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

[Sally Sunshine]

Look what just came in the mail from pickitfarm! Thanks a ton.

Her fabrics are AWESOMENESS!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@angelobutter you need to research pricing online for each breed and what quality and what need there is for the chicks.

 

[ShayBaby]

It's been a sad morning. I did eggtopsies on the one bantam egg that didn't hatch and the 3 duck eggs that the stupid styrobator killed. I'll use it as a "fluffer/brooder", else I'd just trash it. I've lost so many before hatch, it usually doesn't affect me now, but I'll admit I cried over this bunch.
Hidden for those who don't care to see dead babies.

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But then I checked the Brinsea and saw these mostly-fluffed little balls of downy cuteness, and they'd be enough to make even Grumpy Cat smile.

(Silkie)

(EE x buff Brahma ((or EE x silkie --time will tell)))

And we do have leg feathers! I just couldn't see until he fluffed. All brown, leg feathers, and a bit of a muff.

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I have DH at TSC right now looking for extra chicks/siblings to help keep these two warm in the brooder.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Putting my only egg in lock down tomorrow....................................................................................... MY ONLY EGG!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its father is a mottled cochin bantam and its mother is a mille fleur d'uccle.

 

[misbhaven]

I either need to buy a good cabinet incubator or use a broody. As luck would have it, my Ayam Kedu went broody. So I stuck some eggs under her.

"If you can't run, crawl. If you can't crawl, find someone to help you." I will give eggs to the first person that can tell me where the quote is from.

Martin Luther king a speech, and Joss Whedon

 

[Cynthia12]

I actually get a LOT of rocking & rolling from those stinkers almost every hatch...so likely normal for mine...LOL

This is for RON too..

I can't remember how many eggs you sent me silkie..but I have 25 eggs in lock down, one questionable, even though there are a lot of dark OE's in there, my candler is pretty good at showing nice thick veins in those dark eggs by the air sac. I think I only had to toss around 4 or 5 out! And that's after them being out for a full week..7 full days!

 

[SilkieSensation]

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I think I sent 32 total. That's still a great rate for shipped eggs even before the PO lost them.

 

[Cynthia12]

My fav.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I either need to buy a good cabinet incubator or use a broody.  As luck would have it, my Ayam Kedu went broody.  So I stuck some eggs under her.  

"If you can't run, crawl.  If you can't crawl, find someone to help you."  I will give eggs to the first person that can tell me where the quote is from.  

Josh Wheaton

 

[Pozees]

angelobutter - if all else fails, see whether anyone nearby is advertising on Craigslist. Newly hatched chicks, depending on whether purebred and if so which breed, can sell from $3 to $25 in my area, usually much closer to the $3 if it's the time of year local feed stores have hatchery chicks. If they are out from under the heat lamp/heat plate I try for at least $8 each (think of the time, electricity, and equipment they will have saved by not needing to provide heat!) - and I always offer a discount for more than a few. I have had many conversations about hatchery versus local chicks, about sexing chicks, about what happens to extra males at hatcheries, and I try to be gentle and factual.

I also ask whether their coops/brooders are all set up already, whether they have chick starter, what they are using to keep young chicks warm, whether they have ever raised chicks before, etc. Some people don't know what a chick requires, and asking a couple of questions gives me some idea of whether they know how to care for them.