The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[KYTinpusher]

This is Jonas he says hi. He was named after the snow storm Jonas that knocked are power out for three days. He was one of the chicks that made it with no heat lamp for a day in a half till I got a generator. He's was 4 days old at the time now little over 3 weeks. Dad was a barred rock mom was a EE. I think he's a Roo just my opinion though. What do you experts think Roo ?

With the comb that pink at only 3 weeks old, my guess would be cockerel.

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Soooo it's snowing really hard here and our power got knocked out for an hour and then came back on for 10 minutes and then got knocked out again for an hour and a half and then just came back on Again!! Thank God for hand warmers and fluffy blankets!! My bator got down to 85 degrees

Im hoping that the eggs aren't too affected by this and they stayed toasty with the hand warmers.

Eggs are tougher than most give them credit for and even though the bator got down to 85F, it takes the eggs a while longer to get that cold. They will most likely be fine, but might hatch a bit late.

Hang in there and just do the best you can keeping the temp up. Be patient when hatch day comes.

I have 4 pips (that I can see) in the hatching tray for my VERY FIRST hatch! I am soooo eggcited! I was sure I would miss it tomorrow but I think that my count is off on days. I wasn't counting the day I set them as a day.. Does that make sense? Or are they early?

They should hatch on the same day of the week that you set them - i.e. if you set them on a Friday, hatch day would be Friday. However, I don't think many chicks can read the calendar, especially from inside the egg.

 

[Cynthia12]

Set four emu eggs...day late but who knows, maybe they will surprise me!

I am soo excited that someone is doing this!

 

[Cynthia12]

New Years hatch a long was so much fun! My first hatch! I'm in for the Easter hatch a long!! Please add me!

 

[Razadia]

Eggs are tougher than most give them credit for and even though the bator got down to 85F, it takes the eggs a while longer to get that cold. They will most likely be fine, but might hatch a bit late.

Hang in there and just do the best you can keeping the temp up. Be patient when hatch day comes.

This! I had multiple 102 spikes on the last hatch and the temp refused to go above the low 90s for the first few days. They hatched on time with no issues.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have a few sets of eggs hatching before the HAL eggs need to be set. The quail started hatching yesterday!! Up to six chicks so far!!!

So cute and tiny!

 

[Cynthia12]

My Hovabator just came in yesterday morning and I set 42 eggs last night at 7 for a test run before the EHAL. These eggs are from my own flock
Roosters include: 1 Naked Neck, 1 Barred Rock (these two were culled a week before I started collecting eggs so may not be the fathers), 1 Easter Egger, 1 Silver Sebright/Thai mix and 1 Welsummer/Barred Rock mix (the Welsummer mix is young and has only shown interest in the Faverolle). I'm expecting the EE to be the father of most since he is my dominant roo.
The eggs collected are:
6 Jungle Fowl
6 Blue Marans
6 Faverolle
4 Black Sumatra
4 Red Ranger
4 Ameracauna
3 Barnyard Mix browns
2 Barnyard Mix whites
2 Silver Grey Dorking
2 Bantam Crevecoeur
1 Welsummer
1 Olive Egger

Very nice, and wow! You have a lot of different breeds. I'm jealous..can't have too many. :/

 

[Cynthia12]

Just dropping in to say " Hi " before going to work.

Hope you have a wonderful day at work draye!

 

[Cynthia12]

Looking like a boy..but ya never know. I've had girls that have had combs turn pink/red pretty darn early. I have to say..I love me a splash! Pretty baby!

 

[Cynthia12]

ron..that little comment, on butter and spice..oh yeah, cracked me up. I hope that little baby is a girl!


I have to say. Had a great message sent to me this morning. Won't say who or what it was about, don't want to take away from the thought that was put into this..but I will say this.


I LOVE BYC FRIENDS! They never cease to amaze me!!

 

[chicken pickin]

Happy Friday everyone!!!

I woke up today and Winter finally decided to join us lol. We went from Spring like weather to full blown snow storm over night... I was really feeling like Spring was here and was having wonderful thoughts of hatching and warm weather. Now we are almost under a foot of wet heavy snow... Sigh. Ill just keep thinking Spring thoughts.

I had a woman scheduled to come pick up a Barred Rock cockerel today, the snow changed plans. I hope she can make it out this weekend, I need to cut down on the males I have so I can get My Barred Rock pens set up.