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

[Chickhick]

How do you double stack in the Brinsea and the eggs not roll around when turning?

 

[dsqard]

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Oh no, no, no I figure you can spread the love around but you know, if lots of extras show up in the box I was just letting you know I will make them fit.

You know, I'm just sayin'. mutters to myself, she was the one to suggest 24

You know we luv ya!

 

[dsqard]

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Actually with the plastic divider between the eggs and the heating element on the cover, the stacked eggs are pretty stable because they are against the divider. I did use daisychick's idea and put some wax paper between some eggs to prop them in place if it seemed that they were going to roll. None of the eggs have budged since I plugged in the turner.

 

[Hurley]

Got the bator fired up for my pre-easter hatching..you know...have to have the temps perfected, right?

Incubating home-grown Marans from blue cuckoo (+/- silver/gold) cockerels over blue (+/- silver) pullets, selected the darkest of the eggs, nothing under what I judge as 4s (don't have my card yet). I've held back a splash cuckoo rooster from the NYD hatch so far to see how he matures and work him into the flock.

Very excited to get in a batch of LF Lav Ameraucanas from CrystalCreek (again, since SOMEONE is hogging the eggs for the easter hatch, poor me will have to hatch some earlier and have that much cuteness that much sooner). I accidentally have bid on some hookless/silkied Ameraucana blue/splash splits to fill the rest of the incubator, too. Oops. Darn that twitchy enter-finger.

For Easter, I will likely be incubating my blue/cuckoo/silver/gold eggs again, the darkest of the group and hopefully some olive-egger-to-bes from the trio of Ameraucana pullets in the Marans pen, B/B/S and cuckoo OEs, yum. Hoping to prove out the genetics on my Marans group as well, this summer.

 

[daisychick]

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Actually with the plastic divider between the eggs and the heating element on the cover, the stacked eggs are pretty stable because they are against the divider. I did use daisychick's idea and put some wax paper between some eggs to prop them in place if it seemed that they were going to roll. None of the eggs have budged since I plugged in the turner.

You can't exactly "double stack" on all the rows, but you can place eggs on top in the crevices made by the bottom eggs. You have to watch those plastic things that stick down from the lid. I use wax paper to make little pouches to lay the extra eggs in and then you use crumpled up wax paper to place in between the egg and the lid and it hold them in place. The trick is to take it off the turner and do a very slow test turn by hand and see if you have any eggs move and if they do add some paper for a bumper. Eggs along the edges works the best. Chickenstalker taught me how to do this and I just keep pushing the limits.

Here is mine last time and there are 34 or 35 eggs in there. You could add more.

 

[dsqard]

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I am not hogging them! I contacted Crystal Creek at the end of the NYD hatch for this one. You are just slow

ETA - I am jealous though since you get to see those beautiful chicks first.

 

[dsqard]

@ Daisychick - we

to your Tetris egg stacking skills!

 

[Chickhick]

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[Cetawin]

Oh count me in for the Easter Hatch. Not sure what I will be hatching yet but I am sure I can come up with something.

 

[CRYSTALCREEK]

Don't worry, dsqard, I'm going to send her all the ugly ones.....shhhhhhhh don't tell