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

[Gardeningmama]

 

[amyfitz100]

This was on day 4. Can you tell if that's a vein or a blood ring?

 

[jbher]

So I have a family emergency and am flying to Colorado in the morning. I put 100 plus eggs into lock down this evening. Candled as I went they are all close to pipping internally already. Not sure how long I will be gone but will most likely miss the hatch. Leaving my kids to watch out for the chicks and also to turn the 388 eggs for Easter. Hopefully they do as they should. This will not be a good trip. Please pray for my family.

Praying for your family and thinking of you!!

 

[Gardeningmama]

Today I will practice self control! My local Mill is getting in their last batch of LF chicks for the season...EE's & Australorps. Everything in me wants to go get a few because it's MY LAST CHANCE, lol! I do not need them, and after this hatch & my goslings come in I won't have room for them. UGH! Must not buy chicks..........I even had DH leave me money so I could go buy the chicks. The desire is pure evil, I tell you!

I did day 10 candle on my Calls last night and started cooling/misting the eggs with the good air cells. One I was sure was a quitter, disintegrating cloudy veins. The baby inside was still moving around...so sad. I'm sure it's probably gone by now.

So, that puts me at 11 viable. On the upside, I added 5 of my girls eggs last night, which is probably a good thing. I'll get to learn from the first hatch, and 10 days later have a better handle on things for the second hatch.

 

[jbher]

Oh what a beautiful morning!!!

We woke up to our foster cat Princess' 5 newly born kittens!!!! She did it all by herself and they are so precious!

5!!

She is letting them nurse, but got restless and shifted around so we would pet her when we went in the room where she is.She got up and babies dropped off her and ended up behind her when she turned around so we pet her..then she settled down again.. She was insistently pushy about that yesterday and I thought maybe she was just very uncomfortable. Understandably so! But I hope she stays put with them and ignores us pretty much soon. Should we leave her be, have alone time, today...I want those babies to have her full attention and proper beginning.Any advice from you experienced kitten folks? There are 2 dilute orange and whites, 2 gray and whites, and 2 dark gray with little white hairs over the top...like shimmery icing over the gray. I know the answer to this...but did she make them by herself? They are just her colors...gray, dilute orange, and white...lol

Here they are:

Awwwwwwwwwwwww isn't that just the cutest!!!! I don't know anything about new baby kittens but hopefully someone else will chime in to answer your questions.

 

[jbher]

Today I will practice self control! My local Mill is getting in their last batch of LF chicks for the season...EE's & Australorps. Everything in me wants to go get a few because it's MY LAST CHANCE, lol! I do not need them, and after this hatch & my goslings come in I won't have room for them. UGH! Must not buy chicks..........I even had DH leave me money so I could go buy the chicks. The desire is pure evil, I tell you!

I did day 10 candle on my Calls last night and started cooling/misting the eggs with the good air cells. One I was sure was a quitter, disintegrating cloudy veins. The baby inside was still moving around...so sad. I'm sure it's probably gone by now.

So, that puts me at 11 viable. On the upside, I added 5 of my girls eggs last night, which is probably a good thing. I'll get to learn from the first hatch, and 10 days later have a better handle on things for the second hatch.

Just tell yourself it's someone ELSE'S last chance to get some chicks LOL!! There may be someone out there that desperately needs to add to their flock haha.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

YAY first ever chick shipment!!!


SERAMA BABIES got to MA and are alive and WELL!!!! OMG OMG OMG baby steps taken! Now to put the big girl shorts on!!! ha ha ha!!

OMG this is HUGE FOR ME HUGE!!!! oh this makes me feel so much better today!!!

yayyyyy

 

[Gardeningmama]

YAY first ever chick shipment!!!


SERAMA BABIES got to MA and are alive and WELL!!!! OMG OMG OMG baby steps taken! Now to put the big girl shorts on!!! ha ha ha!!

OMG this is HUGE FOR ME HUGE!!!! oh this makes me feel so much better today!!!

yayyyyy

That is FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!

 

[mlm Mike]

So I have a family emergency and am flying to Colorado in the morning. I put 100 plus eggs into lock down this evening. Candled as I went they are all close to pipping internally already. Not sure how long I will be gone but will most likely miss the hatch. Leaving my kids to watch out for the chicks and also to turn the 388 eggs for Easter. Hopefully they do as they should. This will not be a good trip. Please pray for my family.

Prayers for your family.

Not even a full week into incubation yet, this feels like it is going to take forever! When did 3 weeks ever get so long?

Time has stopped here.

Since so many of you are posting candling pics, thought I'd share one of mine!

Nice photo.

YAY first ever chick shipment!!!


SERAMA BABIES got to MA and are alive and WELL!!!! OMG OMG OMG baby steps taken! Now to put the big girl shorts on!!! ha ha ha!!

OMG this is HUGE FOR ME HUGE!!!! oh this makes me feel so much better today!!!

yayyyyy

Congratulations!

 

[tommysgirl]

With apologies to Carly Simon:

Well I opened up the bator
Just to have a little look
I sure could use an ovascope
But a flashight was all it took
You had spider like formations
and an aircell that looked just right
And I was sitting there hoping
you'd be a pullet, you'd be a pullet and
You're so Vein
In 16 days out you'll pop
But now your so vein.....