The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[nate1the1great1]

Wow Ron beautiful eggs I have some pretty ones but I sure do love those chocolate eggs and. Have a maran egg and a sex link egg the link from mine and the maran from a freind and also my parents were liek so did you candle your Duck eggs and im like yep and 7 are fertile out of the 27 that i hatched so that's pretty good and I also set them on the exact day for duck so last Saturday at 9:45

I'll tell you how many chicken i set onSATURDAY

 

[SimplyLogan]

total 96 eggs set

 

[Kattal00A]

I set 85 eggs today.

78 of those are EEs, OEs, SBELs, BCMs, and Wheaten Ameraucanas in our 'bator and 7 more EEs under a broody hen. My girl went broody unexpectedly this past weekend so she got to join in the hatch-a-long. This is her first time, but her mom has gone broody before, too. I can't wait for the little fuzzybutts to get here!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

[VIDEO]

Not the best video ever but just think, in about 3 weeks, we'll all be watching this

 

[venymae]

My father just sent me a link to a Mother Earth News article that said "rounded oval shaped eggs hatch pullets, where as pointy eggs are cockerels". Sounded odd to me. What do you guys think? Fact or Fiction?
Here's the link

http://www.motherearthnews.com/home...uying-fertilized-chicken-eggs-zmaz74zhol.aspx

 

[ronott1]

Wow Ron beautiful eggs I have some pretty ones but I sure do love those chocolate eggs and. Have a maran egg and a sex link egg the link from mine and the maran from a freind and also my parents were liek so did you candle your Duck eggs and im like yep and 7 are fertile out of the 27 that i hatched so that's pretty good and I also set them on the exact day for duck so last Saturday at 9:45

I'll tell you how many chicken i set onSATURDAY

Those are my Partridge Penedesenca, Arkansas blues, Crele Penedesenca x Cream legbar(OEs) and Pita Pinta eggs.

They really do lay great colored eggs.

Tomorrow I will be setting different eggs and will get a picture of them then. I hatched These eggs last Summer.

Some that hatched from those eggs laid these two this year:

 

[emmyeagle]

Ooooo almost time!! I can't wait to add the chickens in with my ducks.

 

[acemario]

My father just sent me a link to a Mother Earth News article that said "rounded oval shaped eggs hatch pullets, where as pointy eggs are cockerels".  Sounded odd to me.  What do you guys think? Fact or Fiction?
Here's the link

http://www.motherearthnews.com/home...uying-fertilized-chicken-eggs-zmaz74zhol.aspx

I vote FICTION. With my hens, egg shape depends on breed and particular hen. I didn't read the article, but I have seen no correlation between shape and sex.

 

[hockeydad6791]

Just flipped thru a few pages but I have my new FI 4200 and my LG still air side by side and the FI is holding and the LG is no where as stable. LG 3 to 4 degrees dif and FI maybe 1

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

haha that's great!
I should weigh my eggs and number them...good idea!
what log sheet do you use?

I use a cheap ledger that I picked up at WalMart. I can number everyone, what they are, where they came from, their weights, set dates, candle dates, lockdown date and hatch date. I pulled the ledger sheets out of the cover they were in and put them in a binder. They weren't staying together, and I had a page fall out. That way I could add extra pieces of loose leaf paper for additional information on each batch I set
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This is a group ready to be set. All the eggs here were numbered and weighed, then recorded into the log. Since they are just starting there is only a single column of weights.

I made a little cover for my binder... Probably because I didn't have anything better to do at the time, and if I knew t meant replacing the ink in the printer to print a single page I totally wouldn't have done it...

The first page is now filled out and awaiting the next schedule candle and weigh day! (and of course now there are even more eggs recorded than just what is on that one page...)The ledger pages won't randomly fall out now! I bested their low budget binding!

I have too many eggs on too many different schedules not to keep records - some weeks I literally am weighing and candling a different batch every other day. I know who gets checked when, and after the hatch, I can see what percentage were infertile, quitters, etc - especially important for my breeding population so I can identify problems!
I think the whole thing cost me under $5.