The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

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My second chick made it through the night! Her eyes are open and she's moving more, AND screaming away for all the world to hear. I'll get pictures later when she's up on her feet. Mama was off the nest this morning and showing the first chick how to eat

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Bummed I missed the funny post contest

but congratulations to all the winners!!!!!

awwwww !!!

help...

I set eggs on Saturday the 2nd around 6 p.m.

I have NO pips yet... there was a LOT of rocking going on yesterday all day long, but I just checked again and there is NOTHING...

should I be worried?

misskeeter start reading the assist article https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching and getting all supplies in order.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE !!! Hope you guys have a great Sunday! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS

Mornin!

Quote: this is normal with shipped eggs, if no fluid is coming out they are fine for now! Mark the time you noticed first pips, how has weighing and humidity been holding throughout the hatch!

I have a question...

Prim is just about a year old BO hen. She was broody last fall and hatched and raised 7 chicks, 6 of which are cockerels. They were hatched in late November, so they are 4 months old. I put them back in the coop with the layers about 6 weeks ago and they are breeding the hens. I have seen them do their job and I have eggs developing in my incubator from them right now. I gave my other rooster away because of aggression 3 months ago, so I KNOW they fertilized these eggs... Of the 6 cockerels, 4 are still in with the layers. 1 of them is my little guy who froze his feet, so I put him in with the younger NYD chicks, and one other guy decided he wanted to live with the NYD chicks too. Every time I would let them free range, he would not go back to the coop with the rest, but hang out around the NYD coop in the barn until I finally relented and let him stay...

About 3 weeks ago, I thought Prim was missing from the coop. I looked everywhere for her and couldn't find her. My daughter finally found her, smushed INSIDE THE WALL of the coop!!! There is a piece of thin panelling type board in a corner of the coop, and it misses a stud by about 3 inches. She shoved herself in between the outside wall, the stud and that board. We pulled her out and she went right back. We pulled her out again and she ate a bit, then went right back. Every time we would go out to the coop, Prim was in the wall. No matter how many times we pulled her out, she would go right back. If I threw food near the wall, she would stick her head out from under the board (it is about 2" off the floor) and eat, but stay in there. There were no eggs in there, so she wasn't trying to sit... The other day I went out and she had managed to get herself past another stud and into a space she had no way of backing out of! I had to pull the board away from the wall and grab her by the legs and pull her out! She is a bit thin, but otherwise seems fine.

I brought her into my kennel building and put her in the brooder with my 4 week old Spitzhauben crosses. She literally ATTACKED the food! The chicks, however, were obsessed with her wattles and kept pecking at them and swarming her like those little tiny dinosaurs that killed that guy in Jurassic Park... After just a few minutes, I took her out of there and put her in her own little brooder box. She isn't broody. She digs down to the bottom of the box scratching for goodies and is usually perched on the edge of the box when I go in there... She seems perfectly content to be there.

My question is why??? Do you think she was trying to get away from being bred by the boys she raised?? The other hens didn't seem to pick on her at all. This is the same coop and the same hens she was raised with until she went broody and raised her little clutch...

oh my! sounds like she is def trying to hide!!

 

[CherokeeFlats]

awwwww. so sorry. My flock is just coming up on a year and so far nobody has died. How old was she?

Sorry for your loss.

My second chick made it through the night! Her eyes are open and she's moving more, AND screaming away for all the world to hear. I'll get pictures later when she's up on her feet. Mama was off the nest this morning and showing the first chick how to eat

Yay. Babies. Congrats

 

[Razadia]

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THANK YOUR DONATORS!
THANKS EVERYONE!

Congrats everyone! I wish I could have spent more time on the thread last night. I'm sharing with my fiance right now and he tends to play games for hours. (I can't say anything. I do the same on the xbox.) Maybe I'll be as lucky as y'all and win something this time!

Not counting on it. Honestly, the hatch-a-long itself is a prize. Thank you to everyone that makes it possible. Y'all are awesome!

 

[QuirkySue]

Candled last night, and took the two ???'s out. They were definitely not developing. I also found one egg was UPSIDE DOWN! I think somebody (hubby) showed his bro an egg and stuck it back in the turner the wrong way. I don't know how long it was like that. Will it hatch?

 

[misskeeter]

awwwww !!!
misskeeter start reading the assist article https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching and getting all supplies in order.
Mornin!
this is normal with shipped eggs, if no fluid is coming out they are fine for now! Mark the time you noticed first pips, how has weighing and humidity been holding throughout the hatch!
oh my! sounds like she is def trying to hide!!

I was worried about that. I'm watching them now... I've got everything marked. I do have a third pip now, and it is in a better place. Just below the last marked air cell line...

 

[wildriverswolf90]

well I had a mircale hatch today on day 14 I candled eggs and accidently broke one(craked the shell at the top), in an effort to save the developing chick, I dampened a piece of paper towel and smoothed it over the egg, in the bator the paper towel dried slightly and stuck to the egg nicely. today day 23. the egg finally hatched and a healthy baby cochin is now chirpping away in the bator i am amazed!

 

[QuirkySue]

Wow that is awesome! Congrats on your little miracle baby!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

well I had a mircale hatch today

on day 14 I candled eggs and accidently broke one(craked the shell at the top), in an effort to save the developing chick, I dampened a piece of paper towel and smoothed it over the egg, in the bator the paper towel dried slightly and stuck to the egg nicely. today day 23. the egg finally hatched and a healthy baby cochin is now chirpping away in the bator

i am amazed!

 

[mlm Mike]

well I had a mircale hatch today

on day 14 I candled eggs and accidently broke one(craked the shell at the top), in an effort to save the developing chick, I dampened a piece of paper towel and smoothed it over the egg, in the bator the paper towel dried slightly and stuck to the egg nicely. today day 23. the egg finally hatched and a healthy baby cochin is now chirpping away in the bator

i am amazed!

That's great, and quick thinking on your part.