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

[Chickenluver106]

I'm feeling so overwhelmed right now I still don't have an incubator or eggs

 

[Cynthia12]

Count me in for my first ever hatch-a-long and first ever hatch! I'll be hatching some of my Cream Legbars. Can't wait!!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm feeling so overwhelmed right now I still don't have an incubator or eggs

Hurry up!

 

[ToddQ]

That's awesome!!! Good luck with the hatch!! And i think they probably still have some wild instincts and know that many wouldn't survive/would be too hard to manage. And/or she can count. Birds are really smart even chickens so i bet she knows exactly how many she can handle what will you do with the others? Keep them in the brooder?

They will hatch in the incubator then be sold as quick as possible lol. Have 6 Pure Ameraucauna, the others are either barred rock or australorp/rock cross.

 

[ShrekDawg]

They will hatch in the incubator then be sold as quick as possible lol. Have 6 Pure Ameraucauna, the others are either barred rock or australorp/rock cross.

Ahh I see! Lol good luck selling them! And awesome!!! So are those all the eggs or just the ones leftover or? Sorry, just kinda nosey and curious what you gave her to hatch

 

[generaldsherman]

UPDATE After last nights incubator troubles and my eggs hitting 106 degrees, I have been quite worried about them since they are on day 15 now. I just candled and it looks like I only lost 3 and had 4 blanks out of 28.

I finally decided to move my broody and her golfballs to the new in coop brooder. Made the move at noon. Figured was as good a time as any. I just picked up her nest, with her in it and moved it. She never made a peep. Feeling good I waited an hour, then went ahead and took her golfballs from her which really made her mad. So I gave her some real eggs 1 at a time and she was like a backhoe pulling them under her. She took 12 and absolutely refused any more. I guess she knows her limit lol. So now we wait fri-sat. Should be the day they hatch. Fingers crossed.

good luck!

 

[ToddQ]

Ahh I see! Lol good luck selling them! And awesome!!! So are those all the eggs or just the ones leftover or? Sorry, just kinda nosey and curious what you gave her to hatch

Lol gave her 6 Ameraucauna and 2 each of French Copper Maran, Australorp/Barred rock cross and Pure Barred Rock. Last 3 breeds are my egg laying machines!

 

[ToddQ]

good luck!

Thank you very much! This will be my first ever hatch so my wife and I are a wreck lol.

 

[katsdar]

Thank you very much! This will be my first ever hatch so my wife and I are a wreck lol.

You think your a wreck now wait till lock down, lol, we remember those days and it really gets just a tiny bit easier

 

[Chickenluver106]

Yay I just ordered my incubator now I just need bantam eggs preferably Cochin Bantams