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

[Crystal Chick]

Hi, I set 7 Plymouth Barred Rock eggs! This is my first time incubating eggs! Very Exciting!

 

[kbarnes]

Ok I need to mark my spot.... I finally caught up its bedtime and then work again tomorrow.

 

[HugHess]

I think I just took a pic of the prettiest color of blue I have ever seen and it ain't my eyes! This is actually a failed St. Paddy's pic. This is also how I'm keeping myself from fiddling with the bator.

Gorgeous. It is nice to see 'blue and black' for once! Thank you!

 

[William1hens]

This is my first hatch.I set 12 chicken eggs.4 light sussex,4 barred plymouth rocks
and 4 white leghorns.
I'm really excited

 

[suebgbr]

I think I just took a pic of the prettiest color of blue I have ever seen and it ain't my eyes! This is actually a failed St. Paddy's pic. This is also how I'm keeping myself from fiddling with the bator.

Blue and black? I can only see white and gold!

 

[bantambury]

Ive been told not to turn my shipped eggs....even though im turning them 3 times a day. Thy have detatched air cells, and turning one this morning I found that its seeping

 

[Puddin Fluff]

I have a girl who is full on broody. She just started to set this weekend and I didn't want to start her with eggs until I was sure she was staying put. She is young and this will be her first brood but I am going to let her keep her clutch today. I realize I am out of the window for the Hatch a long but I plan to tag in just to chat and get advice as I have only had one other broody hatch.

 

[chicken pickin]

Set 106 on Saturday, then another 20 today along with 14 Silkies and Sebrights from @emvickrey ...

Eggs are OEGB's, Sulmtalers, CCL's, Ameraucanas, and EE's...

So...

Total eggs set for Easter HAL is 140...

Here's a few, lol...

Very lovely assortment of eggs you have there!!!

 

[chicken pickin]

I am so ashamed!

It is my neighbors fault. I love her to death, but it is all her fault. Here I am going about my day, minding my own business. There are 16 happy as can be juvenile chicks bouncing around the big coop with the adults. Another 12 slightly younger chicks bouncing around a brooder in the laundry room waiting their turn to join the big flock. There are 37 eggs cooking in the various incubators for our "Incubator Wars." (It is so much fun.) Then she calls. At first it is all small talk and niceties. Then she drops "the question." Apparently she is going shopping in a different county and will be near a "different" local feed store. And as any good shopper and chicken raiser does, she called ahead to see what they had in stock. It would seem they have a few Speckled Sussex chicks in need of a good home. (Here it comes.) She was wondering if I would like her to bring some back for me...

I should answer no...

I need to answer no.

I really don't need any more chicks... at the moment...

I already have two Speckled Sussex eggs in the incubator...

but, what if they don't hatch...

It is a possibility... we have had incubator issues before...

After all, you aren't supposed to count your chicks before they hatch, right...

I am sure I could just squeeze a couple more chicks in...

DH won't notice just a few more, would he?...

He wouldn't get mad at me, right...

I can always ask for forgiveness instead of permission...

Yes! but not to many, maybe two or three! There, see, I limited myself.

I am so ashamed!

Those cute little fluff-balls.Those future egg machines. I just can't say no.

DH just shakes his head and sighs at this pitiful women who looks at that cute little beak and eyes to big for their head and feels the super soft fuzziness, and then caves. I am sure there must be a chickenaholics anonymous somewhere that won't mind a "minor" addiction.

So how many did you get?

When I first started reading I was so nervous to continue, I thought for sure you were working up to your neighbors dog got all your chickens. So glad it turns out your just a chick-a-holic lol.

 

[Mama Bay]

We had a difficult kidding this weekend and I missed the set day(s). My official number for the HAL is 0.

I will set next weekend instead and just follow along. Can't wait to see everyone's hatches!

BTW: Mother and daughter are doing fine now.

OMG those ears! Such a cute kid