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

[CowboysAngel]

Welcome to OUR world...

Make yourself at home, you will probably be here a-WHILE. ;0

That's chicken math!

 

[CowboysAngel]

Miss Broody Dixie

 

[casportpony]

I went to check the bator and we had 4 new hatchers in there. (Up to 26 hatchers so far I believe and I think I have 5 left expected to hatch and 4 I don't.) When I went to move them, I noticead this:



Any advice??? It's dry, (at least the outside.) Not bloody or gooey. The chick is very active appears to be strong. The chick hatched sometime between 7 am and 9:30 am this morning.

I would keep it in a clean brooder by itself on something soft (no wire, no shavings) and I'd probably dip it in chlorhexidine solution. That's what I did for my duckling and it resolved in a few days.

-Kathy

Disclaimer: I've only had to treat the one duckling, so I don't have much experience with them.

 

[campingshaws]

No progress on my pips. I'm watching movies with the kids and crocheting to keep myself occupied. I'm the worst meddler.

 

[Razadia]

It's day 21 and I woke up to 6 chicks in the bator. Moved 3 out to the brooder and the rest are getting fluffy.

@bamadude One of the silkie eggs hatched. Clean legged and 4 toes.

It's a cute little thing!

 

[campingshaws]

No progress on my pips. I'm watching movies with the kids and crocheting to keep myself occupied. I'm the worst meddler.

I meddled. And my broody has a second pip! Both are her own eggs. In my last hatch (4 of 15) two of the chicks were from her eggs. She must have really hardy genes.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I am so sorry!   That is how I felt about my hova bator! 

Thanks. Hopefully you'll have a good hatch.

That's a shame.
Maybe this will help
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00008570/00001/3j

Thanks!

 

[SimplyLogan]

I will have a Brinsea Ocatgon 40 Advanced available for sale after the hatch. I just bought it before the EHAL. DW says that its the only way she can make sure I don't hatch that many chicks again

Surly there is a nice kitchen aid mixer or something she may want in exchange for you keeping it.

 

[Razadia]

The pip on my other silkie egg is bloody. It's still moving around, but I don't have high hopes for it.

 

[SoManyHats]

Ack! I have the best terrible problem. My friend who randomly sent me eggs didn't just send a few eggs. Not just a dozen or 18... He sent 30 eggs!!! I don't know where to put them. My Brinsea is full for 2.5 more weeks. My homemade bator is being used as a hatcher right now, but I don't have room for 30 eggs in there! If they were home eggs maybe, but shipped that have to sit upright? No! What is a gal to do except buy another incubator?