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

[winteree]

OK all you awesome people! I need some help here. I have 6 eggs in my Brinsea mini and our power has been out for 16 hours. 8 days left for them to hatch. I put towels over to hold in heat . But will they still be ok. No power yet either. Do not know when we will get it back. Bad storms here in middle ga and flooding. 70-80 mph strait line winds they said. A lot messed up! Do I need to toss them or bring it down to my work, which has power now and try to finish?
I have had the power go out before and put hot water bottles in my other incubators to hold heat and had no problems. But never this long has it Ben out. They said it could be up to 3 days

Just take them to work they don't start makeing noise until they start trying to hatch and for the love of god make sure you put a large note on the incubator somewhere not to unplug the incubator etc that's how we lost all our egg's when i was at school

 

[ShelbyCoral]

The one has had 3 chicks in the past 4 months! They are taking all my eggs out of the incubator. I put all my eggs under the one hens. But I'll put that egg that will hatch soon under the mother I trust most. Lol they love it!I should put my goose egg under her...

 

[ShelbyCoral]

wow they where not kidding about silkies being the broody queens i would personally give the egg to the waiting mothers to take some of the work off the new mama but thats just me you know your chickens better then i do

I wonder put anymore with her. She is a new mother and first time. I will put it under my other new mother.

 

[winteree]

The one has had 3 chicks in the past 4 months! They are taking all my eggs out of the incubator. I put all my eggs under the one hens. But I'll put that egg that will hatch soon under the mother I trust most. Lol they love it!I should put my goose egg under her...

lol's how many chicks you got now

 

[Happy Chooks]

So I have a chick that is going to hatch alone. Should I put it with my broody mama who hatched her own eggs? They hatched Sunday and the last one hatched two days ago. Will it be okay to put it under her? If not I have two other broods waiting for eggs! I had to separate all 3 silkies because they were fighting over who will mother the chicks... one of the silkies had already a kid and just came out of mothering thing it and Just went into being broody again. Is that normal?

It depends on the broody. Some will take in the chick, and others will kill it to protect their current chicks. I'd give it to one of your other broodies.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

lol's how many chicks you got now

Uh I think like 5 out of 5 that I've hatched. And I bought a bunch from tsc... 2 dozen chicks bought from tsc. 5 golden seabrights, 3 silver seabrights, 7 Mille fleur d'uccles(most going to family, I'm only keeping 1 or two), 4 porcelain d'uccles, 3 unknown mixed breeds. And 12 americanas and 1 cochin. So more than 2 dozen... the 5 that I hatched are mixed breeds but the is the same for 4 of them.

 

[winteree]

Uh I think like 5 out of 5 that I've hatched. And I bought a bunch from tsc... 2 dozen chicks bought from tsc. 5 golden seabrights, 3 silver seabrights, 7 Mille fleur d'uccles(most going to family, I'm only keeping 1 or two), 4 porcelain d'uccles, 3 unknown mixed breeds. And 12 americanas and 1 cochin. So more than 2 dozen... the 5 that I hatched are mixed breeds but the is the same for 4 of them.

wow you must have alot of space

 

[JennaLynn122]

Do any of you raise/ breed game chickens? I have a few questions about Yokohamas and Pheonix. I think I want them one of them to be my 4th breed but I have some concerns with breeding and keeping them. Please PM me if you do! Especially either or both of those breeds.

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Do any of you raise/ breed game chickens? I have a few questions about Yokohamas and Pheonix. I think I want them one of them to be my 4th breed but I have some concerns with breeding and keeping them. Please PM me if you do! Especially either or both of those breeds.

Actually I wanna know this to... I am going to buy hatching eggs soon from someone on here, I really like hers allot. But I question the breed to...

 

[JennaLynn122]

Actually I wanna know this to... I am going to buy hatching eggs soon from someone on here, I really like hers allot. But I question the breed to...

Which breed? Yokohama or Phoenix? I think I'm leaning more toward Yokohama but in descriptions of Phoenix they are classified as docile.