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

[Lozuufy]

How much organic vinegar do you put in your chickens water. By the gallon. Of water? Thank you not to change the subject ?

When I put it in my birds water I just put a about a teaspoon of (organic) apple cider vinegar per gallon, sometimes more or less though.

I live in the city very close to my neighbors. If i did join the hatch club. I cant keep the roosters. I live in a house and it has a6 lane high way in front of me. The speed carscand motor cycles make a lot of noise. One of those lil speed cars come by at2 2 am. It sound like it is in my livi g room. Sometime the fire engines rattle the dishes in the house.

Can you keep coturnix quail where you live? They are tiny compared to chickens and pretty quiet, plus they lay lots of eggs.

Here's a link to some info on coturnx quail
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/102281/coturnix-quail-basics-information-and-pictures-galore



This pic shows the size (I have medium-ish sized hands and that is my biggest quail)

 

[cree57i]

How much organic vinegar do you put in your chickens water. By the gallon. Of water? Thank you not to change the subject ?

I think it is 1-4 tsp. is what is recommended / gallon of water. You don't want it to smell too vinegar-y. I used to measure it, but now I just put in a dollop. (Remember a dollop of daisy? or is that a local thing?) Which is probably closer to 1 tsp. In the hot summer months, I will use more (2-4 tsp/ gal, more dollops) in the outside water to keep down the algae and hopefully support them more during heat stress.

Mine really like the vinegar water and will choose it over vitamins, so if they are chicks, I alternate in order to get them to take their vitamins.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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.

Adorable pictures. This one should be entered in the Cutest Baby Fowl contest.

How much organic vinegar do you put in your chickens water. By the gallon. Of water? Thank you not to change the subject ?

1 Tablespoon per gallon. Make sure it's in a plastic waterer, not anything metal.

 

[Hurley]

Adorable pictures. This one should be entered in the Cutest Baby Fowl contest.

Yep, put it in.

 

[GitaBooks]

Count me in! I just bought my very first incubator!

Welcome! So glad you could join!

My 1st chick is hatching!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGsh!!! I am so excited!

Yay!

Test hatch is hatching!

That first little opening is always so amazing to see! I'm still waiting. Still waiting. When will they hatch?

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.

Awesome! I love the turkey eggs.

The banty egg was the 1st to hatch

So adorable! Congrats!

I'm still waiting on my bantam eggs.

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.

Chickens and plans go hand and hand. I have so many plans this year and I'm so excited! Best of luck with your plans.

By the way, my brother is a body builder and eats about eight eggs a day so we have to buy eggs from the store because my poor hens can't keep up with him.

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

Oh yeah! Sometimes when I find those eggs I'm like, "so that's why they do an egg song after laying!" I like to consider the egg song is the same thing as a hen shouting "ouch!"

Ron I switched to Fox from Chrome per everyone's suggestion, I will try that again I just ran CCLeaner the other day ughhh

Thank you kind sir!

We have Fire Fox (again, I stick with it because of the name since we live at Fox Field Farm) and it works pretty well. of course, being out int he country means it isn't always easy with the internet. We actually have Fire Fox, Chrome and Internet Explorer, some of our computers have all three!

I'm excited to be in! I have eggs coming next week! Perfect timing!!

Awesome! Welcome to the hatch-a-long!

Because of you, "tree fiddy" is now a common saying in our house-hold.

White Leghorn

White leghorns are common but they are still so beautiful. They're so worth having in a flock.

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!

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

Congrats!

 

[Hurley]

@Hurley
I'll talk to DH2B about the quail when would you be wanting to unload them? We've discussed trying them but to be honest I've no idea what they would taste like do you only keep the breast or what?

Feel free to PM me to give me a proper education lol

Hopefully will send some away within a couple weeks, will pm you info.

 

[GitaBooks]

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,

Best of luck with your hatch!

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

I hope they hatch well. Maybe with some extra care they'll be okay.

Some of the eggs I purchased are more porous than I'd like.

I'm NOT so thrilled with finding that out.

BUT I read the other night to up the humidity slightly to counteract their loss of fluid.
I set my purchased eggs with eggs of mine collected from Jan 27th - Feb 3. The air cells are very similar. I'm running my humidity about 57%. I usually run it about 40%.
But I see some changes in the yolks and I saw one vein.

But I only set them Sunday evening. Definitely slower than fresh...lol. That's ok though.

Awesome with the vein! I hope they all hatch!

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.

So cute! Those are some nice photos.

Count me in!

Welcome to the HAL! So glad you could join!

I live in the city very close to my neighbors. If i did join the hatch club. I cant keep the roosters. I live in a house and it has a6 lane high way in front of me. The speed cars and motor cycles make a lot of noise. One of those lil speed cars come by at2 2 am. It sound like it is in my living room. Sometime the fire engines rattle the dishes in the house.

Where we live they put up some sound barriers along the high-way to make it less noisy to the neighbors (I think it also keeps the wildlife from crossing the road so much). We get lots of traffic here at night but it isn't a highway so it isn't too loud. However, because we are at a turn everyone likes to speed and throw their trash out. Sometimes I wish I could set up a secret camera and see how many people I could get tickets to so they'd stop being dangerous around our house.

 

[lacymorgan]

I will be setting 8 dz eggs have not decided for sure what yet depends on what I still have after shipping out orders

 

[prizepete]

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.

Do the seramas happen to be from Decaturdude on ebay?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hope this works. Stones to help maintain temp and pads to maintain humidity.

Thanks @NotAFarm

OMG but what a great idea @NotAFarm! Cathy good luck!! can I use your image to add to the notes on upping humidity please?