The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[loves2hatch]

You know Im a big believer that the first to pip is never the first to hatch (of course there are exceptions to the rule but I seem to run that way) 9 hours pipped did not bother me, it was the absence of the beak and the saddle aircell and the dry appearance of fuzz & membrane. But now that I got in there and found the beak less than 1/2 an inch to the right of the pip? wrong decision....it would have eventually pipped a hole and zipped around most likely so now I will probably have to continue to assist. So I say that because we never really know what the right decision was until we made the wrong one. Knowing that the best you can do is try to minimize your errors and the effects of them. I am sharing this hopefully to help anyone else trying to make those decisions.

It's a hard call. You did what you felt best, that's all anyone can do.

 

[Sueg4332]

Had a day of fishing, came home to 3 chicks out and a hole bunch trying hard!

wrong end pipper still not hatched, but I opened the pip a tad and he seems fine in there, still some red veining at the 24hr mark
so she stays as is, goes to show how long it can take them!





oh and how about lil Lukes "Jalapeño Trout" palomino Bawaaahaaaa out of the mouths of littles!!
God love them!



they stocked the local pond at the gun club! Dad bought him a ticket worth 7 fish total, he can fish as much as he wants to fill his ticket and then Popop will buy him another ticket, pretty cool eh! pays for stocking the trout in the ponds!

that is the coolest picture. What beautiful fish. I have never seen a trout that look like that

 

[Smithyard Farm]

another one out...!

the last two have a little shell stuck to their backs... will that come off.... looks a bit crusty. humidity is at 62.. should i add a little water? is she too dry and is that why its crusty?


This last one that hatched is super cute! black with a white beard, Will post pics as soon as she dries off!

 

[myfivegirls]

17 chicks and counting ... ! I had four hatch all between 6:15 and 6:55.
A few more pips, including one on the wrong end of the egg.
Quite a few other eggs with no action, but they're larger eggs, so they're probably just waiting to fully develop.
I wish the rest of my EE eggs would hatch! But, I did get some really cute chicks from Lydia the Partridge Chantecler (before she went broody).

It's getting quite active in the incubator, and I can now hear the peeping in two other rooms of the house!

I think I'll be sleeping in the living room again - don't want to miss the night-owl hatching.

 

[misskeeter]

This one is for you...

Ha ha ha ....

 

[ronott1]

BYC Easter Hatch-a-long
Daily Digest for 3-29-2013

Hatching has started! The main hatch will be kicking into tonight! Hold on everyone! It is going to be a wild Ride!

Greyeys posted pictures of her brooder set up an some pictures of her little recently hatched chicks.

A lot of hatchers checked in to announce pips and some with hatched chicks! Myfivegirls had pips and a hatch; Cynthia12 has a pip, Maah had 5 pips; DURR had 31 hatch; Gardengirl73 had 3 pips; mamddh had 1 out and 8 pips; seventreesfarm had 18 hatched; Jesshan8 had 13 hatched. Later 46 hatched; Hurley’s hatch has started. Later Hurly had hatched a bunch; Shellz had a pip. Later a cuckoo marans hatched; Smithyard Farm had a second chick; TnT Poultry had a pip but maybe in the wrong end; Sueg4332 had a pip. Later 9 were out; Cayuseranch had a pip; mama2my4 had a chick and 3 pips; Maah then had 3 chicks, 4 pips and 1 internal pip; animalsroc4evr had a duckling; Happy Chooks had 17 out with 2 pips on the last 4; chicken fever had 2 out with more pips; loves2hatch had a first pip; JulieNKC had 2 hatch over night; budbarvinfarm had 23 hatch; JoyfulPromise had a pip; coldupnorth had a bunch hatch; Gahlisgrams had a pip; QuirkySue had 3 hatch; Wax Myrtle had 2 pips; RedBugPoultry had 4 hatched and 1 pipped; Razadia hand more pips but no chicks; CowgirlHC had 2 pips. Then a chick; Gardeningmama had 2 pips; Impulsive Farmer had a chick hatch; delisha has 25 chicks and 5 with nothing left; CrzyCknLady had 7 chicks and 3 pips;

That is a lot of chicks!

Others posted the number that went into lockdown: littlechicklet, 23; WilderWoods has 30; arcountrychik has 21; EPetrilli has 9; Bigfamily4me has 51 eggs in an unplugged for 6 hours incubator; lizanne has 10; chicken pickin set 25 and had 3 pips; LFchixranch has 5 in lockdown; ChooksChick locked down 75

Razadia has Dad ready to get Silkies! Good job!

Misskeeter had a great time hatching for a classroom hatch. 28 hatched! There were several photo posts of the chicks!

Mommachick1 is tired! She has been getting ready for both chicks and relatives visiting for Easter. She was stuck in a chair and hoped to get a shower before working some more! TMI? She got out of the chair to ask about humidity.

Rarebear posted that chirping chicks helps other chicks hatch. That is why I chirp at the eggs.

Maah posted about Barred Rock Brahma cross became Barrock Obrahma’s in 14 year old language….

QuirkySue posted a picture of a naked neck chick…noahsmom posted a picture of a chick she had to help out. Quirky Sue is excited to hatch for a second time and does not think it will get old.

Check out post 7130. Funny!

Chick Li is fighting temps and humidity in a homemade bator and is doing better with a broody cochin.

JoyfulPromis was worried about failing and being a parent make is worse.

Happy Hatch Day!

 

[misskeeter]

Okay.... Little spraddle girl, calling her "Cleo" because of the Egyptian eye liner, is my favorite....

Thinking of making some sort of splint out of straws to force her legs straight since the band aid is not working at all....

Here are a couple of pics of her cuteness

 

[Maah]

My last egg finally pipped a little bit ago. Phew! It pipped at the right end at least, but not at the top.... lower down the side. We'll see.

Poor little kiddo... hanging out in the bator all alone.

The rest of the chicks are all dry & puffed in the brooder. One more "Barrock Obrahma" left to go... Come on chickie!

 

[luvmyEs]

Nothing here yet

. Hoping to wake up to a surprise tomorrow morning.

 

[katsdar]

I have 2 officially hatched 18 to go and 6 more pipped, I have been busy setting up the brooder, had everything figured they would be here tomorrow they popped out at 5:30 today!!!! pics to follow soon