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

[ma2babygurl13]

Ok I have considered my hatch complete... 92 out. There are still 4 eggs possible in the bator, but I'm not holding my breath....

Here are a few pics with totals

See if you can count em

16 Welsummers

15 Buckeyes

5 Cuckoo Marans

5 Mottled Houdans
somehow i forgot to take their pic (will get them soon)

8 Partridge Silkies

9 Buff Silkies

16 Black/Blue Silkies

12 White Silkies

and

6 undecided color Silkies

 

[lanietx]

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WOW!
awesome bunch there!

 

[Mahonri]

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Looks to me like those are the three... I haven't seen anyone else come forward.

 

[kathyinmo]

Here is my "Cutest Chick Picture," submission.

 

[kvmommy]

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Wow...just wow. Beautiful chicks and sooooo many! I need your juju or talent or whatever it is.

What are you going to do with so many?

 

[Hurley]

I don't know that anyone else topped you, even with 1 chick hatched, so I'm offering an 8 pack of Marans and EE's to each of the following 3 people. If you get me an address (PM or email), I will get them shipped off to you tomorrow if you want them.

KVmommy
countrygirl911
lanietx

 

[ma2babygurl13]

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Wow...just wow. Beautiful chicks and sooooo many! I need your juju or talent or whatever it is.

What are you going to do with so many?

well I started with 180 eggs (2 were cracked) so 178 went in the bator. 114 made it to lockdown.... so I did alright. These eggs I got on an eggshare so 60% (54 chicks) go back to the breeder. I am going to keep a select few (so far 6 silkies and 2 welsummers) for myself, the rest will be sold.

Edited to add, I don't think it is talent

I have a Sportsman 1502 and I owe all my luck to that bator

 

[ma2babygurl13]

So I had a little buckeye chick make it out with no help, but it has a severly deformed beak, first thought was cull it, but is very hard to do thinking it had such a strong will to survive.... any thoughts please visit this thread, pics are on thread...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=493236

 

[gryeyes]

I just pulled 5 more chicks from the 'bators and rescued a BADLY shrink-wrapped chick, placing it back into the 'bator to dry off. It was the worst case I'd ever personally seen and I might have overlooked it had it not peeped really loudly as I was taking shells out of the incubators to see what marks were on them.

I now know I have some Salmon Favs and Speckled Sussex chicks, along with two of ChooksChicks "Paint" Project chicks!! And finally figured out "BB" meant Buff Brahma, from the chick that hatched from one of those eggs. This is in addition to the .... err.. lost count.... 15, 16 chicks that already hatched. Woo hoo!!

I did NOT expect this many chicks to hatch, at all. Wow. Wheaten Ameraucanas from Jeremy and ChooksChicks' "Paint EEs" - am I lucky or WHAT!!!

 

[wolftracks]

Is someone going to let me know who should get what? I'm not understanding how this is really working, but I need to send someone eggs and not sure who.

Sorry to be a pain, but I'm just a little lost with the decision. Sorry. Just don't want to not say anything and not get the eggs to the rightful recipient.