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

[draye]

A few are pure BLRW and the rest are BLRW over EE. so maybe I'll get some green and/or OE?

Yea for green Eggers.

 

[Kaylish]

Love it!

Adorable!

Plastic ziplock bags are great for eggtopsy of any egg, stinky or not. Sometimes you'd be surprised at what you find. If you go to www.brinsea.com on the left-hand margin they have their incubation handbook for downloading. In it is a most-helpful index of eggtopsy results cause and effects. You'd be surprised at what humidity problems can do to your embryos! Last hatch I had a bunch of last minute (Day 19/20) quitters. Turns out it was oxygen deprivation due to hatching sea-level eggs at a high altitude (pores are not conducive to thin mountain air). Had I not done an eggtopsy I would've wondered when they quit and not been able to figure it out... BYC provided the other clues as to what all happened. I also found one egg with a malformation (open brain) which had the cause and effect listed in the handbook. Hopefully never have to see that again!

Thanks! I forget about their site for info.

Not a problem. I'm just glad I can contribute! I didn't think the pdf file would tansfer to excel. What I meant was the pdf is basically a copy of a spreadsheet that I made on OpenOffice which (from my understanding) would import to Excel. The Incubation Worksheet is only one spreadsheet of a complete Chicken Farm Management Spreadsheet Suite. I think I may have posted an overview of what the suite will entail in here before but if not, here goes: Here is a breakdown of what the suite will be able to do when I've finished with it: Some functions of this suite are:

1. Egg Journal
   1. Recording daily egg collection
   2. Maintaining a running average of eggs laid per day, week, month and year
2. Expense Journal
   1. Record daily expenses
   2. Maintain a running tabulation of expenses including average expenses and total expenses for day, week, month and year
3. Sales Journal
   1. Record egg, meat, adult and chick sales
   2. Maintain a running tabulation of sales per each category including average expenses and total expenses for day, week, month and year
4. Incubation Worksheet
   1. Record individual records for separate flocks and/or incubators
   2. Maintain a running tabulation incubator records
5. Coop Design
   1. Calculate total footage of individual chicken houses based on desired square footage per bird
   2. Calculate dimensions for individual chicken houses based on square footage per bird and desired width or length of each house
6. Customer Record Keeping
   1. Tracking customer purchasing trends
   2. Maintaining customer contact information

Other sheets and/or functions may be added later. I made a similar Custemer Record Keeping sheet before and with it, I was able to track how many eggs an individual customer purchased and when they reached an increment of 20 dozen, I threw in a free dozen as a thank you.

Those are some great tools!

OMGosh! nothing like a carving fork to the noggin to end the season! We have to wait for the DVDs or season 7 reruns...our kids told us they had recorded it for us but sadly ...no...These are serious withdrawls we are experiencing.

Ahhh, I have to wait also. It's going to be Forever until they release the last season...

Happy Sunday Morning everyone!!! Enjoying a nice cup of coffee to start my late morning off then out to do my animal chores, Im sooo slow this morn lol.

Morning!

Couldn't stand it.. Candled. Day 3/4.. And I have BABIES!!

How are the rest of us supposed to be good now that you've gone and peeked!

That feeling you get when you first wake up and realize you've got 8 hours of posts to catch up on in the HAL thread. The first 3 hours of your day after realizing the HAL thread has had 100+ posts during your 8 hours of sleep. The average reaction to reading posts by bamadude.

So True!

Remember all you early candlers--do not toss any yet!

X2!

 

[chickiebaby1]

I would love to join this hatch a long. I set 8 eggs for New Years hatch. 4 bantam cochin and 4 SLW/GLW. I'm really excited.

 

[bamadude]

Hey ron...did i win anything yet?

 

[bamadude]

How bout now?

 

[hennible]

I got in trouble for that yesterday bama...

 

[valleychicks]

Couldn't stand it.. Candled. Day 3/4..

And I have BABIES!!

Quote:
I asked that ^ earlier. Does anyone know the answer?

 

[chicken pickin]

I asked that ^ earlier. Does anyone know the answer?

With a broody I usually candle once halfway through, around day 10.

 

[hennible]

I asked that ^ earlier. Does anyone know the answer? 

I think it's up to you...

 

[Aliciahess]

Here you go!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-index-of-abbreviations

Oh that's nice...there were a few I was wondering about. DH I was wondering if it was darling or something else.

That feeling you get when you first wake up and realize you've got 8 hours of posts to catch up on in the HAL thread.

The first 3 hours of your day after realizing the HAL thread has had 100+ posts during your 8 hours of sleep.

The average reaction to reading posts by bamadude.

Lol! I just finished catch up myself. So true.
Good morning all.

This talk of candling has me very excited and anxious to look at mine. All but one are dark shells so will be interesting to see if I can see.