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

[mlm Mike]

Alright, I'm in!!! Just set 8 Cream Legbar eggs from my own flock a few minutes ago.

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- Ant Farm

Welcome and Good Luck with your hatch!

Set:
12 assorted Silkie
5 Buff Laced Polish
10 Lavender Orpington (drove 2 hours each way last night for these)
2 chocolate Orpington (gifts from LO lady)
1 Jubilee Orpington (also a gift from LO lady)
3 Ameraucana (not EE)
2 mystery eggs- Ameraucana or EE, not marked, so we'll see
15 White Plymouth x EE aka barnyard mutt
3 Easter Egger
7 Midget White Turkey (set 2/27)
= 60

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Ok the little road trip to get eggs was a bit of an adventure when I realized I grabbed the wrong adapter for the gps. But I got them, thank you Christina and ty for the free extra dozen! First pic is the beautiful new eggs on the way home (CL, OE, EE), 2nd pic is of all the eggs together (mine are from various prod. type hens by CL & EEs roos). I filled up my lucky dry hatching bator with the new blood and had pull an even older incubator out of the attic for eggs from my own flock. It has no fan and no turner so we'll see how it goes. I never did fit all that are pictured.
Total set: 91

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I'm sorry...I made a mistake. I set 16 eggs today, Not 18. I just typed the wrong number. @ronott1

Updated it, but had to get my glasses, without them both numbers looked the same. lol

@mlm Mike Final Update: The rest of my eggs showed up today so my total will be 79.

19 blue partridge and gold partridge brahmas
4 red orpingtons
4 red cuckoo orpingtons
3 silver partridge orpingtons
7 laced orpingtons
3 white orpingtons
25 choc/choc cuckoo orpingtons
2 jubliee orpingtons
12 black/blue copper marans

Happy Hatching to us all

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So here are my total numbers:
3 lav orps
4 olive egger
6 araucana
8 BBS LF cochin
7 mottled Java
6 BBS Marans
6 barn yard mix
For a total of 40 eggs

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total eggs set=26

15 copper marans

5 double laced barnivelder

3 tolbunt polish
3 nacked neck

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Hatch Participant/Set list is current to post 6900

 

[sbarab]

Think I killed my eggs on the first night! Temp spiked to 127 due to me not putting the sensor back into the incubator after adding water. Spike was for around 7 hours while I was asleep. . Think I should just turn it off or let it go a couple of days?

 

[Pensmaster]

Think I killed my eggs on the first night! Temp spiked to 127 due to me not putting the sensor back into the incubator after adding water. Spike was for around 7 hours while I was asleep. . Think I should just turn it off or let it go a couple of days?

I'd start another batch if you have any more eggs. Any temp over 103 for that long will pretty much cook them.

 

[CGilbert]

Think I killed my eggs on the first night! Temp spiked to 127 due to me not putting the sensor back into the incubator after adding water. Spike was for around 7 hours while I was asleep. . Think I should just turn it off or let it go a couple of days?

No harm in letting it go for a few days. And you have a two day window to be part of the hatch, so add some more today

 

[draye]

I set 30 eggs last night around 10; not the best idea since I could hardly sleep last night. I stayed up 'til 3 checking to make sure the temp stabilized. There are 12 French Black Copper Marans, 6 assorted silkies, 6 assorted Orpingtons, all picked up locally yesterday. The other six are from my flock: 2 Polish, 3 Cochin and one Ameraucana crossed with a Salmon Faverolles roo. The Maran eggs came from a really nice person who first told me they had lots of orders for eggs and young chickens who were not laying well yet. I told them about this Hatch-A-Long I wanted to participate in and that I really wanted to include a few dark brown eggs. I offered to pay more than their very reasonable price, and they agreed. When I picked them up they just gave me a dozen eggs! All they asked was that I let them know how well they hatch and if I have too many, they would gladly take them back! Feeling very blessed!  

Very nice neighbors.

My mom doesn't like birds as a whole, but she still brags about mine when she gets the chance!

Yea, grandchicken kids are the best.

 

[Chaos18]

Welcome and Good Luck with your hatch! Thank You! Good Luck with your hatch! Thank You! Good Luck with your hatch! Updated it, but had to get my glasses, without them both numbers looked the same. lol Thank You! Good Luck with your hatch! Thank You! Good Luck with your hatch! Thank You! Good Luck with your hatch!
[COLOR=0000FF]Hatch Participant/Set list is current to post 6900[/COLOR]

So do you want to know the number of eggs currently cooking or the number I started with? 12 Ancona eggs (pulled two clear today) 10 16 Dominique eggs 16 Partridge Chantecler & Partridge Chantecler/Java mix Total currently in bator 42 but started with 44.

 

[mlm Mike]

Set 12 Ayam Cemani

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54!!!! Total barring any accidents.



Some are dirty but that's ok. Several were from a hen that hid a nest. If they don't hatch it's ok. Point is my husband is going to KILL ME!!!

