The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[mama2my4]

I cheated and set my eggs today because:

1. My eggs arrived earlier this week
2. I can't win anything anyway

43 eggs set - some are shipped eggs and some are from my birds 13 welsummers 17 barnevelders 3 blue barnevelders 6 olive eggers 2 black sex links (BR covered by welsummer) 2 cream lebar (covered by my barnevelder)

 

[Kimbroe1981]

Waiting very impatiently for tomorrow to set these eggs. I might have to set tonight. We have my son's 1st grade basketball post season tournament tomorrow. Not sure when we'll be home. Maybe at midnight tonight. So excited. This is my first hatch with eggs from my girls.

 

[mama2my4]

I set mine today too.

 

[Kimbroe1981]

I cheated and set my eggs today because:

1. My eggs arrived earlier this week
2. I can't win anything anyway
   

43 eggs set - some are shipped eggs and some are from my birds

13 welsummers
17 barnevelders
3 blue barnevelders
6 olive eggers
2 black sex links (BR covered by welsummer)
2 cream lebar (covered by my barnevelder)

do you leave the one egg on top? does it get turned?

 

[Gardeningmama]

A silly little thing, but you all will understand. My EE hen is my only blue egg layer, and won't lay in the boxes. She moved to a new hiding spot that I haven't found for about 2 months now. Today she laid an egg in her old spot!!!!! Like, "Okay Mom, here's a present for your Easter Hatch-A-Long". I'm not mad at her anymore!

 

[Brookhavens]

Post Office just called....my eggs are in. I decided to set some Araucana along with my own GS/Blue Rocks.

 

[tadpole98]

Post Office just called....my eggs are in. I decided to set some Araucana along with my own GS/Blue Rocks.

I love those, cant wait to see the fluffies!!

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Ok, so I just ran down to our dollar store and picked up a roll of blue shelf liner because I had read that a lot of you use it over the bottom of the hatcher wire to help with clean up and give a non-slip surface for new chicks. My very health minded sister looked at it and said she doesn't think we should use it because she thinks the rubber/plastic will give off toxic smells in a warm/hot incubator!!!

I said I didn't think so, and that a lot of you BYC'ers use it, but it does seem to have a bit of a chemically rubber smell... should I be worried?

 

[Gardeningmama]

Ok, so I just ran down to our dollar store and picked up a roll of blue shelf liner because I had read that a lot of you use it over the bottom of the hatcher wire to help with clean up and give a non-slip surface for new chicks. My very health minded sister looked at it and said she doesn't think we should use it because she thinks the rubber/plastic will give off toxic smells in a warm/hot incubator!!!

I said I didn't think so, and that a lot of you BYC'ers use it, but it does seem to have a bit of a chemically rubber smell... should I be worried?

I just went to my cabinet and smelled my new roll from Wal Mart, and not much of a smell at all. I've never noticed a strange smell once it's warmed up in the bator either. It really makes a world of difference in hatching though. I hand turn, so never liked rolling those eggs on the hard wire bottom. And it really does catch almost everything as far as clean up goes. I wouldn't be without it, now that I've used it.

 

[mbmess2003]

setting a total of 40 eggs....

12 bantam barred rocks
10 bantam white rocks
18 bantam black rocks

oh and i stuck 14 Icelandics and 2 bantam barred rocks under my broody hen last night....she is now a happy camper!
this is her in the front when she started going broody and didn't want to give up the nest box.




so i guess if you count hers (even though its two days early....that would be a total of 56)

edited because I obviously didn't drink enough coffee (my count was off)