Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[tinychicky]

What a great story, wisher!

When I candled today I could feel the chicks kicking and squirming through the egg shell... hoping for pips tomorrow!

 

[champer]

Wisher I LOVE your story! It made me smile.

X2 I really enjoyed your story!

 

[CayuseRanch]

I'm done, left for a movie at 6pm bator was 99.2. Just got home 4 hours later and it was 93.3. I don't know what is going on but I feel like a chick murderer. If this one fails also, I'm thinking three strikes and I'm out of the hatching game. Crappy lg and turner soon going up for sale.

 

[chick-among-us]

I have always wanted a nice tattoo and have never committed due to the LACK of creative genious available to me...I wish she was close enough to do one for me...I would do it....one question you can ask her for me...can you tattoo a person on blood thinners?(heart patient)
just plavix tho

not cummidin! ir maybe just not SAY anything and get it done??

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[Papa Brooder]

So, my first egg hatched, not either of the SFH's that pipped middday, but a cream legbar that pipped around 5 and hatched 3 1/2 hours later. Fast little bugger! Nice of my most expensive egg to hatch first. Looks like a female, Sweeet!

 

[Razadia]

I'm done, left for a movie at 6pm bator was 99.2. Just got home 4 hours later and it was 93.3. I don't know what is going on but I feel like a chick murderer. If this one fails also, I'm thinking three strikes and I'm out of the hatching game. Crappy lg and turner soon going up for sale.

I know how you feel. I've turned the incubator down as far as I dare and it's back to 106 again. I'm extremely surprised I haven't cooked them all. It's been over 106 several times now and I still have 51 alive. Unfortunately, they have a LOT of extra space in them and I have the feeling that they're all going to drown. But here's hoping I'm as wrong as I always am.

 

[debs_flock]

Here is my celebrity look-alike entry.

I hatched this little lakenvelder chick. When she first hatched, her right eye was bulged out of her head and stuck closed. Her beak was also slightly crossed. After a couple of days, her eye wasn't bulged so badly and her beak lined back up. If you look at her from the right, she looks normal. If you look at her from the left, she looks normal. When you look at her from straight on, her left eye is nearly a quarter inch higher than her right eye. Her celebrity look-alike, Shannon Doherty of course, enough said.


Deb

 

[Sueg4332]

I 'd get her some fertile eggs and replace the old ones at night, She'll never know the difference

Hi everyone wanted to update on my broody or one of them well my little bantam silver laced something chicken got her at TSC not sure of breed well she wanted to sit on 24 eggs wich i know is to many for her well today is the first time i could get out there to limit her numbers well the eggs are dark brown so can not see if they are developing or not so i picked out 10 to leave her with and my huhsband chunked the rest but when they busted open they had a rotten smell to them were they bad eggs and could the last 10 be bad as well my husband is not one for gagging but the eggs made him gag. I also have a lavender americauna sitting on 12 eggs she started sitting yesterday.



on a better note just 4 more days till lockdown can not wait i will be candeling one more time between now and then then just sit on hands and wait till they hatch

 

[Noncentzter]

Put my eggs in lockdown tonight at 6PM after the chickens were cooped up after being out for the afternoon. Here are the results:
6 - 3 = 3 Swap eggs
4 - 1 = 3 of my own W/BW Ameraucana
15 - 0 = 15 Iowa Blue over Ameraucana
21 in lockdown

 

[failla525]

Thank you all for your help w/lockdown timing suggestions and info ... need some more help.

I increased humidity and took eggs out of turner late last night. I followed incubator instructions. I watched the humidity levels start to increase and then finally went to bed. Early this morning a chick has pipped/piped

but the humidity has leveled off at 57%. Throughout the hatch the humidity reading on the hygrometer (following incubator instructions for days 1 - 18) was about 47% most of the time.

Should I quickly add a damp sponge to the incubator? This is my first hatch and I don't want to hurt the chicks.

Well, the chick that pipped this morning has hatched!!! I was gone all afternoon and night, so I'm not sure when it finished its hatch. It's soooo cute and loves being talked to. No other pips yet, not sure why one went so early??

I locked down Tuesday night because I started my hatch on Friday night, March 16th, instead of noon on the 17th.

Again, this is my first hatch. Out of 52 eggs to start with, I locked down 49!!! They all looked good, except for the blue and green eggs I couldn't see inside of. Is it possible for them all to hatch? I'm so nervous for the chicks, what could happen to them between now and hatch? I'm totally excited to see what happens ... I guess I was only expecting about half the chicks to hatch, can't believe they are doing so well so far!!