The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[ChooksChick]

Quote: If you look at my signature there's an Incubation Cheat Sheet- in it is a diagram of what proper humidity should look like with respect to the evaporation and the air cell. It gives a few hints that might be useful. Sorry about your losses!

Quote: I've got all sorts of screws loose!! I think the one that I hatched when I first found them will make it. There are a few others that had a day or so to go, and they may make it. I would like an Easter Miracle, after all.

Happy Easter, everyone!!

 

[CowgirlHC]

Happy Easter! Hope ya'll have a blessed day!

We still only have 2 chicks and still have 4 eggs in the incubator. Is a bad odor normal with hatching? This is the first hatch we've been successful with. Also, how long should we wait before re-candling or doing the float test? We're now on day 22 and I know that's not too bad, but the others hatched Friday.

 

[ruthless]

Here is my Easter hatch of 3.29.13 . TOTAL 7 hatched from original 18 eggs set, 6 clears pulled.
2 mottled bantam cochins, 2 seramas, 2 calico bantam cochins, 1 bantam partridge plymouth rock

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Oh ouch, poor guy.

Thank you...Here are the pics of the chickens and the pics of the eggs...The pic looking away from the chicken coop is a pic of another roo that they keep loose and a duck if you can see it, it's a breautiful roo to But, the one on the ground is just gorgeous to me.. I know not the best, but I didn't go in with him to get better pics.. Appreciate, any thoughts, thanks.

I see a Buff Orpington rooster, a Production Red rooster and a Black sex link rooster.

Five barn yard eggs set in the still air LG On Feb. 18, 2013. Placed under a hen named Judy the Broody on March 5.
Five hatched on March 12.


Feb. 23, 2013 set twenty four Catdance Silkie eggs in the Genesis 1588. Between March 16th to 17th, twelve chicks hatched.



On March 6, 2013. Set twenty Ron Fogle heritage RIR eggs in the Genesis 1588. Eleven hatched on March 27, 2013.







A very successful Spring hatch all around. Gorgeous chicks. Time to clean and store the incubators for the season.

Beautiful! Congrats!

One more photo before bed. 4 hatched, lots o pips, hope to see many more chicks in the morning.

Love the picture! Congrats!

Oh, sad. The poor little Amercauna was in the breech position (backwards in the egg). Looks like he couldn't reach the air sack. Could this mean too much humidity that made him unable to turn on day 14? There was another Amercauna that was breech in his shell, but he made it out fine. None of them appear alive. No movement of any kind when I touch with a wet finger. Poor little pippies just didn't pip. What does too much humidity look like? It's a styrafoam incubator and when I read that sticky thread with Wheaties he warned agains too much humidity...I thought 35-40% for the first 18 days was good, but maybe they didn't lose enough to turn? Knowing what went wrong would be so comforting because then that mistake would not be repeated.

1st hatch...at least we have 4 healthy babies. 22% hatch for the shipped eggs...4/18. 9 yolkers (a couple were infertile), 1 blood ring, 4 died from turning issues/as yet undetermined. Those 4 are the ones I feel responsible for.

Are there any photos that would show me too much humitidy and too low of humidity in a hatch? Maybe the 4 I have just hatched in spite of me...oh dear.

Sometimes they just don't turn in time.

I don't have anything yet either except a few faint cheep cheep sounds once or twice.

No pips at all. I set on the 9th just after noon. I am hoping they are just late. Please, PLEASE somebody pip soon!!!!

yay! i just re candled my eggs and at least three have internal pips. phew... i really thought i was going to have no chicks from this hatch. I also put my maran and ee eggs into lockdown and candled them as well. some of those already have internal pips! crazy! my easter hatch is late and my after easter hatch is early

They have been at this ALL.DAY.LONG...

what are they DOING? lol...

silly silly chicks..

Investigating the shiny tape.

I eggtosied the two that were left... Both were indeed dead, but fully developed chicks. The Silkie had almost absorbed all of it's yolk. The egg from my chickens had a fully developed chick, although the poor baby's head was facing the wrong way. Both of them seemed to have excess fluid still in the shell, but the air sac was dry... What does that mean? The only chick to hatch hatched on Thursday with no issues at all.

Most of my issue was just infertility, I think. I know for my own eggs, it was because my roos are extremely young. It surprised me more that I already had 2 fertile eggs out of the 13 that I set than that 11 of them were infertile. With the silkies and Seramas I got through the Easter swap... Who knows?? Fertility?? Shipping?? Only this one little Silkie ever developed at all...

But what bothers me is the ones that almost made it, then didn't... Am I doing something wrong? How could I have that one hatch so early, then the other 2 never even pip? I was surprised to see how developed they were because I almost threw them before lockdown, especially the Silkie. It just didn't seem to fill up enough of the egg. The egg from my hens, I may know the answer... Somehow, I found 2 days before lockdown, that I had marked the number on the wrong end of the egg (the small end) , so I had been incubating the poor thing for 16 days UPSIDE DOWN!!! How is that even possible that I didn't catch that when I was candling them??? So I'm pretty sure the poor baby just couldn't orient himself properly... It would have been my first buff chick, too. All of my others have been various shades of black with some red or white... Very sad....

It probably died a few days before hatch. Not your fault and nothing you could do if they don't make it to pip internally.

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)

Good job on the assist!

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.

Congrats! Any with a Salmon Faverolles daddy will have muffs and 5 toes. Both are dominant traits.

I set 18 eggs and had none hatch. When I put the eggs into the "hatcher" incubator that I just hatched chicks out of 2 weeks prior, the temp control was moved and we had a temp spike. I thought that it could only have been a short time but apparently it was long enough. I opened the eggs and no survivors. Sad day for us. My kids were really hoping for some peeping today.

I'm so sorry.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Happy Easter Everyone!

For those of you that set on time and have chicks hatching late, be sure to increase your temperature some next time you hatch.

We are working on the contests, please be patient as we have a lot of contests ending. We will announce winners as soon as we can.

 

[Sueg4332]

Love the card the little flower are one of my favorite have a 1/2 of 55 gallon drum full of them. (gophers eat everything if you don't pot it. Even onions 120 of them to be exact) Can I borrow to end to daughter for Easter she loves chicks and gardening. It is beautiful

 

[rarebear]

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE. 8 HATCHED . 2 MORE PIPPED and 20 STILL DECIDING WHAT TO DO.
I want to get a dozen of these eggs for my next hatch.

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

Woke up this morning and my one remaining egg has pipped! That's a full two days after my first egg started to hatch. I've already sent the other chicks to their new home, looks like I will have to hold onto this one until tomorrow. Hope it's not too lonely. If this one successfully hatches I will have 8/12 eggs hatched a 66.6% hatch rate.

Happy Easter Everyone!

 

[LFchixranch]

Happy Easter! Hope ya'll have a blessed day!

We still only have 2 chicks and still have 4 eggs in the incubator. Is a bad odor normal with hatching? This is the first hatch we've been successful with. Also, how long should we wait before re-candling or doing the float test? We're now on day 22 and I know that's not too bad, but the others hatched Friday.

No it should not smell bad. One of your eggs left has probley died, sorry. Find it by smelling them and get rid of it before it goes BOOM

 

[lericson]

I have 10/28 duck eggs externally pipped this morning. About 4 of them have double pips - does that mean they are soon to zip? Lots of peeping happening. I think they are waiting for the chicken eggs to catch up (I set those 2 days late).