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

[S5apiotrowski]

I'd like to place a bet that it's female. Females survive lower temps better than males. Males survive higher temps. I had a SNAFU one time with a hatch where it got up to 120 degrees. 4 out of 5 were female.

I am incredibly jealous! Of the 17 from our Labor-Day hatch, 12 are male!

 

[daxigait]

Turken chicks are so cute! But so are silkies (and every other chick) so you should have plenty of cuteness. Sounds you've got the hatching bug now!

yeah, a few chickens for eggs became something else

 

[Lozuufy]

Speaking of broodys
My gamebird mix just decided to do so.
Can I put some quail eggs under her?
I don't have a pigeon to do it.
Figured if I can make her happy fine.
She is blocking off the favored nest box at the moment.
If not, I'll have to break her.

If she's really small it might work, there is a blog called "the holistic hen" and they use banty chickens to hatch quail eggs. Most chickens will eat baby quail though

 

[gimmie birdies]

Solo enjoying his friends.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

All of you with peeps, pips, and chicks are making me jealous! No action from my eggs yet but it's only day 19 for mine.

 

[RubyNala97]

I found the plain smile by accident and someone shared that one earlier. Does anybody know anymore?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/734386/chick-emoticons/30#post_16071989

Good luck to everyone! Im out My duck pipped about 3:30 yesterday. My husband text me while I was a work so I didn't find out till later on in the evening. He said everything looked good humidity and temp wise. Said it was making noise! And then the chicken egg pipped wrong end about 5 he said. Said it was still peeping and working on the pip when he went to bed they were making noise. When I got home around midnight there wasn't any noise I figured they were resting. My husband got up at 6 for work still no noise I got up at 7 with the babies no noise. So my SIL came over about an hour ago. She's hatched dozens of hundreds and is what you would call a meddler I guess. I didn't want to open it but was worried. She took a look at the duck and he had pipped but died as the chicken had pipped wrong side and died without absorbing yolk. Duck didn't seem to have much if any yolk. Not sure what happened or why. My 8 year old is pretty upset and wants to try again but I think we will wait a little bit. Plus my chickens aren't laying at the moment anyways and don't want to have any shipped until we start getting better. Looking at a new bator in the coming up months so maybe things will go better next time! Thanks for everyone's help! Hope everyone has great luck! Edited to add pic.

I'm so sorry to hear that! Might have been a humidity issue. I hope you try again. What incubator do you have?

I have three pips now.

. So exciting. What day did you set??

Hi Ruby!! I can't wait to hear how your eggs do!

Hey @darkbluespace! How have you been? Are you hatching?? Silkies?? Missed you!

I candled last night and 4 were internally pipped. This morning two have external pips. Tell me this doesn't look like something you should wear on your head and have some kind of powers! Mind Reader Bator

Did you make that incubator? It looks awesome!!

2:06 Quick to zip..a cute little Paint Silkie!

I love paint silkies! I should have paint eggs soon! Congrats on the baby!!

 

[RubyNala97]

I just wanted to share with any newer hatchers what has worked well for me at hatch time. (And it mostly works because I'm home staring at the incubator for the whole hatch). But I keep track and write down the time of each pip. This way you will know for exactly how long they have been pipped. It's easy to worry sometimes when it takes forever to go from pip to zip. And sometimes it is necessary to assist, at the right time. And it just makes it a lot easier to make that judgement call if you know exactly how long each stage is taking.

 

[ronott1]

Finally!

We are getting to the random post number...Took a while didn't it?

Also, Tomorrow is the deadline for the Ginger Bread contest!

 

[prizepete]

Finally!

We are getting to the random post number...Took a while didn't it?

Also, Tomorrow is the deadline for the Ginger Bread contest!

Agh! Do gingerbread houses made tomorrow count?

 

[TJChickens]

I want the bator when you're pushin daisies

I'll put it in my will for you. You may get my cows too....and some birds....anything else?