6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[emvickrey]

If you get TJ eggs and need someone to take a pullet off of your hands let me know. I saw in your later post that yours were packed similarly to mine....why do people skrimp on their packaging?? It makes me sad.

I hope you have a great hatch. will you pm me please your egg source. I am so wanting to add a few cochin bantams and really would love to add splash and blue.

please contact me after they hatch. I am doing a sea turtle/seagull project and want to outcross platypus for venom. I have been hunting for years to find someone who had them! The sizzle just makes them that more appealing...conversation starters ya know??


Yay be sure you tell Ron about your hatch rate and send pics so you can be in the broody contest. The odds are ever in your favor.

Darling...what a great talent!

I will post a pic of my broody for the hal and my broody who is right this minute hatching a clutch. They are super sweet. I have one chick out and the other 5 are pipping zipping and cheeping

glad the yolk looked good but sorry you had to see it. big bummer

Hope you get a good hatch...mostly NOT for selfish reasons!


OMGoodness she is beyond beautiful. Where did you get her and can I get one?!? Seriously I have a huge crush on this broody! That baby is pretty sweet too

I just love to watch the broody hens with their babies. They are so tender with them and the way they pick out food from the feeder and drop it in front of them to show them the food. And boy do they get upset when they feel their babies are in danger. And the roo gets plain mean. They mean business when they say leave my babies alone

 

[Amberjem]

Question? How do you water candle an egg? @ronott1?

so glad you asked, I was going to ask next since hadnt seen anyone mention it I thought it would be good for the maran egg incubators

 

[Cynthia12]

Someone said talent? I wish..Noo ..no talent here, but a nice thought. They were bought.

 

[Book]

QUESTION:

Should I have rocking eggs on day 18? Might they come early?

 

[Aliciahess]

The shipped eggs were packed terribly! Paper egg cartons, not bubble wrap on the eggs. the cartons were wrapped in large bubble wrap and the foam nugget spacers. One egg was smashed and oozed onto two others. Packed correctly, this shipment would have made it perfectly. The yolk looked good though.

Sending good thoughts your way. Sound like they Wil be beautiful birds!

Someone said talent? I wish..Noo ..no talent here, but a nice thought. They were bought.

You could have taken the credit and no one would have known. Hehehe. They are very cute birds! Where did you get them?

 

[Aliciahess]

Here is an old pic...she was a fierce mommy. Attacked all of my dogs. Lol.

 

[carcar80]

Okay, I have to admit it, she is a very pretty silkie.  There, I said it.  lol  I wouldn't begrudge anyone who loves these birds but I've never seen one that I truly thought was pretty...until now.  lol 

LOL. For a second I thought I typed this.

 

[Roan]

QUESTION:

Should I have rocking eggs on day 18? Might they come early?

It's possible for them to start hatching at any time after day 18, I think. How high did you have the temp? I've had some hatch a few days early before. I think the leading cause is eggs that are stored in temps that exceed 70 F because they begin to develope. Of course if left above 70 F for too long, I've read they will grow weak and usually die. I would not recommend allowing hatching eggs to sit in areas that are at such temperatures for that reason. Some will make it but probably most will not.

I hope this makes sense. It's too early and I just got up.

 

[michaelf]

Good Morning!!!

 

[carcar80]

Morning all. Moved my eggs around in the (still air) bator this morning. Not much going on except for watching temp. I'm really interested to see what these end up doing as they weren't originally planned for hatching and were stored on my friend's countertop..