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

[gevshiba]

Where are you located?

I'm in North Texas.

 

[ronott1]

Our numbers are as follows...
50 eggs set
15 removed at 7 days after the first candle
3 more removed at day 14
3 more removed at day 18
Leaving 29 eggs remaining for lock down
27 hatched with 2 unresponsive eggs remaining.
We lost 1 at hatching, and had a casualty in the brooder this morning.
25 chicks remain, with pics to be posted Monday.

Congratulations!

 

[hockeydad6791]

Sry been busy & haven't caught back up yet but 1 lonely chick from my 24 set.

 

[ronott1]

Sry been busy & haven't caught back up yet but 1 lonely chick from my 24 set.

Poor little chick!

Do you have a buddy for it?

 

[FeyRaine]

I'm 1630 posts behind, oh well.
The hatch was not good. Got 4 live chicks out of it, they all hatched from eggs that were side by side the last week on one side of the bator , whereas the bulk of the eggs (on the opposite side) did not hatch except 1 that was a cull. So I'd say the old LG is past retirement age at this point

The eggs were all numbered so my fb friends could pick an egg to bet who would be the first out in 2015
as such the #4 who hopped into the lower empty slot won by default as the other 2 hatched in 2014.
The person who picked the winner gets to name the chick, I'm still waiting to find out a name, but I hear "Pipper", "Cindy" & "Gliter" are all possibly choices...

Well Happy 2015 ya'll & may all your set eggs hatch w/ as many being pullets as you hope!

 

[hockeydad6791]

Poor little chick!

Do you have a buddy for it?

well if my youngest daughter and I count yep!

 

[FuzzyHens]

My eggs are due to hatch in one minute. I had one hatch yesterday morning but when I checked a couple hours ago, none of the other 11 have. I'm going back to check now.
I hope this one gets friends.

Good luck!!!

 

[LAChick]

Sry been busy & haven't caught back up yet but 1 lonely chick from my 24 set.

Me too!

 

[valleychicks]

I'm in North Texas.

Do you have a Tractor Supply close? I think they carry some liquid B-12. Our TSC in GA does. I'm not sure if they all do though.

 

[MrsBrooke]

Australorp number 5 has hatched and it is another blue chick.

I just saw the first pip on the Trader Joes egg!

Great news all around.

I've got a side-pip still in the bator. This is Day 23. There's a sizeable hole, I can see the chick moving, but the membrane is turning brownish black... What do?

Sorry for the quality.... I dare not open the bator for fear of shrink wrapping the poor thing (the hole was much smaller when I took the other chick out this morning), but zero progress since then and the membrane discoloration worries me.

Someone remind me to calm down and breathe.

MrsB