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

[Happy Chooks]

My husband has been hospitalized for the past few days, so the house has been chaos. I just got him home, and started my egg chores. Turned, weighed, & candled. Cool down for the waterfowl, followed by a distilled water mist... Only I grabbed the mild disinfectant cleaner I use for the ducklings instead of the distilled water... And sprayed them all. I immediately misted them down with distilled water and blotted, followed by a second rinse. They still smelled fabulous. Rinsed a goose egg in warm running water. Still fabulous.
I'm very concerned that I just killed my whole incubator full of geese and calls by spraying them with odoban....
Going to have a mini meltdown, then collapse....

Oh dear. Deep breath! First, I hope your husband is okay. Second, you did the right thing by getting the disinfectant rinsed off. Now, you just have to wait, but nature is pretty strong.

I have one incubator set today with 21 Serama eggs(mine hatch around day 20) and another incubators set today with 26 eggs. 47 eggs in incubators and my little serama hen Athena went broody today to join us. She is setting on 5 eggs. So that is 52 eggs total! This will be the best Easter ever!

Very cute.

We just set our eggs! I think we may be a day late though...we are totally new to this, hoping we're doing it right?!?! Picked up eggs from my inlaws flock, they have Astrolops, and a very busy Rooster ;-). Thought it would be nice to have another breed in our flock. We Shall See! (Thinking we may have Easter Chicks, if all goes well.)

You are doing fine.

 

[Happy Chooks]

We have a tie for the 3rd Random Posting Contest! 2 members posted EXACTLY at the correct time.

Congratulations to KYTinpusher and Myfourladies!
You have both won a 6 month GFM!


The random time was today at 10:18am.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...byc-easter-hatch-a-long/3900_50#post_14939874​

 

[ellymayRans]

The egg starts developing within an hour of setting.

If the eggs are set before noon, the first day counts since it will have developed for 11 hours or more.

The app mentioned before and the calculator I posted count set day as day one.

Added: we get into this with each hatch a long. It matters because if you do not calculate the days correctly, incubation temps can be off.

What do you mean by temps may be off?

 

[Cynthia12]

We have a tie for the 3rd Random Posting Contest! 2 members posted EXACTLY at the correct time.

Congratulations to KYTinpusher and Myfourladies!
You have both won a 6 month GFM!


The random time was today at 10:18am.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...byc-easter-hatch-a-long/3900_50#post_14939874​

Congratulations to the two of you!

 

[NotAFarm]

What temperature do you aim for with the water wiggler thermo probe?

Ron, can you recommend a safer chick warming product? I'm so worried about burning down my house with the heat lamps!
Do the heat plates work for new just hatched chicks? Can you use just those for heat, or do you also need a lamp?

I have an Eco Glow 50 and an Eco Glow 20.....love them!! If you have natural light, you do not need a lamp. For a bunch I kept in the garage, I used a lamp (regular light bulb, not a heat lamp) on a timer so that they were used to night time before they were weaned from the brooder plate.

 

[ronott1]

What do you mean by temps may be off?

If the temperature is too high, chicks will hatch earlier than 21 days. If the temperature is too low, they will hatch later than 21 days. If you think you are hatching on day 21 but the really hatched on day 22 then your temperature was too low--which leads to problems with the chicks.

It is really for fine tuning your hatch.

 

[CowboysAngel]

I am sorry to hear about the temp problems!

Both of mine have been doing very well so far.

Maybe add some heat syncs? Rocks or sand in a zip lock bag will help even out the temperature.

I have two sealed jars of water in mine... Mines a cabinet style that my Dad built and passed over to me..

 

[birdman55]

you can add another 30 eggs for me....chicken eggs that is

 

[chicken pickin]

you can add another 30 eggs for me....chicken eggs that is

Nice eggs!!!

 

[chicken pickin]

We have a tie for the 3rd Random Posting Contest! 2 members posted EXACTLY at the correct time.

Congratulations to KYTinpusher and Myfourladies!
You have both won a 6 month GFM!


The random time was today at 10:18am.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...byc-easter-hatch-a-long/3900_50#post_14939874​

Congrats to the both of you!!!