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

[LBKS]

Last time incubation this year. Ok for several months. Once project birds get big enough will be hatching and raising those. That will be this fall.
These are snowflake quail from gunrunner cuckoo Marans and a few EE, project eggs, and some home brewed tesla.

A bit off topic here, but how in the world do you snap out the individual rails there?! I would love to do it to clean easier, plus would like to try quail next year but don't want to dedicate a whole turning rack to it just yet. Do I need to sacrifice a loaf of bread to the flock to do this magic? Can it only be done on the first Full Moon of the summer at night beneath a tree with chickens roosting in it?! Please don't leave me hanging!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Last time incubation this year. Ok for several months. Once project birds get big enough will be hatching and raising those. That will be this fall. These are snowflake quail from gunrunner cuckoo Marans and a few EE, project eggs, and some home brewed tesla.

A bit off topic here, but how in the world do you snap out the individual rails there?! I would love to do it to clean easier, plus would like to try quail next year but don't want to dedicate a whole turning rack to it just yet. Do I need to sacrifice a loaf of bread to the flock to do this magic? Can it only be done on the first Full Moon of the summer at night beneath a tree with chickens roosting in it?! Please don't leave me hanging!

Your rails should just snap in & out of the brackets on the turner. Just don't try it while eggs are in it.

 

[LBKS]

Mine don't pop out - they look distressed like they might snap if I keep it up. Maybe just a tight turning rack?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Mine don't pop out - they look distressed like they might snap if I keep it up.  Maybe just a tight turning rack?

It should have come with instructions. What brand do you have?

 

[ronott1]

Mine don't pop out - they look distressed like they might snap if I keep it up. Maybe just a tight turning rack?

Some turners have little pins others have a part that comes off. All of them are designed to add different rails. Taking a couple of rails or and leaving an open space is a trick for stagger hatching in the same incubator.

Check online if you need a manual for your type of turner.

You can get Goose rails too.

 

[JennaLynn122]

our hades was almost completely black but he had white ears and feet

aww cute!

 

[ShelbyCoral]

So I'm back, had a fox battle... toughost creature. We hatched a little baby BCMarans/EE. So cute! Always calling for me! It kept crying this morning I I held it on my bed and past out... I woke up to find it under my chin. I was like "Woah, cute! .... can't believe I just slept with a chick..."

 

[ShelbyCoral]

not every one is nice:/ and not everyone is educated about how hen reproductive organs work. i heard of a lady who thinks that if their is a rooster in the flock that all the egg's the hens lay will have fully grown chicks in them when cracked open but honestly i have no idea where the idea comes from that people think they can dump a completely domesticated animal off in the middle of nowhere and expect them to survive they can't feed or take care of them self's i can't tell you how many cats kittens dogs etc that we bought back from skin and bones because of stupid people like that. it really pisses me off

this makes me mad!

 

[LBKS]

It should have come with instructions. What brand do you have?

It's a Farm Innovator one it looks like, the rails pop out fine on one side, but the side with the motor is just impossible without looking like the plastic will snap trying to pop it out.

 

[michaelf]

It's a Farm Innovator one it looks like, the rails pop out fine on one side, but the side with the motor is just impossible without looking like the plastic will snap trying to pop it out.

Maybe a loaf of bread under a tree with chickens roosted on a moon lit summer night!

. Mine turners are the ones with pins. The quail racks were for another type. I just whittled them down to fit.