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

[Cynthia12]

This sounds interesting count me in!

AND WELCOME TO BYC! IT IS FUN FOR SURE! GO CHECK OUT THE CONTESTS!

 

[mlm Mike]

I want to participate as well. First time hatching chickens from my flock of Wyandottes!

Welcome! Good luck with your first hatch!

Last night set my first eggs in an incubator I made over the weekend. They are duclair and Ancona duck eggs. I'm new to all this but hoping for a hatch date of the 20th (Easter), didn't realize until now! I'm so nervous already, I can't stop checking on them. It's gonna be a long 28 days!

Welcome good luck with the future ducklings.

Prayer and thoughts going out to flight MH370's family and friends. So sad.

X2

This sounds interesting count me in!

Welcome!

 

[Noncentzter]

I just skipped over 500+ posts...too many to read...enjoyed time with my family this weekend...my grandson turns 4 today and we had his party yesterday and the sun was out and I got a little too much sun...which doesn't happen often here! LOL

 

[Book]

Yes! the important thing is to avoid temperature swings between day and night. A quiet closet, free from drafts is a good place to keep the incubator.

What is your incubator? A Brinsea mini is more capable of keeping temps stable.

I think I made a mistake getting this little Gem:

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wow -over 4700 posts already?!

I can't catch up at this point - please tell me if there's anything I absolutely need to know or might like to know that isn't in the first post. Thanks!

This Friday I'm picking up some eggs from a wonderful BYC member who also shared with me for the NYD hatch. I also decided to get some shipped eggs because hubby really wants blue laced red Wyandottes. Hopefully we'll get at least a couple out of that batch (and hopefully they are female!)

Getting ready to clean the homemade bator today. Fortunately, I just take out the viewing windows and electric set up (not hard), and pop it in the dishwasher. I'll replace the cheap plastic windows ($1 from dollar store) and the electrical stuff, and get it running tomorrow. I'm getting so excited!

The Daily Digest will help. We're almost there!

I took a few pics this more of my BCM and CL eggs together, thought I would share.

Beautiful! I like this one best.

Okay, I have been getting eggs out the wazoo for weeks. Now I decided to collect for just for incubating and there were none. Its a conspiracy.

They are hiding them on you!

I am hatching some bb reds and hopefully some meat birds

What kind of meat birds?

I want to participate in the hatch-a-long! I'm going to be hatching some eggs from my own flock for the first time!

Welcome!

QUESTION: The wonderful hatching 101 page here says to keep

"your incubator in a room in which temperature is 70 degrees" but alas, I don't think I have such a room that keeps 70 degrees right now. We have hatched 5 times before but always with a large incubator and many eggs, this time is a tiny incubator and only 7 eggs... Would it be ok to keep them in a large walk in closet on a shelf? I know it would be free from drafts and not exposed to an outside wall so should keep a more steady temp?​

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It's more critical that it's in a room that there are not huge swings in daytime and nighttime temperatures. A closet should work fine.

I want to participate as well. First time hatching chickens from my flock of Wyandottes!

Welcome!

Found one more Guinea neat will it be to late to count

It's within the +/- 2 days, so you're good - it counts!

Last night set my first eggs in an incubator I made over the weekend. They are duclair and Ancona duck eggs. I'm new to all this but hoping for a hatch date of the 20th (Easter), didn't realize until now! I'm so nervous already, I can't stop checking on them. It's gonna be a long 28 days!

Can't wait to see those ducklings!

This sounds interesting count me in!

Welcome!

I just skipped over 500+ posts...too many to read...enjoyed time with my family this weekend...my grandson turns 4 today and we had his party yesterday and the sun was out and I got a little too much sun...which doesn't happen often here! LOL

Sounds like you had a great weekend! Happy Birthday to your grandson!

 

[melina90]

I just skipped over 500+ posts...too many to read...enjoyed time with my family this weekend...my grandson turns 4 today and we had his party yesterday and the sun was out and I got a little too much sun...which doesn't happen often here!  LOL

Sounds like a wonderful weekend! Congrats on your grandson

I set my eggs five hours ago - hatching season 2014 is officially begun here! 41 eggs are set, all aircells are looking wonderful and barely visible as the eggs are so fresh. 5 eggs from my own flock, that are eggs I think/hope comes from our bantam silkie. Won't know until three weeks from now though - already so curious to see what comes out of them!

Also 12 isbars and 5 cream legbars. The rest are EE's. I'M SO EGGCITED

 

[Jeniferl29]

You can count us in! We put 12 goose eggs in the incubator on the 22 nd and have more eggs coming! I will be putting some chicken eggs in on 29th.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Sounds like a wonderful weekend! Congrats on your grandson

I set my eggs five hours ago - hatching season 2014 is officially begun here! 41 eggs are set, all aircells are looking wonderful and barely visible as the eggs are so fresh. 5 eggs from my own flock, that are eggs I think/hope comes from our bantam silkie. Won't know until three weeks from now though - already so curious to see what comes out of them!

Also 12 isbars and 5 cream legbars. The rest are EE's. I'M SO EGGCITED

I'd love to see pictures of your flock.

You can count us in! We put 12 goose eggs in the incubator on the 22 nd and have more eggs coming! I will be putting some chicken eggs in on 29th.

Welcome!

 

[Jeniferl29]

Thank you!

 

[gryeyes]

[COLOR=0000FF]It's OFFICIAL! We have every type of fowl being set for this hatch-a-long![/COLOR]​

Emu's and pheasants and guineas - Oh my!​

Ducks, quail, turkeys and chickens too!​

Is there a hatch participant setting peafowl eggs?