Mahonri's 2nd Annual BYC EASTER HATCH. Post pics of your chicks!

[SteveH]

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Very cute.

 

[kathyinmo]

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This is Miss Olive. She has very sparse feathering on her shanks. She laid her first egg April 10, 2010 at 23 weeks old.
This is her first egg .......

 

[SteveH]

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This is Miss Olive. She has very sparse feathering on her shanks.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_3-28-10_delawares_and_others_017.jpg

Thanks! Too cool; I have a blue split to lav. Wouldn't do that with my pure breds, but would really love to see what results from that in my EEs.

 

[wolftracks]

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Shrink wrapped, or sticky?
I suppose too dry for the first 18 might shrink wrap them regardless of humidity on the last three.

I guess sticky. I'm trying to help the second one out now, but a little at a time.

I did candle some of what I locked down. I ended up pulling the 4 iffys. They quit maybe half way through. So I have 4 out, one stuck and 9 with nothing going on at all. Don't see movement either and I can tell in the light eggs that there is no internal pips and I don't see any movement. I think I went too high this time and drowned the rest.

None of my chicks were drying either. I have them in the brooder trying to dry them. Heck I'm thinking hair dryer.

 

[Mahonri]

Well, I'm caught up... time to get some shut eye....

 

[kathyinmo]

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Shrink wrapped, or sticky?
I suppose too dry for the first 18 might shrink wrap them regardless of humidity on the last three.

I guess sticky. I'm trying to help the second one out now, but a little at a time.

I did candle some of what I locked down. I ended up pulling the 4 iffys. They quit maybe half way through. So I have 4 out, one stuck and 9 with nothing going on at all. Don't see movement either and I can tell in the light eggs that there is no internal pips and I don't see any movement. I think I went too high this time and drowned the rest.

None of my chicks were drying either. I have them in the brooder trying to dry them. Heck I'm thinking hair dryer.

I never want my lockdown humidity over 65% max. That (as you described) is what happens to me if I allow it.

Do you have any empty incubator? I keep one empty all the time (with no water), to use as a "recovery room," to put the wet chicks in to fluff up.

Good luck!

 

[SteveH]

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This is Miss Olive. She has very sparse feathering on her shanks. She laid her first egg April 10, 2010 at 23 weeks old.
This is her first egg .......

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_3-28-10_delawares_and_others_017.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_one_olive_egg_on_4-10-10_001.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_one_olive_egg_on_4-10-10_007.jpg

Was it purple? After seeing the eggs you sent me, I decided a few super dark browns would be a plus in my eating egg cartons. Whether they're olive or brown visually, eggs from her pullets will be nice, and I might just keep a roo from her. [May have to wax or shave their legs though]

My ISA Browns lay scads of huge eggs nearly as dark as some Marans; they'll have an Ameraucana over them before the year is out.

 

[wolftracks]

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I guess sticky. I'm trying to help the second one out now, but a little at a time.

I did candle some of what I locked down. I ended up pulling the 4 iffys. They quit maybe half way through. So I have 4 out, one stuck and 9 with nothing going on at all. Don't see movement either and I can tell in the light eggs that there is no internal pips and I don't see any movement. I think I went too high this time and drowned the rest.

None of my chicks were drying either. I have them in the brooder trying to dry them. Heck I'm thinking hair dryer.

I never want my lockdown humidity over 65% max. That (as you described) is what happens to me if I allow it.

Do you have any empty incubator? I keep one empty all the time (with no water), to use as a "recovery room," to put the wet chicks in to fluff up.

Good luck!

OH I do. Gonna plug it in now! Thanks Kathy. OH and I was thinking I had no one hatching from my BCMs and tried it higher this time, so going lower next time. These are all from my birds, so I wanted to try since it wasn't someone's eggs I bought or something. Just trying to get more BCMs to hatch, so testing. I have another hatch or two or three with my own eggs before I have shipped eggs to hatch out. As long as they are from mine I'm not as upset.

 

[kathyinmo]

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This is Miss Olive. She has very sparse feathering on her shanks. She laid her first egg April 10, 2010 at 23 weeks old.
This is her first egg .......

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_3-28-10_delawares_and_others_017.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_one_olive_egg_on_4-10-10_001.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31282_one_olive_egg_on_4-10-10_007.jpg

Was it purple? After seeing the eggs you sent me, I decided a few super dark browns would be a plus in my eating egg cartons. Whether they're olive or brown visually, eggs from her pullets will be nice, and I might just keep a roo from her. [May have to wax or shave their legs though]

My ISA Browns lay scads of huge eggs nearly as dark as some Marans; they'll have an Ameraucana over them before the year is out.

Her egg is such a dark olive, it often looks like a dark marans egg. Sometimes (when she runs low on paint) it is easier to see the olive color. That is why I crossed her back to a blue egg gene, in hopes of getting more of an olive shade. If I put her with a Marans, I would probably get a black egg, eh?

 

[SteveH]

A White Ameraucana egg has pipped! My two slow zippers are stalled, but a quicky has fired up........................ it's a pullet bullet so not too far it to zip.

Man, coffee doesn't work as well after you've reached my age. I suppose I'll be asleep before they're all done.