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

[kbarnes]

Wow! Went to work for 8 hours and almost 200 posts and 4 pages.... Just got caught up. Candled the ducks.... 3 out of 4 mallards doing well 2 out of 10 pekin doing good. I think my drake just figured out what to do....

. 3 of the eggs under my broody not fertile ( broody started on duck set day and had 8 chicken eggs and 2 pekin under her)

 

[SpringPeeper]

My eggs went in today! I only set 7, that's what fits in my mini with the turner running.


The hens' choice ended up being:
2X Faverolles
2X 'Favacaunas' (Salmon Fav over EE)
1X Production red/Orpington mutt (either a blue or a splash roo)
1X Orpington (cross your fingers I win the 'lottery' and it was the blue roo over a blue hen and I get a black chick)
1X Black Sex Link (BC Marans over Dominique)



I wish I was setting the Orp eggs my daughter broke so I'd have a decent shot at getting a black one, but I got eggs that would be nice to have as pullets or decent to eat if boys. I can't complain too loudly.

 

[sillycmoy]

So at midnight tonight (Friday March 13th) Yahoo on Freaky Friday, I will be setting 48 eggs for my sister. I'm setting early because we are leaving on April 6th, and I want to make sure everyone is out by Saturday, Sunday the latest. Yikes, because if they hatch I have 48 babies to take on a 9 hour road trip... I haven't hatched since the last Easter Hatch Along, since my Broody's did the dirty work for me over the summer. Here is hoping I don't screw up the incubator.

12-BLRW
12-Ameraucana
8-Silkies
2-Sizzles (with all fingers crossed)
2-Silkie/OE Mix
6-Hamburg-test run, so who knows
6-Houdans.-test run, so who knows.

OMG that is a lot of eggs.. yikes....

 

[SpringPeeper]

Oh my gosh... I totally wrote down the twelfth, and just realized the 14th is the actual date!



Now, the question is, do I scratch the lucky future chicks I accidentally set today and have two days to collect Orpington eggs, or do I stick with these guys?

 

[DeGarmom]

Count me in! I will be setting Polish chicken eggs.

 

[seminolewind]

I candled my eggs and broke one. 8 day old embryo.

 

[JustHenny]

help! Indian runners in the incubator and it dropped to 90 degrees and 40% humidity. Will they be okay? I don't know how long it was like that because I had a long work day today. Gone 12 hours.

 

[NikkiCole5]

help! Indian runners in the incubator and it dropped to 90 degrees and 40% humidity. Will they be okay? I don't know how long it was like that because I had a long work day today. Gone 12 hours.

Low temperature is safer than high temperature!
I incubated my duck eggs at 90 almost the whole time, hatched late, but healthy, got 2 out of 3

 

[NikkiCole5]

  I candled my eggs and broke one.  8 day old embryo.  

Aww! I'm sorry! I put a towel in my bathroom sink and candle over the towel

 

[ozexpat]

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