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

[Cynthia12]

@ladyrsanti who in the world laid that huge huge egg?

 

[suebgbr]

I set 96 eggs xx

 

[ladyrsanti]

@ladyrsanti who in the world laid that huge huge egg?

That's one of the buff orpingtons, not my hen but from a local breeder. But I feel for her, I really do.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

Lol. I'd love to bring them all home, but we have 175 in the store! She got 50 Black Stars, 50 Red Stars, 50 Barred Rock, and 25 Ameracauna. I told her she needed to stop, because it was too tempting, lol. She's gettin bantam silkies in next month. I got an e-mail from one of the 4-H judges that he had some bantam Cochins from a show breeder too. Don't these people realize I have an addiction and can't be tempted like this???? Lol

Those are all good breeds to have, but silkies and cochins too. Oh man! That is rough. Not sure I would be strong enough to turn them down. LOL

 

[wornoutmomto3]

That's one of the buff orpingtons, not my hen but from a local breeder. But I feel for her, I really do.

Are you sure it isn't a double yoke? It is huge!

 

[suebgbr]

I set 96 eggs xx

Sorry, make that 139. I went to put my coat in the cupboard and found a load more!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

That's so funny! I just saw this the other day and thought about posting it!! lol

 

[cree57i]

I had set the humidity at 70% on the incubator to test it but when I tried to put the pump on a higher level, it dumped all the water in the bator and humidity went up to 85%. At that point I had decided to let it run overnight. In the morning humidity was still around 80% and time to set the eggs was approaching so I thought will its no longer possible to test it for high humidity at this point. We will deal with it at lockdown. So I blotted some water that had collected in the channels and left the incubator open for an hr & set the humidity at 40%. Actual humidity at that point had gone down to 53%.

That's when I set the eggs, after setting the eggs, it went up by a little bit (56%) but since then it has been slowly going down. After 42 hrs, it is down to 47%. I know its still high but I don't think it matters that much at this point. At this rate it should be down to 40 in a day and a half. I will report how the pump works at that point. I will lower humidity down to 35% whether or not pump is working.

Thanks for the update!

 

[Amyloumomof2]

Those are all good breeds to have, but silkies and cochins too. Oh man! That is rough. Not sure I would be strong enough to turn them down. LOL

I'm probably not turning down the cochins, but I read they are easily picked on and I only have standard size chickens. So I don't know. We need a show quality chicken, though. Maybe some of the maran eggs we have in the bator will give us something good!

 

[coop410silkies]

I just read this for a second time, and I realized that I hadn't posted the total numbers for each kind of egg I set, just the total of all, as though you were going to remember or check back, to see what the grand total of each might be.

. What was I thinking? So here are my final numbers for each: 5 Silkies, 57 Light Sussex, 4 Speckled Sussex, and 4 SS x RIR ? mixes ==== 70, grand total. THANK YOU for all your hard work.