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

[Mahonri]

Laree....

I'll be home by noon.

Are you coming down or do I pack all of them up and head north?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Uggh that's scary. I'll defer thanks... I still have over 6 months left on mine so ill share the love.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

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I think that is what's happened. It's circular, and it's too far down near the middle of the shell, I think.

I've got one Welsummer working his way out now. I think, when he's done and my husband gets up, we'll try to help. My DH can bring a dog-bitten chipmunk back to health, so his instincts are probably better on this than mine.
This part is sad, but I do have 8 peppy chicks in that incubator.

 

[dsqard]

SCG you could always take the GFM and secretly award it to someone else!

Just checked the eggs again, the last two pure lav's are pipped!

One of the splits is almost zipped all the way and I have a few more pips on the split eggs.
I want to say thank you to all of the people on this thread and other threads that have so willinginly shared your knowledge and years of experience hatching eggs. If not for ALL of you, I wouldn't be having such a good hatch this time. You all are awesome!!!!!!

 

[mammat]

Woke up this morning and broody is much better. We can hear peeping eggs under her.....no babies yete

 

[Hurley]

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[PepsNick]

Adivce? https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=490478

I am going into lockdown Tuesday. I am so behind! I'll just be talkin' to myself, here!

I am in for the 4th of July hatch! I think that we should all set some Ameraucanas for it, along with whatever else...


This is strange! Everyone hatching at different times. Heck, I won't even be home until afternoon of my hatch date.

 

[jenjscott]

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I think that is what's happened. It's circular, and it's too far down near the middle of the shell, I think.
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I've got one Welsummer working his way out now. I think, when he's done and my husband gets up, we'll try to help. My DH can bring a dog-bitten chipmunk back to health, so his instincts are probably better on this than mine.
This part is sad, but I do have 8 peppy chicks in that incubator.

Pips that look like that usually don't progress, it means "stuck" After enough time for the blood to leave the membranes, I usually at least pop the top for them and let them sit in the half shell to give them time to absorb the yolk. Sometimes though they are so shrink wrapped you have to use cotton balls or cotton swabs to gently rehydrate the membrane to get it off.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

This is EXHAUSTING! I'm a first timer that may NOT become a hatch-o-holic. My stomach is in KNOTS!!! I have 23 out of 36 hatched so far including 7 of the 8 shipped Ameraucanas and 5 of the 8 BCMs. 2 more of the BCMs have pips but have had for some time now without progressing. Ameraucanas were the first to hatch. BCMs are bringing up the rear it seems. Having the worst luck with my own eggs from the 2 year old hens. I also have 2 that have had trouble hatching. One upside down half zipped, foot out, been that way since last night. So I decided to all but finish the zipping with a pair of tweezers and lay the egg on the floor rather than in the carton. It is kicking up a storm in there so it might get free. Also had another that pipped on Thursday. Still wasn't making progress with zipping as of this morning. Beak out the hole. Still alive this morning so another job with the tweezers and laid it on the floor to see if it could finish. This one HAS managed to pop the top off and is screaming like mad so, again, interesting to see if it makes it all the way out and survives. (Fabulous little bright yellow chick out of a Black Sex Link hen and EE roo. The colouring on this one throws me! Probably a roo.)

 

[PepsNick]

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MMM HMM...


Hatching is becoming a regular thing for me, I think. When the chicks from this hatch get to be a week old, then I am setting the bators with almost as many eggs, again. I set 96. I think that I'll have occupied brooders all Summer. I hatch for other people, as I'm doing with this one, but the one after this will be for me.