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

[Gardeningmama]

Quote: Thank You....I think he's beautiful too.

Quote: Well, you do hear the stories....Didn't someone recently hatch an egg on her desk with a desk lamp pointed at it? I know I remember reading that somewhere.

Quote: Sounds like a "play room "to me!

Quote: Oh, HE IS!!!

Good morning everyone!! Have a great day today. I am off to work early so I can leave early to come home and have my NPIP recertification done again.

Good Morning &

on the NPIP!

All you folks talking about stuffed cabbage and chicken soup made me hungry! Good thing I have leftover nacho soup - so tasty on a cold day!

In the final days of collecting for hand-off eggs. I might actually be able to fill up my incubator for the HAL with the discards, plenty of off colored eggs collected the last two days. I have one still-air incubator I use as a hatcher - I guess I *could* also incubate in if I wanted to hand turn eggs...I wonder how many I could fit in there...it would be an experiment, right? Of course, I'd need more eggs...

[COLOR=800080]You can fit 3 dozen + but I wouldn't recommend it with hand turning. I did it last year and hand turning was a pain in the butt. 2 dozen is okay, but I prefer no more than 18. Much easier.[/COLOR]

Stuff it full. It will maintain temps better. I hand turn 4 batorfulls (each holding 40-100 eggs depending on egg size) in 5-10 minutes twice daily. That's even taking time to shuffle eggs to lockdown & candle a few.
Silkie, you would say stuff it full!! LOL!

I just don't like clinking eggs and the more of them I have in there the harder they are to maneuver. I want to open the lid, roll and go.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Fitting for our day in Pa!
Good Morning Everyone!

 

[SoManyHats]

You live in Winchester VA?!    I lived there many a year ago!   I loved it.  That's where I got my love for chickens.  My grandmother lived there.   She lived in Stephen City first..that's actually where she had her chickens and geese, but it's in VA. that I loved gathering eggs for my grandmother.  Winchester was in the city.  My, I bet it's grown soo much..  This was back in the 60's!    Loved, loved, VA!  

Did we have this same conversation during the NYD hatch? Maybe? Winchester is nice. I live a little west of it. The hospital is only 15 minutes away, but we're far enough out that it seems rural.

 

[SilkieSensation]

[COLOR=800080]Of course we're not doing a flapper contest this year because I just got the best shot of my boy...by accident. Oh well, guess I'll save it for one day...[/COLOR]

he is beautiful, his has little hearts all over his chest.... valentine kid

[COLOR=800080]Thank You....I think he's beautiful too.[/COLOR]

I have a closet! One day though when a DD or two move out....

Oh you kids today with your fancy closets, when I was your age we had to incubate in a cardboard box, with a light bulb and a pie pan of water, and we were thankful. (I kid, I kid, I'm guessing ronott1 and I are about the same age, he might be a tad youn[COLOR=800080]ger. )[/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]Well, you do hear the stories....Didn't someone recently hatch an egg on her desk with a desk lamp pointed at it? I know I remember reading that somewhere.[/COLOR]

Now I really want to see your incubation room! I wish I had an incubation "room". I'm lucky to get a corner.

haha it is not just for eggs. it is also my "rodent room" my "reptile room" my "bird room" and my "plant room" I should change the name to incorporate everything.. perhaps "the zoo room" or "the wildlife room" lol

[COLOR=800080]Sounds like a "play room "to me![/COLOR]

he is beautiful, his has little hearts all over his chest.... valentine kid

He could still be entered in the Magnificent Male photo contest.

[COLOR=800080]Oh, HE IS!!![/COLOR]

Good morning everyone!! Have a great day today. I am off to work early so I can leave early to come home and have my NPIP recertification done again.

[COLOR=800080]Good Morning & on the NPIP![/COLOR] [COLOR=800080]Silkie, you would say stuff it full!! LOL! I just don't like clinking eggs and the more of them I have in there the harder they are to maneuver. I want to open the lid, roll and go. [/COLOR]

I actually find it easier to roll a full bator than a few eggs. They can't roll back over or across the bator when it's full. Plus it maintains temp better when full.

 

[mlm Mike]

haha it is not just for eggs. it is also my "rodent room" my "reptile room" my "bird room" and my "plant room" I should change the name to incorporate everything.. perhaps "the zoo room" or "the wildlife room" lol

I like "Wildlife Room".

Yes, and we carried the box to school so the other kids could see the eggs, then back home again, in the snow, under our coats to keep the eggs warm, uphill both ways, wearing paper bags for shoes, and we were thankful.

Yep!

