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

[Cynthia12]

Yes Ma'am I posted a few pages back, I was feeling left out because I did not get a sticker from you, so I am crossing my fingers I might still get one : P

 

[Cynthia12]

I didn't get one either. But I've enjoyed scrolling through them.

 

[Kaylish]

Okay, so I'm going to be doing something CRAZY for this year's Easter Hatch-A-Long:

There aren't any grocery stores in my area that sell the fertile chicken eggs by the dozen. Whole Foods, however, will sell me fertile chicken eggs if I commit to at least 15 dozen. They will ship 15 dozen "fertile" chicken eggs to my local store. It comes out to roughly $3.60/dozen.

SO... I will be setting ALL 15 DOZEN Whole Foods "fertile" eggs (typically for eating), as a grand experiment, among my own incubators combined with my SO's incubators...

That's 180 eggs.

I have many, many people offering to buy the chicks (if any hatch) when the time comes at $1.00 - $2.00 each, so I'm not too worried about excess chicks. I'm more curious to see how many of them will actually hatch...

So stay tuned...

It's a gamble; I've hatched grocery store (Trader Joes) eggs twice. 1st try was 1 out of 10, eggs were 8 days old. The 2nd time I hatched 11 out of 12 and the eggs were 5 days old. Both times were out of the fridge section in the store.- check out the Trader Joes thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...cery-store-egg-hatching-club-are-you-a-member

It's pretty neat to see little chicks hatching from eggs that were supposed to be breakfast.

 

[jgoldy2]

Cute picture

 

[campingshaws]

YAY!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

Welcome everyone!

Remember, do not tell how many eggs you will be setting, there is a contest for that. So keep it a secret!

Reminder

 

[jgoldy2]

I'm bored

Adorable picture

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ohhh Nice one! Thanks Girl!!

 

[MisfitMarie]

Reminder

OOPS!

Sorry! I went back and edited my post!

Looks like I'm just going to have to bring my old LG out from the attic, dust it off, and set some eggs in that one as well... just to throw numbers off.

Hatching even more eggs? Well SHUCKS...

 

[bantambury]

im so eggcited for this!

im very pleased with my girls right now...everyone laid today EXCEPT MALT!

man, for a second there I thought today would be the first time since November that all the girls laid the same day. WELL theres still a few hours left...ill have to check again. LOL