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

[kathyinmo]

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Hope they all make it! Just be patient!

 

[gryeyes]

No pips. Nada.

HOWEVER, I did hear a cheep from the MiniAdvance with 7 eggs from Jeremy's girls!

 

[SteveH]

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You must be one of the few here running your bators at the right temps.

 

[The Sheriff]

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No they weren't officially Easter hatch. They were set early.

Early? Can't imagine anyone one doing that.....

Are you kidding me? I sat here with precious eggs from Kathy waiting for official set date and time and you set early!

If I don't get some chicks tomorrow I am gonna be on the first plane to Phoenix and bringing back a suitcase full of them!

 

[SteveH]

I was wonderin' why one Sussex had not dried, but too concentrated on the "helped" chicks to think much about it. Actually a third Sussex had zipped, hatched, and wandered to the side I was watching.

The vertical zipper looks to be making a left turn now that it can progress no further downward.

 

[mamawolf544]

Here are some pics so far....

That is a cross between my tiny partridge Silkie and my blue bantem Turken

several poults and some Silkies.

 

[NoseyChickens]

Well after struggling to get the humidity up I have finally succeded.

2 WC Polish out and about in the bator. 1 More polish pipped and a cochin making its way out as I type.

Whens the nest holiday? Anyone up for a 4th of July hatch???

 

[countrygirl911]

congrats everyone on the cute little fuzzy butts they are adorable. well i have none a week and a half ago my hen decided she did not want to be a mom and decided to stay off the nest and not go back. At this time my kids school had my incubator and using it for the kids to watch chickens hatch so i had no where to put them. Maybe next hatch i will make sure that i do not loan my incubator out to anyone. I just can not believe she left the nest and never went back. the night before it was thundering and lightening really bad several tornadoes around us i think all that might have scared her off.

 

[Mahonri]

Mary, because of you, I do feel truly blessed to have these BEAUTIFUL Icelandics I got a little bit of everything, dark brown, light brown, white, black, silver chipmunk, light chipmunk, dark chipmunk, mottled, small, large, crested, non-crested... haven't seen any feathers on any feet yet, but I imagine I'll find some. We named one of the silver chipmunks, "Cleopatra"... the name truly fits.

I am sharing a few of my chicks with some good neighbors down the street. I'll be having them register on BYC and direct them to the Icelandic thread. They are coming tomorrow afternoon to pick them up and they are so excited. I'll give them a couple of my EEs, so they'll probably only get 6-8 Icelandics. So I figure I'll be able to add a roo and at least 10 girls to my mini flock of Vindur and his two blonde girls. The most beautiful roo will get to stay and work things out with Vindur.
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I have been so blessed by ALL OF YOU this hatch.

I imagine if we have a good year this year, I'll bite the bullet and buy a sportsman or a dickey, or I'll try and figure out how to fix my two bators.

As for the internal pips, they weren't wet or drowned, they weren't too dry... I don't know what the problem was. There were a couple (maybe two) from the Brinsea that didn't have a lot of air space so I probably should have kept the humidity a bit lower in there. In the Hovabator, I had one entire "row" where not one of them hatched. WEIRD.

Don't know if I'll ever get this hatching thing figured out, but on Halloween we'll start the 3rd Annual NYD hatch thread...

 

[The Sheriff]

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Yes, I'm in, but I am setting on the July 1st and not telling anyone!