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

[jinks12333]

The daily digest has been updated!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long/310#post_13175179

Thanks Ron!!! Once again you save my eyes!!

 

[jinks12333]

One of my ducks laid a MASSIVE egg today.

Too bad they didn't lay this earlier I would have loved to try hatching it.

You can still try... cant you????

 

[mlm Mike]

I hope it's not too late to count me in the hatch-a-long!!!! I set 7 eggs! 6 chicken(Jersey Giants) and 1 duck(magpie) egg!!!!! they are all showing veining!!!!!!! I set 3 eggs a half a day early because Jerseys take sometimes a day or two more to hatch. mine took just over half a day extra! so some for the early morning on sat and some probably for the evening!! sooooo excieted thoooo!!! hope I can be counted! I did set on the right days!! that's why only 1 duck egg is hatching on Saturday! lol

As long as you set the eggs on the right days (+/-2 days) they count in the guess how many eggs were set/guess how many will hatch contests.

 

[Happy Chooks]

She sent me pics of one of the frizzles!! I am so happy!! OMG they are alive!! God is good!! YAY!!!!

Now that is one cutie pie!

Alrighty, this is too funny not to share. Last night I was worrued my thermometer was wrong, so I decided to go out and get a wiggler. After hitting 5 stores, I couldn't find the tube kind and had to improvise.

The only jelly filled item we found was a chicken Best part? The only access to take temperature is through it's butt.

OMG, that is hilarious!

15 more eggs in lockdown!

Then I have a hatching break til Easter.

So, I am finally ready to post my count. I have a total of 31 eggs set.

24 were set 1:00 PM Central time today April 3rd.

10 of them are CCL eggs- Shipped ones
9 Bantam Chocolate Wyandotte's- Shipped ones.
5 Whole Foods Fertile Brown Eggs

7 were set in a separate incubator on April 1st at 7:00 PM.
6 of them are Whole Foods eggs
1 of them a shipped CCL

Here is a picture of my 24 egg tray




Also, does someone know if CCL and Chocolate Wyandotte chicks can be feather sexed?

Thanks!

Cream Legbars are autosexing, so you will know at hatch who are boys and who are girls. Wyandotte's are not auto sexing, so you have to wait on them.

I just cancelled mine. They were set Monday at 2 pm. All 10 have spiders!!!!

I also just found that the last bantam to hatch has 5 toes!!!!

You cancelled them?

Autocorrect got ya!

It is super cute in fact all 4 of the bantams are. One has feathers on all 4 toes.



Here are 3 of them in their brooder box. The front is Zeo the fully feathered one. Then the black looks just like one that was posted yesterday. It's middle toes are pink and then the yellow hatched from a green egg. It's clean legged.

They are tiny! Congrats!

I've never done a hatch-a-long, but I did set 14 backyard test eggs March 25 & another batch of 23 shipped eggs on April 1st. These projects are actually for my science students & our daughter's 4-H project. Since the hatch dates are close to Easter, I wouldn't mind joining & sharing my hatch rate. (Built my own incubator last month. So far so good.)

Welcome!

One of my ducks laid a MASSIVE egg today.

Too bad they didn't lay this earlier I would have loved to try hatching it.

Whoa! That's a big egg! I've never had a duck egg.

That is really neat! Did you make it?

I hope it's not too late to count me in the hatch-a-long!!!! I set 7 eggs! 6 chicken(Jersey Giants) and 1 duck(magpie) egg!!!!! they are all showing veining!!!!!!! I set 3 eggs a half a day early because Jerseys take sometimes a day or two more to hatch. mine took just over half a day extra! so some for the early morning on sat and some probably for the evening!! sooooo excieted thoooo!!! hope I can be counted! I did set on the right days!! that's why only 1 duck egg is hatching on Saturday! lol

Welcome! If you set on the correct days, then yes, your eggs will be counted!

 

[FarmGirl9494]

As long as you set the eggs on the right days (+/-2 days) they count in the guess how many eggs were set/guess how many will hatch contests.

Yes I did!! instead of the 29th I set some of the chicken eggs early morning on the 28th and some later that day so they hopefully all hatch by Saturday! they took half a day to hatch so I gave them a few extra hours in the bator extra just to make sure and also so they could get nice and fluffy for hopefully 12:00 on Saturday! and I set the duck egg on the 22! it was her first egg and I was curious to see if it was good! so the magpie egg was just a lucky coincidentally set egg but it should hatch on the 19th and wanted to add it too!!

Welcome! If you set on the correct days, then yes, your eggs will be counted!

Yayy! I did! thanks everyone! all my eggs have veins too! so 7 out of 7! woop wooop!!!

 

[Scrambles55]

Oh NO!!!! DH says that we will be out of town on Easter weekend. NOOOOO!!!!!

How can I enjoy fishing when chicks are hatching??

 

[FarmGirl9494]

Welcome! If you set on the correct days, then yes, your eggs will be counted!

Yayy I did! thanks everyone! all my eggs have veins too! so 7 out of 7! woop wooop!!!


Woops... double post! sorry still getting used to doing quoting! lol

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Today is day 7 here, and I candled! I set 4 of my own OE, and they're too dark to see anything. I set 14 other shipped eggs of various breeds. Of those, I saw 2 potential blood rings and 6 more that did not appear to be developing. I left all the eggs in to be safe, and I'll check again in a few days.

Kind of disappointing. I'm probably down to 10 eggs, although that's just how it goes with shipped eggs. I've had better luck, but I've also had worse.

 

[Sclark73]

I'm not sure if I shared this here but forgive if I already did. My daughter made me this sheet to keep track of my many staggered hatches. It comes in handy as today I found out I have a total of 9 hatches going on..gah. Hope it helps. It's in Word format but I don't know a place I can upload it for all to just share it thru a link. If anyone knows please share.

Hatching Record
Breed/Pen:______________________ Cock:________________________
Date Set:________________________ Time Set:_____________________
Date Candled:____________________ Results:______________________
Date Candled:____________________ Results:______________________
Hatch Should Start On:_____________
Hatch Started On:_________________ Time:___________________ AM/PM
Hatch Ended On:__________________ Time:___________________ AM/PM
Band Code:__________________________________________________________________​

RESULTS:

1. Number of Eggs Set___________ G. Culled, Too Weak_____________
2. Not Fertile__________________ H. Culled, Deformed_____________
3. Died 1st Week_______________ I. Other_______________________
4. Died 2nd Week_______________ J. Total lost ( add lines B-I)__________
5. Full-Term, Failed to Pip________ K. Total hatch (line A minus J)_______
6. Pipped, Failed to Hatch________ L. Percent of Fertile Hatched

(line K divided by [line A minus B])_______%
NOTES:_______________________________________________________________________

CHICK RECORD
Number

Sire

Dam

Hatch Date

Sex

Color

Notes



























































































































































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[FarmGirl9494]

One of my ducks laid a MASSIVE egg today.

Too bad they didn't lay this earlier I would have loved to try hatching it.

WOAHH!! what kind of duck??? and Ouchhh!!! poor girl, that's like twice the size of normal! Maybe it's a double yolker??!!