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

[SteveH]

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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?

Actually, after aging for three weeks +, they are kinda bronze colored now instead of that deep brown when newish.

 

[wolftracks]

Well the chicks are drying pretty good now in the brooder so I'm leaving them. They've been loud for hours and now their resting, so think they feel better.

I finished helping number 5 out. Seems weak, so don't know of it's will make it, but I hope so.

My light actually got bright enough for me to see through the eggs a bit. OK not a couple of the BCMs but one of them and all the others. I don't see any movement in any of them and finally saw I had 3 more earlier quiters, so pulled those. That makes 9 since lockdown that I know shouldn't have even gone in.

I have another hatch for the 30th, so I'm going to try a lot dryer hatch this time. I used to get great hatches at 70% - 75%, but then they stopped hatching that high. Tried 65% and was getting a couple to hatch here and there. I've had much better hatches lately and have 5 brooders full of chicks from 8 hatches, so not too bad after some bad months.

I think what has hatched so far is probably it, but I'll leave them a few more days to make sure.

 

[SteveH]

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It's after 4 a.m. here, and not sure how much longer I can go without sleep. I may try to catch a few then watch them finish. The chick on the half shell is alive, holding its head up, but I'm sure it's glued there tight. If it's still alive after a few more hours, I guess I better see if I can get it loose. Warm water?

 

[wolftracks]

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It's after 4 a.m. here, and not sure how much longer I can go without sleep. I may try to catch a few then watch them finish. The chick on the half shell is alive, holding its head up, but I'm sure it's glued there tight. If it's still alive after a few more hours, I guess I better see if I can get it loose. Warm water?

I use warm water a a paper towel. Just make it wet enough to wrap it and work bits of shell and membrane off.

 

[Granny Hoffman]

Good morning fellow hatchers

, my hatch is going pretty good, I think I have 24 out and 2 zipping and a couple of pips I think. Also helping a shrink wrapped little guy. It's kinda hard to tell how many I have, they keep moving. One thing for sure I have 3 Naked Necks from SCG, they are the cutest things.
Hope everyone-else's hatch is progressing good.

Judy

 

[SarahIrl]

Wow, you guys, with nobody left online, you must be all sleeping by now! What a busy night, glad I had all mine finished by Wednesday night, although hatching Friday until then was kinda hard! I can ALWAYS sleep though, comes from having a kid who doesn't do much shut eye, I get it where I can

Still can't believe I had 20 pages to sort through since 9pm last night (Ireland time)

Well

for all those who are mostly, or are indeed, done and

for those still waiting.

I did set mine on the due date (well the geese, the ducks were set 2 days early as they were of questionable age) so my goose #1 being out on Tuesday morning when I awoke is genuinely early. The ducks were 4 days early by my reckoning. Temps were spot on 99.5F all the way through, and although I messed up on the humidity for the geese (I am now corrected for next time) I am happy with 3/7 at lockdown. So, just awaiting PRIZES now! Am so eager to see who won what!

ETA: apologies to Granny Hoffman!

 

[daisychick]

Woke up for a few minutes to check on the bator. I have 3 Marans out, 2 zipping and 2 pips.

Too tired to stay up and watch them. Going back to sleep and will check them in a few hours. I always feel like the mom of a newborn baby again when they hatch at night like this.

 

[aussieheelr]

SarahIrl - You're in Ireland! Oh I can't wait to travel there, maybe next year. Too much going on this summer, but boy do I dream of it

1 more hour till I'm off work and can check on progress (if there is any). I'm hoping that little duckling is encouraging the others to come out to play.

Of corse thats just me being impatient, technicly not do to hatch for 7 more hours.

 

[SarahIrl]

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Originally from near Birmingam, UK, moved here years ago, got married and have 1 little girl and a host of feather bearing raptors in the garden: bliss!!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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yay!