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

[mlm Mike]

The participant list is now up to date to post 1251. We are now up to 150 hatchers!

And don't forget about the open contests:

Enter you guess here:
Contest #1: Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set
Go here to enter: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...e-set-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

And your brooder pic here:
Contest #2: Creative Brooder Contest
Go here to enter: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ooder-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

 

[Corny Caleb]

Well today I weighed the Easter hatch long emu egg. It lost 22 grams (a bit much). It is much more porous and the shell is more grainy feeling, so I kind of expected this : / but overall it's doing well : )

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hello everyone,

This is my first ever hatch a long and first time hatching eggs, count me in!!!

Welcome!

Quote: hmmmmm like this pup did

Two does. I cant get one of them to nurse. Maybe i should get a bottle with colostrum so she gets a meal. Then keep trying to get her yo nurse

How is this baby this eve?

Quote: aweeeee thats so funny, I dont think I have ever seen that one! perhaps one rejected but not that many! ha ha ha she looks lavender in this image.

Sry you lost some birds sally. We always think their safe untill they show us their not. They never know whats good for them

Quote: Mine kill them outright with a crushing the chest. I tried to save one, but then she past so we tried to process and they brusied her bad.

I think I've decided to buy another coop. I need something larger for growing out my meaties. After that, I can use it for juveniles, pairing up particular birds for breeding, separating anyone injured, excess roosters for the soup pot, etc. I don't have the time to build another one myself, so I'm gonna buy one.

Dang, I wish I had a big ole barn.

ditto ditto ditto ole or new doesnt matter just bring it right!

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Sally, I'm really sorry. That just plain sucks!

Quote: Thanks Cynthia12

Quote: again thank you! I am fairly sure I found some good ones! Now to get them here and hatch them!

Quote: oh gosh, I was so wishing she would make it for you, I wonder what was wrong with the wee thing.

Quote: me too!

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Well I figured out exactly why my last hatch didn't hatch - temp was WAY TOO high. Set up the 'bator back in the "office" room like when I hatched last year after getting it all squeaky clean and dry with the new thermo inside. Powered it up and came back about an hour later to 104 temp inside! Holy crap! Had the knob set exactly where it was set during the end of the last hatch when using the thermo that came with the thing. Just looked and realized that at some point, the bulb on my original analog thermo came unglued from the backing and the whole tube had slid! When I measured the amount it was slid, it was about the same distance from 99.5 to 104! I cooked my poor babies!

New digital thermo is working like a charm. I'm gonna reset it's high/low values before I set eggs so I can check to see if I've had unexpected temp drops or spikes while I'm away from it. I decided to move away from using the wells for water too. I've got a small mason jar in there right now with water. I'll probably go back to using the wells if I put the turner in and will for sure during hatch. I think I might need a chunk of sponge in the jar for surface area though cause it's awful dry this time of year and I've got only 30% or so humidity in there. I think I'd like a smidge more to prevent air sacs from getting out of control.

Also, whomever suggested using that rubbery shelf liner from the dollar store, I took your idea. I think it will help to keep the eggs from rolling all around so much and I got enough to line it for two hatches (I'm hoping it will catch a majority of the crud during hatch and can be peeled out and chucked to aid in faster cleaning).

Thinking of asking the guy I sold one of our roos to (the one who I was trying to hatch his offspring and cooked them instead) if he will sell me some eggs. He has some lovely little Seramas and he's crossing them with my Red Pyle Old English Game roo. Those are gonna be lookers. (hubby's idea so he can't be mad if I do a special hatch just for those right?)

should be sweet!

Candled most of the 39 eggs in my bator last night and most of them I can tell are forming! Yay!!! I am so excited to be getting closer to having chicks again!!

Still would love to find someone who has SS hatching eggs.... Anyone?????

I wanted to share a picture of my broody blue ameraucana with her BLRW chick

aweeeeee

My Golden Cuckoo Marans. I'm planning to hatch out some more of these and hopefully some Partridge Rocks for the hatch-a-long. Maybe some more Narragansett turkeys as well. I have a batch of those hatching next week.

Awesome! congrats!

Sally, sorry for your loss. I love reading all of your wisdom.

I have a general question about vaccines for chicks. When you folks hatch, do you vaccinate for Mareks, and for any others as well? Also, in a typical back yard flock, is it worth it to invest in a mister vaccine administrator, like what the large hatcheries use, or just learn to do the needle method? I read to insert the needle in the neck skin, but some people say the thigh is better.

