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

[JLaw]

Can someone relink that chick water thing that was posted a few days ago? The square one that someone on BYC designed.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

This will get you close.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/835798/5th-annual-byc-new-years-day-2014-hatch-a-long/5530

 

[BoereMeisie]

My final hatch results are in:

Original set:
3 Blue Orpington
5 Rhode Island Red
4 Red Sex-link x Silkie "just for kicks"

Before Lockdown:
Removed 3 Infertile Blue Orpingtons and 1 Infertile RIR
Tossed 1 RSL x Silkie Blood ringed egg

Locked down:
4 RIR's and 3 RSL x Silkie

Hatched:
3 RSLxSilkie (1 sticky chick had to assist)
2 RIR (1 sticky chick had to assist)

Died after lockdown:
2 RIR

5 Chickies hatched out of 12, of which 4 were infertile - My best hatch yet!

Overall percentage: 41% hatch rate
Fertile percentage: 62.5% hatch rate

 

[SoManyHats]

I went all the way back to see how yours had done, and I'm so glad!

Thanks! All of the ones I got from you hatched! That's impressive. The other four I confirmed dead. They were malpositioned, three had pipped internally but couldn't make the external pip.

 

[chickengirl1193]

my final hatch rate was 66% and 80% on the ones that were fertile!

 

[BoereMeisie]

The Sticky chick Rhode Island Red I assisted out of her shell:


Sticky Chick RSL x Silkie I assisted out of shell (they are nice and fluffed up since they had a warm bath! It's piping hot summer over here so they were at no risk of getting chilled)


The final five fuzzies (The fast and the fuzziest five?)

 

[CackleJoy]

Final count.

31 eggs set

11 (purchased) not fertile so removed after zero development

8 eggs died in various stages of development

12 hatched


Hard to know what caused the deaths, I will assume my ignorance in candling outside the incubator contributed as 7 of the eggs show development that just quit. 1 egg is so opaque that it may not have developed at all.

I have learned so much! Looking forward to my next hatch so I can implement the new things and make it better.

 

[ronott1]

My final hatch results are in:

Original set:
3 Blue Orpington
5 Rhode Island Red
4 Red Sex-link x Silkie "just for kicks"

Before Lockdown:
Removed 3 Infertile Blue Orpingtons and 1 Infertile RIR
Tossed 1 RSL x Silkie Blood ringed egg

Locked down:
4 RIR's and 3 RSL x Silkie

Hatched:
3 RSLxSilkie (1 sticky chick had to assist)
2 RIR (1 sticky chick had to assist)

Died after lockdown:
2 RIR

5 Chickies hatched out of 12, of which 4 were infertile - My best hatch yet!

Overall percentage: 41% hatch rate
Fertile percentage: 62.5% hatch rate

Congratulations! It is nice to have chicks again too!

my final hatch rate was 66% and 80% on the ones that were fertile!

Good Job!

 

[BoereMeisie]

my final hatch rate was 66% and 80% on the ones that were fertile!

Congrats!

 

[SoManyHats]

Are we supposed to post a picture of our chicks for the official records?