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

[ddhyland]

I had the bi lateral CTS surgery done about 6 years ago and it was the best thing ever! I work with my hands and they would constantly go numb. Now.. no numbness.

Yep. Unfortunately I am a big fat baby about surgery - I think it is a byproduct of doing medical transcription for 20+ years.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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The hen that lays the big baby blue egg is a black copper ameraucana that my daughter named Athena. The slightly smaller light blue egg comes from a tan EE hen with lavender lacing in her feathers. The small chocolates are from the FBCM & the huge chocolates are from the cuckoo marans cross who appears to be blue barred with chocolate leakage. The other blue/green/olives are from numerous EE & OE in a rainbow of colors. The very light cream is from the light brahma & will likely have feathered legs. The medium browns with a pinkish cast are from 3 colors of wyandottes & the smallest medium brown eggs that are football shaped come from the buff orp. Roos are a huge leghorn/ameraucana mix (super blue egger), the blue barred OE & a cream legbar who is also throwing barred babies in shades of chocolate. Trust me, if a rainbow of eggs & feathers is what you wanted, you won't be disappointed. My LH/AM roo is dominant, so I have been getting a lot of predominantly white babies with spots of the momma's coloring. The white roos have been really fast growers & will make nice dual purpose birds for the extra roos.

Oh, and I forgot the black sumatra who lays the white eggs & the white rock who lays the odd ball brown eggs...LOL

 

[chikenscratch]

one of 10 hatched, a few others pipped

 

[onlygirloutof6]

When do we need to give total for Hal? 4 total count! Still hatching!

 

[ajohnso1]

Final tally for my hatch. 36 out of 55 hatched.
Out of the others that I left in until today 8/10 developed into chicks but for some reason never pipped and died in the shell.

36/55= 65% not the best

 

[michaelf]

I had 2 hatch out of 6:/

 

[Scrambles55]

Day four of hatching...another is out and the 36 hour pipped egg is finally zipping.

 

[czoellner]

This is by far my worst hatch ever! Started with 24 eggs. Ended up with 11 good ones at lock down. They all looked great. Now I've got 3 hatched but 1 is still absorbing its yolksac. Been like that for about 6 hours now. He/she is laying on a damp towel in the bat or. Peeps at me when it sees me. 1 other chick is 1/2 way out of its egg but still tightly scrunched up. Doesn't seem like it wants to try anymore. I have 1 other pip about 2 hours ago but nothing else. So far that's only 2 in the brooder and 3 in the bator working on surviving. That leaves 6 of nothings... so sad. We had all kinds we had all kinds of issues trying to get this bator working properly seems like first it would be too hot then it would be too cold humidity was never a problem one day we lost electricity for 12 to 13 hours
I have no idea how long has it been like that so all my pips started a day late now I don't know if any of the other ones are going to make it . good luck to everyone out there still fussing over their hatch. I have to go to work tomorrow so will just have to worry all day!

 

[Scrambles55]

Yep. Unfortunately I am a big fat baby about surgery - I think it is a byproduct of doing medical transcription for 20+ years.

It was an easy surgery. Plus I got 3 weeks off work for each one. But I was a bit of a cripple for a while. Try doing everything one handed.

 

[Scrambles55]

I will give my final tally tomorrow. There is an egg left, but Rumples is ignoring it. In fact... she moved her chicks one nest over. That gave me the opportunity to clean her first nest real good and slip the egg under her. She kicked it to the corner. She wants chicks now. My first hatch and her first hatch. We did good!!