The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[wolftracks]

See if Kim(wolftracks) will send you some of her purple egg layers!

Trouble maker! Those will be around later I hope.

 

[Gardengirl73]

We have started our first hatch. We have Japanese Bantams, Ameracunnas, Dutch Bantams. I have always said I will Never have Bantams! The Dutch eggs we just candled and we actually saw the little chicken inside. We look forward to the hatch which could start Easter.

Welcome to BYC! It is ridiculously great fun! Good luck on your hatch!!

 

[wolftracks]

Welcome to BYC! It is ridiculously great fun! Good luck on your hatch!!

I see you'll be getting more bantams. I know what you mean. I wanted a few Seramas. Never got them, but I kept falling in love with the little bords I have now. Still prefer my LF though. What color are your Japs that you're hatching?

 

[wolftracks]

I see you'll be getting more bantams. I know what you mean. I wanted a few Seramas. Never got them, but I kept falling in love with the little bords I have now. Still prefer my LF though. What color are your Japs that you're hatching?

I didn't see that was a quote. I'm so blind! Welcome and still want to know colors. LOL

But Gardengirl73 will be the one getting bantams.

 

[darbygill]

On what day of incubation were these losses recorded?

These are day 14 weights

 

[jbenson]

Trouble maker! Those will be around later I hope.

Purple egg layers?!?! What are those? I want some.

 

[Gardengirl73]

I didn't see that was a quote. I'm so blind! Welcome and still want to know colors. LOL

But Gardengirl73 will be the one getting bantams.

Yay, Bantams! Thank you wolftracks so much for donating! I never win anything, ever, lol. I just had great fun doing the funny post contest. Sally has a way of 'egging' you on, ha! Sorry, a little slap happy. Going to bed in a sec. Again, thank you! We are just in the process of designing our banty coop, have Olandsk Dwarves chicks coming next month. Guess we better get a move on with that. Langshans are so lovely!

 

[Gardengirl73]

So I have a question for all you pro hatchers. I am doing my first hatch ever for the Easter hatch along in a brand new Brinsea Octo Advanced EX and my egg weights are driving me crazy. I candled and weighed for the second time since the start and a couple are loosing too much weight. For the first week I ran 40% RH then bumped it to 55% RH for the second week. Do I take it higher for these last few days before lockdown or leave it and bump it at lockdown? Here is a screenshot of my spreadsheet showing the % weight loss for each egg.



Also, how high do you think my RH % should be at lockdown? My home is very dry at about 27% RH.

Okay so all but that one look really nice. Ironically, I just read on exoticpetvet.com today that if you have one like that and don't want to change humidity for all you can place your egg in a ziploc, poke several holes in the ziploc first for air, add a gauze pad or two wet with boiled or distilled water and close. I think I would put something in also to hold it more open like a tent for circulation. It's like a little greenhouse. I'd only try it if you are really worried as I don't know if ventilation would be adequate. If you have a fan then probably. Wait Brinsea? I would probably try it. If you do let me know how it goes. I don't remember the exact link, but that's the site. Good luck!!!!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Finally did a full candling last night. I'm definitely out for best hatch rate. Not sure why but had eight early quitters (clear) out of twenty-four. One that I left in looks like it quit a few days ago but not tossing it. Temps have been steady and even looked back on the days they were collected and didn't see seriously cold weather though still winter. Can't figure why unless it's my water bottles rolling into the egg cartons when I tilt the entire incubator to turn eggs. Definitely going to secure those to side on my shipped eggs due this week.

 

[OffGridMAMA]

Bummed I missed the funny post contest but congratulations to all the winners!!!!!