The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[CherokeeFlats]

HAPPY EASTER everyone!!! Congrats to everyone with chicks.

Checked on my 8 Easter Egger chicks that hatched yesterday. All are doing well, drinking and snuggling eachother. I loved Springtime!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

FINAL COUNT HERE is 15 until next LOCKDOWN this week, oh and Broody Black Betty is soon hatching!! YAYA!!!!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY Y'all!

 

[michaelf]

Here is my report 17 eggs set, 6 infertile, 11 made it to lock down. 4 hatched, had to put one down for a deformed head and beak. So I have 3 health chicks. They are a Polish/RIR cross. One even has a fro. Did eggtospy all but one was dead and it was way under developed. I will be setting my sqh RIR and some more this afternoon. Have a blessed day everyone!

 

[ThaiDye]

Just assisted my last egg (Welsumer). She had been shrink wrapped evidently. The membrane was all clear & slid off easily once I wet it down. She is alive & kicking and drying off in the incubator. I gave her a couple drops of vitamin water as well.

My friend's incubator had been running low & even tho she set 3 days ahead of me, she still had no pips or anything. One baby had died in shell, but the other I transported home in an insulated lunch bag with a heat pack. 15 minutes after I put the egg into my incubator, it pipped! No kidding! Just checked it again after assisting the wellie & she is still making noise, so back in the 'bator with some extra water water added for a humidity boost. This will be the last egg (if she makes it). Otherwise, I had 16 hatch (including the assisted) out of 20 eggs set.

As for the chick who can walk (Turtle), I just gave her some more vitamin water & took her for a "walk". She seems slightly better, but not 100% yet. So more vitamins and back into the coffee mug she went. (I didn't have any tea cups)

 

[audrey02026]

Happy Easter.

. Ok so my hatch is over and I got three, yes three... out of my three duck eggs. 100% Hatch

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Quote: LOL, that occured to me too!

 

[delisha]

Happy Easter

31 set 30 out..that one left is so lazy. Just sitting in its egg... taking its sweet time. The last 3 chicks left in the incubator have made its hole larger and talk to it once and a while. No eye pecking yet, so everything is all good. I am hoping the nagging siblings make it get out.

 

[arcountrychick]

So far we have 8 chicks hatched, 1 pipped and a few more rockin' and rollin'! I candled one egg whilst grabbing fluffies out for the brooder...I think it died. Fingers crossed for more chicks when we get home from church. HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE!

 

[audrey02026]

Looks like they are pecking at the tape because its shiny?

 

[ThaiDye]

Some pix:
My hens were Blue Andalusian & Brown Leghorn under an EE roo (which are the blue/silver chicks & the chipmunk chicks respectively).
Also I had some BCM eggs, I got the hens off Craigslist so the babies may be pure (he has BCM roo) but he also had a Salmon Faverolles roo, so don't really know who the daddy is. They are the black chicks and the 2 golden chicks in the pix.
There is also one EE (chipmunk) in there.