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

[Aprildeesunshin]

Hello, My Chickening Friends,

I have a weird question. Ok...so, I took a look at my eggs 2 days ago and all were bouncing babies. Tonight I looked again because I had a problem with my bator earlier this morning. My incubator dropped temperature and I had it alll they way up to keep it at 90 degrees. Dunno how long it was that way. However I was able to resolve the situation by plugging in a space heater to warm things up more around it....although it wasn't really that cold. Anyway I was concerned about my bouncing babies quite a bit and wanted to check them. I have one that has clearly formed a blood ring but the baby is still bouncing. I have others that are still have veins but around the middle it looks like blood rings are forming...it looks like they have spikes and will be settling soon , but the babies are very much alive. Do they make it through this or are they headed out ( they just haven't died yet)? I am really hoping someone tells me what I am seeing can be normal and the chicks live.

 

[ronott1]

I need to order a new replacement battery or 2 for my Brinsea spot check. I must have left it on for too long of an extended time by accident and it died

I was going to order through Brinsea but shipping is $10

anyone have any other suggestions? Can the batteries be bought in regular stores?

Yes, I bought them from target.

 

[chicken pickin]

Yes, I bought them from target.

Thank You!

 

[jessicaagross]

Candled all 46 of my eggs on Friday, day 7. I had 6 none fertile ones, and 3 iffy ones. Other than that a bunch of embryos bouncing around in their eggs!! So that's 37 for sure growing at this point! Hopefully all 40 are growing!

Does anyone know what causes eggs to just stop growing halfway through? Bad conditions? Or are they just not very strong? T minus 12 days until hatch-off!!!!!!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I was almost hospitalized for my first trimester with my daughter. I spent the entire second month in bed on my back and lost 30 pounds! I couldn't work for most of the pregnancy.

While I was pregnant with my son I worked cleaning 20+ horse stalls a day all the way up until I was 6 months a long. I went into the hospital a week overdue to be induced weighing 10 pounds less then I did before I got pregnant.

And I'm almost certain you got every suggestion from eating crackers to drinking lemon water to dumdum candies. Then there are the people who have the nerve to ask the due date and correct you because you are "too skinny" for the date you provide. Ohh the HG really draws out the funny sayings.

If you do end up in the hospital, I recommend skipping the ER and heading to the OB floor. You can get fluids there and its a bit more private typically. Outside time works great weather permitting. But other than spending time moving around outside, I have no recommendations for HG. And it sounds like you already know how great outside time is.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I....have had a bit of a shock today...I had planned on doing some spot candling this afternoon to show my daughter but around noon I started feeling nauseous and dizzy...I have had a mild headache for a few days and a cold so I just thought my blood sugar was low or something. I ate lunch and was annoyed that the bacon I heated up tasted off...then I remembered my eggs tasted off last night...and I polished off a bag of sourcream and onion rings which I normally never eat...I keep DollarStore pregnancy tests in the bathroom because I get anxious if I am late and yesterday one said clearly that I wasn't pregnant...I keep one pair of expensive tests as a backup if I need it and so I took one of those....mother of fluffy baby chickens....

I AM PREGNANT!!!!

Congrats! e

 

[chattery41]

I use a pencil. Sharpies are a lot easier to read, but are also carcinogenic. One hospital I worked at actually marked them with carcinogen stickers for better OSHA compliance. I love sharpies, and buy them by the ton, but was concerned about using them on the shells of early developing embryos. It's obvious that it totally doesn't hurt them, and the chicks come out fine, but of course the first, and only time I marked eggs with a sharpie was my very first incubation ever, on a batch of shipped eggs, in a homemade incubator. The hatch was not awful as far as shipped eggs go, but the death rate, combined with the limb deformities I ended up with in the hatch freaked me out and I never went back. The hatch rate was simply standard shipped egg stuff, but the leg anomalies I could never explain, along with the deaths of a few chicks under a week old. It was my only experience like that, so I am afraid to go back to the sharpie, despite it likely not being the culprit at all. If I didn't have that one experience, I would be all over the sharpie, since pencil on colored eggs is torture for a middle aged presbyopic such as myself to read! In the meantime, a soft graphite pencil does the job just fine!

I use my grand daughters crayons or colored pencils depending on what i need to put on the eggs. The colored pencils are great

 

[chattery41]

O Wise Ones on this thread:

I have gotten confused about when to lockdown. I have a batch that I started on Sat. 3/7 at about 10:30 am. Since it was before noon I think I understand that will be day 1. Please tell me if I am correct in thinking lockdown will be Weds., 3/25 at about 10:30??? Or is it Thursday???? Apparently I can't count to 19. Thank you in advance!

The 25th is right

 

[bamadude]

I need to order a new replacement battery or 2 for my Brinsea spot check. I must have left it on for too long of an extended time by accident and it died

I was going to order through Brinsea but shipping is $10

anyone have any other suggestions? Can the batteries be bought in regular stores?

Target here sells them

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I....have had a bit of a shock today...I had planned on doing some spot candling this afternoon to show my daughter but around noon I started feeling nauseous and dizzy...I have had a mild headache for a few days and a cold so I just thought my blood sugar was low or something. I ate lunch and was annoyed that the bacon I heated up tasted off...then I remembered my eggs tasted off last night...and I polished off a bag of sourcream and onion rings which I normally never eat...I keep DollarStore pregnancy tests in the bathroom because I get anxious if I am late and yesterday one said clearly that I wasn't pregnant...I keep one pair of expensive tests as a backup if I need it and so I took one of those....mother of fluffy baby chickens....

I AM PREGNANT!!!!

Seeing as I am only just about a month along and am already getting headaches, temperature spikes, and nausea...and based off of my two previous pregnancies I am gonna guess it is another girl. I was never as sick when I was pregnant with my son as I was when pregnant with my daughter.

congratulations! I remember with my son (first) I was in denial for a LONG time ams by the time I actually went to the dr, I was almost through my first trimester! I was working a lot though lol. I was only sick with him for the first couple months and it was strictly in the morning and I could NOT eat eggs. But with my daughter, I was sick the whole way through, all day. Not pukey but nauseous constantly. Good luck! Hope it's smooth sailing