7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[LocalYokel]

Cool.
Skipped 3 more pages.
Day
Took out my turner and added water for first time.
Half aszed candled for first time

All air cells look good. No clears. No saddles. No stinkers.
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I like your Tactics.....

 

[bamadude]

I have a network outage so I will not be on ad much.

I hate when I cant get on ad much

 

[S5apiotrowski]

An update here...

I currently have 10 chicks. Just moved the 5 most recent chicks into the temporary brooder (now has shelving gripping and a little food too).

I rechecked my long-pipped chick that I am pretty sure didn't make it, and I still feel that way.

I have 2 more pipped eggs. One of them has good beak movement at the pip and I am comfortable with. A second one has a decent sized pip whole, but I do not see the beak. The pip is midway down the egg, towards the narrow side. I can see the chick's body inside through the whole and its breathing. I am watching closely. I don't really want to intervene, but I may need to. This one just pipped today though, so it hasn't been that long.

I quickly checked the other eggs. I heard a few chirping! I have a few that I think are early quitters. I put the more suspect eggs on the far side of the incubator and kept the more favorable looking ones separate.

I am trying to get a couple pictures, but there is a HUGE delay (several hours) from sending myself a picture to receiving it. I have a strawberry blonde naked neck cross that reminds me of Beaker from the muppets! Chicks are so much easier to name than adults!

 

[TJChickens]

I hate when I cant get on ad much

You guys must have colds....

 

[TJChickens]

Alright!
We have this ice cream joint here that has been around since the 50's and STILL makes ALL their own icecream HOMEMADE THE OLD FASHIONED WAY!
The best!

I had a REAL Banana Split.
It was HUGE
By real I mean REAL icecream with Strawberry Chocolate and Vanilla icecream
NOT Vanilla icecream with flavored syrups

Legit, the real deal!
(sorry I didn't take a pic)

Perfect.....I'll be right there! Wait, there's a three hour difference....they might be closed now

I guess I'll go work with another horse...Maybe I can get there earlier tomorrow.

 

[chattery41]

Ok so i think my hatch is finished. Have 30 healthy chickies out of 36 that went into lockdown. 2 shrink wrapped because my bator is apparently just too small to hatch 40 eggs and not have the new chicks knocking the other eggs all over the place. 1 pipped in the bottom of the egg where i couldn't see it and expired and 3 just never pipped and have no movement when candled. I will leave these in until morning before i make the decision to get rid of them, just on the off chance that i just didn't see movement.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I now have a second pip. This one skipped the whole internal pip thing and went straight through the shell. I made the hole just a tiny bit bigger to make sure the baby could breathe good. There were a couple spots of blood but nothing major. The first chick so hasn't made anymore progress but it's only been a couple hours and she's still peeping in there when I talk to her.

 

[chattery41]

Ok so i think my hatch is finished. Have 30 healthy chickies out of 36 that went into lockdown. 2 shrink wrapped because my bator is apparently just too small to hatch 40 eggs and not have the new chicks knocking the other eggs all over the place. 1 pipped in the bottom of the egg where i couldn't see it and expired and 3 just never pipped and have no movement when candled. I will leave these in until morning before i make the decision to get rid of them, just on the off chance that i just didn't see movement.

my bad, i forgot the pic.

 

[ronott1]

I hate when I cant get on ad much

I am on my phone and the touch pad keyboard is not working well so I bought a stylus. It is better now.

 

[ronott1]

Ok so i think my hatch is finished. Have 30 healthy chickies out of 36 that went into lockdown. 2 shrink wrapped because my bator is apparently just too small to hatch 40 eggs and not have the new chicks knocking the other eggs all over the place. 1 pipped in the bottom of the egg where i couldn't see it and expired and 3 just never pipped and have no movement when candled. I will leave these in until morning before i make the decision to get rid of them, just on the off chance that i just didn't see movement.

Send me a pm with hatch numbers.