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

[Wickedchicken6]

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You can still set your eggs +/- 2 days and have the numbers count if that could work for you. Just to let you know.

 

[Cynthia12]

You can still set your eggs +/- 2 days and have the numbers count if that could work for you. Just to let you know.

Yes, and hopefully that bator will get here sooner than later. You never know!

 

[GitaBooks]

got my turkey eggs set at noon today. I don't even if they are fertile or not . 14 days will tell.


mom and dad

Beautiful birds! I love the heritage colors!

So, this is nowhere near my final set amount, but I'm feeling pretty accomplished and have to share. So far I've collected 4 dozen eggs to set next week. I'm collecting all the way up until set time. I should honestly be getting around 2 dozen a day, but the girls haven't caught up yet.

I'm getting excited for the hatch. My silkies have been laying daily, so I should have plenty of cute fuzz balls!

Awesome! Silkies are so much fun.

Please add me to the contest!!

Ok - time for all the best, helpful links and info on hatching eggs via incubator, as this will be my first time! And GO!!! Thanks in advance!!

Welcome! So glad you could join!

what kind of incubator does every one use? I have a Brinsea Octogon eco.

I actually use a reptile incubator. It works just as well and holds humidity great. Its digital and even has an alarm for when the temperature drops or raises too much (though honestly I don't use it, but its still cool).

Count me in!

Welcome!

What are you setting?

Im in!

Awesome! Welcome to the HAL!

Very cool I also wish I understood it. Very very cool to see some farms in the US ought to consider this
Count their toes and see what color skin they have. When I've seen bantam bins they tend to be a mix and silkie chicks or Brahma chicks haven't been too unusual in my limited experience.

Also d'uccles, we got an amazing cockeral out of a bantam bin last year but sadly lost him to a freak accident.

Just had to say you all are driving me nuts been busy the last couple days I've missed you all. I was 200 posts behind.

Went and got the chicks from @junibutt last night of course we get there and our heating pad for the ride home breaks, luckily they were perfectly content with the heat on and snuggled in a towel, so no big deal right? Then on the way home we got sideswiped by a deer, saw those eyes bug out guys

lol, no worries the babies didn't even wake up and we're all okay. The deer even got up and ran away, and the car is almost completely fine. It wasn't until today we noticed a big clump of deer hair stuck in the wheel rim- that had to hurt and two little places with radiating cracks in the rear driver fender. All in all I think we all got off lucky the deer most of all we thought for sure it was gunna be dead. Wouldn't you know that happened maybe ten minutes from our house. Sorry got sidetracked anyway we get home and put the babies in their brooder and go to switch on the light and the filament in the bulb breaks. Ugh like you've got to be kidding. Luckily we found a temporary replacement bulb for last night and ran to the store today.

Sorry for the long-winded story but who would've thought.

Anyway without further ado heres my newest littles

Sorry about the picture quality will try to post some better ones soon.

Put shoes on the little white sport who has some slightly curled toes(both middle toes) thinking it is from being a late hatch but idk. I've never booted a chick before but I thought I'd better try before his/her bones stiffen.
I think the "crest" may be a bit smaller than the pics we all saw right after hatch I'm hoping this means the vaulted skull is healing but we'll see. In all other ways the white sport seems totally normal running playing eating and drinking. It does hate it's shoes. Can't wait to watch them grow and find out all the genders of the ones idk.

Thank you again @junibutt.

In other news our golden Laced sebright was in the nest box today as she's been thinking about going broody lol she managed to have 11 eggs in there and actually quite well covered considering only two were bantam eggs. If she commits she may also be joining the hatch-a-long

So glad that everything was okay on the way home! There are a ton of deer out here and so we always have to drive slow at night, have our brights on and play music so they can hear us coming. Deer are hardy little things, but hopefully it wasn't just adrenaline making it stand. We hit a squirrel and it ran off but I still worry that it may have had internal damage. After loosing a chicken and two cats to the road and having found someones dog hit by a car it always makes me very sad to see any animal killed by a car. We lost our cat on Easter. Her name was Miracle and she wasn't even two years old.

Congrats on the chicks by the way!

Count me in! Last night I set 12 Ancona duck eggs. Not great fertility with my flock on winter rations, but hopefully I'll have at least a couple cuties hatch out.

Awesome! Anconas are pretty.

Housey decided to participate in the hatch-a-long!

Test batch of black coppers hatched perfectly

Yay to broody hens!

going to have to withdraw sorry, will be out of town for setting day unexpectedly

Set a day early or a day late, it'll still be just as fun.

I SET 6 CALL DUCK EGGS yesterday for the hatch a long. My girls aren't laying well right now, and I could only get six eggs over the course of two weeks. I also have an egg eater, so who knows how many are being laid. Kind of a bummer, but oh well.

What colors do you have?

I'm sorry about the egg-eater. Those are a real pain.

