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

[ronott1]

I set my turkey eggs today, along with a bunch of chicken eggs. This is the first time I've ever had a full tray lol.



PS: no spoiler here, that's not ALL the eggs set. I had to spill over into another tray, just a little

You will be setting chicken eggs--The turkeys need tutors to help them out because Turkeys to not have as many instincts as chickens. Turkey poults can find the most amazing ways to die without help. They will even forget to eat LOL.

Wow that's a lot of birds! We have i think 2.7 acres but only part of it is actual yard, like half is woods. But we have 8 chickens and i thought that was a lot!

8? I will not even tell you how many I have at my place...in the city....

 

[BaileyMChicks]

I have 21.12 acres of land, but most is woods. I have a lot of old buildings that need to be torn down and a barn filled with 2 horses, 12 cats, and 2 rabbits, plus my chicken coop was the old milk house/room the milk went to. We have an old chicken coop that fell down last year, and an old garage(there was a house and garage that was built on the property a long time ago with the barn, but it's waaayy to run down to do anything with it. The garage is in better shape. The new house(the one me, my parents, and my sibling live in) is farther away from the barn) with a small chicken coop attached to it. I use the little coop attached to the old garage for broodys and older chicks. My chickens(I'm hoping to persuade my mom into letting me get call ducks and turkeys after we get our new coop built this year..wish me luck lol) love to take dirt baths and eat hay in the breezeway of the barn, and I have two adventurous pullets who love to jump up into the hay mow/loft...I'm hoping they aren't laying their eggs up there...(btw...technically my parents own the 21.12 acres of land..But whatever lol XD) I here a lot of people say that when they freerange their chickens that they go into the woods...Mine never have...Sometimes they go into the pastures for the horses, but none have ever gone into the woods....Does anyone else's chickens stay near the coop and not wonder off too much or is it just mine? lol

I also just got my brinsea mini eco incubator today....I'm exited to try it out soon XD I may have a lot of questions about it....So if anyone has any good advice about a brinsea mini eco, I'm all ears.

 

[ronott1]

I have 21.12 acres of land, but most is woods. I have a lot of old buildings that need to be torn down and a barn filled with 2 horses, 12 cats, and 2 rabbits, plus my chicken coop was the old milk house/room the milk went to. We have an old chicken coop that fell down last year, and an old garage(there was a house and garage that was built on the property a long time ago with the barn, but it's waaayy to run down to do anything with it. The garage is in better shape. The new house(the one me, my parents, and my sibling live in) is farther away from the barn) with a small chicken coop attached to it. I use the little coop attached to the old garage for broodys and older chicks. My chickens(I'm hoping to persuade my mom into letting me get call ducks and turkeys after we get our new coop built this year..wish me luck lol) love to take dirt baths and eat hay in the breezeway of the barn, and I have two adventurous pullets who love to jump up into the hay mow/loft...I'm hoping they aren't laying their eggs up there...(btw...technically my parents own the 21.12 acres of land..But whatever lol XD) I here a lot of people say that when they freerange their chickens that they go into the woods...Mine never have...Sometimes they go into the pastures for the horses, but none have ever gone into the woods....Does anyone else's chickens stay near the coop and not wonder off too much or is it just mine? lol

I also just got my brinsea mini eco incubator today....I'm exited to try it out soon XD I may have a lot of questions about it....So if anyone has any good advice about a brinsea mini eco, I'm all ears.

It's sounds like a great place!

Mine usually stay put but I have a hen that wanders. I got a call that she was around the corner on a different street! She went over the fence and was running down the road. I left work to go get her from a neighbors back yard. Normally she does not want me to pick her up, but she was very happy to see me. When we got back home she happily joined the flock--minus some clipped wing feathers of course.

 

[GitaBooks]

I want to hatch-a-long this year! Time to dust off the 'ol incubator!!

Welcome!

I'm in

If I have some eggs to set.

So glad you could join!

What kind are they?

I set my turkey eggs today, along with a bunch of chicken eggs. This is the first time I've ever had a full tray lol.



PS: no spoiler here, that's not ALL the eggs set. I had to spill over into another tray, just a little

It looks like a mosaic! You could make art out of hatching eggs.

Wow that's a lot of birds! We have i think 2.7 acres but only part of it is actual yard, like half is woods. But we have 8 chickens and i thought that was a lot!

Um... what about 65?

We've finally got our numbers down to around 45 but if all the eggs hatch as planned, it will be up to around 60 chickens again. Thankfully we have two barns (both large), a shed, and 10 acres of fields for them to forage in.

