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

[melina90]

I was thinking the same thing.

I am completely paranoid when it comes to diseases. I have never brought a live bird into my flock, I don't ever feed wild birds on our property, and no other chicken owner sets foot in my coop without disinfecting hands and put blue bags on their shoes :rolleyes

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Day 20 one chick is out, five pips also! and two in the few CCL that I put in with them!

looking good! strong and healthy!

CCL ROO mutts.... Light Brahma hen and our BR hens eggs are huge so the chicks are in turn giants! I swear they are as large as a turkey at hatch! We are hatching their eggs for a friend who wants good layers with big eggs. I must weight their eggs, but my digital small pocket scale needs a weird battery.

I swear its the FF they had when they were beginning to lay! I must start my batches back up! Just got more ACV and will start as soon as I can drag in a bag of 100lb feed.

Did I mention getting old stinks?


Note this chick doesnt have foot or leg feathers like its mama brahma, and it has a straight comb

genetics is so confusing! but its always cool to see these "mutts" older!

 

[pinusresinosa]

Day 20 one chick is out, five pips also! and two in the few CCL that I put in with them!

looking good! strong and healthy!

CCL ROO mutts.... Light Brahma hen and our BR hens eggs are huge so the chicks are in turn giants! I swear they are as large as a turkey at hatch! We are hatching their eggs for a friend who wants good layers with big eggs. I must weight their eggs, but my digital small pocket scale needs a weird battery.

I swear its the FF they had when they were beginning to lay! I must start my batches back up! Just got more ACV and will start as soon as I can drag in a bag of 100lb feed.

Did I mention getting old stinks?


Note this chick doesnt have foot or leg feathers like its mama brahma, and it has a straight comb

genetics is so confusing! but its always cool to see these "mutts" older!

Cute! BIG is good! It would be great to see how these turn out.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

How did this thread get so big in a month?

OK, I guess I'll join.

 

[PAchickenlover]

[COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Day 20 one chick is out, five pips also! and two in the few CCL that I put in with them! [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]looking good! strong and healthy![/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]CCL ROO mutts.... Light Brahma hen and our BR hens eggs are huge so the chicks are in turn giants! I swear they are as large as a turkey at hatch! We are hatching their eggs for a friend who wants good layers with big eggs. I must weight their eggs, but my digital small pocket scale needs a weird battery. I swear its the FF they had when they were beginning to lay! I must start my batches back up! Just got more ACV and will start as soon as I can drag in a bag of 100lb feed. :/ Did I mention getting old stinks?[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Note this chick doesnt have foot or leg feathers like its mama brahma, and it has a straight comb genetics is so confusing! but its always cool to see these "mutts" older! [/COLOR]

Congratulations on the hatch! They are cute! But then again almost all baby chicks are cute. Lol Getting old definitely does stink. However I can still stand with my legs straight, bend over and put my hands flat on the floor. My one son was making fun of me last night saying I needed to stretch more till I did that and said to him, "now let's see you do that"! Well he couldn't.... He promptly quit laughing at me... Hahahahahaha

 

[PAchickenlover]

How did this thread get so big in a month?

OK, I guess I'll join.

Yay!

 

[angelobutter]

I am house sitting for my mom for the next week and her geese just started laying! I am totally "stealing" them for my incubator! i found three yesterday that were frozen solid and cracked, but i found two this morning that were still warm to the touch... thankfully I had my bucket and scoop with me because before I knew it the geese had backed me into the corner of the coop! those things are WAY bigger in person when they are mad than they are when they are munching grass. I escaped with two eggs and my life haha.
so they are kind of grubby- she hasn't put new hay in yet, this is the clean side of them, the rest of the eggs are grubbier, should I try that washing them? I have that "manna pro egg wash"(that i use for the one customer who won't eat mildly imperfect eggs) it has directions for washing incubator eggs but it kinda goes against my instincts to wash eggs, (though I know plenty of people do) but it also goes against my instinct to incubate dirty eggs.

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Question: If I fill the egg turner of my LG to start with is it ok to take the eggs out and lay them down in the incubator for lockdown? Or is it better if they stay upright?

 

[PAchickenlover]

Yes, and we carried the box to school so the other kids could see the eggs, then back home again, in the snow, under our coats to keep the eggs warm, uphill both ways, wearing paper bags for shoes, and we were thankful.

And we were just STUMPS then! Didn't even have feet to put shoes on! But seriously, my mother hatched her geese in the dishwarmer of her mothers firewood cookstove. The dishwarmer is the top cabinets and is heated by warm circulating water in a copper pipe that is kept hot by the firebox. One similar to this:

Aging myself here, however, I grew up with one of these cook stoves in our house. My uncle has it now, I hope to get it back someday. I do t have the exact pic but after looking online I found an almost exact match.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Question: If I fill the egg turner of my LG to start with is it ok to take the eggs out and lay them down in the incubator for lockdown? Or is it better if they stay upright?

Either way works. If you want them upright you might want to transfer to a cut down egg carton so you keep the turner clean.
Laying down they get jostled when the early bloomers start playing soccer.