Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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There is more to life than hatching chicks.

You are loved.

That's true!

from here, too.

I'll offer a doz eggs as a prize if there is a contest going that *needs* a prize.
I decided to peeonthefireandcallinthedogs for this weeks' hatch. I want to take the hatcher apart and clean it before time for the eggs set the 18th (and duck eggs set the 11th) to go in. The hatcher this week was the incubator I loaned out that came back so nasty --- I scrubbed/bleached best I could, lined the whole bottom with foil, poked vent holes, and called it done). The foil may have dinked up the hatch ???
New week, new eggs to hatch.

Lisa

 

[BlueBirdChick]

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i say lavender wheaten

 

[SteveH]

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Lots of love?

And an adorable BCM?

x2

 

[wolftracks]

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i say lavender wheaten

I'm saying Lav Wheatie also. And I want to see some pics when it's older if it is!

 

[wolftracks]

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Lots of love?

And an adorable BCM?

x2

I hope he's adorable. He's still so wet!

 

[wolftracks]

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x2

I hope he's adorable. He's still so wet!

OMG I just checked him cause he suddenly get quiet.
I lost him!

 

[kathyinmo]

CONTESTS AND OTHER INFO:
-First Chick Hatched after midnight your time WINNER: Mahonri!
-Best Hatch rate % set/hatched WINNER:
-Cutest new chick pic WINNER:
-Best overall participant - (gets to choose between a 6 month GFM & a Calendar.)
-HOW MANY CHICKS WILL MAHONRI HATCH? WINNER: ]chickenhappywith10
-Rooster Crowing picture is over ..... prize: incubator! (open to ALL BYCers) WINNER: waiting for results
-How many posts on this thread at the stroke of New Years, Mahonri time. Prize: 'Extra Ordinary Chickens' calendar WINNER: Murano Farms
-Best BYC page made (ends Jan 31) to document this event or your own hatching in this event. Prize:1 dozen Delaware hatching eggs.
-"Die Hard" contest... the last chick to hatch from the original setting of eggs (12.11 at noon, your time) will be the winner. The prize is a coupon for "Buy 6 get 15$ Off" Purina products. The products eligible are 50lb bags of Layena, Start and Grow (medicated or not), Flock Raiser or 25lb Flock Blocks. AND a dozen hatching eggs Cuckoo Marans or Indian Rivers (Delaware roo over New Hampshire hens)
-Chick hatching the soonest after post 5500 - prize "Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds" by Carol Ekarius WINNER: Ms.FuzzyButts

Cutest Chick Contest pictures are here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=31282-cutest-chick-contest
Rooster Crowing Contest pictures are here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=41679-nyroostercrowingcontest
hatching % spread sheet is here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ai7KIISf0iW0dGtIYzBvQ2wzNTZNTUpwR0w3bHRwSnc&hl=en#gid=0
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I think this is current. If not .... let me know!

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

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I hope he's adorable. He's still so wet!

OMG I just checked him cause he suddenly get quiet.
I lost him!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

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Wolftracks, don't give up!

All I have is E.E. eggs, but I will give you some if you want.

I set 62 for a Christmas hatch and a dozen for the New Years' hatch and nothing! I had to order another 25 hatchery chicks just to pacify myself!

I set forty-some for a January 5th hatch and I am down to 10, a couple of which I doubt are still going, but at least they are not clear! The Dark Brown and Green eggs are so hard to see into! I hope I at least get 1 or 2 of them to hatch!

I have not been able to eat an egg since I started incubating! After opening the quitters to make sure my candling was correct, it turns my stomach to even crack an egg!

I just set another 81 eggs for a January 22 hatch. I am DETERMINED not to quit this craziness until I hatch SOMETHING!

I sold some eggs on ebay and 1 of the buyers is on here, she hatched some of my eggs! Now I am going to start saving some of my eggs and trying to hatch them too.

If I had it to do over again I would:

DO a dry run with any new, used or homemade incubator for at least a week!

LOOK for eggs locally! Most people who have fresh eggs have a rooster. Even if you have to offer them double if they are sold out, they will find you some and not refrigerate them.

NOT order any eggs on Ebay! There is every imaginable breed available from BYC members.

NOT have eggs shipped to me in the month of December!

This is just what I have learned from my failure so far! I am several hundred dollars into rotten eggs and parts and bators! I could have bought some REALLY wonderful breeder-quality chicks with that!

 

[BHep]

OOOOO NOOO SOO Sorry!