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

[Ravynscroft]

Hmm okay thanks.

Is there a egg hatcher tracker out there? Sometimes I confuse around hatch dates, it'd be neat to go to an app like that and see its day 2 of something.

There is an app called "Hatchabatch", but it counts set day as day 1, so all alerts will be a day early... easy fix is to program your set day the next day and it works great...

 

[ronott1]

There is an app called "Hatchabatch", but it counts set day as day 1, so all alerts will be a day early... easy fix is to program your set day the next day and it works great...

If you set before noon, the set day is day 1.

 

[bantambury]

No, not a total loss--25% may still hatch. It is a situation where you need to hatch big end up and then work hard with them during hatch.

Incubation needs to be big end up for the entire hatch. I suspect your instagram friends tried broody or laying down incubation with detached air cells.

So...what do you mean work hard with them?

So far ive left the eggs be for 2 days. I set the 16th, so i may start rotating the eggs after tomorrow...first three days of incubation i plan on not rotating them...is this smart, or what would you do?

 

[NikkiCole5]

If you set before noon, the set day is day 1.

I tried that app, I really didn't like it, but I guess it depends on the person

 

[Ravynscroft]

I tried that app, I really didn't like it, but I guess it depends on the person

I didn't like it either, then figured out how to customize it the way I needed it... is good for a reminder, but I still keep my written records...

 

[wornoutmomto3]

I have some mixed eggs included with this hatch and I was wondering some odds. I had three roosters. The dominant one sired ALL the chicks in my last batch. Not what I expected so he went to a new home to be the only rooster. Monday will mark the end of week three with Mr. Dominant gone. I have caught one of the other roosters "getting the job done,"

but not the other. Not that he isn't working, I just haven't caught him "in the act" yet.


This is Marbles. He was king of the flock just over two weeks before he disappeared while defending his girls from a predator. All I found of him was a few of his gorgeous tail feathers. I am really hoping for the chicks to be his and bear some resemblance to him. (The hens look nothing like him.) What are the odds of at least a few of the chicks being his with Mr. (former) Dominant's genes still being around?

This is Squeakers a bantam rooster. He is the current king of the flock, but I haven't caught him "in the act" yet. Is there a possibility that some of the chicks could be his also?

I am just so eggcited

I can't wait for these chicks to start hatching

and they aren't even in the incubator yet. They are going in tomorrow. LOL!

 

[hockeydad6791]

I got a farm inovators incubator, I may return it because i can't put my thermometers in. I use two, but they there is no where to put them, unless I can get a rack removed. What does everyone do for theirs?

I set my smaller thermometers on top of the eggs and also I poked a small calibrated meat thermometer just below and off to the left side of the built in one on the lid. I poked it just deep enough to be at the top of the eggs.

 

[Tuhmu]

I need my amount set, changed to 56.....May have snuck a few more in today.....

 

[bamadude]

The first time I set eggs, I just colored in the days on a free calendar I got from a local bank. 

Now I keep track in excel. 

Dang. Thats a much better idea than all these number tattoos Ive been getting. Running outta room

 

[bamadude]

I need my amount set, changed to 56.....May have snuck a few more in today.....

$25 fine