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

[Wickedchicken6]

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So you're getting chicks like her??? I have hope!!

Her and her sisters from this hatch are just starting to lay and I'm getting green, green, tan/pink, green...lol!! The place had many EE's but also bantams and Silkies. Interesting things appear once in a while...lol!!!

I'm going for a cool tone flock; blacks, blues, greys and whites...but I'm still a slave to form over fashion...it'll take a while. I hope I get white ones like you're getting!

 

[Ravynscroft]

ok fer now, working on fixin a few life things and stuff will be a whole lot better.  I miss chattin with ya and seeing what your up to. I cant keep up on byc I get lost.

I am perpetually lost... just poke at a few and keep going... got too many ducklings to try to keep up with now... and shtuff went bad here too... :/

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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I know, right?
I got 6709 behind on the incubating thread. I gave up on that one.

are you saying you dont like the company?

ya dont have to read back!! thats nuts!! Just pop on and ask if you wanna know something or whats going on in the conversation.

back at ya!!!

(Psssst...I did, but it got missed)




I'll go over there...

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Are the baskets to keep things cleaner?

The baskets are separating the eggs by the hens that laid them. I'm replenishing my stock and I don't want to keep a roo and a hen from the same pair. I'll be banding them at hatch and then raising them up, keeping the best looking with the best egg color

Good luck with the hatch!

Thanks!

 

[chicken04]

I'm in!!!!!!!

 

[draye]

The baskets are separating the eggs by the hens that laid them. I'm replenishing my stock and I don't want to keep a roo and a hen from the same pair. I'll be banding them at hatch and then raising them up, keeping the best looking with the best egg color
Thanks!

I don't like keeping group mates together either, so I too band the legs of chicks that hatch as a group.

I'm too a point now though there is going to be some inbreeding especially on my Mottled project where I'm going to have to. I'm thinking though father/daughter, son/mother. I should then have some from another run to breed back to the inbred ones.

BTW: I use the plastic strawberry containers 2 and 3 quart sizes to put the eggs into groups. Makes it so much easier.

 

[Nomibear]

I want in! Not sure what eggs yet, but I'll get there.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I don't like keeping group mates together either, so I too band the legs of chicks that hatch as a group.

I'm too a point now though there is going to be some inbreeding especially on my Mottled project where I'm going to have to. I'm thinking though father/daughter, son/mother. I should then have some from another run to breed back to the inbred ones.

BTW: I use the plastic strawberry containers 2 and 3 quart sizes to put the eggs into groups. Makes it so much easier.

I actualy have chicks growing out from a totally unrelated flock also. Only 3 managed to hatch from the poorly packaged eggs but they're supposed to be from some good stock with nice egg color so I'm hoping to incorporate them in too.

The baskets I'm using are similar to these. I took a small drill bit and drilled a bunch of holes in the bottoms of them to increase the air flow.

 

[LocalYokel]

Or, if you are even older

like me, you just set eggs every couple of days from now until Easter and you are bound to hit the HAL dates!

(That's my excuse and I'm stickin' to it!)

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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Gotcha! I've had excellent luck with my baskets. Hasn't seemed to make any difference as far as hatching. I put mine in a basket/baskets to keep the mess contained first and foremost...and I always stagger hatch so it keeps me from turning the wrong eggs by accident.

I LOVE the dollar store and their baskets!! 'Cause that's where I get mine too!

Ok, the chicks stay sort of contained...lol. I did use a plastic container with higher sides and no perforation to contain the last hatch I had. I have a lot of air movement...but I found it worked fine too.

I also use wire stationary racks to stack the eggs to get more eggs in...although that can be a bit hairy (and scary)





or to hold my pudding cups to increase humidity. Some of the eggs in red had damaged air cells so they've been upright in that rack the whole incubation. They hatch this weekend.