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

[RobinB84]

I am late to the party, but brand new to hatching (so I can sure learn from this thread!) Set my 1st babies on the 13th (after revoking my husbands incubator rights lol) Good luck everybody!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I am up to 83 chicks they were all due tomorrow and they are popping out so fast I am having a hard time keeping up also struggling with humidity issues my humidity is very high.

Wow, great that you have so many hatching! Hope you get the humidity taken care of.

This is only my second hatch. Notice tht alot mark aircell bfor lockdown. Is it really important? I mean after a couple hatch out and roll all the others around its not gonna do any good to mark em, right? Shouldn't the chick position itself to hatch? I jus lockd down and hope someone can answer these questions for me. Thanks!!

I have never marked my eggs, except for marking them with a sharpie for under a broody. I'm a low maintenance hatcher.

Oh my goodness we have hope for one of the eggs in the singing incubator from hell! The egg was rocking! I really have little hope for all of them as a whole but this moving egg now has me really believing it might actually hatch. I have been trying to prep the kids for the sad reality of the situation but now I might have to prep myself if that one egg doesn't hatch!

 

[Scrambles55]

I am late to the party, but brand new to hatching (so I can sure learn from this thread!) Set my 1st babies on the 13th (after revoking my husbands incubator rights lol) Good luck everybody!!!

 

[angelobutter]

Second turkey is hatched! a little darker than the first one




and some of the chocolate old english are hatched, and some of the araucanas are pipped, so it looks like my hatch has officially begun.

 

[silly4buttons]

I have4 silkie/easter egger mix in lock down

 

[Happy Chooks]

Second turkey is hatched! a little darker than the first one




and some of the chocolate old english are hatched, and some of the araucanas are pipped, so it looks like my hatch has officially begun.

Cutie! Mine has begun too. I have 5 pips.

I have4 silkie/easter egger mix in lock down

 

[Book]

Soo...I stole this from my husband...



...so I could do this...



...without opening the bator! I just stick the mini snake light through the vent hole and voila! I can candle eggs ...and I have an internal pip!!!

On a separate note, Gilly the guinea keet is still with me! She's snoozin' a whole bunch, like right now...she fell asleep in her food dish!!

YOUR BRILLIANT!

 

[Cynthia12]

I have an early bird! I KNEW I heard cheeping while I was tracing air sacks for lock-down! This one was in a real hurry. Not a pip in sight otherwise. I expect a few more early birds tomorrow and hoping for a bunch Friday. What a surprise!

I kind of like it when that happens, don't you? I am on day 19, kept taking peeks to see if by chance I had an early pip, but not yet. Looking forward to pips tomorrow.

 

[ajohnso1]

I used sand las

I was told the opposite... to never use newspaper because it is too slippery and they can develop leg issues (splay leg etc).... Currently I use pine shavings was just considering using sand. I scoop the sand in my large coop and run with a kitty litter scooper attached to a broom stick. (hillbilly like... but it works quite well amazingly) Anyways for them to figure out the food issue i put a paver brick appx 8"wide and 14" long about 2" tall in one side of the brooder and put the shavings up to it the first week. after the first week I put the paver on top of the bedding so they have to step up to eat/drink etc to minimize the mess.
Has anyone used Sand in their brooder?? Just curious? I dont want to switch and have issues.....

ps... Night all!

I used sand last year and pine shavings this year. I think I prefer shavings. The sand seemed to get really stinky even though I scooped it out. The shavings get stinky and I just pour them out and put fresh in. A bag of shavings lasts much longer than a bag of sand IMO

 

[Cynthia12]

This is so cool!