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

[ChickenFox]

@MROO I am so sorry I have gone to bent hardware cloth a heating pad over no auto off to fight not expensive but real easy to make Amazon sells large heating pads not auto off at good prices

I made a MHP this time too. Also just bent the HC and attached the heating pad to the underside to keep the chickies warm. Got the pad at Walmart for $12.

I am absolutely devastated. I put our first four Nankin peeps in the brooder. My EcoGlo brooder plate needs a new cord, which has not yet arrived, so I had a heat lamp on them. The lamp apparently shifted and I have four dead peeps - it took all of about six minutes. My poor babies. This was our best hatch ever - seven, so far, and now this. It's almost enough to make me quit. Almost.

I'm so sorry.
Until your new cord arrives maybe you can make a quick MHP? Walmart and Amazon sell decently cheap heating pads without the auto shut off.

 

[Robert G]

Set 9 all 9 hatched!

I couldn't help myself I bought 4 bantams at tractor supply to add to my 9 Easter Eggers.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

I'm about to call it...nearing 24 hours since first to hatch. This last pip was late to happen and stalling. Think I'll assist this one and turn things off. All in all I'd say my hatch was 12 hours off schedule. Late due to two days of cool weather and this back room has no heat source, second day was darn cold making incubator 1.5 F low when I got home from work.

Set 15
1 infertile
11 hatched

Edit update. Unplugged 6:30pm, went to assist 7:30pm and still born. Not stuck but dead. This is my tally -11 hatched of 15 set.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Total hatched 29

 

[MelissaRose]

I am absolutely devastated. I put our first four Nankin peeps in the brooder. My EcoGlo brooder plate needs a new cord, which has not yet arrived, so I had a heat lamp on them. The lamp apparently shifted and I have four dead peeps - it took all of about six minutes. My poor babies. This was our best hatch ever - seven, so far, and now this. It's almost enough to make me quit. Almost.

Oh no! so sorry @MROO! I would feel so bad.

 

[Peep_Show]

Emptied the chicks into the brooder and was taking the dud egg out when it accidentally dropped and the top crunched. Then I heard a chirp. Oh dammit! It wasn't dead after all. I did a quick extraction so it didn't shrink wrap and it's a chick not quite ready to join the world. (Large yolk sac still; a bit of blood; flopping about)
It's in the incubator in isolation and I don't think it'll make it. Or, if it does, it'll be a couple of days behind the others who are eating and drinking and carousing in the brooder all nice and fluffy.

I feel so badly that I dropped the poor little thing on its head. I certainly haven't done it any favors. Husby is looking on the lighter side and has named our slow chick Timmy. (Southpark reference.)

I'm still leaving my tally at 27 as its chances are slim.

 

[MelissaRose]

Emptied the chicks into the brooder and was taking the dud egg out when it accidentally dropped and the top crunched. Then I heard a chirp. Oh dammit! It wasn't dead after all. I did a quick extraction so it didn't shrink wrap and it's a chick not quite ready to join the world. (Large yolk sac still; a bit of blood; flopping about)
It's in the incubator in isolation and I don't think it'll make it. Or, if it does, it'll be a couple of days behind the others who are eating and drinking and carousing in the brooder all nice and fluffy.

I feel so badly that I dropped the poor little thing on its head. I certainly haven't done it any favors. Husby is looking on the lighter side and has named our slow chick Timmy. (Southpark reference.)

I'm still leaving my tally at 27 as its chances are slim.

I don't see any reason it shouldn't survive. Give "Timmy" a chance. It should not take him/her too long to finish absorbing their yolk and dry off. I have had a chick like that with an almost absorbed yolk in the incubator and it's made it. Good luck "Timmy"!

 

[jolenesdad]

Rooting for Timmy!

 

[NanaKat]

Okay...last report. After the power failure 5 more hatched and are fluffing in the hatcher. I'm leaving the rest of eggs in the hatcher until tomorrow.
Calling my numbers:
Set 73,
moved 54 to lockdown,
hatched 46 but lost one to chill....
45 live chicks.

Enjoying the pictures and commaraderie.

 

[Raptorchick]

Good luck to all the new Easter babies... got my peeps into the brooder coop, all fluffy now