Hey guys I haven't been on for about a week, but I have many new things. Lol. First, twizzlers 2 eggs went into lockdown and internally pipped and then the next day died. I was very upset, but I need to get her some babies so I got her some mystery babies. (Austrolorp or sex link)
This was after I got a "surprise package of chicks in the mail... Cackle hatchery called the week before saying the sultans weren't going to hatch, so they were delaying my order til tomorrow. Well on the 19th I get a phone call saying that I have birds here... I went there and they sent 21 birds but 6 died that day since they were shipped for 3 days... So they are sending the sultans and 5 new Yokohamas since I only have 1 left and 3 appenzeller spitzhauben since I lost 2 of them. At least all of my buckeyes survived and the Yokohama left I think is a girl, well actually I think all are girls, but I wanted some boys lol... Anyways I was supposed to get 10 ducks on the 18th ,but they delayed them until the 22nd so I got them on the 24th. They sent me my 5 blue Swedish ducks, and 6 black runner 2 male 3 female 1 straight run as extra, but the extra died that night since it was a runt. The next day is the day I went to go to TSC and I got a free khaki Campbell and twizzlers babies

I'm sorry about the babies you lost but congrats on all the awesome breeds! I'm so jealous.

Are the eggs going to need to be set on the fifth or can they be set a few days later because my incubator is going to be here between the fourth and the ninth

Fifth is the official setting day but feel free to set whenever you have the chance. We don't mind if the chicks hatch a few days late. Actually, it will drag out the hath-a-long a little longer. Every second this can last makes it more fun.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Here's hoping

everyone's eggs and incubators get in on time (or before time) so everyone can...



SET ALL THEIR EGGS!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[GitaBooks]

Update on my hatched chicks::::

These are the three eggs I put under Susie. She hatched out two but the third I assisted a little because I needed to move them by evening. It had absorbed the blood and yolk so all I did was pull its head out and let it crawl the rest of the way out on its own time. The I moved these three and their mother to a crate (out of the nest box).


I moved Princess from the broody crate to the broody A-frame with her four bantie chicks, including Sight (this little gal) with the cute dark cap on her head.


This is Snart seconds after hatching. He hatched by himself and then I pulled him out. Look how strong his neck is! He was already crawling! This guy is incredible.


Here is Buttercream. She is one of the standard chicks that are under Susie. She also has a cap on her head. I'm worried about her leg because she seems to be dragging it slightly, but I can't tell if this is just her getting use to walking or if its an actual injury. I hope I didn't hurt her carrying three chicks and their mother at the same time (not easy).


Three of Princess's chicks: Snart, Sight and Roshashanah. The one hiding is Nat.


Susie's three chicks. Rory (Bub's son/daughter), Denali and Buttercream.


I have some more eggs in the incubator. If they don't start showing signs of hatching soon I'm going to open them and see if the chicks died. I don't want to do it too early but the longer I wait the more I think I'm just letting them suffocate in their shells.

 

[PaisyQ]

Which eggs would be better to set on March 5?

The ones I collect every few hours yesterday, today and tomorrow, when the outdoor temperature was between 40 and 50 degrees, or the ones I will collect in the mid to late afternoon this coming thursday, friday and saturday, when the outdoor temperature will be around 30 degrees?

Only have space in the brooder box for 12 chicks, so I can't set everything. Which option will give me the best hatchability?

 

[Penny Hen]

No your max bid is hidden.

People seem to wait til the last few seconds to place their max bid. Because ebay doesn't have extended time and if your outbid you don't have a chance to bid more.

Good luck on getting your eggs.

It is like you are fencing with rapiers only in cyberspace.

 

[Penny Hen]

Update on my hatched chicks::::

These are the three eggs I put under Susie. She hatched out two but the third I assisted a little because I needed to move them by evening. It had absorbed the blood and yolk so all I did was pull its head out and let it crawl the rest of the way out on its own time. The I moved these three and their mother to a crate (out of the nest box).


I moved Princess from the broody crate to the broody A-frame with her four bantie chicks, including Sight (this little gal) with the cute dark cap on her head.


This is Snart seconds after hatching. He hatched by himself and then I pulled him out. Look how strong his neck is! He was already crawling! This guy is incredible.


Here is Buttercream. She is one of the standard chicks that are under Susie. She also has a cap on her head. I'm worried about her leg because she seems to be dragging it slightly, but I can't tell if this is just her getting use to walking or if its an actual injury. I hope I didn't hurt her carrying three chicks and their mother at the same time (not easy).


Three of Princess's chicks: Snart, Sight and Roshashanah. The one hiding is Nat.


Susie's three chicks. Rory (Bub's son/daughter), Denali and Buttercream.


I have some more eggs in the incubator. If they don't start showing signs of hatching soon I'm going to open them and see if the chicks died. I don't want to do it too early but the longer I wait the more I think I'm just letting them suffocate in their shells.

If they have internally pipped but are stalling, take a thumbtack or needle and make a small hole in the air pocket section of the shell. This will let more oxygen in and the chick often will gain the strength to zip on out.

 

[Penny Hen]

Times running out,only a little over two days left, if you haven't get your guess in!



Contest #1: Guess How Many Eggs Will Be Set! Ends March 1st
To enter, go here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ill-be-set-7th-annual-byc-easter-hatch-a-long

Who do you email with how many eggs you will set?