WELL

My bator that is brand new had an issue so I had to request a replacement part. GQ was very gracious and sent one right out.

In the meanwhile, I friend loaned me a brand new bator to try out.

Isn't that the sweetest think ever?

I have/had enough eggs to fill both bators.

The neighbor came over with Turkey eggs and a pleading smile. I'm lured in by the adventure of Turkey eggs. They don't fit so every other one is a chicken egg. Yes, I know the chickens will hatch earlier. Kind of puzzled how to deal with that. Should have waited to set them but didn't think it through really good. Was just filling the bator.

So Turkeys are set. Plus some chickens. I know it's early! I still have a bator to fill on Friday. I'm setting to hatch on Friday because our church has a huge 2 day love-feast communion over Resurrection weekend.

Back to the WELL...

So, I have more eggs than will fill the 2nd bator and my mom orders me eggs!

I told her to wait and have them shipped in a couple weeks.

She didn't get the memo and they are coming on Thursday!

I have another friend with a bator he offered to lend me.

Looks like I will be filling 3 incubators to be hatching around Easter! The chickens will be hatching the Monday and Friday before and the Turkeys, the Monday after. I'm in shock.

3 incubators???!!!

What a great mom and friends you have.

And we were just STUMPS then! Didn't even have feet to put shoes on!

But seriously, my mother hatched her geese in the dishwarmer of her mothers firewood cookstove. The dishwarmer is the top cabinets and is heated by warm circulating water in a copper pipe that is kept hot by the firebox. One similar to this:

That is awesome!

Is this too cool or what?

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-dinosaur-discovered-nicknamed-chicken-hell

I guess I'm glad they aren't still roaming around.

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Well, you do hear the stories....Didn't someone recently hatch an egg on her desk with a desk lamp pointed at it? I know I remember reading that somewhere.

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I did not hear that, very interesting.

 

[NotAFarm]

Fitting for our day in Pa!
Good Morning Everyone!

Most of our snow had melted.............last night we got a dusting.........didn't Mother Nature get the memo that SPRING STARTED ON FRIDAY!

It should melt tomorrow and then the only precip in the forecast is rain!

........now for some broody hens.......yes, I said it, BROODIES.....plural......I need the jinx......I got enough eggs.....

 

[chickensnbees]

Finally found call duck eggs! I know it's too late for the Easter Hatch-a-long but I'm still super excited! I did get my Khaki Campbell eggs set in time and will be setting a few Bresse eggs as well. Does anyone incubate duck and chicken together? How do you do the humidity for this? Also what's your experiences with using a broody to hatch shipped eggs? Should they go in the incubator first to let the air cells heal? Or straight under the hen?

 

[thowe]

Good Morning Everybody! 4 days till we set our eggs . Feels like waiting for Christmas

 

[jbenson]

Woke to my first pip and of course, it's on the wrong end. Looks like the chick knicked a vein, but not a big one and it's cracked away a good chunk of shell and I could see it's little beak moving and hear it peeping a bit. Here's hoping it gets the rest of hatching figured out cause I'll be at work all day and won't be back to help it until dinner time.

I've never had a wrong end pipper before, but this is also my first time turning by hand, so the eggs were incubating on their sides instead of small end down in the auto-turner. Wonder if that had anything to do with it. I'll check on it again before I leave for work to see if it's made any progress. Several other eggs rocking in there, but so far, all the early action is from my mille fleur d'uccles. Nobody else is doing anything just yet, but it's only the morning of day 20.

 

[chicken pickin]

Woke to my first pip and of course, it's on the wrong end. Looks like the chick knicked a vein, but not a big one and it's cracked away a good chunk of shell and I could see it's little beak moving and hear it peeping a bit. Here's hoping it gets the rest of hatching figured out cause I'll be at work all day and won't be back to help it until dinner time.

I've never had a wrong end pipper before, but this is also my first time turning by hand, so the eggs were incubating on their sides instead of small end down in the auto-turner. Wonder if that had anything to do with it. I'll check on it again before I leave for work to see if it's made any progress. Several other eggs rocking in there, but so far, all the early action is from my mille fleur d'uccles. Nobody else is doing anything just yet, but it's only the morning of day 20.

Congrats on the first pip. I just had 2 wrong end pippers hatch a few days ago. One I helped hatch, though I really don't think I need to. The other I decided not to help and he hatched all by himself. Good luck! I hope he is out before you get home

Im not sure if hand turning had anything to do with it. My 2 that I just had were in the same incubator one was in the auto turner and one laying next to the turner on its side being hand turned.