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

[BullChick]

I'm going to have chicks running out of my ears if everything goes right. I still have eggs coming and I just ordered chicks this morning, luckily my mama is going to take half of what I ordered this morning.

You're doing it wrong!!!

 

[ChickenFox]

What breed?

I'll be setting the following bantams:

5 EE
4 Mille Fluer D'uccle
2 Golden Neck D'uccle
2 Porcelain D'uccle
2 Silver Laced Sebright
3 Golden Laced Sebright

Should be a beautiful bantam flock if the hatch is successful. I can't wait!

 

[MROO]

Okay, I said I was gonna try, but now I'm officially in! I had eight Nankin Bantam eggs in my new incubator (actually a replacement for a Nurture Right 360 that the turner went south on ... luckily under warranty!) Out of the eight, six were duds - probably due to the brutal cold before I collected them. One was viable and one was questionable, so I left it in. Well, the "questionable" egg just hatched! Meet Pippin/Pippi! He/She entered the world about fifteen minutes ago.



I NEVER get tired of watching a hatch! We still have one egg left in the 'bator, and it's due to hatch tomorrow. I'm hoping that Pip's peeps will motivate the other egglet to get a move on! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Either way - sibling or not, the 'bator works and I have time to clean it out before Set-Day on the 30th. I'll have Nankin bantams and a handful of Porcelain D-Uccles - 12 -18, depending on how I configure the turner set-up. So yes! I get to play and stress and hope along with everybody else, this year. I am SO excited!!!!!

 

[Kessel23]

Well, you guys remember those duck eggs that I accidently cooked at 103F-ish overnight on day 1? They survived!

 

[ronott1]

Well, you guys remember those duck eggs that I accidently cooked at 103F-ish overnight on day 1? They survived!

That is very good news!

 

[ronott1]

Okay, I said I was gonna try, but now I'm officially in! I had eight Nankin Bantam eggs in my new incubator (actually a replacement for a Nurture Right 360 that the turner went south on ... luckily under warranty!) Out of the eight, six were duds - probably due to the brutal cold before I collected them. One was viable and one was questionable, so I left it in. Well, the "questionable" egg just hatched! Meet Pippin/Pippi! He/She entered the world about fifteen minutes ago.

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I NEVER get tired of watching a hatch! We still have one egg left in the 'bator, and it's due to hatch tomorrow. I'm hoping that Pip's peeps will motivate the other egglet to get a move on! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Either way - sibling or not, the 'bator works and I have time to clean it out before Set-Day on the 30th. I'll have Nankin bantams and a handful of Porcelain D-Uccles - 12 -18, depending on how I configure the turner set-up. So yes! I get to play and stress and hope along with everybody else, this year. I am SO excited!!!!!

It is great that timing worked out well for the hatch a long!

 

[ronott1]

I'll be setting the following bantams:

5 EE
4 Mille Fluer D'uccle
2 Golden Neck D'uccle
2 Porcelain D'uccle
2 Silver Laced Sebright
3 Golden Laced Sebright

Should be a beautiful bantam flock if the hatch is successful. I can't wait!

That does sound like a nice mix of bantams to hatch

 

[cppeace]

My Quail eggs are scheduled for delivery tomorrow. The Bresse eggs will go in the incubator Saturday morn and the Quail will go in Tuesday morn. Hopefully, I will have at least a few of each hatch for me. The incubator is ranging 99-100 and the humidity is hanging at 35-37%. So looks good so far. Weird how I am having to turn my "calibrated" thermostat down to 99 to get this when it was a still air one to keep 100-102 I had to set it at 104. When I ice bath tested it it was supposed to be about 3 degrees high.

 

[notasilkie]

I'm in now! Assuming my eggs arrive today or tomorrow

 

[esimmons14]

Hi there, I also am planning a hatch in my new Nurture Right 360 and I'm wondering if the turner will work for my bantam eggs? It looks like you've hatched bantams in yours?

Okay, I said I was gonna try, but now I'm officially in! I had eight Nankin Bantam eggs in my new incubator (actually a replacement for a Nurture Right 360 that the turner went south on ... luckily under warranty!) Out of the eight, six were duds - probably due to the brutal cold before I collected them. One was viable and one was questionable, so I left it in. Well, the "questionable" egg just hatched! Meet Pippin/Pippi! He/She entered the world about fifteen minutes ago.

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I NEVER get tired of watching a hatch! We still have one egg left in the 'bator, and it's due to hatch tomorrow. I'm hoping that Pip's peeps will motivate the other egglet to get a move on! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Either way - sibling or not, the 'bator works and I have time to clean it out before Set-Day on the 30th. I'll have Nankin bantams and a handful of Porcelain D-Uccles - 12 -18, depending on how I configure the turner set-up. So yes! I get to play and stress and hope along with everybody else, this year. I am SO excited!!!!!