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

[Mama Bay]

What kind of chick would be black with a black beak and black legs?

 

[SimplyLogan]

Went to bed at 4:00 AM. Its 7:00 AM central now and I have 5 more hatched. Sill have 11 hours left before hatch day for some eggs and 17 hrs for some.
Total score 15 so far!

Getting harder and harder to tell these chicks apart! (Except One)



Anyone wants to play guess the breed game?

I had a brain dead moment, I know the end colors of my babies I am hatching so I decided not to put the divider in to keep breeds separate. I had not made it prior to setting the eggs and did not want to take them out to build it. After they hatched, I soon realized that some of them hatch pretty much the same color, so now I will have to wait to know for sure who is who.

 

[MavisMama]

Is there a safe way to mark the chicks so we know which is which later on?

 

[SimplyLogan]

@venymae same thing happened to me at the feed store yesterday...but it was with turkey poults, EEs, and buff orpingtons

The only thing that saved me was the fact that I don't have a second brooder and do not want to mix live chicks with my new hatches or I would have.

 

[Amywilliams]

8 in the brooder

 

[Sueg4332]

Did someone here buy a dickie hatcher? If so how do you like it?
The one thing I don't like about the dickie bator is I wish the hatch part was taller when you put the lid wire on the hatcher part.
I have hatched with it off but the chicks get in the small spaces on the sides and in the very back. make one heck of a mess plus can get in the moving parts of the turner.
My arms aren'''''t long enough to get to the back of the bator to clean real good..
my chicks are hatch like popcorn now. will probably take some out later today to see how many is in there. Hard to count thought the screen .
Happy hatch to all

 

[bamadude]

What kind of chick would be black with a black beak and black legs?

Crow

 

[Whoops]

All fluffed up and hoping for a sibling. Dang, it's hard not to pull her outta there.

 

[ronott1]

Did someone here buy a dickie hatcher? If so how do you like it?
The one thing I don't like about the dickie bator is I wish the hatch part was taller when you put the lid wire on the hatcher part.
I have hatched with it off but the chicks get in the small spaces on the sides and in the very back. make one heck of a mess plus can get in the moving parts of the turner.
My arms aren'''''t long enough to get to the back of the bator to clean real good..
my chicks are hatch like popcorn now. will probably take some out later today to see how many is in there. Hard to count thought the screen .
Happy hatch to all

A couple of us on the northern California thread have them:

@capayvalleychick
I think @juststruttin and @chiqita

 

[Mama Bay]

Crow

Lol the guy I got these eggs from must've slipped me a crow then!