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

[Cynthia12]

we would love to join your Easter hatch along it sounds fun

 

[Cynthia12]

Hi! I would like to join in the Easter Hatch-a-long! I will be setting 11 Rhode Island White eggs (shipped) and 22 barnyard mix eggs. I have RIR, Easter Egger, and Black Silkie Roo over RIR, RSL, White Leghorn, White Rock, Black and Blue Silkie, Black Jersey Giant, Black Orpinton, and Silkie/Jap hens.

This will only be my 3rd time using my incubator so I hope for improved results!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

we would love to join your Easter hatch along it sounds fun

Welcome to the fun!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Just added up the eggs I should have for setting Sat... Turner holds 42... I have about 56... Looks like I'm stacking them!

awesome!!! Can you video tape that chat with the hens so I can playback to mine please?

Going out to collect egg or eggs.

ha ha ha DITTO that!

I want to join, how do I sign up?

@ Sallysunshine et all

The chrysanthemum Polish came from a seller on ebay name: mcdonaldhouseserama, they were super nice and sent almost double (9 and got 16) the eggs I bought. Thank goodness for that since only 3 were viable after shipping, all the odd weather has been hard on all the shipped eggs for me this winter.

More pics of the little ones shortly, they are CUTE!!

we only need one chick!!!! ha ha ha

Stopped at the PO this morning to give them a heads up that I have eggs coming and to call me. She was super nice and was very familiar with chicks and hatching eggs coming and said they always bring them in and call right away - WHEW!! I am like a crazy person over here (first time ever incubating eggs!)!!

I moved my incubator up into my bedroom to see if it will be warmer up there versus in the main area of the house. I also checked the temp of my basement to see what it would be since that's where I'll store the eggs until Saturday. It was 54f so I think that should be okay... right!?

OH and what kind of egg cartons should I try and collect??? The paper kind or the styrofoam kind??? And I cut the bottoms out a little right? I'm going to put the eggs in my bator IN the egg cartons fat end up for the first few days since they're shipped eggs.

Wow can you tell I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee?!

either cartons are fine!

Quote: LOVE IT!!!! WHO IS GONNA WIN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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and you know I agree on the CCL!!! need more must have more more more more more!!!!
I cant wait to see it! dont forget to show us on the thread!!! hatch with me there too!!

we would love to join your Easter hatch along it sounds fun

Awesome!!!! Welcome!!! whatcha gonna hatch???

Busy week and a half = 200 pages behind... hmmmm!

Just confirmed my eggs. The mix is RIR roosters over RIR, SLW, and BR hens. Thus I could get some pure RIR, some Black Sex Links, or RIW! Mystery boxes!!! I'm also getting some BOs.

Too bad everyone can't just have a few happy backyard hens. All that cruelty could be avoided.

AGREE, and a cow and a garden and well its not too much to ask right?????

Hi! I would like to join in the Easter Hatch-a-long! I will be setting 11 Rhode Island White eggs (shipped) and 22 barnyard mix eggs. I have RIR, Easter Egger, and Black Silkie Roo over RIR, RSL, White Leghorn, White Rock, Black and Blue Silkie, Black Jersey Giant, Black Orpinton, and Silkie/Jap hens.

This will only be my 3rd time using my incubator so I hope for improved results!

 

[melina90]

[COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Day 20 one chick is out, five pips also! and two in the few CCL that I put in with them! [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]looking good! strong and healthy![/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]CCL ROO mutts.... Light Brahma hen and our BR hens eggs are huge so the chicks are in turn giants! I swear they are as large as a turkey at hatch! We are hatching their eggs for a friend who wants good layers with big eggs. I must weight their eggs, but my digital small pocket scale needs a weird battery. I swear its the FF they had when they were beginning to lay! I must start my batches back up! Just got more ACV and will start as soon as I can drag in a bag of 100lb feed. :/ Did I mention getting old stinks?[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Note this chick doesnt have foot or leg feathers like its mama brahma, and it has a straight comb genetics is so confusing! but its always cool to see these "mutts" older! [/COLOR]

Reminds me of last summer, when so many of the Orpington chickens I hatched out from my own flock turned out to have a stripe of leg feathers! None of the parents has that!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: How did your pretest go? all fit to be ummmm unfit for a few days?

I will be thinking of you for sure, when is it scheduled?

 

[Gardeningmama]

We hit pg. 500 folks. Lol!

And on and on we gooooooooo........

Oh Yeah!

What's really sad is that I've got a perfectly good cabinet bator here that I don't even half fill. Just a shame, really.
*goes back to browsing the hatching egg thread*

I've got one lone ameraucana hen as my only non-Iowa Blue bird except for her chicks ("""Iowacanas"""). I love my IBs, but they are not a blue egg layer and I seriously love the blue eggs, so the CCLs my next round of blue egg layers.

I just set my duck eggs the other day in the cabinet bator DH built. BUT she keeps laying...and although I could fit 100 more eggs in there, I don't want to stagger duck eggs when I barely know what I'm doing. So...I'm going to fire up the good ole LG. Kind of funny!

 

[supermom1185]

I want to join After an awful winter which cost me a few juveniles plus a bator full of BBS English orp eggs (4 day power outage), I think Im ready to start incubating again!

 

[Pozees]

Melina90, I know two people who have had total hip replacement in the past two years, and they both marvelled at how much better they feel now that they can walk pain-free, and also at how fast they were able to get up and around. Best of luck to you, please do keep us posted!

Penny Hen, I LOVE the idea of the G.E.R.T. - but it is correct to say all participants sending eggs would need to be NPIP certified. I wonder if enough could be persuaded to participate? I will if you decide to do it and anyone wants whatever eggs I have at the time.

Hurray, ChickenCanoe is here!!!

As far as hatching upright versus horizontal - I just tried a horizontal hatch after several upright, and it is the last time I will do it. Two zippers killed by being rolled around by chicks already hatched and running about. A hen hatches horizontal, but she also keeps the eggs in place with her body. As with all other aspects of hatching, what works for one does not always work for another, I just know horizontal does not work for me.

As I was preparing hatchers this morning and moving eggs from the non-turning into the turning incubator (shipped eggs) I kept hearing peeping, from the wrong side of the room. I finally stopped what I was doing to investigate, and discovered a chick had hatched that I had only put into the incubator 16 days ago for a little girl who lives about an hour from me. I think she has a broody hen and doesn't know it

I would be mortifed to post pictures of my "nursery" as DH calls it - seriously. It is my son's old room so still has lots of his things and furniture in there, I moved his futon out and an old coffee table in, upon which sits the Sportsman; on the long, narrow desk are the Brinsea and a FI styro, then on a dresser another FI styro, and on a plastic storage bin stacked upon a box, my 1588 styro LOL. It is rare, but last weekend I actually had them all running for a few days as I had done a very poor job staggering plus had a hatch go long. Oh - and then there is the first-few-days brooder for new hatchlings that sits in the TV hole of an old entertainment center.

I decided last night to sell the two FI styros and buy another 1588 and be more disciplined about what I set, when. After the chick fleeing the FI styro scare last weekend, and in view of the larger hatching space in the 1588, it just makes sense ... you guys get it, right?

 

[Noncentzter]

Melina90, I know two people who have had total hip replacement in the past two years, and they both marvelled at how much better they feel now that they can walk pain-free, and also at how fast they were able to get up and around. Best of luck to you, please do keep us posted!


As far as hatching upright versus horizontal...

Melina90 - My Mom (73) had one side replaced 18 years ago and has to have it redone because it's fallen apart. I hope yours does and goes well.

I have also hatched upright and horizontal and agree with Pozees...I like upright better.