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

[ronott1]

x2 I agree. 24 hours after set. A baby isn't a day old until it's 24 hours.

Yes, but is a baby 0 days old? The baby is some portion of a day old.

Another way to look at it is birthday. If the first day did not count, then each year you would subtract a day from your birth day. I was born on Jan 8th and that is always my birthday. It will not be January 7th next year.

If you set eggs at 8pm on Thursday, then 21 days will be on Thursday at 8pm three weeks later.

Well there we have it. incubation time is seen differently which does not surprise me--since we had a big internet sensation about colors on a dress recently.

Regardless of when you calculate it, candle on day 7. That is when you want to check air cell development. You really will not see much until day 5 and only with thin shelled white eggs.

 

[NotAFarm]

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Add one more BCM for a total of 17

These girls haven't laid in months and now 2 in 2 days! I guess they liked their "egg inducing" special treats yesterday!

Very nice!! ......set all the eggs!! ....you still have room!!

 

[CowboysAngel]

Okay! Its official then 7 banty eggs!

The 4 marked with a D are from Dixie my blue frizzle, and 3 marked C are from my Calli my Calico the roo is also Calico! (Dixies husband looks like a Rhode island in miniature...His name is Romeo the Red) (Calli's is Valentine )
The roos were my Valentine gift this year, my hubby knows better than to give me dying flowers... Gifts are chocolate and something living...or ready to grow (seeds, bulbs) or nothing at all!

So excited!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Wow, I skip a day of being on here and I miss 15 PAGES of posts! I'm not even going to attempt to get caught up! I originally set 20 eggs yesterday but today, my Marans/brahma pullet laid her first egg so of course I had to set it along with another egg from my OEGB.
totals:
10-BCM/wheaten marans
5- OEGBs
6-marans/brahma cross
1-from my 3/4 Marans 1/4 brahma pullet

22 eggs total

OEGB on left, Lucky ' s egg in the middle, her mother's egg on the right (marans/brahma cross)

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Yes, but is a baby 0 days old? The baby is some portion of a day old.

Another way to look at it is birthday. If the first day did not count, then each year you would subtract a day from your birth day. I was born on Jan 8th and that is always my birthday. It will not be January 7th next year.

If you set eggs at 8pm on Thursday, then 21 days will be on Thursday at 8pm three weeks later.

Well there we have it. incubation time is seen differently which does not surprise me--since we had a big internet sensation about colors on a dress recently.

Regardless of when you calculate it, candle on day 7. That is when you want to check air cell development. You really will not see much until day 5 and only with thin shelled white eggs.

Yes, it's 0 days old until it hits 24 and then it would be a day old. 12 hours after a baby is born he/she is 12 hours old.
As for birthdays... a birthday is just that...the day you were born, so regardless of any calculations your birthday would never change (unless you are a leap year baby...that's another debate...lol) A birthday happens one year to the date because at that exact time you've been born one year....when you are born you are at zero hours -one year later you are at 1 year and zero hours. 24 hours after your birthday you are at one year and 24 hours.
When you have supper and do not finish all the left overs, the leftovers aren't a day old 12 hours later....they are 12 hours old....lol

It's an issue you can debate indefinitely because of viewpoint and translation of time. Tamato..tomoto .

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Yes, but is a baby 0 days old? The baby is some portion of a day old.

Another way to look at it is birthday. If the first day did not count, then each year you would subtract a day from your birth day. I was born on Jan 8th and that is always my birthday. It will not be January 7th next year.

If you set eggs at 8pm on Thursday, then 21 days will be on Thursday at 8pm three weeks later.

Well there we have it. incubation time is seen differently which does not surprise me--since we had a big internet sensation about colors on a dress recently.

Regardless of when you calculate it, candle on day 7. That is when you want to check air cell development. You really will not see much until day 5 and only with thin shelled white eggs.

And the dress was gold and white...I don't care what anyone says!!! lol

 

[coop410silkies]

On candling, I know it's weird, but I only candle on about day 18 and toss the ones I know will not hatch.  I have had good results doing it this way, but understand the desire to know how many are developing before then.  I only need to make room in the hatcher for the chicks to roll around once they are out.  If I can't tell for sure that there is a wiggling chick in there, I leave it as long as it passes the sniff test.

Me, too. Am using the time I save to design a better brooder - and of course a new hatcher.

 

[KYTinpusher]

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Add one more BCM for a total of 17

These girls haven't laid in months and now 2 in 2 days! I guess they liked their "egg inducing" special treats yesterday!

Very nice!! ......set all the eggs!! ....you still have room!!
Oh, you instigator!

The BCM laid again today!!! Actually, 2 of them did, but 1 was thin-shelled and they ate it.

I'll wait a couple of days to set today's and the next couple days eggs so they don't all have to go into the hatcher at once.

 

[draye]

We set 16 dozen Saturday the 14th, hope it's not too late for the HAL!

You're 80 ahead of me. I set a total of 112 over a two day period. The majority of mine were shipped eggs and I've never had great luck hatching shipped eggs. Since I wasn't getting many eggs if my own I didn't have much choice. I'm only expecting about s third if them to hatch.

 

[gevshiba]

Wal-Mart Ozark Trail OT-250

Thank you, I found it.