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

[Junibutt]

Yay!!!! I hope we get the rest out!! I'm so excited, been a bit worried BC you haven't pmed me but I'm super excited! Anything from the legbars eggs yet? Oh I want more blue layers-come on legbar chickies!!!

Oh also you said only 8 made it to lockdown. Which one dropped out?

In case anyone is perplexed by this, Junibutt's test hatch are moving in with me so I may be more excited than anyone about them.

One was put in late so hatch date on that is 24th/25th. One Legbar has pipped but its from the wrong end. I may have to help it if it doesn't come out by the end of the day.

 

[Junibutt]

The air cell will show up over the next few days. Not seeing one the first day or so is not uncommon! Save away!

Most of my Legbar barely have an air cell when they lay. It takes about 3-5 days for mine to start showing a nice air cell.

 

[Cynthia12]

I 'm in!!

 

[ChickenGrass]

Eggcellent hatch! Who knows what a couple more days will bring? Could you post pics then, please?

Ok I will get some pictures now

 

[StarMeKritten]

I'm doing some Ameraucana mixes. I'm crossing my fingers on my Buff Orpington to start laying between now and then (she's overdo!). Would love to have buff/ameraucana mix. Have 2 other ladies I will def be hatching from (white wyandotte & Araucana mix). This is my first hatch a long so I'm super excited! FX on the buff!

I have a few of that mix. I call them my "Easter orps". Excellent layers of huge (average 67g) green eggs when they aren't broody. Mine have been good mothers too. Each of mine hatched and raised chicks last year. Two of them hatched and raised chicks twice.

I grew up calling them possums, but spelling it opossum.  Shrug.  

I did have one of those mind blowing / reality altering situations a few years ago, though.  I walked into a grocery store one day and it was lit up like Valentine's Day, but it was October.  I thought to myself, "What the heck?"  Did I miss something?  I asked someone and they said it was Sweetest Day.  Um, what?  "Sweet-est DAY?"  (Say this with a sneer, I did.)  Sweetest day?  Really?  OOooooooooook.  I had recently moved to the area at the time.  I thought, much like Tyme machines and bubblers, that this was a Wisconsin thang.  

So, I did what anyone would naturally do.  I called my Mom.  Mom is pretty much my litmus test for "should I have known about this?"  Mom tells me, oh yeah, Sweetest day, been around for years.

Well, huh.  

(I still think they made it up a few years ago and the whole world is in on the conspiracy to try to convince me it actually is a holiday, regardless of how ridiculous it sounds, just to see if I'm gullible to believe it.)

I had never heard of sweetest day until worked for hallmark a few years ago. It's not really a thing here. I had one store that got in about 2 cards for it. I had to ask my boss what it was. Apparently it's a Great Lakes regional thing.

 

[Lozuufy]

I am getting ready for hatch day! LOL I ordered me Brinsea Octagon 40 Advanced incubator! Bigger is better, right?

Yes, bigger is ALWAYS better when it comes to incubators

 

[ChickenGrass]

Here's some pictures of them

 

[Lozuufy]

So I candled my quail eggs

and 8 out of 10 are developing so far!

They are only on day 4, I hope all the live eggs make it to hatching

I also candled my chicken eggs that are on day 2 but it's too early to see anything, though I still candled all 8 of them

 

[ToddQ]

The ag teacher figured out where the murdering varmint came into the coop last Friday. He's guessing it was a skunk and is setting a trap.

i hope you get the muderer !!! Good luck.

 

[ToddQ]

Ok I have a broody Australorp who has been sitting on her golfballs for a week now, night and day. I also have 28 eggs in the incubator on day 8. I would like to place a few under my hen doring the last week, but need to figure out how and when to move her nest so it isn't 4 feet off the ground. I have had a lot of suggestions, but would like to hear what and when has worked best for the greatest chicken farmers in the world here at BYC.