The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[williab]

We would like to join the hatch along! I have a bid for some eggs on e-bay...maybe I'll get lucky and "win" the auction ... If not I've been thinking about setting my marans eggs as they run with a handsome blue ameraucana roo...olive eggers? I think my grandson (age 5) will be soooo excited for an easter with baby chicks!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: i would like to do the contest!
i wish i had something to donate. but unless people want a bunch of boring barnyard mix eggs shipped to them from a person who has never shipped eggs, i cant.

could we do something where we have a big prize that costs a lot of money, but nobody wants to pay for it in full, so they split the cost up? say for a brinsea incubator or something.

I will look into it.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I have a broody!!

Now the next question from a Newbie.... will she sit until the eggs all hatch? she has been in the nest for 2 weeks or so, i finally left her two eggs of her own the other day... just to see if she in fact is going to stay with them. so far so good. IF i give her eggs that i want to hatch for the easter hatch... will she stay that long on the nest? its 9 days away.. OR will she give up if they dont hatch around 21 days.....

No, it won't work. The only way it can work is if you take the 2 eggs she's currently sitting on and finish them off in the incubator yourself - and give her a fresh set of eggs that will all hatch at the same time. Otherwise, she'll leave the nest with the first chicks that hatch, usually by the 2nd day.

 

[debs_flock]

Like Kelly said, you need to keep your eggs all around the same due date. I have a showgirl brooding on ten eggs right now. When I first let her sit, I scribbled a pencil line around all the eggs and put them under her. She is in the coop with other girls, so each day I pick her up and count. If there are more than ten, I remove any egg that doesn't have a pencil scribble.

So far so good.

This is her first attempt. If she manages to hatch these chicks, I'll move her to a pen by herself for the safety of the chicks. She is sitting on all silkie/SG eggs, except the one Olandsk Dwarf I slipped in

 

[noahsmom]

Welcome to all the new folks joining in!

Thank you

 

[ozexpat]

It seems I am new and need my replies approved. Did I say something wrong?

 

[Pele]

It seems I am new and need my replies approved. Did I say something wrong?

?? Did one of your posts get removed or something?

 

[ozexpat]

?? Did one of your posts get removed or something?

No I was posting in another thread on shipped eggs and I got a pop-up message saying that because I am new, I need a moderators approval to post.

Weird.

 

[Pele]

No I was posting in another thread on shipped eggs and I got a pop-up message saying that because I am new, I need a moderators approval to post.

Weird.

Oh, you know you might have accidentally submitted multiple posts at the same time by accident (I think you have a tricky connection right?). I could see the mods having a stop system for new sigs in place to block that so the boards don't get spammed.

 

[Wisher1000]

That is weird.....