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

[NanaKat]

Well... I apparently have a problem with the circulation in my FI incubator. I will have to check it out once this batch is done. My first chick hatched out Friday morning at 10:30am (the end of day 19). Two hours into day 23, I have 24 chicks, and still going with a pip, and an active zip.

This was my craziest hatch ever! Due Sunday but started hatching Friday and Saturday. Then we had the electrical problem Saturday night and temperature dropped. Had some hatch Sunday. I declared the hatch Sunday evening, but left the eggs in the hatching tray...three more hatched today.

 

[lomine]

Unfortunately none of my duck eggs hatched. Had one chicken zip and quit. The worst for hatching was the leghorn and blue eggs (again). I gave 8 to my broody last night and she was happily cooing to them. I think I might give her a surprise late hatcher from this morning. It has an unexpected pattern based on its egg color.

Final count is 27

 

[Jules929]

This was my craziest hatch ever! Due Sunday but started hatching Friday and Saturday. Then we had the electrical problem Saturday night and temperature dropped. Had some hatch Sunday. I declared the hatch Sunday evening, but left the eggs in the hatching tray...three more hatched today.

Crazy, yes, that is the word... Lol. I had 3 hatch today, another is pipped, one should pip any time now, and 2 more that are moving, but way behind in development, they look like day 18 eggs.

 

[feedman77]

Just a little update on the egg that started peeping when I went to toss out all the shells from those hatched already.

He/she has made an external pip and is creeping. Maybe it will be out by tomorrow. But it's a fighter just couple days behind

 

[NotAFarm]

6 set : 0 hatched

 

[MagpieDucks]

6 set : 0 hatched

 

[NotAFarm]

It was a long shot to begin with. I set eggs that my hubby failed to collect because he didn't know about the nest and the weather was pretty cool. I put them under a hen that was broody and she got off the nest one morning and the eggs stayed cold all day. I moved them to another hen that went broody shortly after the first. She stayed on them but two never started and the rest didn't survive the cold day.
I feel bad for the hen. I took her out of my broody coop this morning and removed the eggs. She was in a different nest box this evening sitting tight. I might have to go and see if TSC still has chicks.

 

[Kessel23]

1 more chick hatched this morning. I still got a duck egg that pipped and a few internally pipped chicks so I might get a few more. Right now I have 22 chicks and 7 ducklings. This one is a naked neck chick.

 

[bauerdog]

17 hatched out of 41 shipped eggs. Unfortunately, one was a mushy chick with splay leg. That one didn't make it. So I got 3 chocolate cuckoo orpingtons, one lavender orpington with two black splits, two showgirls, two Wheaton ameraucana, two blue laced red wyandotte, and four double silver laced barnevelder.

 

[jolenesdad]

17 hatched out of 41 shipped eggs. Unfortunately, one was a mushy chick with splay leg. That one didn't make it. So I got 3 chocolate cuckoo orpingtons, one lavender orpington with two black splits, two showgirls, two Wheaton ameraucana, two blue laced red wyandotte, and four double silver laced barnevelder.

Nice breeds!!!