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

[rgvchicks]

started with 40 eggs.....ended up with 35 after candling......tomorrow lockdown and 4 chicks hatched already and 15 eggs are pippiing..........

 

[Jessshan8]

Here is the definition of irony and chance. Of the two batches of eggs I received from the swaps one being ducks the other being LF mix were numbered. 1 through 12, the duck eggs being labeled duck on each egg, and of course my own which I had placed no markings at all. So out of 42 eggs I initially set in the bator the first chick to hatch was from the egg numbered #1!!!!!!!! No kidding, the other part of the irony is the first egg to pip was a duck egg and then followed shortly by 6 other eggs pipping none of those has really started zipping yet. The one that hatched I had not noticed even pipping let alone zipping. Now I have a healthy little light yellow chick making all kids of noise singing the others out of their shells. Pretty cool if you ask me. Just thought I would share that with you guys/gals.

 

[coz74]

My little mystery chick is now in the brooder. Currently I have 3 more pips... an olive egg, another mystery brown egg and a Gold laced Polish all from mrheinz77. Nada from my BLRW eggs yet.

Correction, I now have a BLRW that has pipped.

 

[chick-among-us]

ok so about 15 or so Marans hatched in one bator,then 20 I think in another bator those are my own EE's and Am's...Then in ANOTHER bator is Kari's iowacanas and two little iowas,and Johns Barred rocks, and all of Karis other stuff! WE have a pip in there! BUT it is upside down and it is an iowacana....sigh sure hope it lives...I comptemplated opening the bator and grabbing the egg and laying it on its side...but I didn't open it and left like it is in the carton since it is already oriented that way....now I wont sleep and will watch over it...the marans pip then zip and are out in twenty minutes some in TEN! they are blazin fast! lol when does THAT happen? and they were the first ones also to pip! now if the fluffies,and BLUE AM's hatch....

I just dont wanna hatch anymore for a while unless it is something we want...hehehehe...sick,sick,sick I tell you! HAHAHA we are getting more silkies from Chookschick.

 

[countrygirl911]

Well nothing yet come on chickies time to come out and play

 

[Mahonri]

I feel so badly about all of the unpipped eggs. I hate this feeling. I suppose I should just be happy for the ones that have pipped and hatch.

21 out. 3 pipped... but I don't give much hope for one of them.

I finally got ONE Peachick Ameraucana to hatch. ONE.

 

[ragerkid2]

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LOL..I got that call, did you? This will be my last call until fall. No more after these last three different ones I have in.

My total is horrible. I feel horrible. I haven't had this bad a hatch for a very long time. Oh, there was one, where I didn't get any, but there were only 6 eggs, not 20!

5 Araucanas

1 Wheaten Ameraucana...............REALLY?

I'm not feeling too great right now. At least I am getting some Exchequers to hatch, may get the whole 5 that went into lock down...with...all the others!

So many dead babies in eggs, haven't seen that before. I finally got my first stinky bomb egg. Now that was an experience. I can now say I can relate when someone shares that sweet moment.

Good luck everyone..will get pictures up when they are fluffed. For some reason, they are sticky, and there was this gooy stuff in the eggs. I'm surprised any hatched. The one Ameraucana that was zipping, stopped, died. Gooy stuff in there..it drowned. My humidity was only up to 66 at the highest.

This is just too sad. All those babies making it that far, just to die. One of the Araucanas had a missing eye. One had a crossed beak, but not that bad. I knew they were hard to hatch, but goodness.

I'm so sorry about your hatch . I'll be lucky if I get any chicks. I saw some eggs moving earlier but I haven't seen them move since. Alls I can do is hope right?

 

[kathyinmo]

I feel so badly about all of the unpipped eggs. I hate this feeling. I suppose I should just be happy for the ones that have pipped and hatch.

21 out. 3 pipped... but I don't give much hope for one of them.

I finally got ONE Peachick Ameraucana to hatch. ONE.

You're gonna be all done before I even get started!

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

Well it's been one of those days. The chick in the green egg is for sure gone! I took a wooden skewer and gently moved the egg through the air flow hole to see if their was any movement, the egg rolled back into the position it was previously and i got a wift of a stinky smell. Then I went out to collect eggs and got stuck in the mud holes left from the floods, none of my chickens in 4 different coops laid there eggs in their nesting boxes

. Some eggs were scattered throughout the coop floors, some were behind the nesting boxes on the floor broke, and the rest were on the ground in the mud. then i couldn't get the big coop door shut so i temporarily had to use the drill to close her for the night, my goofy rooster Porche couldn't see that all his girls were in so i had to pick him up and toss him in, My gal who is missing an eye kept trying to get out and would have come in the house if I let her. Then to top the night off I let the dogs out to go potty old dog didn't made it up so I went down to get him, found out he is the culprit behind all my straw I use for bedding being nocked over and torn into, after cleaning that up he got stuck in the mud and I had to pry him loose only to get stuck myself, Ugh all after taking a shower too!

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Praying the rest of the week doesn't go like this and that we have some actual sunshine for more then an hour and then rain. Rain Rain Go Away and Don't Come back Until I Say! HAH!
If there isn't Rain it isn't Oregon!

 

[champer]

Well it's been one of those days. The chick in the green egg is for sure gone! I took a wooden skewer and gently moved the egg through the air flow hole to see if their was any movement, the egg rolled back into the position it was previously and i got a wift of a stinky smell. Then I went out to collect eggs and got stuck in the mud holes left from the floods, none of my chickens in 4 different coops laid there eggs in their nesting boxes

. Some eggs were scattered throughout the coop floors, some were behind the nesting boxes on the floor broke, and the rest were on the ground in the mud. then i couldn't get the big coop door shut so i temporarily had to use the drill to close her for the night, my goofy rooster Porche couldn't see that all his girls were in so i had to pick him up and toss him in, My gal who is missing an eye kept trying to get out and would have come in the house if I let her. Then to top the night off I let the dogs out to go potty old dog didn't made it up so I went down to get him, found out he is the culprit behind all my straw I use for bedding being nocked over and torn into, after cleaning that up he got stuck in the mud and I had to pry him loose only to get stuck myself, Ugh all after taking a shower too!

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Praying the rest of the week doesn't go like this and that we have some actual sunshine for more then an hour and then rain. Rain Rain Go Away and Don't Come back Until I Say! HAH!
If there isn't Rain it isn't Oregon!

I sure hope tomorrow is a better day for you! Feel free to send some of that rain to my part of California, we are dry, dry, dry.