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

[foxvalleyfarm]

You did wonderful!!! congrats!! 

Thank you. Sally are they silkie?

 

[Cynthia12]

Vacation is that time you take out of the year to build more incubators, brooders, grow out pens, and coops. A good vacation is when you supervise others doing those things!

Silly, forgetting something important like that!

Ohhhh! Now I remember! Yep!

 

[Bhmathews]

I'm so eggcited, I can hardly stand it. I saw this teeny embryo today, which is day 5. Or maybe 4. I can never remember when to start counting. Anyways, yay for making baby chickens!!
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This little honey is a Wheaten Ameraucana.

 

[Cynthia12]

Her beak was a black cherry color as a chick with with wattles and growing spurs I thought she was a roo

I have a questionable one out there right now. I bought it thinking it was a girl..should be a girl..but these feed stores don't always have them right..sexed that it. It's a sexlink, a looot bigger than my other one I got there, but now, after hearing your story, who knows? I may just have a large girl. Hoping.

 

[Cynthia12]

Yes I did!! instead of the 29th I set some of the chicken eggs early morning on the 28th and some later that day so they hopefully all hatch by Saturday! they took half a day to hatch so I gave them a few extra hours in the bator extra just to make sure and also so they could get nice and fluffy for hopefully 12:00 on Saturday! and I set the duck egg on the 22! it was her first egg and I was curious to see if it was good! so the magpie egg was just a lucky coincidentally set egg but it should hatch on the 19th and wanted to add it too!!

Yayy! I did! thanks everyone! all my eggs have veins too! so 7 out of 7! woop wooop!!!

 

[Sueg4332]

here my N/N / cochin bantam crosses. they have feathered legs too 3 days old






The cochin bantams rooster are fairly small but the turkin is standard size . Dads are #1 barbed cochin, a#2 blue cochin bantam, #3 bitohin cochin bantam, it will be interesting to see if the size goes down. Hatch 7 this time. 3 or 4 that are olde and at my friends house.
I think I have some in the Easter hatch. Hope I get some pullets out the deal. the tkh is still laying eggs like mad. So I'll probably hatch more

 

[Cynthia12]

Sue, they are adorable! I love them!

 

[Scrambles55]

Quote: A few years ago... I ordered 4 RSL from the feed store. I got 3 pullets and a roo. Thing is... they all looked alike until they were one week old. Then one got bigger and bigger and.....

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

Quote: Not sure. I think I have khaki campbells and rouens, but I'm not certain. I bought them at auction last year.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Oh NO!!!! DH says that we will be out of town on Easter weekend. NOOOOO!!!!!

How can I enjoy fishing when chicks are hatching??

Maybe they will hatch early?

Do you have a friend that can look after them for you?

I'm not sure if I shared this here but forgive if I already did. My daughter made me this sheet to keep track of my many staggered hatches. It comes in handy as today I found out I have a total of 9 hatches going on..gah. Hope it helps. It's in Word format but I don't know a place I can upload it for all to just share it thru a link. If anyone knows please share.

Hatching Record
Breed/Pen:______________________ Cock:________________________
Date Set:________________________ Time Set:_____________________
Date Candled:____________________ Results:______________________
Date Candled:____________________ Results:______________________
Hatch Should Start On:_____________
Hatch Started On:_________________ Time:___________________ AM/PM
Hatch Ended On:__________________ Time:___________________ AM/PM
Band Code:__________________________________________________________________​

RESULTS:

1. Number of Eggs Set___________ G. Culled, Too Weak_____________
2. Not Fertile__________________ H. Culled, Deformed_____________
3. Died 1st Week_______________ I. Other_______________________
4. Died 2nd Week_______________ J. Total lost ( add lines B-I)__________
5. Full-Term, Failed to Pip________ K. Total hatch (line A minus J)_______
6. Pipped, Failed to Hatch________ L. Percent of Fertile Hatched

(line K divided by [line A minus B])_______%
NOTES:_______________________________________________________________________

CHICK RECORD
Number

Sire

Dam

Hatch Date

Sex

Color

Notes



























































































































































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Very nice sheet!

I'm so eggcited, I can hardly stand it. I saw this teeny embryo today, which is day 5. Or maybe 4. I can never remember when to start counting. Anyways, yay for making baby chickens!!

This little honey is a Wheaten Ameraucana.

Great veining!