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

[Razadia]

2 chicks are out and 3 more are zipping!

The chicks that hatched are an EE and a RIR.

 

[Cynthia12]

Question?

Its starting to get pretty rambunctious in there and now my humidity is getting to high. Starting to see moisture on the window. I have two hatching that are exposed, AFTER (?) they hatch would it be a good time to grab a many dry ones as i can out to lower the humidity? they are crawling over and sometime laying on the ones that are trying to hatch?

I snatch them out during lock down. Your brooder ready? Congrats!

 

[Cynthia12]

Good luck I hope they all hatch for you.

The unstable temps is why I bought two Genesis 1588's and we built a homemade hatcher. Thanks to Oz and Bama Dude and it is working perfectly! Holding temps withing .02 degrees and holding the humidity perfectly! It will hold 84 eggs in baskets or 7 dozen in cartons.




The digital STC1000 keeps the temps perfect! I had 5 thermometers and three hygrometers calibrate it by.

Wow! Oz and Bama knew how to teach you that?

Ok...J/K guys! Serious..that really nice..and..that's a lot of eggs! I don't have enough land for that many chickens! How many eggs do you have in there?

 

[Cynthia12]

My new babies are here! Their layer mom is a sex link and dad is one of three roosters but I am pretty sure it is the Delaware. The other roosters are silkies and these babies only have 4 toes. The yellow one is Freddie and the black one is Jaysin! They were laid on Friday the 13th so I had to give them appropriate names! LOL The mom who hatched and will be raising them is a silkie named Elvis (or Woody is you listen to the children) and she has been wonderful!

Is this our first broody mama hatch? lol..what a cute idea for names! Cute babies.

 

[Cynthia12]

So Friday is the dry I set the eggs and so this Tuesday night I stopped turning them but didn't raise the humidity. Last night after asking advice I raise it to between 60-70. I woke up at about 11 pm to incessant cheeping. I figured a chick in the brooder es stuck so I went to check and realized it was coming from the bator! One of my Marans had hatched and a Americana was pipped! This morning the Americana was out but still wet and another was pipped. Another Marans had also pipped. A few hours later it is out too and another Marans has pipped. So much for the Marans hatching late!

Oh, I like this kind of news. I think. Day 20, no pips..but I do hear peeping in one bator..just not the one with the two Marans eggs.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: Be careful with open containers of water in the incubator. Chicks can get in it and drown.

Bad new and Good news.

BAD: Our Coolerbator (you know, the ugly one) got bumped by some daddy/son roughhousing. Because we didn't properly affix the wires (we just jerry-rigged them) one knocked lose. I don't know how long exactly (less than 3 hours, but who knows for sure) but I glanced over at the thermometer and freaked. 108.

108!!!!!! Whipped off the lid, pulled out the eggs, and tapped the wire back into place. Light bulb turned off immediately. UGH!!!!

Waited till the bator was back down to 99 to put the eggs back in. It was day 17.

We candled that night and there was movement in several eggs, but it's harder to tell on most since they're so big inside. NERVOUS!

GOOD:
Well since there was movement in some of the eggs last night, this morning we put them all into lock down (day 18). Laid a washcloth across the chickenwire so little legs don't fall through, filled up the water pan (an old lettuce clamshell-lol) and humidity is staying steady at 63%. Now we wait. I really hope we get a good hatch. But again, I am so nervous!

Tell dad and kiddo, no rough housing by the incubator!

Thanks for posting the pics, I can definitely differentiate between the two now. However, I have a feeling that it will be hard to differentiate between the Legbars and Welsummers unless the Welsummers have the reddish tone that is depicted in the pics. Oh well! I will keep up all night Friday until they hatch! Lol!

You will be able to tell the legbar chicks from the welsummers. And yes, the welsummers have the reddish tone.

I had a dream about finding dead chicks, so I wasn't too keen on checking the broodies today. When I looked in on them, one of the broodies hens hopped off the nest. I noticed a pipped egg and a dead chick that was still partially in the shell.

I removed the dead chick but left the pipped egg. I wonder what happened?
I have to go out and see if she got back on the nest, she was running around growling and screeching at the other chickens. I think she expected a chick this morning. I have the incubator ready if some chicks hatch and the broodies leave, and there are still unhatched eggs.

Sometimes new broodies sit so tight that they squish babies. I'm sorry you found a dead chick.

 

[ronott1]

Are you on fb? I cheat. I got there, post a photo..they automatically do it. Then I save it to my pictures..then post somewhere else if needed. I don't have a problem posting them here..and they also re size it here...hmmm..Dish ey? :/

It would not make a difference with low bandwidth since the raw picture is very large from the camera. Using editing software on the computer to make it smaller is the way to go--It might be possible to use editing software on the camera or phone.

I am old school so I use photo shop to make the image 1024x768 and then save it as a 8 optimized jpg. Sometimes I crop the picture too. I have no problem uploading the pictures.

 

[Cynthia12]

ongrats to all of you with pips and chicks!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Junibutt

Folks have you read the post that Happy Chooks is retiring as a moderator for at least a year. I am so sad!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/964908/announcement-byc-staff-moderator-term-limits-retirement
Why thanks for all the nice comments, but it was an April Fool's joke.

AND THERE IT IS!! HA..NOW YOU KNOW WHO LOVES YOU...EVERYONE!

 

[Cynthia12]

It would not make a difference with low bandwidth since the raw picture is very large from the camera. Using editing software on the computer to make it smaller is the way to go--It might be possible to use editing software on the camera or phone.

I am old school so I use photo shop to make the image 1024x768 and then save it as a 8 optimized jpg. Sometimes I crop the picture too. I have no problem uploading the pictures.

Smarty Pants. lol...I admire those with this knowledge. My daughter is great at this too. She will show me a thing or two on the net every now and again, so will one of my sons. Easy stuff..I'm embarrassed that I hadn't seen that before. Tech stuff..hey, I'm glad I can do what I can do.

How is your hatch going, I haven't gotten caught up yet..maybe you said.

 

[ronott1]

Smarty Pants. lol...I admire those with this knowledge. My daughter is great at this too. She will show me a thing or two on the net every now and again, so will one of my sons. Easy stuff..I'm embarrassed that I hadn't seen that before. Tech stuff..hey, I'm glad I can do what I can do.

How is your hatch going, I haven't gotten caught up yet..maybe you said.

It is going great!

I have a full Genesis 1588 set up as a hatcher and have 40 or so in there still.

After they hatch, they go straight to the egg farm too.