The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[DURR]

Ugh. Stupid classified section won't let me post a new listing it keeps going blank everytime I try. *shrugs* oh well. :/ I had to set a little early got 38 set total. All but 18 are EE and OE eggs the rest are my AGF's. 25 are due on the 16th the rest are due between the 18th - 24th.

 

[wolftracks]

I started to finally set the 83 eggs I didn't want to lose, but I had a pip in the incubator, so I didn't think I needed to open it up and rearange untill chick hatched. Looks like I'm going to have to save them for this hatch after all

Oh well, hopefully they'll still hatch. So looks like if the bad weather coming in, doesn't stop the laying, I'll have over 100. Matter of fact I've heard the egg song going on most of the day.

 

[mstricer]

I haven't got my count yet, but I don't think it is going to fit in my two hovabators, I'm going to have to fire up the big incubator this week and see how well it will hold temp and humidity.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

I haven't got my count yet, but I don't think it is going to fit in my two hovabators, I'm going to have to fire up the big incubator this week and see how well it will hold temp and humidity.

Good luck with the incubator. I hope you have better luck than me.. I've had a rough couple of days trying to get one here squared away. I ended up having some of the eggs sent to a friend to hatch for me just in case. I am down to some Breda eggs for the hatchalong.. lol

 

[williab]

Wait!!! I'm pretty new at this but pray tell what is a cherry egger??? Signed: One Very Intrigued Newbie...(I'm probably gonna want one...)

 

[TheH Klan of 10]

UPDATE already!! It still amazes me eveytime I see them hatch!! AND it shows how fast they can zip too! we noticed her 1st pip yesterday just after lunch and its taken this long, sometimes its even longer with Large Fowl! NOTE to BAYM... serama ALWAYS hatch early! dont panic lol here are some pics before the vid uploads! this is her right before hatch......

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"I DID IT! Now sleep!"​

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this was the first guy who piped yesterday, but not the first to show its feathers!​

this girl was and still not out!​

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Most awesome video, it shows how fast some of them can zip once they start. [COLOR=008080]NOTES: Zipping is the last stage in hatching![/COLOR] [COLOR=008080]DO NOT get it confused with the external pip! It happens well AFTER the first pip and resting period..... in the case of these eggs, that phase took almost a full day and these are TINY eggs..... so LF can take alot longer![/COLOR] [COLOR=008080] [/COLOR]

How precious!!!!

 

[williab]

Oppps...hit reply instead of quote...member a couple of pages back mentioned a cherry egger...just curious...
And yay!! Won the bid and will be setting 12 cream legbars and 12 blue laced red wyandottes along with our homegrown speckled sussex (3 eggs) and 3 marans/ameraucana mix eggs sooo 30 total!

 

[JulieNKC]

I got my first egg from my d'uccles today. Just in time to have a few to set for the hatchalong! Yay, I'm so excited, I've been waiting FOREVER for these guys to lay, lol. I'm going to have more babies hatching for this hatchalong than I thought, I hope. I'm actually regretting breaking my broody serama. At the time I wanted her eggs more than her setting them, but now that I'm running short on room I'm ready to have a broody help out.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Wait!!! I'm pretty new at this but pray tell what is a cherry egger??? Signed: One Very Intrigued Newbie...(I'm probably gonna want one...)

me too what is a cherry egger!!!!

 

[TheH Klan of 10]

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WHEW!!! What a morning! We have a new hen! A rescued SLW who is currently suffering from a mild prolapsed vent. Saw the ad on Freecycle this morning. Lady just wanted someone to put her down humanely, didn't know at all what to do - called it prolapsed uterus!!! They even didn't care if she ended up being someone's dinner!

We picked her up and when my sister told the lady that she might be able to help the hen get better, the lady said that was up to us if we wanted to deal with it, she didn't want the hen back! I don't think it is a pure SLW, maybe just hatchery quality, the lacing on her body is not defined at all. The prolapse was not as bad as we thought, only out a little bit (maybe about 1/2-1 inch) and she had a ball of white crusty urates on the feathers below the vent. We washed her off as best we could, dried her, and then(after reading several threads on here about prolapsed vent) we put honey on the prolapsed bulge, waited a few minutes, and then gently pushed it back in. It went in fine, and looked normal...until she pooped and it came back out. So, we did it again, and held a gauze pad with witch hazel on it against her vent for a minute or two. She started clucking calmly and my sister said she felt an egg in there (the lady said she had laid an egg yesterday too!). So we have her in a large tub for now with lattice covering it. We will watch to see if she lays the egg, and then perhaps repeat the treatment as necessary. She seems to have a nice calm temperament, and is pretty perky and healthy looking other than her vent problem. We will see, but I have a feeling she will recover just fine!

Here are a couple pictures of our new patient... (my sister took these and was trying to avoid showing her problem area) [/quote She is so pretty!! U guys r awesome! What kind is that ? I am not very good at the initials yet I think that is the kind of chickens I will b getting from my eggs for the most part cause that is what most the chickens looked like where I got my eggs

I surely can't wait till mine hatch !!!