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

[IHeartPoultry]

Well darn!  Just looked at the calendar and don't think I can set for Easter.

I'm picking up a dozen Blue Wheaten Ameraucana eggs thiss weekend, and will be starting them on Sunday evening, so count Monday as day 1.
I will top of the incubator with RIR and EE eggs from my RIR rooster over black Ameraucana hens.    
Hopefully soon we will have a separate pen for the Ameraucanas and they can be bred by their blue rooster.

But unless I get a second incubator, I just don't see how I can have eggs set to hatch just two weeks after this batch.  

Maybe I can find a cheap second one, and tell hubby it is a hatcher.  
I have an extra LG turner, so could go with a cheaper one...

@hopiegirl4ever successfully hatched some eggs with a Christmas ball ornament package and a lamp!

 

[IHeartPoultry]

Awww are those black Australorp chicks??
Oh and I was chewed out by adding still damp chicks to my brooder.

be careful.

I take my wet chicks out of the 'bator as soon as they are completely out of the egg. They mess up the un-hatched eggs... I do put the wet chicks in a "drying brooder", but only if the dry chicks are being meanies.

 

[Eps32]

Awww are those black Australorp chicks??
Oh and I was chewed out by adding still damp chicks to my brooder.

be careful.

There barred rock black Minorca crosses. Ones a barred rock EE cross. I usually don't pull them out till dry but it was getting crowded. And the newly hatched were getting trampled.

 

[generaldsherman]

My new decorations

 

[ToddQ]

Ok I have 1 egg going to lockdown in the am. Im worried the air cell may be a bit small. O have had the egg laying on its side the entire time, but wonder if I should stand it air cell up for hatching?

 

[NotAFarm]

My new decorations

Great job on the new signs!!

 

[Lozuufy]

My new decorations

I love the "Attack Chicken" sign

 

[generaldsherman]

 I love the "Attack Chicken" sign  

couldn't resist

 

[IHeartPoultry]

My new decorations

Nice!!

Ok I have 1 egg going to lockdown in the am. Im worried the air cell may be a bit small. O have had the egg laying on its side the entire time, but wonder if I should stand it air cell up for hatching?

Personally, I wouldn't, I would leave it on its side if it's been that way the entire incubation period. But that's me, you should get some more opinions.

Good luck!

 

[dolfi]

x2

Dolfi, I added a large area almost like a shelf that the littles can run away and get under to get away from the others, and move food close.  As long as they have somewhere to run and hide that the big ones cant go in you should be ok. INSiDE and out.... sometimes the older ones can be cruel, esp if you have a roo and adding another.   good luck!



EDIT TO ADD THESE DOLFI

FLOCK INTEGRATION
[COLOR=008080]Flock Integration Series http://blog.mcmurrayhatchery.com/tags/flock-integration-series/[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008080]Integrating Pullets into the Chicken Flock[/COLOR]   http://www.betterhensandgardens.com/integrating-young-pullets/

Thank you so very much.
I introduced them all.
Had to take out the roo and the older hen. But this way I can clean, disinfect and move dirt around on the other coop. Maybe in a few days in can transfer the little 4 weeks old there.
I seriously need a bigger run. This chicken math is really getting overwhelming.
I just can't stop incubating.

Am I a chicken hoarder?
Please tell me I'm not. I might need concealing.