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

[Happy Chooks]

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[chicken pickin]

Congrats! My 5 yr. is this month!!

 

[bantambury]

Final count: 16 of 35 eggs. I had a few laye quitters. One being a serama

Hey i got just about a 50% hatch rate! Not really...lol

 

[bekkanblue]

Here are my 6 Easter hatchers! Bad pictures, they are of course way cuter!

There's an Iowa Blue, an Australorp, 2 AusX, a Silky/EE, and the yellow one must be from a Buff Orpington hen.

Neither of my EE eggs hatched. One never developed and the other was an early quiter. I couldn't see well when candling them so had left them in.

 

[MightyDucksVT]

I hope it's not too late! I just wanted to let everyone know yesterday 11 of my 14 eggs finally hatched into beautiful Ancona ducklings!!! I had two hatch day quitters and one that ways malformed. I am still very happy with these cuties.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

 

[OneMountainAcres]

the last pic is really bad but I just had to share some pictures of this. The big one there is Mocha. She's a 3 week old BCM. All her brooder mates have been sold so she's been staying with my HAL babies. She has taken it upon herself to adopt them. I swear, the youngest mother (or father) I've ever seen. She calls them to food and treats. She even had them eating and drinking on day one. The pictures in the basket, she can easily escape it as she's done many times in the past but she wouldn't leave "her" babies lol.

 

[Kattal00A]

We originally sat 85 eggs. 9 of those were clear, leaving 76. Of the fertile eggs, 39 ended up hatching.

 

[crzyckldy]

On another thread I read that to get mostly hens you turn the temp down a few degrees for the first 3 days of incubation as it kills all the male eggs. Someone else on the thread said you turn the temp up a few degrees (same reason).
It would be interesting to find out from the ones whos temps got accidentally messed up if there is any truth in either of these claims. What percentage of male and females did you end up with?

I don't know about that, but my neighbor is from the Phillipines and she raised chickens over there. She said the pointy eggs are roosters and the round eggs are hens. I haven't tested this myself , but her husband said he tested it and so far with their chickens, she has been right.

 

[ronott1]

I don't know about that, but my neighbor is from the Phillipines and she raised chickens over there. She said the pointy eggs are roosters and the round eggs are hens. I haven't tested this myself , but her husband said he tested it and so far with their chickens, she has been right.

The gender of the embryo is determined before the egg hits the egg shell gland. The gland determines the shape of the egg so nope, this one does not work either.

Quote: from my notes
The shape of the egg, color and etc. would have no bearing on the gender of the chick hatched.


There was an article posted about a new method of checking if an egg will hatch a boy or a girl that involved sampling with a needle. That is very accurate.