The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[troyer]

My guess is Mottled Cochin.

Oops, I see I was wrong..imagine that!

I got the mottled part right.

You gave me a good laugh early in the morning. It is a good way to start off my day.

 

[ozexpat]

its going to be a hatchhfest on byc today!!

big deep breaths

just in case, have your sav-a-chick or even pedialyte ready

read sally's hatching 101 and assist article


have fun!!!

 

[MontanaDolphin]

I am getting nothing done. At all. I just keep checking on the eggs. The wait is MUCH harder than I thought it would be. Ahhhhh

LOL that was me yesterday, ever since I saw the first pip at 5 a.m. My back is KILLING me! My bator is on my dresser and I have a stool sitting in front of it which I perch myself on to peer into the top. I left the bator long enough to pee, refill my coffee, and take the puppies outside when they had to go potty. Oh, and I ate supper. That was it.

If nothing hatches would it be too wrong to leave the eggs in it and put it back in the box and mail it back to the company as a form of protest?

Hahaha I'd love to see the expression on the face of the person handling your return!!

The first of many more of my Favies that are going to hatch

Umm....CUTEST CHICK EVER!!!! ♥

I am quite sad to note that today, my third emu chick was found dead in his little brooder for no real apparent reason. his neck had been curling funny the night before, but he was super totally healthy right after the hatch. Anyways, I little sad today about that.

You just put so much work into the egg for it to hatch, always checking the temp, you turn it 3 times a day by hand for 50 days...and then it dies.

So sorry...I can't imagine.

Around 3:30 this morning I went downstairs to check the bator and found one of my pipped eggs halfway zipped and watched it hatch out completely. (which never gets old) Then this morning 2 more of the eggs had pipped. When I got home from work today I had two fluffy little chicks!! YAY! I also had all of the eggs pipped and one that was in the middle of zipping.

I have a question about the one zipping. I know that after pipping it can take a long time for them to finish the hatch, but what about the zipping stage? Could that take a really long time too? I ask because I have noticed that on the edges of the inner membrane there looks to be dark red in some areas (blood?) also on other places, it looks that the membrane is glued to the chick. I haven't seen any progress since I got home about an hour and a half ago. The chick is breathing, peeping

and does push on the shell some, but I can see the beak because of the angle the egg is at and I was concerned if the chick can't turn. I haven't really seen this before so I thought I would ask. I'm attaching a picture but it isn't the best. Thanks in advance for any insight!

I did read you helped this little one out...but I wanted to share I had the SAME problem. After 3 hours waiting for my chick to finish zipping, I finally intervened...I knew, after reading SallySunshine's article on helping during hatches, that it had been too long (I believe she said to assist if no progress was made after several hours). Turns out the inner membrane was adhered to the poor baby's skin and feathers...like glue!!! No wonder she was stuck! I'm glad you were able to help your little one!

SOOOOOO............if everyone set on Saturday, are 19 day old chicks haching now? or are there early setters here?

CONGRATS EVERYONE!

your all making me so excited for marshie's very first hatch!

I set on Saturday, due to hatch tomorrow, and I had one hatch yesterday on day 19...a Mille Fleur. A silkie/polish egg pipped yesterday as well, but no chick yet. Woke up this morning and there were pips from more Mille Fluers, Seramas, and Silkie/Polish. No LF eggs have pipped yet, so I'm assuming that bantam breeds hatch early as a norm.

Had to share this. My Aunt just posted it on my Facebook timeline, and it's one I actually hadn't seen yet, lol!

 

[ozexpat]

I have data on thousands of shipped eggs that I have attempted to hatch but I am looking for a larger pool of variables for a research paper on shipped eggs hatchability.

Could anybody who had shipped eggs for the hatch-a-along please PM me with:

Set number
Number viable after 1st candling
Hatch number
How many you assisted
how many pipped but did not hatch
when did you start turning
how often did you turn

I will draw from a hat the name of one person who answers the questions for me and he/she will win a CocoBeachPoultry tshirt

 

[troyer]

I have 4 babies..no more pips..hmmm....not looking good..I just have that feeling.

I hate that feeling.

Oh no... I now have 2 pips but after close inspection, they pipped opposite of the aircell. :-/ Am I going to need to help them or do you think they will be fine? Never had this happen before.

I would leave it and see how it does. I also have had many that hatched that way.

 

[troyer]

Not only do I have an incubator with 20 eggs to hatch, I also have 6 broody hens that have been hatching eggs in the last 2 days. 2 of those 6 are hatching eggs right now.

 

[polishsilkie81]

Are you sure they are dead?  Silly question, I know..but, if you haven't used a turner before, the eggs..and chick inside, look way different than if you have only ever ever hand turned.  Put one of it's side for a while if you still have some, and see how different they look. Just a thought.  Of course, if they were set on the HAL date, then you would be seeing more dark, regardless.   :/  

Thank you Cynthia12 I hope your right why do the look so different in a auto turner vs. hand turning them? I went ahead and kept them and said a lil prayer and hope they turn out

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Pip pip hooray! I have a pip in a SS egg!

 

[JackieandChicks]

Five out of eight olives so far - and another pip Now for those darn Marans to show some activity.

 

[abmaddox1981]

Today is hatch day for incubator #1!!!! 7 have already hatched, 7 more to go! These were shipped eggs so I'm thankful that ANY hatched.