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

[Munkeesmama]

I'm in and I can't wait!

 

[SteveH]

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[SteveH]

The girls seem to be picking up production with the increasing daylight [ evidently they were not fooled by a timer light in the coop ] , and two of my B/B/S Ameraucanas have laid their first eggs

Hopefully this week's subzero temps will be winter's last hello , and longer days with warmer temps will enspire romance in my newest cockerals so I can finally set some eggs with a better fertility rate than my other sets .

My Will They Hatch ? eggs went through a 3 hr power outage tonight . I'm trying to remain convinced I'm going to hatch a few out of the bunch .

 

[kvmommy]

I'm soooo in. Gives me the excuse I need to hatch some more! I better get looking at some eggs to buy!

 

[SteveH]

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Sorry Steve - I feel your pain. That is what mine looked like when I got them last time. Good news - a few did hatch (including that silver sussex you were kind enough to admire). What kind of chicks are (hopefully still) inside those eggs?

Finally getting caught up here . I'll PM you about the eggs .

 

[SteveH]

I missed some meals today due to first a doctor's appointment I wish I had not gone to

, then a power outage just as I was about to start supper [ some more

] . So , a midnight snack of new Ameraucana eggs gave me an excuse to study yolks and

one pointy little blue bullet of a first egg had a bullseye ! The other two never ............... but still..................

I love to end the day with a prayer and a

 

[dsqard]

Steve if any of those eggs hatch you better keep them. Those would have to be the luckiest chicks in the world! Maybe take them to LasVegas and have them pick numbers for you!

on that hatch!

 

[karimw]

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Every 2 hours?

I'm glad he's turning into your best ever cat, you deserve that after the dedication of raising him.

I was never allowed cats growing up but I have 3 spoilt house kitties now (all rescues) and I feel the same way.

Those are very good prices from the vet. Mine's usual charge is $100 to spay and $50 to neuter but I recently found out the participate in a low cost spay/neuter program for low income earners which I'd qualify for. I'll have to ask them what the discount cost is and if they will do the ferals. They aren't too bad, I can get fairly close to some but I'm sure they will freak out once caught and taken to the vet.

Just 'cause I can, here is a shot of my three. Do you think they know they aren't supposed to be on my bench or kitchen windowsill?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/71252_naughty_kitties.jpg
From left: Misty, Ellwood & Leeroy. Guilty!!!

Beautiful! Leeroy is a big boy!

 

[aka Rachel]

I'm in!!!

To be honest my incubator hasn't stopped running since I got it just before xmas, lol.

April 2nd huh? fantastic, that gives me 2 more hatches till then!!!

And hopefully my darn fertility rates pick up (darn roo).

 

[elieugene6]

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I have a homemade incubator. It uses a reptitemp 500 for the thermostat and a lightbulb for heat. I set 10 of my eggs, and 10 shipped eggs. The lightbulb blew 3 separate times and temps got down to 78, 65, and 82 respectively in the water wiggler. Then the thermostat died (thinking a power surge) temps got down to 68. Now each time this happened I was either sleeping or at work. one of mine was clear, 6 shipped eggs were clear. Everything else made it to lockdown which was in my brand new brinsea eco. Everything was going fine one Cornish (shipped) hatched and was peeping away. So that night we go out to dinner (we never go out). We came home 3 hours later. I turned on the light and my brand new incubator is tipped over and upside down open on the floor on top of the eggs!

The stupid freaking cat decided to try and get the peeping chick in the incubator. Never had this problem before as there was no way in heck he could tip over an old air force chest. So my first thought is try and save the eggs. I pick up the bator off the top of them and there is the little chick that I thought had been eaten. The incubator was laying on his head. I pick it up and get a weak peep. so start breathing on the poor thing trying to warm it and then put it in the homemade bator thinking its probably gonna die but I have to try. This chick was ice cold, the cat probably tipped it over the minute we left. Then I collect all the eggs and start sticking them in the homemade bator in the turner. I cleaned the brinsea up and got it set back up. By the time that was done baby chickie is peeping really loud. I had put it next to the light to warm it quicker, the light is separated from the eggs and there is an area near it where my shelf doesn't reach all the way to the end so don't ya know little chickie got under the shelf. Out of this ordeal I only had one egg that was destroyed by the incubator falling, poor little Cornish baby. I as of right now have 7 little peeping chickies and 4 eggs I am still waiting on. I tossed one yesterday as it was bad.

In conclusion do not give up on your eggies just cause they got cold. Albeit my eggs are mutts but the Cornish made it and they definitely weren't mutts. For a couple of the heat losses in the homemade one I had sizzles as well and 4 were clear out of 8 but the other 4 are developing nicely.