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

[Gardeningmama]

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I love reptiles, and have had soo many. If I hadn't gone the way of chickens, I'd be addicted to hatching reptiles for sure! My 2 favorites of all time...The Egyptian Uromastyx & Prehensile-Tailed Skink. Still may get back into them one day!

 

[Happy Chooks]

heres a gecko baby, maybe 10 minutes out of the egg

Wow, so cool looking!

 

[Noncentzter]

My new pattern is to candle only on lockdown to remove the clears. I know, it's hard to leave them alone when you are first starting out, but it gets easier!

This is what I do also...just set'em and forget'em until lockdown anyway! LOL

 

[uphilljill]

A: The cluck o' the Irish!

 

[Cynthia12]

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

 

[Corny Caleb]

SO this is the father of the eggs that are about to hatch. I was just told yesterday that he decided to try to hatch some eggs on his own.

 

[Cynthia12]

Planning on putting in upto 8 doz eggs to hatch out for easter..

 

[Noncentzter]

We had corned beef and cabbage for lunch yesterday and it was so good! Anyone have any special traditions for St. Patty's?

 

[Cynthia12]

my last 6 local hatches have been >85%

today was 33/36 we are setting 40ish eggs every 4 days and I have over 120 chicks growing for the chicken mission

viability on the shipped eggs looks good

75% of chicken and duck made it through candling and are viable

60% of turkey and just 1/5 goose

quail chukar and partrige are a crap shoot

Oh my goodness oz..I had no idea it was so good! That's great!

 

[Cynthia12]

So I am skipping over my orpingtons and rocks and all my pure bred lovelies so I can take a whack at hatching my RSLs new eggs.
I have been getting 2 eggs a day on average.
I asked my husband how many eggs I should collect each day for setting for the hatch a long.
He said "all of them from now until then."
Perhaps he doesn't understand how this works. I have around 150 chicks coming on Friday. We do not live on a farm. I don't think I want to set that many.

How many should I set and when should I collect? Any opinions appreciated. I'm terrible at estimating these things. I always end up hatching wayyy too many and while I love babies, I hate having to feed everyone

I'm sure someone has answered your question by now as to how long, hope I'm right here as I catch up..I've heard that you can collect as far out as 10 days. Right Everyone?? Ey?