The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Daniel1974]

Hope everyone has a good hatch I can't wait to know how many Babies we all hatch out Good luck to you all..

 

[ChooksChick]

Aww, poor Happy Chooks. You definately your hands full. Lots of new additions today and everyone posting how many eggs they have. Do you need some help? Want me to do a cliff notes version of certain pages for you?

ETA - Not to mention those of us whose chicken math skills seem to show up when we are trying to count how many eggs we are setting lol

Hey!! I resemble that comment...

I still have no clue how many I've set...I'm going to ask my daughters to go count them tomorrow so I'll get an accurate report. There's something about looking at all of them where my mind starts drifting and I'm ensconced in all of the potential results from my Project Pens...especially when I'm on my migraine meds!

Massive dilation of the brain's blood supply will do weird things to you...oH! Look! A chicken!!

 

[genevieve]

87 eggs total- a variety of Lavendar Orpington, Blue Orpington, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Polish X and a couple dozen mystery eggs from an auction!

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[CayuseRanch]

Here are my eggs which were set earlier today, but didn't get pic up until now.






18 Olive Eggers
12 BBS Cochin
2 Buff Brahma

Total: 32

 

[Shellz]

AHA! There you are Sally! Folks were asking about you. Hope everything's ok!

 

[Jessshan8]

OK here goes.....
A new all time high for me, I am setting 76 eggs.....11 from the swap(had 12 but I accidentally broke one putting them in the bator) and 65 from my own stock. 38 in each tray, 3 blank spots for the wiggler and 1 by the motor in each turner. Here are the verification pics... I actually found some water wigglers at the dollar store to put my thermometers in works like a champ and they do not fluctuate at all now. I feel allot more comfortable about the actual temp of the eggs now.



Here is a pic of my broody and her week old chicks, 3 of the seven of them anyway. I just love the markings of the chick on the left....looks like Eddie Munster!

I'll get a better pic in a day or two to show you guys.

 

[The Chickeneer]

Good luck to everybody setting eggs today! I set my duck eggs for the hatch along last week, and I candled them tonight. Out of the twelve eggs i put in, only one is clear. The rest have little duck embryos....I took some picture on my phone, but I doubt you can see them clearly.






You can kind of see some veins, and a dark little embryo...ugh the eggs look so much better in person! These pictures are just to blurry, but 11 of the 12 eggs are all doing fine.

 

[Jessshan8]

Good luck to everybody setting eggs today! I set my duck eggs for the hatch along last week, and I candled them tonight. Out of the twelve eggs i put in, only one is clear. The rest have little duck embryos....I took some picture on my phone, but I doubt you can see them clearly.






You can kind of see some veins, and a dark little embryo...ugh the eggs look so much better in person! These pictures are just to blurry, but 11 of the 12 eggs are all doing fine.

I can see some nice veining congrats!!!!!!!!!

 

[coldupnorth]

OK here goes.....
A new all time high for me, I am setting 76 eggs.....11 from the swap(had 12 but I accidentally broke one putting them in the bator) and 65 from my own stock. 38 in each tray, 3 blank spots for the wiggler and 1 by the motor in each turner. Here are the verification pics... I actually found some water wigglers at the dollar store to put my thermometers in works like a champ and they do not fluctuate at all now. I feel allot more comfortable about the actual temp of the eggs now.



Here is a pic of my broody and her week old chicks, 3 of the seven of them anyway. I just love the markings of the chick on the left....looks like Eddie Munster!

I'll get a better pic in a day or two to show you guys.

Jess - hoping for a great hatch for you!

Yep - that is an adorable chick!

 

[misskeeter]

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I've read that they need to be incubated on their side and not in a turner due to the formation of an air pocket at each end otherwise when it's time to pip one drowns and dies.....Hope they both hatch for ya

I've got it on its side!