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

[mlm Mike]

Congrats to all the official winners, We won too, we have a restarting flock.
+1 older chick from my daughters hatching at school, (May just become a pet...IDK)
Already a LapHawg...LoL

Happy Easter all 260,000+ of you

The "pets" lay eggs too! I'm glad you have a restarted flock, but there are still contests to enter, see OP.

 

[jbher]

Happy Easter!!!

I have one chick connected to the membrane via the cord. It hadn't fully absorbed the yolk last night and it had a little bulge. I wrapped it with it's shell and put it in a cup overnight. This morning it's out and alone in the bator. The cord is drying but the membrane part is still mushy and I'm very worried it's going to pull off and bleed because it tries to walk and gets caught up on it. How can I safely detach or cut it? I tried to search and can't find much. My computer fried this weekend so I'm stuck with looking on my phone. Help please! :-(

 

[chicken pickin]

HATCH COMPLETE FOR ME

started with 32 eggs
18 eggs were to go into lockdown, last min I pulled on that that was showing too much light in the egg.

So 17 eggs went into lockdown
and ALL 17 eggs hatched!!!

6 Black Copper Marans and
11 Sexlinks

 

[Egghead_Jr]

For those that had many pips at wrong end of egg:

Did you manually turn or was this happening with auto turners too?

My hatch was bad this year and I had many malpositioned chicks. I've manually turned for years now but after this am seriously considering getting a turner and was looking for info from those that had same thing happening.

Reading through during hatch it seemed there was many at wrong end. Who knows, maybe something to do with the blood moon for all I know.

 

[Chickenwingo]

My Easter chicks are starting to hatch they are peeping and broke there air hole, soon as they come out I will post pictures.....

 

[luvmypets]

Happy Easter!

 

[mlm Mike]

HATCH COMPLETE FOR ME

started with 32 eggs
18 eggs were to go into lockdown, last min I pulled on that that was showing too much light in the egg.

So 17 eggs went into lockdown
and ALL 17 eggs hatched!!!

6 Black Copper Marans and
11 Sexlinks

Great, Congratulations!
Thank You for posting your results.

 

[JackieandChicks]

Thank you Sally Sunshine and BYC - I had to assist my marans - she pipped early yesterday morning, then could not get the shell away. I reached in a got off the little piece after 8 hours. She started zipping after that but 12 hours or so later only made 1/4 headway. Last night 9ish I zipped the shell for her because her foot was sticking out of the hole! You can see how she was in the first photo. An hour later she could not push out (my theory is that she could not use that foot/leg to push) so I got the rest of the shell off and some membrane. (Second and third photos). At that point I remembered to take pictures! After another hour of pushing she could not get out and she was getting sticky, so I cracked some more shell, put her back in the incubator, and she pushed herself the rest of the way out. (No photo of that, it happened quickly after I put her back in the incubator). I still had to remove the glued-on sticky membrane. I let her rest overnight in the incubator, and this morning was happy to see she is still alive! I think I'll have to wash her but I really wanted to let her recover her strength - she really fought hard to get out and I'm glad I had those articles to read from this group when to help her but not too much help!

 

[PAchickenlover]

Happy Easter!!!

I have one chick connected to the membrane via the cord. It hadn't fully absorbed the yolk last night and it had a little bulge. I wrapped it with it's shell and put it in a cup overnight. This morning it's out and alone in the bator. The cord is drying but the membrane part is still mushy and I'm very worried it's going to pull off and bleed because it tries to walk and gets caught up on it. How can I safely detach or cut it? I tried to search and can't find much. My computer fried this weekend so I'm stuck with looking on my phone. Help please! :-(

I just use scissors and cut it off. Better to cut it off than have it get pulled and bleed. cute chick!

 

[luvmypets]

HATCH COMPLETE FOR ME


started with 32 eggs
18 eggs were to go into lockdown, last min I pulled on that that was showing too much light in the egg.

So 17 eggs went into lockdown
and ALL 17 eggs hatched!!!

6 Black Copper Marans and
11 Sexlinks

good for you