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

[chattery41]

This vent hole, red circle, sits right over the fan i installed myself. If i block this hole it keeps humidity alot better since the fan is blowing up. Are there enough holes if i plug this one ?

 

[NTBugtraq]

My "Easter" hatch. 90 of my own generation 2 crosses, 1 pure BCM, and 5 heritage turkeys. See if you can figure out which is what.




Chicken egg hatch date is 3/15.

 

[Myfourladies]

Gathering eggs makes me antsy.

 

[misfit acres]

The banty egg was the 1st to hatch

 

[ronott1]

The banty egg was the 1st to hatch

How Sweet!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: That's awesome to hear about the Australorps!!! I'm glad they lay so well for you. It's exactly what I want to hear.

They sound like they'd be a good fit with our flock and in what I'm doing. I've been looking into them. I have two Australorp eggs in the incubator right now...and I can't wait to see what they're like. I'm hoping like mad that they hatch...lol.

But nope, nope, nope....I'm still setting ALL the eggs!!!

My original EE started laying about halfway through her molt in the fall...and the EE chicks that hatched mid June started laying Nov/Dec. Now the ones I hatched last fall appear to be coming online. I would've had lots of eggs...too many eggs!

But I really need the eggs/chicks from these earliest laying pullets to select for their early laying trait. AND these eggs are very, VERY important because these pullets have been doing all this wonderful laying with no oyster shells, no layer crumble...not even the proverbial balanced diet while only getting a max of 5-7 hours of light per day. They've only had exposure to full days of light for 3 days now.
I have big plans...HUGE plans. Although I hadn't "planned" to do this with the chickens...it is what I do.

I can eat the eggs later.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote:
Our son used to feel sick when he'd eat eggs sometimes. I thought it was my cookware and tried different types. He could eat eggs at his friend's place, so we started buying the same type of eggs as they did and those eggs didn't bother him. We figured it may have been the different feed those chickens were getting?

(This was before we had chickens.)

Quote:
Gee, that's good to know!

Quote: I love their markings!

 

[aplynn]

The banty egg was the 1st to hatch

 

[LocalYokel]

This vent hole, red circle, sits right over the fan i installed myself. If i block this hole it keeps humidity alot better since the fan is blowing up. Are there enough holes if i plug this one ?

I dont have one of those bators but I would say that hole is needed more than the others to exchange fresh air.

Are there eight other holes there?

Maybe one or more of those can be closed off?

Maybe someone else will be so kind as to give a holler on this one!

 

[Eps32]

I just can't help but to feel bad for the hen that layed that egg wow!