Thank you LadyCluck77

Here is a picture of my olive egger girl and her 4 babies. 2 black copper/ cuckoo cross and 2 HRIR !

aweeeee 2HRIR !!!!

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The participant list is now up to date to post 1251. We are now up to 150 hatchers!

And don't forget about the open contests:

Enter you guess here:
Contest #1: Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set
Go here to enter: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...e-set-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

And your brooder pic here:
Contest #2: Creative Brooder Contest
Go here to enter: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ooder-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

Well today I weighed the Easter hatch long emu egg. It lost 22 grams (a bit much). It is much more porous and the shell is more grainy feeling, so I kind of expected this : / but overall it's doing well : )

YAYYAYYAYAYAA

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

Well today I weighed the Easter hatch long emu egg. It lost 22 grams (a bit much). It is much more porous and the shell is more grainy feeling, so I kind of expected this : / but overall it's doing well : )

I've always wanted to hatch out an emu egg, but I've been terrified I'd shell out all that money and it wouldn't hatch. Not to mention I have no idea what I would do with an emu.

 

[Cynthia12]

She almost looks like she's smiling here. Cute.

 

[Bhmathews]

I'm in! Will be my first time hatching eggs AND those chicks hatched will be my first chicks too!! Cannot wait! Been waiting for this for a YEAR!  Going to be buying the Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco to hatch in. Hopefully I won't drive everyone too crazy with pics and questions ;-) 


Jen

I'm hatching in Hudson with Jen this year! We just got our ordinance passed, so these will be our first babies we get to keep! I hatch every year in my classroom, but I've never been able to keep them. This year is so special! We just ordered Wheatons, Marans, Olive Eggers, Salmon Faverolles and English Orps. Jen is hatching in a Brinsea and I'll be getting a new Hova 1588. I'm setting a day late due to our travel schedule (plus I want the my fourth graders to catch the hatch!).

SOOO excited!!!

Heather

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm hatching in Hudson with Jen this year! We just got our ordinance passed, so these will be our first babies we get to keep! I hatch every year in my classroom, but I've never been able to keep them. This year is so special! We just ordered Wheatons, Marans, Olive Eggers, Salmon Faverolles and English Orps. Jen is hatching in a Brinsea and I'll be getting a new Hova 1588. I'm setting a day late due to our travel schedule (plus I want the my fourth graders to catch the hatch!).

SOOO excited!!!

Heather

 

[Happy Chooks]

Sally, sorry for your loss. I love reading all of your wisdom.

I have a general question about vaccines for chicks. When you folks hatch, do you vaccinate for Mareks, and for any others as well? Also, in a typical back yard flock, is it worth it to invest in a mister vaccine administrator, like what the large hatcheries use, or just learn to do the needle method? I read to insert the needle in the neck skin, but some people say the thigh is better.
TSC had never heard of Mareks vaccine, but they sell lots of other vaccines. I noticed Jeffers pet supply will sell it.

I breed for resistance, so I do not vaccinate my flocks. So far, I've had no issues with Mareks.

Here is a picture of my olive egger girl and her 4 babies. 2 black copper/ cuckoo cross and 2 HRIR !

Holy broodies! I have a barnevelder hen plucking her breast, so she should go broody any time now.

The participant list is now up to date to post 1251. We are now up to 150 hatchers!

And don't forget about the open contests:

Enter you guess here:
Contest #1: Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set
Go here to enter: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...e-set-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

And your brooder pic here:
Contest #2: Creative Brooder Contest
Go here to enter: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ooder-5th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/0_50

Great reminders Mike! 150 hatchers, WOW!

Well today I weighed the Easter hatch long emu egg. It lost 22 grams (a bit much). It is much more porous and the shell is more grainy feeling, so I kind of expected this : / but overall it's doing well : )

Glad it's doing well!

I've always wanted to hatch out an emu egg, but I've been terrified I'd shell out all that money and it wouldn't hatch. Not to mention I have no idea what I would do with an emu.

They are social animals, so you can't just hatch one.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm hatching in Hudson with Jen this year! We just got our ordinance passed, so these will be our first babies we get to keep! I hatch every year in my classroom, but I've never been able to keep them. This year is so special! We just ordered Wheatons, Marans, Olive Eggers, Salmon Faverolles and English Orps. Jen is hatching in a Brinsea and I'll be getting a new Hova 1588. I'm setting a day late due to our travel schedule (plus I want the my fourth graders to catch the hatch!).

SOOO excited!!!

Heather

Welcome!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

How many last year Happy Chooks? we have a ways to go for start too!