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

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: giggles it still works!! I am OCD and like stuff perfect and the stains bug me ha ha ha

wiping means with a wettish warm rag, surface area is what brings humidity up not depth, so wiping the side or misting it will bring levels up fast

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I am still trying to find you this video, I will check my cell it may still reside on it lol

I will tag you in the diary thread if found either place!

 

[austinbndr28]

A rainy spring day! at least it's not cold.

 

[ddhyland]

This is a weird looking egg. There is a chick, small, and it is moving.


This is the bottom of the egg, very V-shaped





This is the air cell at the top

The other eggs have basically air cell at top and chick and do not look like this. Is this okay?

 

[jbher]

I pasted info from the 101 article, in there is a link to fully understand the hatching process.



What you will notice is the bigger dip in the air cell and the back of the egg (or the high spot in rear) will actually show some protrusion of the chick however its still inside the inner membrane.

I had taken a video and posted it on the diary thread, I thought you saw it? perhaps I can find it to show what draw down is.

Oh interesting!! I saw that one video with the internal pip - I didn't notice the draw down - is that the same video I'm thinking of? Thank you!!

No, they never stick in the tomato baskets. No sticky chicks allowed here!



See the SG Dorkings standing on the shelf liner?

What do you use the tomato baskets for??

giggles it still works!! I am OCD and like stuff perfect and the stains bug me ha ha ha

wiping means with a wettish warm rag, surface area is what brings humidity up not depth, so wiping the side or misting it will bring levels up fast

the reason I got the cream colored one is because it matched my bator. LOL!! I have a problem. haha Ahhhh totally makes sense on the rag thing now - perfect!

I am still trying to find you this video, I will check my cell it may still reside on it lol

I will tag you in the diary thread if found either place!

Oh thank you!!!

 

[PetRock]

No, they never stick in the tomato baskets. No sticky chicks allowed here!



See the SG Dorkings standing on the shelf liner?

I'm still trying to find what works best for me. I had one chick stick to the screen in my Genesis. He was stuck all night and it did something to him or he was just a messed up chick anyway. I ended up culling him because his organs were just not working properly. So, then I tried the shelf liner and hatching the eggs laying down and lost the 3 pipped chicks that stuck to the liner. This last hatch, I went back to egg cartons with no shelf liner. I had a 75% hatch with one chick that pipped more than halfway down the egg then died, 5 that didn't pip (2 were late quitters), and 1 that hatched but could barely stand up at 2 days old so was culled. I have one more hatch set for after the Easter hatch and then I'm thinking about taking a break. I have been incubating in my cabinet hatcher then hatching in my Genesis. I think that I'll turn off my cabinet and sanitize it with Tek Trol. I have had a few chicks with umbilical problems so maybe I have some bacteria thing going on. My percentages are decreasing as the season progresses instead of increasing.

 

[ronott1]

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What do you use the tomato baskets for??

It is a special project for a local breeder. she is keeping track of what chicks the hens produce with her best Rooster. This is the second year. I have to band the chicks when I take them out. The chicks in the picture all came from the same hen and rooster.

I'm still trying to find what works best for me. I had one chick stick to the screen in my Genesis. He was stuck all night and it did something to him or he was just a messed up chick anyway. I ended up culling him because his organs were just not working properly. So, then I tried the shelf liner and hatching the eggs laying down and lost the 3 pipped chicks that stuck to the liner. This last hatch, I went back to egg cartons with no shelf liner. I had a 75% hatch with one chick that pipped more than halfway down the egg then died, 5 that didn't pip (2 were late quitters), and 1 that hatched but could barely stand up at 2 days old so was culled. I have one more hatch set for after the Easter hatch and then I'm thinking about taking a break. I have been incubating in my cabinet hatcher then hatching in my Genesis. I think that I'll turn off my cabinet and sanitize it with Tek Trol. I have had a few chicks with umbilical problems so maybe I have some bacteria thing going on. My percentages are decreasing as the season progresses instead of increasing.

It is not a bad idea to turn everything off and sanitize. I need to do that with the Brinsea now.

I have two real copper pennies in the water tank that pumps water into the brinsea. They create copper sulfate that should kill the buggies. I sanitize the Geneses incubators that I use for hatching after each hatch. I need to get the one that is hatching today clean for lockdown for the HAL!

Is the cabinet digital? it may be a bit low in temperatures if the chicks are sticky all the time. I would bump up the incubation temperature .3 to .5 of a degree for the next set of eggs.

 

[CGinJCMO]

yuppers, I wont buy white or cream colors anymore as they seemed to have little discolored stains from those first green poops, I need to get more, and after a while it gets flimsy with all that bleaching though, do you bleach before you wash them? I would assume so because they can get really pooped up! I seen some use them in the brooders, I may buy a bunch more and use it instead of paper towels for the first few days in the brooder. BLEACH!! oh that reminds me!! @lizanne just made me aprons to save my shirts from bleach demise!!! I always have bleach stains along the lower part of my shirts! She made Harmony and I matching aprons out of feed bags!! I love them with big pockets for hauling stuff with us when we do the chickens!! here is lil Luke sporting his sissys like a champ, why did I not get one made for the littlest girlyboy? ha ha ha

AHHHHH LOVE that apron!!! So cute! What a sport to model his sisters apron Well shoot - I bought the creamish colored shelf liner... oh well.

giggles it still works!! I am OCD and like stuff perfect and the stains bug me ha ha ha wiping means with a wettish warm rag, surface area is what brings humidity up not depth, so wiping the side or misting it will bring levels up fast

I am 100 pages behind. My youngest son wanted to learn to cook so for Christmas I made an apron for him and gave a cookbook (Star Wars themed).

A rainy spring day! at least it's not cold.

We had snow yesterday. I could under stand if I was in the mountains or near Canada. I put my eggs into lockdown Monday. Pretty sure 6 won't hatch but left them anyway (dark eggs and paid for). I also removed approximately half dozen of my barnyard EE s.

 

[Hurley]

Cold, cold night last night, woke up to 26. Snow on the ground, waterers frozen...again...

My poor little purple crocus that thought about coming up to bloom is crystalized.

Sheesh.

Got the eggs in lockdown, can't wait for cheepers!

 

[Gardeningmama]

WE HAVE ONE More PRIZE for a contest!

ANNOUNCING a Mini CONTEST
to be HELD FRIDAY EVENING 9pm Eastern time!
Watch for the post ON THE MAIN HAL Thread at 9!

PRIZE: BYC 6 Month GFM

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