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

[butterfliesdoku]

Ok guys so I messed up big time. I got so excited when I got my first green egg that I added it to the incubator then thought "this egg is going to need buddies" so I added three more. I created a staggered hatch due to hatch a week after my first hatch and now today day 18, the air cells are too small! I need help! Humidity right now is at 18%

 

[Humbug3445]

Ok thanks
I think we x ray in Virginian

 

[mlm Mike]

Hello Everyone!

We are back to hatch at our Assisted Living Senior Living! This year we have moved to the Cottages which is a Assisted Living and Memory Care, in northeast Wisconsin. We will be setting 24 eggs total at two different locations with 85 Seniors enjoying the experience. My name is Phil, and you may know me as "Ridgeline Hens" So Glad to be apart of the bigger picture!

Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long!

I'm in! I love hatchalongs

Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long!

I wont be in the Easter hatch. Take me off the list.

Wont have eggs in time and just realized I posted in Trader Joe Eggs Hatch a long earlier today saying the same thing...think I need a larger computer screen...

Happy Hatching all. Best of luck.

Oh, no. Good luck with your hatches when you get some eggs.

Can I join in?

Yes, Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long!

Just set 30 call duck eggs for the hatch a long.

Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long!

So this is my first time in a hatch along and I'm wondering what to do next. I signed up and I'm on the list. Do I just post how many eggs I am going to set? This has been a lot of fun reading the thread and I'm excited about doing a hatch with everyone else.

I just finished a hatch 4 weeks ago and have 10 healthy chicks out in the coop separated from my 12 hens and 2 roosters. I'm planning on setting 30 eggs on the 5th.

Thanks for any information on how to proceed

Post the number of eggs you set, after setting them. That number tends to change for many people. We also prefer that numbers aren't given out until after the guess the number set contest is closed.

I'm definitely in, setting 15 chicken eggs!

Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long!

Ok guys. Who all can remember the teen years when hair starts growing everywhere

my poor birds are there now



They look half plucked here

I think they are cute anyways.


Hatching Participant List is Current to Post 6133

 

[The Cottages]

The Incubators are set in place waiting for EGGS!



here is my link to the incubators I built above. Both work very well, the small one you turn the eggs by hand.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/homemade-incubator-4

 

[Razadia]

Quote: Yep. Two days before and 2 days after set date. With bad aircells, you should let them sit for at least 12 to 24 hours so the aircells reattach. @Sally Sunshine has a ton of great links to help.

Yeah, Sally Sunshine's earlier post is what I was using as a guide. They're currently sitting in the coolest room of my house resting, I'm still debating on when exactly to stick them in the incubator. Waiting until Thursday for the HAL would be quite the stretch, but now I have another dilemma!

Someone conveniently pointed me towards someone a bit more local with fertile EE eggs yesterday. They're about a two hour drive from me, just on the edge of far enough that I couldn't decide if it'd be worth the drive for a dozen eggs. She texted me this morning that she'd be willing to deliver them to me since she'll be passing through here on Thursday, but only if I buy at least 3 dozen eggs at $15 a dozen. The price doesn't phase me at all and that's super nice of her... but what am I going to do with 5 dozen eggs! Granted, like I said, those first 2 dozen are in rough shape. I'll be so upset to set those 2 dozen and only get a couple from it. But really... I only wanted maybe 10 EE tops from the whole ordeal XD I suppose I could always buy another 3 dozen, hatch what I can and sell the extras.

But my turner in my main incubator won't fit them all, it only holds 41 eggs. I have another incubator, a fridge style one, also made for reptiles. It is a moving air incubator and temp/humidity is a little easier to manage in it, but I'd have to turn any eggs in it by hand. What I'm thinking is, I can go ahead and set these two dozen eggs I already have this evening in my fridge incubator. That'll give them a full 24 hours of resting, and I can leave them in egg cartons in the fridge so they stay upright. I likely won't turn them at all for the first 2-3 days given Sally Sunshine's recommendations and then when I do, I'll manually tilt the egg cartons ever so slightly. Maybe the manual turning will be better on them anyway given the rough air cells. Then, I could get those other 3 dozen delivered Thursday, and I'll still be able to participate in the HAL with those eggs! Now I just gotta ask the boyfriend. Granted, the answer is usually yes, but I think he likes to at least believe he has some control over my chicken antics.
Sounds like you got a plan! Most of the chicks I'm hatching are spoken for, so I can set as many as I can fit in the bator.... and if all else fails I can clean my old one and try to hatch in it. I still need to fix it.

 

[Cynthia12]

They sure are...

They are beautiful..I so wish I could have ducks!

 

[TJordan]

Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long! Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long! Oh, no. Good luck with your hatches when you get some eggs. Yes, Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long! Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long! Post the number of eggs you set, after setting them. That number tends to change for many people. We also prefer that numbers aren't given out until after the guess the number set contest is closed. Welcome to the 2016 Easter Hatch A Long! I think they are cute anyways.
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That they are. So cute. The second chick is Pip Squeak. The pullet that is half the size of the other hatch mates but she is SO BOLD!!! Every time I go in there they all run but she runs up to me and tries to pounce on my hand. Tiny Dynomite might be a better name

 

[Ravynscroft]

  They are beautiful..I so wish I could have ducks!  

Thanks, hon! Wish you could too... they can be messy, but so worth it!

 

[Cynthia12]

So with the first 24 hrs being called day 1 it would start on the 5th and end on the 6th. So technically half of the 5th would be day 1 or are you only supposed to count the day after it ends?

Let's do it this way. Day 1, is March 6th. The day after you set them on March 5th.

 

[Razadia]

Saint needs a new name.

He decided to attack me while I was in the pen getting an egg. I picked him up and held him while I was busy and that did the trick.

On the bright side, I now know what breed I want to keep for meat. Saint is a hefty boy with a lot of breast to him. Blizzard is the same way, but he doesn't give me a reason to pick his heavy butt up. At this point I'm hoping for lots of cross breed roos off of them.