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

[SteveH]

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Steve think of it a now being a scientific experiment, just think we would never learn anything new if it want for people like you

Much of my life has been spent personally researching the results of doing exactly what I was told not to do.

This time it was not intentional.

Due to high humidity here, I had to just put a a little water in the smallest reservoir of my Hovabator, watch it run a little high that day, low the next, and then add just a tiny bit again. The turner had the eggs positioned perfect for tubing water in that reservoir every time................................. it took me two and a half weeks to question why that was so.

I was very sick back when I set those eggs; I'm going to use that as my excuse.

 

[RareBreedFancier]

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Fret not, I accidentally had my 'bator turned off for ~16 hours, it was under 60f when I realized. 6 have already hatched last week and 11 more due next week are still developing nicely.

 

[dsqard]

Well yesterday was the big moving day! I (well with lots of help from DH) finally got the Brahma chicks that I hatched out in March outside. I had to rearrange some stuff first though. I moved the dividing fencing so that the Brahmas would be separated from all the big chickens. That meant that I made one big pen for the NYD "babies" and my grown chickens. They have been able to see each other for over a month and have been free ranging together (if you want to call two groups that don't mingle "together"). Well since the NYD group is made up of four cockerels and one pullet, you can imagine how that went. My roo started chasing all of the youngsters around the pen but there was no blood or tearing out of feathers so I just let them be to settle it out for themselves. The almost two month old Brahmas were so cute. They were running around, scratching in the dirt and dust bathing. Makes me wish I had done it earlier but it just wasn't warm enough for feathering out chicks. The chicks and poults from the Easter hatch also got a new home yesterday. I converted a huge wooden box from work (they were already starting to out grow the biggest brooder box I had) into a brooder and moved them into the garage. When I first put them into their new home, they just stood there like they couldn't believe how much space they have. It took them about half and hour and then they were running around just loving the new home. The bonus to all of this is that I now have a chick/poult free house again for which DH is very greatful.

 

[1muttsfan]

Steve,i got very suspicious of my temp/humidity remote sensor, as it had not changed for 3 days. Well it had stopped working, and instead of going dead it just kept displaying the "highs"

. So today its a trip to ebay to get a good old-fashioned calibratable (is that a word?) hygrometer. Fortunately my old-fashioned thermometer in the incubator works fine. So much for modern technology

 

[SteveH]

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Somday I'm going to buy a quality hygrometer made for cigar humidors; right now I just use cheapy Springfields, calibrated by the instructions I read here at BYC.................................... one's off about two points, the other four.

 

[dsqard]

Here are my two week olds in their new digs. The turkeys are so big compared to the chicks. I only got two shots and then my camera battery died. I will have to get some more later.

 

[LarryPQ]

I just moved the Easter Chicks to their new pen. I will go take pictures riiiight now.

 

[LarryPQ]

Easterish Babies. Some hatched a bit before, some a bit after, all brooded together.

ETA: I busted the flapper trying to mount another suspected roo.

Like I need another 4-week crower.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Love the naked necks!

 

[SteveH]

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