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

[Sueg4332]

It is very cold here in the Sacramento Valley too!

rainy in Ceres, California too

 

[Cynthia12]

So I have a family emergency and am flying to Colorado in the morning. I put 100 plus eggs into lock down this evening. Candled as I went they are all close to pipping internally already. Not sure how long I will be gone but will most likely miss the hatch. Leaving my kids to watch out for the chicks and also to turn the 388 eggs for Easter. Hopefully they do as they should. This will not be a good trip. Please pray for my family.

Prayers for sure!

 

[ronott1]

This is the inside result of the bright speckled one... I wanted to check what I was seeing inside the egg or not seeing rather.

The Ovum is on the other side. If you were to flip it over, you could tell if the egg developed and quit before the third day. You would be looking for a Yellow dot, bigger than 1/8 of an inch with upraised outer edges. The bigger the longer it went before quitting.

If a little white dot, then it was not fertile.

 

[Cynthia12]

Here's what we woke up to this morning. We are used to the, nice one day, cold the next. Hoping my fruit trees do ok. We may have another day of this tomorrow, then start warming up again.

Shook the snow off of a few of the buds..they are ready to pop
out. Now, if they will just hold off until these storms pass.
This is one of our apple trees.


This is a cherry tree..didn't have cherries last year..we are so
hoping that we get them this year. Lots and lots of blossom
clumps on this tree.


A few of my girls followed me to the feed shed. They thought
they were starving to death because the lawn was covered in
snow. Well, they always follow me when I go to the feed shed.
They know there is all kind of goodies in there, they love the
scratch once in a while.

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[getaclue]

So I have a family emergency and am flying to Colorado in the morning. I put 100 plus eggs into lock down this evening. Candled as I went they are all close to pipping internally already. Not sure how long I will be gone but will most likely miss the hatch. Leaving my kids to watch out for the chicks and also to turn the 388 eggs for Easter. Hopefully they do as they should. This will not be a good trip. Please pray for my family.

Praying!

 

[ShayBaby]

It was exactly the bantam bin I fell for - and I like the big chickens! I'll rationalize it in retrospect - I need those perfect itty bitty eggs for bit sized deviled eggs. There we go.

Me too..bantams. I got two last week, one died. Little bantam NN. The other bantam NN did fine. They have said they guarantee..so I took the little body with me. :/ No one wanted to look, but I got another baby, it looks to be a cochin. Now, if these can just be girls.

Where did you find bantam NN chicks???! I've been looking for some for ages! Was going to start breeding my own LF NN down in size.. TSC? Know what hatchery yours orders from? I MUST KNOW. LOL.

This is the inside result of the bright speckled one... I wanted to check what I was seeing inside the egg or not seeing rather.

The Ovum is on the other side. If you were to flip it over, you could tell if the egg developed and quit before the third day. You would be looking for a Yellow dot, bigger than 1/8 of an inch with upraised outer edges. The bigger the longer it went before quitting. If a little white dot, then it was not fertile.

Couldn't have put it better.

 

[JennaLynn122]

The Ovum is on the other side. If you were to flip it over, you could tell if the egg developed and quit before the third day. You would be looking for a Yellow dot, bigger than 1/8 of an inch with upraised outer edges. The bigger the longer it went before quitting.

If a little white dot, then it was not fertile.

oops. Im definitely new at this. Regardless. Definitely no day 10 chicken.

 

[michaelf]

Good Morning BYC folks!!!!!
Have a spectacular day!!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Tornadoes moving through the are now. Hopefully the power will stay up.