The 10th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!!

[MagpieDucks]

Getting excited....my eggs should be shipping out today or tomorrow for the HAL

Mine are shipping on Wednesday.

 

[BullChick]

Waiting for the birds to lay any day now! I’m against setting first eggs, but I will make an exception!

 

[two j farm]

I will be getting my eggs Thursday

 

[AlishaRichard]

I am normally swimming in eggs.Of couse sense I am doing this hatch a long and collecting as many eggs as possible over the next few days my girls are slowing down. I feel like I need to fill the incubator. Go big or go home right? Come on ladies give me some eggs for some Easter babies!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do allot of threatening at that point

 

[AlishaRichard]

I do allot of threatening at that point

Oh yes absolutely. I warned them that I may withhold the mealworms if they don't stop freeloading. Lol I am just kidding. I love them, but we had a serious conversation this morning.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I actually am not incubating my own eggs trying to keep enough ahead to supply all my customers

 

[BantyChooks]

I'll be setting bantams if they lay a few between now and Saturday.

 

[lomine]

Batch 3 started pipping right on time, just a couple hours before the start of day 21. Guess that means the temp was correct this time. Now I just have to wait and see how many actually hatch.

I separate my eggs for hatching by color, so I know who's an EE, who's an OE, and who's possibly purebred. I used to use plastic containers but for my current hatch I made walls using plastic crossstitch canvases. They are working well. I bought the canvas on Amazon but if I were to buy again I would go to a craft store so I could pick ones that were more rigid. The ones I got are flimsy so I had to double up on some parts and had to tape it to the incubator walls. Otherwise the chicks could had pushed right past the ends.

(I honestly can't remember if I saw this on BYC or if I thought of it myself. So if anyone has seen it before and remembers the OP please feel free to credit.)

 

[cppeace]

Well, My fan has officially been added to my incubator. I am getting the temp settled now. It was only off for two whole days lol.
Hopefully, I can get at least 3 more Bresse to hatch giving me good odds of at least 2 pullets so that I can start hatching my own Bresse out in the early fall if at all possible.