The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Sally Sunshine]

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LOL Why eggs of course, but I am seriously impressed with his comment! sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I went to chick days today.
The lady asked me how many I wanted, I said 4 of each (polish and bantam asst.).

she went to write it down and said, 'wait, how many of each?' 6 of each!
she wrote that down for polish. Then she said, how many for the bantams? 8! I only meant to get 8 in all, but i walked out with 14.

everytime she asked.. i raised my answer. HAHA!!
at the end it was like, you know what? Let me just take them all home

Now Tad, you know the drill, if there are no pics they dont exist!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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LOL Why eggs of course, but I am seriously impressed with his comment! sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Happy Chooks]

I went to chick days today.
The lady asked me how many I wanted, I said 4 of each (polish and bantam asst.).

she went to write it down and said, 'wait, how many of each?' 6 of each!
she wrote that down for polish. Then she said, how many for the bantams? 8! I only meant to get 8 in all, but i walked out with 14.

everytime she asked.. i raised my answer. HAHA!!
at the end it was like, you know what? Let me just take them all home

She's a pro at chicken math!

Hi to all the hatchers!!

I haven't had a lot of time to read the thread, but wanted to post how many eggs I set.

Is there a link to post them or do we just post our numbers here?

What about the total number set, do we put our guess here too??

thanks!

Post the number of eggs set here.

The Guess How Many Eggs Are Going to Be Set contest is closed. Soon we will be guessing how many will hatch.

Quote: I leave both plugs in until lockdown, then remove 1. When too many hatch at once and I need to lower my humidity, then I open the other plug just until the humidity gets to 65% then put it back in. I notice stuck chicks happen when the humidity rises really high, then gets too low. If you can avoid this major fluctuation, then no sticky chicks. I have been very successful running my hatches in this way.

 

[CasieD]

Ok, so I set 46 eggs.

 

[TheH Klan of 10]

I am super excited!!! I have a neighbor that's gonna get me 4 doz hatching eggs by Monday!!!! Yay!!!!

 

[Smithyard Farm]

update on my broody - she did great - 5 out of 7 hatched! i did the float test on the last two. Not sure what happened to them... they looked fully developed, but didnt make it all the way to the end for some reasoon... Anyway - here are the 5 that hatched... super cute!







OHHHH and BTW - In all of the posts I have read about broodies sitting on eggs and them not moving and such NO ONE NO WHERE posted how after they finally hatch - they do thier "business" that they have been holding onto for (what looks like ) 21 days!!

HAHA - i took the biggest poop out of her box I have ever seen.

I thought it was another chick at first!!!!!

 

[scottyboy1975]

Going to try and candle tonight and see how many of the 24 are good. For the groundhog day hatch only got 13 / 24. I am using a foam Bator also.

 

[Shellz]

I am super excited!!! I have a neighbor that's gonna get me 4 doz hatching eggs by Monday!!!! Yay!!!!

Yay! I'm so happy you're going to give it another shot! That's awesome!

 

[Shellz]

update on my broody - she did great - 5 out of 7 hatched! i did the float test on the last two. Not sure what happened to them... they looked fully developed, but didnt make it all the way to the end for some reasoon... Anyway - here are the 5 that hatched... super cute! OHHHH and BTW - In all of the posts I have read about broodies sitting on eggs and them not moving and such NO ONE NO WHERE posted how after they finally hatch - they do thier "business" that they have been holding onto for (what looks like ) 21 days!! HAHA - i took the biggest poop out of her box I have ever seen. I thought it was another chick at first!!!!!

Oh yeah, those broody poos! So worth it for those beautiful chicks! Congrats!