

I would LOVE to see pics of the chicks you guys hatch from my eggs especially the Marans. Please PM me pics. I can't keep up with this thread.... y'all talk more than my Hubby does

Hope you ALL have a great hatch! nothing more fun than a good hatch!

I am going to work on my new hatcher today very excited about it. I have had it for months just didn't have time to work on it. My son is going to do all the wiring today for me YEAH!.... just need to test it after that.



This pic is best to kinda explain what I am going to do. The bottom is where the flexwatt and water will be. I may need to add another heat source. Flexwatt sometimes need a boost.

Awesome hatcher. I was seriously considering flexwatt. After doing the calculations, I realized I couldn't get enough in there.

I opted for some like this with more oomph.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HEATING-ELE...eName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Watt-Ro...998?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d07e3dad6

http://www.ebay.com/itm/125-Watt-Ca...912?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f202d7a00

I'm sure they work better with moving air though.

I am having fun,,despite my PC issues

.. Why would you think that you are being mean? Why would you state that..? Is it because we all have to be sensitive on this PC chatting? I take no issue with your statement..

Some people have very thin skin and on forums like this everyone seems like they're walking on eggshells.
Or maybe it's just me.

painting the edges would work,,so would the silicone,,,,just a thin swipe would work,, That is a nice set up,,would hate to see it ruined,,,Even if you live in a very humidly environment,,your area.. It might effect it also,,,Peace,,,

I hadn't sealed or painted the insides of my cabinet and moisture soaked into the wood and worked it's way into my homemade double pane windows creating condensation - not to mention the problem with the wood.
I ended up sealing (after it dried out) and cured the problem.

yep...Tones.

I forgot about the icons,, I will use them more,, .

I need to use smilies more too because I guess I'm just too plain spoken.
I grew up in a pretty tough environment. For high school I attended an all boys, private, Catholic, military institute. Discipline being utmost on their agenda, it was not a warm and fuzzy place. (anyone want some horror stories?)
Then, after serving in the army (Viet Nam era), I spent most of the rest of my life in factories - primarily auto industry and feed industry. Those people can be quite harsh. One tends to acquire the same harsh persona after all that time.

Clearly though, some people do need to get over it, put their big girl pants on and grow some skin.
If someone asks for advice and advice is given that specifically addresses their situation, why get huffy and tell the advisor they're being mean because it wasn't what one wanted to hear.

There's my smiley for the day.

 

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

Thanks Silkie Sensation,,,,No harm no fowl...HAHAH YET,, PEACE<<<<

 

[Cynthia12]

going to look them up, but maybe the giants are what I'm thinking about, cause they are huge.. thanks, now maybe I will get me some leghorns. thank you

I wonder if you are thinking of those great big broilers you see in the feed stores in the spring? You go there to look at chicks, see these cute little white fluff balls, then go back a week later, and they are huge. They get big fast, but then you can eat them sooner.

 

[Cynthia12]

I did NOT make this. I have a chicken friend that builds custom closets and he built this for me under my supervision LOL out of scrap. Took him about 4 hours or so. I think I have a few chickens and maybe $40 in it.... I LOVE it.... I hope it works as well as we hope. He was ready to build me another one within a week. LOL. I need to talk him into making incubators.

Very nice!

Hey, my Rhodebars are developing nicely..only have three questionable at this time! yaay, I've been trying for Rhodebars for a while. I think I may get a few.

 

[ronott1]

Very nice!

Hey, my Rhodebars are developing nicely..only have three questionable at this time! yaay, I've been trying for Rhodebars for a while. I think I may get a few.

The Rhodebar eggs came from Papabrooder?

 

[Cynthia12]

Me neither. No pop ups. I believe pop ups are an internet browser setting on your own computer, not a site setting.

This is true. When I start getting too many pop ups, I also clean my computer. There are free places to go so you can do this. Spybot being one.