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

[JDchicks]

Well, it seems I will be a first time grandma this December. So looking for to spoiling the little one!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm so disappointed! Checked my bator and it was up over 104!!! Not sure for how long, impatiently waiting for night fall to candle.

Good luck. They are far enough along maybe they will be fine..just toasty warm! I bet you had that lid up for a while.

 

[Cynthia12]

Well, it seems I will be a first time grandma this December. So looking for to spoiling the little one!

Congratulations..you will love it. I have number 33 on the way, and our first great grandchild. You will have your grandchildren come up with the cutest names for you, mostly, because they can't say grandma the right way right at first, so it sticks how ever they say it. Fun stuff!

 

[chickensnbees]

Today is taking all the relaxation out of my stay-at-home vacation. Going to have to spend it tracking down whatever defective thing caused a 500 electric bill. It's insane. Ruled out the meter being broken, trying to figure out which breaker the culprit is on. With my luck it will be some wiring on the fritz. Hoping it is something I can fix or live without for a while.

50cc's of someone elses's good news stat?

I feel your pain. When we lived in Alaska a few years ago, I got hit with over $1000 power bills 4 months in a row! It was faulty wiring in the driveway heater that the landlord made us use but he refused to fix it. It was cheaper for me to pay to fix it than keep paying the power bill.

 

[LBKS]

I feel your pain. When we lived in Alaska a few years ago, I got hit with over $1000 power bills 4 months in a row! It was faulty wiring in the driveway heater that the landlord made us use but he refused to fix it. It was cheaper for me to pay to fix it than keep paying the power bill.

Oh my, that is a really insane bill! And for 4 months! I wish they could just send out an alert when you got to a certain percent over normal so we could nip things like that well before it got so bad!

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Ok, here is my Day 14 candling report - Pulled 4 clears and 1 blood ring. 40 eggs remaining in incubator, but there are maybe 3-4 questionables in there, including the Marans, which I can't see clearly into. The 4 clears I saw last time, but left in just in case. The blood ring was not a big surprise either, had a ? on that egg already. So pretty happy with results so far!

At least 3 dozen strong looking embryo's marching towards lockdown this week!

Pretty excited!!! And my Broody BA is sticking to the nest like a champ - so I just have to decide when to give her some of the eggs this coming week.

Hope everyone else's day 14 candling is going well!

 

[jbenson]

Me too!

$500.00 is way too high for an electric bill.

It seems like it should be, but I know ours is that high on the very coldest of months in winter here in MN when we are running our gas heat (with electric fan) and heat lamps in the coops and heater in the garage and sometimes a space heater or grow lamp and heat mat in the basement for starting seedlings. We have an electric stove (and cook a lot from scratch using it), two fridges, one for beer, one for food, an upright freezer and a cold storage freezer (it's thermostated to not get so cold so it actually uses very little electricity), plus tropical fish 75gal aquarium with lights and heater. But we only pay this much for like Jan and Feb. Otherwise, our bill is usually under $350.

 

[jbenson]

Today has been a hard day. After breakfast I went to check on the one remaining chick I had (originally it was one I really wanted to keep and then it developed wry neck so I did not feel comfortable offering it to anyone for sale or free really). Found she ( I kept calling it a she in hopes it would pull through and be a girl) had had a nervous freak out (as she had been having with the wry neck) and had fallen backwards into the waterer and it seemed she could not get up having gotten herself wedged between the waterer and the side of the brooder and could not get up given her condition and had drowned. Pretty sad. I was really hoping for a recovery by this chick. She had seemed to be doing better the past couple days with selenium and grogel added to her vitamin E regimen. She really was the most beautiful chick I'd ever seen. I have 5 eggs from the same parentage in the 'bator right now set for a April 30 hatch. It won't be the same, but I'm hoping for some similar coloring (the mother is a bantam hen with tufted cheeks and the most adorable personality and the father is the most beautiful Belgian d'Uccle mille fleur roo - their union is one of necessity, given that the cold weather was making most of my d'Uccle eggs were freezing before collection and this particular hen is an excellent broody to keep them from freezing before collection and she had laid very few eggs while performing this duty only one of which was fertile in the last hatch.)

RIP baby Diva.

 

[luvmypets]

So the one egg (clear.. i think) that looks like just a yolk has a aircell almost one half of the egg. We lost eight others to blood rings, and the others dont seem to be developing.. im so confused. This is driving me nuts. Also the air cell has gotten bigger since then.

 

[luvmypets]

Today has been a hard day. After breakfast I went to check on the one remaining chick I had (originally it was from the same parentage in the 'bator right now set for a April 30 hatch. It won't be the same, but I'm hoping for some similar coloring (the mother is a bantam hen with tufted cheeks and the most adorable personality and the father is the most beautiful Belgian d'Uccle mille fleur roo - their union is one of necessity, given that the cold weather was making most of my d'Uccle eggs were freezing before collection and this particular hen is an excellent broody to keep them from freezing before collection and she had laid very few eggs while performing this duty only one of which was fertile in the last hatch.)

RIP baby Diva.

Sorry about Diva she looks precious.