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

[Arielle]

One pale yellow chick out--- early!!! Waiting for other two . . . .

 

[MightyDucksVT]

Alright, reporting in on my final hatch results.......................drum roll please................................

Six baby Ancona Ducklings and one Rouen!

100% Success!!!

Seven outta seven! And here I was hoping for 50%. lol.

Picture are definitely coming soon but I thought I would post my results first.​

 

[JDchicks]

Mine started pipping Thursday. And I have a pipped one I am watching now. 4 days of hatching. Never give up too early.

 

[MightyDucksVT]

Sorry the eggs have not pipped-- might be early yet. A slightly low temp will increase the time to hatch.

I have an LG-- everyone said it was crappy-- it was really about how to work with it and find what works. I hope you will take this as a challenge and set some more eggs, perhaps just from your own flock ( not shipped) and perfect your budding skills.

Before you fill it full of shot-- sent it my way!! DH will have a fit-- but I promised not more setting eggs after May 1st-- he forgot tosay no more incubators before May 1st though! lol

Where are you located? I could take your incubators off your hands.
Also, did you candle? What day are you on? If this is day 21 I would wait another couple of days before giving up!

Okay, haha.
Save the bator! I am glad it wasn't the only one thinking that.

 

[Scrambles55]

Sally, that was amazing. You are something else. How fun was that?

It was a fun game!! Sally ROCKS!!!

 

[jbher]

Ok I think it will be okay. It dried enough that when I took it out it was basically a string. I pinched it until it separated. I used a warm qtip to gently get the poo washed off. I just put plain Neosporin on the little bump left. And j returned to the bator to see that my BBS English orp is hatching! I thought it was a goner!!! It had pipped yesterday but the pip looked weird and nothing happened then the whole day or night. Now it's zipping!! Yay!!!!!

Thank you all so so much!!! Once I can breathe for a moment I will get on to catch up and report my hatch results

 

[Scrambles55]

Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!!!

My broody accepted the chicks!!! For anyone not following, the chicks are 6 days old and I wasn't sure she would take them. Here's the story if you feel like reading on...

I waited until 10:30pm, gathered up the chicks in a box, and took them out. They were quiet at first, but then when I opened the box, they got real loud. So mama hen wakes up and freaks out. But not like an "intruders" freak out, it was like "oh no my babies are out." She clucked at them softly but urgently as I shoved one after another under her. A few popped back out and she clucked at them. One she pecked a bit - not meanly, just mama-like. They were still all making a lot of noise, and she continued to cluck at them until all noises stopped. Then... then...this moment...

one of the chicks came out from the side and she started clucking at it. But the chick went to her front and wandered about like it was lost, peeping away. She clucked more urgently.

...and the chick crawled under her chest.

And I was like...

(quietly of course)

So, yeah. I'll get up before dawn to see how they do when they all wake up. But right now I couldn't be more pleased.

I am so happy for you and your chicks!! On Monday night I plan on trying the same thing. I am going to put 2 Red Star chicks under her. You give me hope!! Keep me posted please!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

[COLOR=800080]I almost threw out the rest of my Call eggs. Left 4 in, had no hope, but do believe in miracles. I just picked one up and saw movement in the aircell that I mistook for an internal pip. I put a small hole in that end because NO WAY was I going to lose a pipped baby to suffocation. It pipped the aircell right in front of my eyes(that was the movement I was seeing). I would never recommend doing what I did but mine are dire circumstances as I lose them one by one. GOD IS GOOD!! Now I pray! I can't tell you the feeling I have right now![/COLOR]

Yay! Good luck!

Oooo, this could be a splash. I want a splash out in back. I am beginning to think the Marans splash might be my choice of splash out there..or..the cochin..love the cochins. Wish I could be sure that I could get a splash out of a cochin. They are really pretty. I am seeing a nice amount of feathering on your baby here..going to look very nice!

Splash comes from a blue to blue mating or a blue to splash mating. Breed doesn't matter. I have a splash olive egger.

Well, it had been 24 hours and the membranes were looking awful. I decided to intervene. When I looked at the first pip, it appears dead, no visible movement or breathing. I made it's pip hole slightly more air permeable and put it back in there, just in cast, but the beak isn't moving. The second pipper I assisted and s/he is running around the incubator chirping up a storm and playing football. There is a third pip, which I rotated so that it is facing up off the floor a bit. It's still wiggling. I didn't mess with it as I think it happened today and it did not seem distressed. Did I do wrong? Second pip was not making any progress and the membrane was very leathery. Here's hoping the assisted chick and the third pip make it. It would be really cool if I were wrong about the first pip.

A chick that can hatch on its own has a white membrane. Once the membrane turns brown, or clear looking, the chick will not be able to hatch without assistance. I'm sorry the chick didn't make it.

I have two zipping...e

Oh, that is way too adorable!

[COLOR=FF0000]HOW'S EVERYONES' HATCHING GOING? [/COLOR]

Sadly none of my hal babies hatched however i have seven bym in the incubator showing development, and three duck eggs under a broody with veining so perfect i could cry.

I'm sorry you didn't have a good hatch.

So pleased with my first hatch ever! 5/7 Marans out, 1 with no action yet in the bator. 5/9 BLRW out, another pipped and a last one with no action yet. This has been so much fun, thank you!

Yay, so glad your first ever hatch went so well!

White Rocks

Only 2 precious babies Fred? Better than none I guess.

This has been a wonderful experience for both my girls even with such a great age difference 5 & 15 years old We may make this an Easter Tradition to hatch a few chicks, along with their other celebratory fun

Sounds like an excellent idea!

So how does the total count work? Only what has hatched by the end of today? I have 24 hatched and many pipped, others alive but only internals. Or do I wait until they are done hatching? I didn't do so well with a start of 83, had many problems with bad eggs, infertile eggs and just quitters.

When your hatch is done, give us your total.

 

[Scrambles55]

This chick is driving me insane! She seems to be re-absorbing the yolk sack, when she will stay still, but she keeps crawling all over the other eggs, dragging it behind her. She look like she was going to poop, and I grab a paper towel and open the incubator to prevent her from pooping on it, and she bolts for the edge of the table. I barely prevent another fall. Everything I come up with that would fit in the incubator to contain her she escapes, tips over and then runs to sprawl across the eggs, dragging the yolk sack, getting her head on top of the water reservoir so that I can't reclose the incubator.

I am so frustrated! Poor thing.

WHOOPS... can you put her in a cup?

 

[Hayduke27]

My 2nd chick came out at 5am this morning. It has a little bit of sac still attached that I will probably detach. However, there is also a little red bump near where I think her vent is. I can't tell if this is a prolapse. Should I do something about this, or will it go away on its own?