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

[Wickedchicken6]

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I'm jus jokin'!! Thankfully some of the 78 are roosters. (I need a rooster coop now)

I don't know...I "might" have about 6 dozen waiting for a 'bator at the moment.

 

[ronott1]

Setting my BBS orpington eggs tonight. Some are already 8 days old and i want to give them the best chance at hatching. Im concerned that only 4 out out of 18 had air cells. Think i will run humidity 20% for a few days,

20% is too low.

We got much more expert than me on here, but I'm thinking it is really not good to go below 25%. How porous are the shells? Since these guys weren't shipped they will probably be fine at 8 days old. If I get my humidity low enough for the BCM's and have leghorns in the same incubator, I won't have a good hatch on the leghorns. Different breeds do best with different humidity based on the shell. I know you usually hatch marans, so I would be careful about getting it Marans dry for the Orpintons.

Good points!

I'll keep it at 25% then and check them on my first candle day and see how they are.
I pull all my good info from the experts on BYC so it should work darn good !

Studies have shown that going below 25% humidity increases hatch problems and chick death. Humidity has a large safe range that is between 25 and about 55% for incubation.

I would suggest 30 to 35% for eggs that seem to need air cell help.

 

[1kluckychik]

News flash for you Krista! I had set 10 of those 1st import isbars with the new roo. The same ones you got.
Just finished hatching 10/10. 100%. 5 splash and 5 blue!
Best isbar hatch I have ever had!e  

I want some of your isbar X isabel leghorn eggs. That is a bucket list project of mine.

Can do.
It will be a couple weeks before we test fertility

 

[Hurley]

I'm a little worried about my bantam eggs. Shipped, and very porous, most of them. :/

I was very worried about these little serama eggs I received. All air cells were free floating all over the egg, 1 egg was cracked, several eggs fairly porous. Just checked them at day 4, looks like 6 (of 15) have good development so far. It's pretty early, so hoping for more to declare themselves, but whoop! for the 6. I thought the USPS scramble did them all in. I did rest the eggs for 24 hours, then put in the incubator for a couple days without turning. The air cells look pretty good now. Only one is a little wonky.

for some little seramas. (They come from black, blue, chocolate, and mottled pens with frizzles and some silkie genes floating around. Come on mottled! Those are stinkin' cute.)



Speaking of stinkin' cute. Who could resist THIS much cuteness?

Silver mixed batch starting to gain feathers. I swear these little things double in size every day.



Awwww - Texas A&M quail hatched!













Heh, got me a flapper shot!

Yeah, so on shipped eggs, 75 hatched out of 100. I probably, really didn't need THAT many to survive shipment. Anyone in southern WI need some meat Coturnix? LOL Great hatch.

 

[Cynthia12]

Enter this in the flapping contest! Serious!! Wait..is that baby about to go poo....lol...I think I know that wiggle, without seeing the wiggle.

 

[Hurley]

Enter this in the flapping contest! Serious!! Wait..is that baby about to go poo....lol...I think I know that wiggle, without seeing the wiggle.

GMTA

I did put the little small fry in for the flapper contest. He should at least win smallest flapper! That's a thing, right?

 

[generaldsherman]

GMTA

I did put the little small fry in for the flapper contest.  He should at least win smallest flapper!  That's a thing, right?  

Or cutest

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok Ok......GMTA??

 

[Hurley]

Anyone need a cabinet bator for a good price? Saw this one go up in Appleton, WI. I have one very similar, love it. Get myself in enough trouble with one, don't need two. Thing is incredibly reliable and stable.

http://appleton.craigslist.org/grd/5458139159.html

 

[Cynthia12]

Hurley, did you see that I asked if I could use a photo of yours up there? Great photos..could use for a welcome post??