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

[orpington13]

I wish to enter

 

[roostersandhens]

Since everyone's adorable little chicks are hatching, if anyone wants to enter their fluffy friends in my chick contest please do: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857817/2014-new-chicks-contest-ends-6-13-2014 There is no prize, other than the satisfaction of knowing how awesome your chicks are! Ducklings are allowed too, but if not enough ducklings are entered, then I may not judge the ducklings. But hopefully enough will be entered.

 

[Troll]

15 chicks this morning! 14 to go!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

6 hatched total.

 

[HarrietB]

SEE ABOVE POST, if that is the same chick!
GET IT OUT! it will have foot and neck issues if it dont already!
IF ITS ZIPPING as in a long line around the egg and doesnt come out in 1 to 1.5 hours IT NEEDS ASSISTANCE! THEY DONT ZIP unless they are ready. ZIP IS opening a zipper, just like that... yours is WAY WAY ZIPPED!

thank you so much!!! It was only when i helped the little fella out I realised what a mess he had got into! How he had done it baffles me but he had managed to zip 90% of the way round then managed to get totally stuck! his head and feet were all in the wrong position and he came out bottom first!! he is certainly a VERY noisy chick now he is out, he must be as relieved as i am!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I pray its ok! the orthopedic stuff is at the bottom of the hatching 101 article, I have to get back outside my kids are playing was worried for this one! ALWAYS when they zip and stop for that long they need assistance they got lost in the shell, rarely this happens but glad you got her out!

 

[LBKS]

Chicks just started hatching overnight, so running a bit behind overall. Three out this morning!

 

[sillycmoy]

OFFICIAL TOTAL. 29 out of 43. The others as of this morning on day 23 hasn't hatched, and they don't look alive either. So we are officially at 29.

8-Blue/Wheaten Ameraucana
11-Olive Eggers
5-Ameraucana
3-Brown Leghorns
2-Welsummers

 

[MaryRose213]

Ok so out of my 14 eggs set, 3 were found to be unfertilized leaving 11 eggs awaiting hatch. I checked the last remain eggs this morning to confirm that they did not make it leaving a total of 6 hatched chicks. This set was far better than last time with a hatch rate of 54% instead of 31%.

Total 6 chicks

 

[cwhittington]

We set 41 eggs and 25 hatched.