The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Happy Chooks]

REMINDER a BUNCH of CONTEST
END TONIGHT!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/741090/the-4th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Thanks for the reminder!

 

[arcountrychick]

Day 19 here and impatiently waiting! Come on, chickies!!! I'm seeing a few folks with chicks hatching with umbilical cords still attached. My first hatch was a couple weeks ago. Almost all of my daughter's bantam cochins hatched like this. All of the cords dried up and fell off in a few days but it really freaked me out at first! You can see the cord on this guy who was napping on his back:

 

[The Chickeneer]

Great to hear that everyone's hatches are going good......me on the other hand.... Out of 12 eggs, 11 of them were fertile and developing, so my hopes were up. Seven of them made it too lockdown, so I guess that was good. From there there were only two that were alive and started pipping, after piping a hole, they both died. I have no eggs hatching, all dead, all a waste of time. I think my LG incubator has served it's purpose long enough.....time to toss it and get a new one.

On the bright side, I already have a brooder full of 34 chicks and 2 ducklings......so this bad hatch isn't hitting us too hard. Hope everybody else's hatches go great. Good luck everybody!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Great to hear that everyone's hatches are going good......me on the other hand.... Out of 12 eggs, 11 of them were fertile and developing, so my hopes were up. Seven of them made it too lockdown, so I guess that was good. From there there were only two that were alive and started pipping, after piping a hole, they both died. I have no eggs hatching, all dead, all a waste of time. I think my LG incubator has served it's purpose long enough.....time to toss it and get a new one.

On the bright side, I already have a brooder full of 34 chicks and 2 ducklings......so this bad hatch isn't hitting us too hard. Hope everybody else's hatches go great. Good luck everybody!!

I'm sorry yours is not going well.

 

[arcountrychick]

Great to hear that everyone's hatches are going good......me on the other hand.... Out of 12 eggs, 11 of them were fertile and developing, so my hopes were up. Seven of them made it too lockdown, so I guess that was good. From there there were only two that were alive and started pipping, after piping a hole, they both died. I have no eggs hatching, all dead, all a waste of time. I think my LG incubator has served it's purpose long enough.....time to toss it and get a new one.

On the bright side, I already have a brooder full of 34 chicks and 2 ducklings......so this bad hatch isn't hitting us too hard. Hope everybody else's hatches go great. Good luck everybody!!

I'm sorry! My first hatch didn't go so great, but I'm hopeful for this one. But it sounds like you're stocked up with a full brooder

That's always nice!

 

[chirpingcricket]

Ok here is my status as follows:
76 eggs set
3 blood ring/quitters
20 clear
53 made it to lockdown 45 in the bator and 8 I gave to a persistent broody last Monday

45 bator eggs 8 broody eggs
5 currently externally pipped ? (I know most have hatched just not sure all have)
3 late quitters
1 died after hatching
36 hatched and in the brooder
93.33% hatch rate thus far (for the bator) ? hatch rate thus far

One of my personal bests so far....we shall see how I fare with all eggs accounted for.
will post pics for verification purposes later.

Egg-celent!

 

[Jucknath]

9 have pipped out of 37.

 

[Daniel1974]

I have 8 Chicks out and pipping everywhere, And 2 of the 5 BCM are coming out soon

Im gonna have a ton of Babies soon 50+ eggs in the bator

all look good and looks like Im gonna have a good hatch, Congrats to all the others with pipping and Hatching This is so much fun. Caught one coming out

 

[cuppycake]

Nothing at all happening here. NUTTIN!!

Me either, I'm just trying to give them time and focus on other things. I could probably do some laundry or vacuum... if I were so inclined.

 

[bnewns]

I've got two so far. A day early!!