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

[Bazy]

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That's just cute!! LOL!!

 

[ronott1]

Quick question, what should the temperature be in the brooder for the first week? I'm super nervous since it's only 60+ degrees in the room and the brooder temperature is 103 degrees. is that too much for the first week or so?

By the way, chick number 4 is now almost completely zipped!!!

This is me:

The first week is 95 and then it goes down 5 degrees a week until 6 weeks and then they do not need heat.

If you are using a light, use a thermometer and get the area under the light to 95. out side of the light, it will be cooler. The chicks will move from cool to the warm as they need too.

 

[bamadude]

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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..?

no deal

 

[Amberjem]

. 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

 

[Amberjem]

Woot!!! That's awesome about the peeping!!!

I'm sort of concerned about my own humidity as well. I can't monitor it with the thermometer I have because it only shows the humidity in the room, not the where the probe is and it's too big to put in the incubator with the egg carton so I am winging it and hoping for the best!!!

I did a dry run before set day and know approximately how much water to put in to get the humidity up to 35% but with the chicks hatching now, I just know the humidity is getting higher!!! I haven't added anymore water though, so I'm hoping it's not rising too fast...

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

I have a pip in one of my eggs

Whoot! 2 more!

 

[Bazy]

Went to bed last night with ONE pip showing on about 59 eggs..got up this morning and there are at least 15 pips that I can see, so just to kill a little time before I rack up another fine and peek again, I check on the still incubating younger eggs I put in the home made test incubator to keep until I can move them back into my Little Giant "nyd hatchers"

Well, I have some eggs in there that are needing to be candled, so I take one of my TEN new flashlights and start to candle...and WHAT?? holy cow! One of the eggs that is supposed to hatch in two weeks is PIPPED!

No way..so I check the date on the egg and I'm a dummy. I put one of my New Year's eggs in the test incubator instead of the hatcher...Ugh! So I slipped it into the hatcher and am hoping for the best!

I'm at work and I WANNA GO HOME!!!!!

 

[Bazy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bazy View Post Quote: Originally Posted by bamadude View Post nope. What else u got? 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..?
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what if I throw in a free bottle of bubble bath?

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I'll always have some splash for my BLRW hens. They are so pretty red and white. But my blue sumatras may be something that I breed a black roo to the blue hens if I notice color not being as pretty. The splash sumatra I could keep one or two I suppose but white chickens just don't free range well in my yard.


I'm up to 12 chicks so far. IF I counted them correctly, they move quite fast. Still not opening the incubator even with another batch of eggs to go in.

 

[blackgoat]

Still no pips, but I did see wiggling around! After removing the water from the channels, and adding dishes instead, the humidity is not going above 50% hmm...

 

[tommysgirl]

Y'all are killing me!!

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Correction: I Have a CHICK!!!! Found this next to my broody

These were shipped eggs packed and shipped in a cereal box! I was sure I would get nothing but 5 eggs made the cut.

for the remaining 4.

If I had no self control it is possible that I took a peek and perhaps saw what looked like a reddish gold baby drying out under mama. But that would only be if I had no self control