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

[brahmabreeder]

Well I got my lone egg in the hatcher. I only had two others develop with him but the quit early on. The rest were all infertile. Hopefully by killing those mites I have fixed my fertility problem.

 

[ronott1]

Well I got my lone egg in the hatcher. I only had two others develop with him but the quit early on. The rest were all infertile. Hopefully by killing those mites I have fixed my fertility problem.

I hope the one left hatches!

Good job on getting the mites taken care of.

 

[Penny Hen]

Hey did the list of what people were hatching ever get made in case we wanted some of each others chicks?

 

[Myfourladies]

He he - something else for me to obsessively do these eternal lockdown days! The cat seems very obsessed with the guest bedroom where the incubator is. She is hanging out by the door and even slept by the door. I thought it was a good sign, but then realized, she's a cat. It's verbotten. Of course she's obsessed.

Really hope I get some chickies. I found a nice big tote yesterday at Lowes (yay, managed to avoid the Evil Empire) set it up in the house and loaded it with sand. The bag of sand had been in the back of my pickup truck and the bag tore. I didn't want to use a bucket, because I use those for cleaning and I didn't want to get cleaning chemicals in the sand for the new chicks. All I found was a relatively small glass casserole dish. So, last night, I was trundling back and forth with a casserole dish, filling it with sand and carrying it inside. Some days, I wish I were one of my neighbors. It must be very entertaining speculating on what on earth I am doing.

C'mon chickies!

Some days I feel the same way. The neighbors probably get a good laugh. LOL It is great that you thought about your chicks and chemicals, but man that must have been alot of trips.

My experiance with the cat is when you shut a door that isn't normallyshut, or all of a sudden they aren't allowed in a room they use to be allowed into they become obsessed. LOL

 

[ronott1]

Hey did the list of what people were hatching ever get made in case we wanted some of each others chicks?

Yes, I have one.

I will link it to the first page.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Some days, I wish I were one of my neighbors. It must be very entertaining speculating on what on earth I am doing.

C'mon chickies!

Sometimes I hide from the neighbors.

I've had a neighbor who is about 90 and his 70 year old wife chicken sit for me a couple times when I had to go out of town. I've also done a ton of favors for them, like wiring in his new built-in oven and digging out dead trees.
One time we were talking on the phone but when we hung up, we didn't get disconnected. I'm embarrassed to say, I was eavesdropping on their conversation. They were talking about me and it wasn't pretty.

okay thanks! ill see what happens later and take it from.there

If your nests are high, you may need to add a perch in front of them for her. They like to look into the nest before they hop in.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Really hope I get some chickies. I found a nice big tote yesterday at Lowes (yay, managed to avoid the Evil Empire) set it up in the house and loaded it with sand. The bag of sand had been in the back of my pickup truck and the bag tore. I didn't want to use a bucket, because I use those for cleaning and I didn't want to get cleaning chemicals in the sand for the new chicks. All I found was a relatively small glass casserole dish. So, last night, I was trundling back and forth with a casserole dish, filling it with sand and carrying it inside.

Or you could have carried the tote to the truck and filled it there.

 

[ronott1]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Penny Hen

Hey did the list of what people were hatching ever get made in case we wanted some of each others chicks?


Yes, I have one.

I will link it to the first page.

 

[Nonyah Biz]

right now, 62%......temp at 98.....put them in lockdown a bit earlier. now everything is just catching up because I had the lid off while placing the eggs.

im doing it at 4:30 i set eggs with kids when they got home from school,we made it a family thing....cant wait eggcited ............

 

[Pozees]

Here are a couple of Silkie chick pics from this weekend's hatch - from the birds I bought from SilkieSensation.





The one in the middle in the first pic was last to hatch by maybe 12 hours after the first to hatch to the right of it, and the size difference is perceptible. Amazing. They'll get a day or two in the brooder in the house and then go out to the brooder in the coop.