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

[sunshinechick83]

I have the Eco 20 and that hygrometer. (You are correct that the Eco does not have one.) It works well for me. I incubate in egg cartons with the bottoms cut out so I put the Hygrometer on one of the cups to keep it level with the center of the eggs and to keep it from sliding when the bator turns from side to side.

(P.S. I had a heck of a time using the bars provided to keep the eggs from moving so that is why I use the egg cartons.)


Question for @ronott1
 - you mentioned that you hatched in cartons; do you incubate in them also?

Thank you so much for responding. My eco 20 should be here tomorrow. And the hygrometer/thermometer is ordered. Yay! Ive started collecting eggs, they will be barnyard mutts (ive got a couple of roosters that need to go!). Plus I've asked a friend of mine for some of their eggs. They are comets, stars, sexlinks or someting. Don't really care as long as theh result in fluffy chicks in the new year and lay me eggs someday!

 

[ChickyChickens]

Thank you so much for responding. My eco 20 should be here tomorrow. And the hygrometer/thermometer is ordered. Yay! Ive started collecting eggs, they will be barnyard mutts (ive got a couple of roosters that need to go!). Plus I've asked a friend of mine for some of their eggs. They are comets, stars, sexlinks or someting.

Don't really care as long as theh result in fluffy chicks in the new year and lay me eggs someday!

BYM are nice...they are cute(adult and chicks), lay quite good and get very tame!! (MY FLOCK)

 

[Kaylish]

There they are! 19 eggs in all.... The smaller eggs are from my khaki campbells and the bigger ones are either blue Swedish, Rouen, or pekings.

Yea!

Let the Countdown begin!

Thank you so much for responding. My eco 20 should be here tomorrow. And the hygrometer/thermometer is ordered. Yay! Ive started collecting eggs, they will be barnyard mutts (ive got a couple of roosters that need to go!). Plus I've asked a friend of mine for some of their eggs. They are comets, stars, sexlinks or someting.

Don't really care as long as theh result in fluffy chicks in the new year and lay me eggs someday!

Congrats! Give yourself a couple of days to get the temp dialed in. Mine took a little adjustment.

 

[hennible]

My test batch has one external pipper! Their peeping!! I splashed an egg when I added some water to the bator... Is that bad? I dried him off... First bator hatch...

 

[ronott1]

My test batch has one external pipper! Their peeping!! I splashed an egg when I added some water to the bator... Is that bad? I dried him off... First bator hatch...

The water will not hurt the hatch. You do need to be careful not to get water into the pip though.

 

[Roan]

A chicken farmer goes into the hospital with his pregnant wife and exclaims "Help! Our baby has pipped!!!"

 

[hennible]

The water will not hurt the hatch. You do need to be careful not to get water into the pip though.

The pip sit did get wet ( I think ) but I dried it off promptly

A chicken farmer goes into the hospital with his pregnant wife and exclaims "Help!  Our baby as pipped!!!"

Lol

 

[MrsBrooke]

Hey, you're really lucky though to have so much extra time since you're hatching chickens. Standard duck eggs have to go in tomorrow

And that's a BAD thing?? Good luck with your hatch! I hope you get 100%!!!

I have my first egg, small end down, in a carton, resting lopsided on a bottle to "turn" them, in my garage, which has decent humidity and stays coolish. ^_^

Here we go!

MrsB

 

[JadeComputerGal]

And that's a BAD thing?? Good luck with your hatch! I hope you get 100%!!!

I have my first egg, small end down, in a carton, resting lopsided on a bottle to "turn" them, in my garage, which has decent humidity and stays coolish. ^_^

Here we go!

MrsB

Not a really bad thing, but I wish I'd had more time to get Bantam eggs. We already have around 40 various ones of those in our bators, so I wanted to find some additional varieties we don't have in yet. We've ended up having to go with eggs from our standard Rouen drake and Khaki Campbell duck, which I just set

Here's wishing you a 100% hatch as well! I wish duck eggs took 21 days like chicken eggs. Duck eggs seem to take forever, and the final week really drags. Maybe that's true with chicken eggs as well, though, even though it's a shorter incubation period.

 

[MrsBrooke]

Not a really bad thing, but I wish I'd had more time to get Bantam eggs. We already have around 40 various ones of those in our bators, so I wanted to find some additional varieties we don't have in yet. We've ended up having to go with eggs from our standard Rouen drake and Khaki Campbell duck, which I just set

Here's wishing you a 100% hatch as well! I wish duck eggs took 21 days like chicken eggs. Duck eggs seem to take forever, and the final week really drags. Maybe that's true with chicken eggs as well, though, even though it's a shorter incubation period.

It's true of anything we're waiting on to hatch!

I was fit to be tied on day 15, 16, 17 for my quail hatch... This is my first time hatching chickens... I'll be in quite a tizzy on day 19 and 20, I'm sure!!!

Day 1

Day 7

(candling)

Day 10

Day 20

Day 21

^ I imagine this same timeline will be happening in chicken houses everywhere!

MrsB