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

[JW12]

We will need a signed notarized letter from the 3 year old stating that it was they who want to candle and not just a grown up using the child as an excuse lmao.

 

[Amberjem]

The report from home is that we are up to 4. 2 barred rocks and 2 barn yard mutts, and 4 more pips at the moment! We need our one silkie egg to show a life.

 

[blackgoat]

dunno how fast your bator recovers humdity but you can do a paper towel twisted ad wick it in the container to raise humidity a bit.. for myself less paper towel raised it just right a half sheet raised it to high lol took like a 2 inch by 2 inch piece of paper towel twisted to get the humidity at 65%

lol! It's trickier than I thought. I'm going to try that. A added a third dish. One dish made it around 35-40%, so I thought 2 dishes would double that. It doesn't seem to quite work like that

 

[Amberjem]

lol! It's trickier than I thought. I'm going to try that. A added a third dish. One dish made it around 35-40%, so I thought 2 dishes would double that. It doesn't seem to quite work like that

it's not the amount of water but the surface area the moisture can spread out on for evaporation

 

[hockeydad6791]

Woot!!! I was staring at the no action in my bator and guess what? The Jedi mind trick works!!! One of the eggs started singing!!!

 

[Amberjem]

Woot!!! I was staring at the no action in my bator and guess what? The Jedi mind trick works!!! One of the eggs started singing!!!

sing to them they like it mine was cheeping back when I got quiet lol

 

[Peep_Show]

Don't know if you can see it here at nine o'clock in the photo, but I've got a pip!

Little "Solo" -- the lone egg in the incubator -- has decided to be a chick (eventually)



Now, before or after midnight? That is the question....



The eBay eggs go into lockdown tonight, so (hopefully) Solo won't be for long.

 

[carcar80]

Went out and emptied/sanitized my brooder.. Poor thing is cracked to pieces, and one hen-sized hole is closed up with duct tape from where I made a broody nest last summer. :/ I really may need to part the Rubbermaid purse a bit and get a new one. But oh well, long as it's still got walls the chicks won't mind..

Got my feeders/waterers soaking in hot bleach/Dawn water.. Will scrub them up later. At least THAT part I can do indoors in the tub! Brr it's chilly outside.

More chirping, still no freaking PIPS.. adwall

 

[Cynthia12]

Yet another SG sizzler. This one has a ridiculous vault. Love it. Very high. Also has a bow tie. This makes me very a happy again. And, another EE.

 

[Cynthia12]

Don't know if you can see it here at nine o'clock in the photo, but I've got a pip!

Little "Solo" -- the lone egg in the incubator -- has decided to be a chick (eventually)



Now, before or after midnight? That is the question....



The eBay eggs go into lockdown tonight, so (hopefully) Solo won't be for long.

I see it clearly..I love this color!!