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

[Momof4TX]

I have four more hours at work today and it is causing me stress. I can hardly wait to get home to sit vigil over the incubator. My poor hubbie is tired of texting me that no changes. I have bugged him every hour on the hour after hearing cheeps late last night. No pips this morning no rocking this morning either. I had about a minute to look at the eggies before I had to leave. If I didn't need to the money to support my addiction to chickens I would have called in today. Ha ha ha!

Congrats to all on the new babies!

 

[jbenson]

Gah! Work is ridiculously slow today and I'm all caught up and looking at fuzzy babies and want to go home to check for external pips!

There were none this morning. I added an extra container with sponge last night when I topped of my first container to keep the humidity up, but with all the running of the furnace this time of year, the humidity is hard to keep up. I also had to adjust my second bator up a little. Last night it seemed to be running hotter than I wanted, I adjusted, but that stupid dial doesn't have any markings, so it's anyone's guess as to how much a smidge on it is. I guess it was 2 degrees instead of 1.

 

[Amberjem]

eggna is cracking more!!!!

 

[Momof4TX]

eggna is cracking more!!!!

Congrats!!!

 

[Roan]

YAY!!! Another pip and peep! hmm, pip and squeak? Hey! pipsqueak!!! That's where that word comes from!!! lol

 

[Amberjem]

I just might try the black and splash with my BLRW as I like the looks of their splash hens. But the sumatras, I just love the blues so those are the ones I kept. The splash for my Sumatras came out white and greyish blue last summer. I got lots of people saying they were so pretty but to me it was too much white.

that has to be frustrating you want blue chickens but have to keep black and splash for the color to be true every hatch


personally I wanna see rainbow colors come out lol

course the one egg pipping atm and getting bigger crack witht he shell totally obsuring any view of the chick I might add

is marked as a barred rock cross (which may or may not even be barred rock)

 

[Bazy]

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Excellent garden fertilizer for your vegetables, flowers, shrubs and more! (???) Oh, and I also have a mentally challenged chicken that has to have a bubble bath every two days..?

 

[Bazy]

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I could package it up into two pound bags...then it would be worth $6.99 per bag..so that would be...hmmmm $174.75 worth of fines!

 

[Roan]

Sorry for the rapid fire posts but this is going crazy now! LOL

Our last one went from pip to zip in less than 5 minutes!!! And now we have another pip!!! Woohoo!!!

Since I anticipated a 0% hatch rate, I now have 3 confirmed bonus chicks and 1 probable bonus chick!!!

@ronott1 thank you so much for suggesting the carton incubation method!!!

 

[Canadianislupus]

Still trying to catch up on all the posts but I thought I would update you guys. I've got a baby chicky!!!!!!!

!!!!! Not the one in the pic with the big pip but the other one who had just made a tiny crack when I checked this morning. He took literally 10 min to zip and hatch! I will post pics and maybe some a video clip when I get back from lunch....I don't wanna go now but I have too..

. The little guy is also bulldozing everythig in there including the probe for the bator...gotta get that brooder set up might darn quick here haha