I have 21.12 acres of land, but most is woods. I have a lot of old buildings that need to be torn down and a barn filled with 2 horses, 12 cats, and 2 rabbits, plus my chicken coop was the old milk house/room the milk went to. We have an old chicken coop that fell down last year, and an old garage(there was a house and garage that was built on the property a long time ago with the barn, but it's waaayy to run down to do anything with it. The garage is in better shape. The new house(the one me, my parents, and my sibling live in) is farther away from the barn) with a small chicken coop attached to it. I use the little coop attached to the old garage for broodys and older chicks. My chickens(I'm hoping to persuade my mom into letting me get call ducks and turkeys after we get our new coop built this year..wish me luck lol) love to take dirt baths and eat hay in the breezeway of the barn, and I have two adventurous pullets who love to jump up into the hay mow/loft...I'm hoping they aren't laying their eggs up there...(btw...technically my parents own the 21.12 acres of land..But whatever lol XD) I here a lot of people say that when they freerange their chickens that they go into the woods...Mine never have...Sometimes they go into the pastures for the horses, but none have ever gone into the woods....Does anyone else's chickens stay near the coop and not wonder off too much or is it just mine? lol

I also just got my brinsea mini eco incubator today....I'm exited to try it out soon XD I may have a lot of questions about it....So if anyone has any good advice about a brinsea mini eco, I'm all ears.

Wow, sounds like an awesome place to live. We wish we had that much land, but ten acres is good. Not many trees, but we planted some and they stare starting to grow. Some of the old trees had to come down though because of the danger of them falling during a storm.

My chickens rarely venture far from the barn, especially since it is so big so it has enough room for them to live in comfortably. During the evening they will go out into the field, but only during the evening, when the hawks aren't in the sky and the sun isn't so hot.

 

[Loc20chick]

I still only have 3 chicks out and I see one more has started to zip. Do any of you wait till the hatch is done before transferring the chicks to the brooder? Before I usually take them out but don't want to mess with temp and humidity.

 

[jwlpoultry]

I set 1 goose egg today at 12:15pm

 

[Lozuufy]

I set my turkey eggs today, along with a bunch of chicken eggs. This is the first time I've ever had a full tray lol.



PS: no spoiler here, that's not ALL the eggs set. I had to spill over into another tray, just a little

Now I know not to get a cabinet bator, I'm already trying to figure out how many quail eggs would fit on there also

I have 21.12 acres of land, but most is woods. I have a lot of old buildings that need to be torn down and a barn filled with 2 horses, 12 cats, and 2 rabbits, plus my chicken coop was the old milk house/room the milk went to. We have an old chicken coop that fell down last year, and an old garage(there was a house and garage that was built on the property a long time ago with the barn, but it's waaayy to run down to do anything with it. The garage is in better shape. The new house(the one me, my parents, and my sibling live in) is farther away from the barn) with a small chicken coop attached to it. I use the little coop attached to the old garage for broodys and older chicks. My chickens(I'm hoping to persuade my mom into letting me get call ducks and turkeys after we get our new coop built this year..wish me luck lol) love to take dirt baths and eat hay in the breezeway of the barn, and I have two adventurous pullets who love to jump up into the hay mow/loft...I'm hoping they aren't laying their eggs up there...(btw...technically my parents own the 21.12 acres of land..But whatever lol XD) I here a lot of people say that when they freerange their chickens that they go into the woods...Mine never have...Sometimes they go into the pastures for the horses, but none have ever gone into the woods....Does anyone else's chickens stay near the coop and not wonder off too much or is it just mine? lol

I also just got my brinsea mini eco incubator today....I'm exited to try it out soon XD I may have a lot of questions about it....So if anyone has any good advice about a brinsea mini eco, I'm all ears.

That sounds awesome! My chickens stay near the coop too but the ducks wander off all the time

. We just bought 22 acres up in VT so I am really excited to move there (right now we live on 14 acres). I'm gonna have tons more space to get tons more birds!

 

[misfit acres]

Test hatch is done, put 11 in, 8 ended uo beinf fertile and all 8 hatched! Woo hoo! Ready for the HAL!

 

[KYTinpusher]

I still only have 3 chicks out and I see one more has started to zip. Do any of you wait till the hatch is done before transferring the chicks to the brooder? Before I usually take them out but don't want to mess with temp and humidity.

Congrats on the new chicks!

The answer to your question depends on how long it is from beginning to end of the hatch. If it is spread out and the hatched chicks are all dry and fluffy and are getting spunky and playing football with the rest of the eggs, then I will open up the bator and quickly grab the hatched chicks and put them in the brooder. I have a sprayer filled with warm water handy so I can give a mist into the bator to raise the humidity back up before I close it up again. But my bators quickly recover from brief openings. If yours is touchy, be careful about opening. Good luck with the rest of the eggs. I'm hatching with you this weekend.

I have 2 pips!!!

Can you tell I'm excited?

6 of the shipped eggs made it to lockdown. They are 1st import Isbars unrelated to my own.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Test hatch is done, put 11 in, 8 ended uo beinf fertile and all 8 hatched! Woo hoo! Ready for the HAL!

Congrats! They're adorable!