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I placed 8 eggs under my little broody hen.

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@mlm Mike

Ok they have started. I've set 38

24 Orpington's
14 project birds.

And the weather is bringing in the biggest storm we've had in quite awhile. Wind gust up to 60 mph. Generator is ready.

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Okay, hopefully all of my eggs are set now! There's a chance I might add more tomorrow, if two of my hens will cooperate, but I'm going to try really hard to resist.

All eggs from my own flock. In the Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco I have 9; 6 from my SLW hen and mixed breed rooster, and 3 from my best laying mixed breed hen, and the same mixed breed rooster. I'll be turning these by hand.



In my Brinsea Mini Advanced I have 5 eggs. These are from 3 Delaware hens, and the son of the SLW hen and mixed up rooster from above. So I guess he's a mixed breed rooster too. He's also an Alumni from last year's Easter HAL.



So, I guess that means I've set 14 eggs for this years HAL. Since I have room for 12 chicks, that all makes good sense.

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Alright, my final count is 27 Easter Egger mixes.

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We set 34 eggs today, if slightly later than noon. *sigh*

Mix of standard (barnyard mix), and bantams ("purebred" Silkie and D'Uccle).



The hand belongs to my daughter, The Chicken Whisperer (age 10).

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Oops got home from the movies to a few more eggs layed so of course I set 2 more. My complete total now is 23.

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42 eggs set.

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I need to add 10 eggs to my total. So 102 instead of 92. My shipped eggs came today

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I just set 40 eggs total. My own mixes 9 and a local farmers 31 mixes of delawares and welsumers.

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Set 14 today. First time and new incubator. Barnyard mix of eggs. Hopeing for the best.

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I set 40 eggs all together. some I put in earlier (on thursday) so they will hatch on my bday.

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Set 42 Eggs this year. Filled the bator. We have a huge variety this year thanks to a couple of special breeders. English Orphingtons (black mottled, blue, black and splash), EEs, Olive Eggers (splash Marans and Cream Legbar) and barn yard mix. Only setting one of our own eggs and it is a Black Copper Marans cross. Using the thermostat that my husband made for me last year.

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I placed 20 eggs for the HAL today. 8 BCM and 12 barred rock!!

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I set 16 ameraucana eggs today ...ill be happy if half hatch.

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Hatch Participant / Set List is Current to Post 6950

 

[Happy Chooks]

Just set 198chicken&we set 12 geese last week to join hatch a long but don't know how to join

You just did!

My mom doesn't like birds as a whole, but she still brags about mine when she gets the chance!

And they always want eggs to eat!

Last minute joiner! Set my eggs I received from @KYTinpusher . Some beautiful isbar eggs, 2 black Ameraucanas and some from a chocolate green egger project!

How many total eggs did you set?

Last week I set 16 Ancona duck eggs for the HAL. Just now I candled them and all 16 are developing! Both fertility and livability have improved over the batch I set four weeks ago. Hooray! On track for a great hatch. Good luck everyone!

Quote: Mike is a fantastic helper! Along with Sally and Ron too!

Question: should I clean the dirt off this turkey egg before setting it? Picked up egg wash just in case

I wouldn't wash it.

I'm new to BYC, well as a member. Been reading the site for almost 2 yrs now. I just put my first batch of eggs in my hovabator on Tuesday, dang it! ( hope all 13 hatch...beginners luck) I would have waited if I saw the hatch a long sooner, always next yr

Welcome! Glad you finally joined!

So do you want to know the number of eggs currently cooking or the number I started with?
12 Ancona eggs (pulled two clear today) 10
16 Dominique eggs
16 Partridge Chantecler & Partridge Chantecler/Java mix

Total currently in bator 42 but started with 44.

The total number you originally set please.

 

[draye]

 Oops - you missed me (Post 6878).

[COLOR=333333]"Alright, I'm in!!! Just set 8 Cream Legbar eggs from my own flock a few minutes ago.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]Add me to the list!!!! "[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]- Ant Farm [/COLOR]
[COLOR=333333]@mlm Mike
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Yea another NN lover in this Hatch-A-Long.

Here are my eggs I set.
1 Brown/White Chinese goose egg set 2/26
1 Toulouse goose egg set 2/28
4 Ameri-flower
4 SBEL
2 OE
1 EE
3 Maran
3 Lavender Orpington
20 Rhodebar
31 Barnyard mutts
10 Lavender Orp/ Rhodebar
3 LO/ Unknown breed Splash hens
With a grand total of 81 chicken eggs set around 12:30 p.m and 2 goose eggs

Okay what us an Ameri-flower?

 

[Chaos18]

You just did!

And they always want eggs to eat!

How many total eggs did you set?





Mike is a fantastic helper!  Along with Sally and Ron too!



I wouldn't wash it.

Welcome!  Glad you finally joined!

The total number you originally set please.

44 set for the EHAL.