The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Shellz]

Morning all! Just grabbed my 2nd cup of coffee. Ugh! It's -11C or -18 with windchill. Another cold snap! What happened to the nice weather we were starting to get? I hate being teased! Oh well. My 7 week old mutts are doing great the converted duck house. They are from my first ever hatch back in January. Looks like a got a few boys in there. Is ok. Hardy little buggers!

 

[ozexpat]

That sucks! My Barred Cochins eggs got a good scrambling also, which I found out at last nights candling. Pretty sure the yolk shouldn't sink when upright, and it shouldn't look like a snowglobe either.

This sucks too. Hate to say it but, you 2 are making me feel a little better, cause I thought I had it bad. At least I have some with veining, just not the Cochins.(I almost think there is some reason I'm not supposed to have them, just never seems to happen).
MORNING ALL!!!!

i am glad our misery elevates your mood. lol

GOODMORNING all

 

[Shellz]

Think I might have a few cooked ones. Ugh! Had my incubator all stabilized and then had a piece of furniture delivered. Really screwed things up. I panicked and turned heat up & left too long. 103.8! Ack! Stable now, but I'm sure I lost a few. Only checked my dorking eggs. Easier to see, may have early quitters due to the lethal gene as well. Oh well, I hadn't planned on hatching 20 to begin with, but all those eggs were just so tempting!

 

[karimw]

Candled my Iowa Blue "Spring Hatch" last night and only 1 quitter! That leaves 48 moving into lockdown tonight. I am a bit worried though, I have been running a dry hatch in my Reptipro but the humidity has been really high in the house and averaging in the 40's in the bator. The air cells are looking a little small but I'll just have to cross my fingers I guess.

 

[ozexpat]

Candled my Iowa Blue "Spring Hatch" last night and only 1 quitter! That leaves 48 moving into lockdown tonight. I am a bit worried though, I have been running a dry hatch in my Reptipro but the humidity has been really high in the house and averaging in the 40's in the bator. The air cells are looking a little small but I'll just have to cross my fingers I guess.

i will have my chickens cross their toes for you too. good luck.

 

[Gardeningmama]

i am glad our misery elevates your mood. lol

GOODMORNING all

No, not elevates my mood, more like Misery Likes Company, LOL!. In the midst of all the candlings with lots of growing embryos(which I'm sooo..happy for everyone for

) last night I candled, and was so depressed I wanted to turn the whole thing off. I didn't even bother getting on line, which is saying a lot for me. Oh well, there's still hope. I think I finally got my temps figured out at least!.

 

[mbmess2003]

i pulled a couple out from under my broody last night.....the four i looked at all had veining. I didn't want to disturb her too much so will let her kick out any that aren't developing. having a broody do the work is fun

and pretty cool experience. right now i have 3 hens sitting on eggs. my little OEGB hen's eggs should be hatching in 7 days. I gave in last night to my GNH hen and gave her 12 bantam eggs, will see how she does.

 

[Time-Out]

A short video for giggles

(she's speaking French)

 

[SilkieSensation]

A short video for giggles

(she's speaking French)

 

[loves2hatch]

I really need to figure out how to move around this thread easier. find my last page I read ect. I need to maybe write that number down? I don't kow how else to do it without reading the post backwards. any suggestions?

So i have another question.... for those that use those chicken nipples. Are they all the same size? I just ordered some and read on another thread here that some are made for chicks and some chickens. Is this true? If so, I think I ordered the wrong ones!

2. those bunny buns, I find impossible for me to make but totally adorable. I tried it with sourdough bread. Not a pretty picture, but they were pretty tasty .

So they won't be on my Easter menu.

3. I did a quick candle on my eggs today. I saw no veining. sigh. my yolks were small and towards the bottom.

never candled this early before. Also on the one I candled it had a crack all the way up on the inside that wasn't there, before I put them in the incubator. sigh. must have dropped it a little putting it in?