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

[KYTinpusher]

Everybody: What are you using to incubate?
Are you happy with it?
I hate my incubator. Im sick of killing eggs in it. I will be buying a new 1 in May.

I have 2 Brinsea Octo 20 Advance EX's. Love them. For what I spent on those, I could have gotten a cabinet, but I would be in SOOOO much trouble if I had that much capacity!

 

[Amyloumomof2]

Polish often walk around like they are drunk--the crest feathers will block their vision.

This chick falls over and is super clumsy. It was getting trampled by the other 74 chicks in the brooder with it. I'm a sucker so now it's at my house with one other chick to see what happens. Thought my husband would freak, but he seemed like it was normal behavior.

 

[minihorse927]

I have 2 Brinsea Octo 20 Advance EX's. Love them. For what I spent on those, I could have gotten a cabinet, but I would be in SOOOO much trouble if I had that much capacity!

come to the dark side.... buy GQF!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Everybody: What are you using to incubate?
Are you happy with it?
I hate my incubator. Im sick of killing eggs in it. I will be buying a new 1 in May.

I have the hova bator 2362-E . LOVE IT!

I also have a little giant 9200. Temps flucuate way too much. It works good as a hatcher though.

 

[minihorse927]

I love my sportsman, just checked a couple eggs and I can see developement in them already! No more babysitting incubators. I just walk upstairs and watch the digital screen once go through everything and done!

 

[SoManyHats]

Everybody: What are you using to incubate?
Are you happy with it?
I hate my incubator. Im sick of killing eggs in it. I will be buying a new 1 in May.

I just got a Brinsea 20 Advance (no humidity pump). I did a test hatch incubating in that and transferring to a homemade cooler bator for hatching. Got an 83% hatch rate. That's the same as I typically get in my cooler bator with local eggs (shipped are always another story!), but the Brinsea is definitely lower maintenance.

 

[jessicaagross]

14 Wheaton blue Wheaton Americanas

UGH! LUCKY! I didn't end up getting my breeding pens set up, so I'm just hatching luck-of-the-draw barn yards. I've got wheatens I want chicks of though. Next round will be ameraucanas!!!!

 

[Dustystrail]

Okay, the PO managed to get my Seramas here today. However, they also managed to break 3 of them all over the rest of them and shake all but one of the air cells loose. Now I need to make a decision if I want to leave them sit on the counter a few more hours and go ahead and set them tonight in a cartoon for the Hal or do I want to wait another day or two before I set them?
I have almost 4 hours to think about it...

 

[Amyloumomof2]

We just quickly checked the eggs that are light enough to check. All we could see was yolk sacs. Is it just too early or should I be bringing more chicks home from the store, lol.

 

[campingshaws]

All you candlers are getting me worked up. Just Day 3 for me but I'm getting so antsy! I'm curious if my top layer of eggs are being cooked or not.