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

[casportpony]

My EHAL update.

Lots of Muscovy eggs set, but some of those might be 28 day quacker eggs. Also set some pea eggs.

Anyone else hatching Muscovies, peafowl, turkeys, Guineas or 28 day ducks?

-Kathy

 

[TJordan]

Hey. I can't find the help info link on the shipped eggs. I've never done them and my eggs should be here today/tomorrow God willing in 1 piece.

 

[Chaos18]

My EHAL update.

Lots of Muscovy eggs set, but some of those might be 28 day quacker eggs.

Also set some pea eggs.

Anyone else hatching Muscovies, peafowl, turkeys, Guineas or 28 day ducks?

-Kathy

I've got 12 Ancona ducks cooking.

 

[GitaBooks]

Alright, the extra 3 dozen eggs are a go! The seller will be hand delivering them to me on Thursday, so I'll definitely be able to set them for the HAL. Hooray!

As for these other 2 dozen, the fridge incubator is pretty well stabilized, I've patched up the two with cracks using clear nail polish and I'm going to stick them all in there in their egg cartons in a couple hours. I'll have to candle them Friday to see if their air cells have improved enough for turning. A major thanks to @Sally Sunshine for the earlier post about how to handle eggs with damaged air cells. I will be visiting it frequently for these 2 dozen eggs thanks to USPS.

I also learned something new from Sally's links too. During lockdown with my previous two hatches, I candled the eggs to make sure they were still alive and laid them down for lockdown... I didn't pay any mind to the "lowest point" of the air cell. I didn't realize this needed to be facing up for your best chance at success. I have a feeling a couple of the chicks I lost might have had to do with drowning for this reason. So glad I know this now!

Hand-delivered! You are so lucky!

My EE eggs were supposed to ship today too. Haven't seen anything saying so in my e-mail yet.

She did say she wanted to collect a couple more eggs for me. Probably tomorrow, which, would put me pretty close to setting on the 5th. If it only takes two days for them to get here.

Hens sure do like to take their time laying eggs don't they.

I was sending some EE eggs and my hen ended up laying a thin-shelled egg that broke and a double-yolker during the process.

Well, not sure if they'll get here in time for the hatch a long, blowout they do, but I just won an addiction for 8+ bearded Silkie hatching eggs lol.

Awesome!

Well, it's been ages since I posted on BYC. I'd love to join Easter Hatch-A-Long! I should have 40-ish araucana eggs by then. I'll be picking up 3 dozen on Friday, & I'll have maybe a dozen from my own hens by Saturday.

Good luck everyone!

Welcome to the hatch-a-long!

WOOP WOOP !! Got my e-mail today. . .my eggs are on their way from Hog Creek Ranch. Should be here Thursday. The date for receiving when i ordered them was March 25th. So i msgd Phillip Schardt at HCR and told him if at all possible i needed them before the 5th for the HAL. He told me he would do his best and apparently he did cause they will be here in plenty of time. Orpingtons, Orpingtons, Orpingtons !!!!

Yay!

AHHHHH my new bator should arrive on Thursday!!!! I'm so in if I can get my hands on some eggs in time

Question for you all. I'm new to egg hatching. I set my first eggs 20 days ago. Today I came home from work and looked in the bator and one has piped. Oh I am an excited chicken mama until I looked at the thermometer and see that my incubator is almost 110 degrees. I'm not seeing any movement in the egg the piped or any others. Do you think I cooked them all? Can they survive that high of heat during lock down?

Yes, they can. Open the incubator and cool them off. Don't worry about humidity right now, the most important thing is to lower their temperature. Once the incubator is stable again, add some more water to increase humidity once more and place the eggs in once more. Make sure not to shock them with the cold, you want to cool them, not chill them.

What color Orpingtons? I got my first Lavender Orpington egg today.

Awesome.

I set a goose egg yesterday will it count for the hatch-a-long?

What breed?

Count me in. I didn't have an incubator last year. So I missed out but I got one with duck eggs already and another should be here just in time to put some in.

Cool! Welcome to the HAL! So glad you could join!

Hi everyone, I have an IncuView incubator that rolls eggs on their sides. My eggs are shipped, one has a detached air cell, and I read an article saying they incubate eggs straight up and don't turn them for the first 7 days. What should I do, and what do you guys do?

I kept mine upright and just tipped the carton they were in to turn them. However, none of mine hatched, so I can't say my information is that useful.

Best of luck!

I just did final candle on a dozen going into lockdown. This is my first incubation so Im wondering, I see on a couple that I could still barely see some veins and on others it just looked all black other than the air cells. Is this ok? Good or bad?

All black is a good thing. Any egg you can see through at lock-down hasn't developed and can be tossed. Sometimes eggs that look all black truly are clear as well (get a strong flash-light and it will let you know). I generally try to give any egg I'm not sure of a chance, just in case. Sometimes its hard to tell what's going on in an egg.

Best of luck!

Good night everyone!

Hatch-a-long set day is right around the corner (that corner seems to be getting longer and longer though

...)!

I know!

Count me in! I didn't think I could join this hatch but things fell into place, I found the eggs I wanted locally, and I'm picking them up on Friday! This will be my first time incubating, and I couldn't be more eggcited!

So cool!

Still waiting for the Polish eggs to arrive... It's like waiting on a grandchild to be born! Our 1st and only Polish hatched Saturday & we are hooked. Nobody can look at "him" without laughing. "Sir Topham Hatt"

Such a cute picture!

Ok experts. Still need help on this one. One day off 8 weeks old. Roo or pullet I'm stumped on this guy. Day was a barred rock mom was a EE.

Pullet.

I had some Barred Rock x EE roos and they were crowing by 8 weeks!

I would like to join the hatch a long.

Welcome! So glad you could join!

 

[chickadeeNSC]

Does anyone use the heating pad method for brooding? If so which do you use?

 

[GitaBooks]

By the way, my last update on the hatch:

Canary, the chick that was getting so strong and lively and beautiful, died under her mother yesterday.

Her mother stepped on her and her feathered feet made it so she couldn't feel the chick under her. Being too weak, Canary likely suffocated. I held her in my hand, wishing her back to life for a few minutes and crying. I've had just about enough of chicks being dead in my hands. I know that it was my choice to try and get her under her mother, but I can't help but think waiting a few more hours she would have been strong enough and wouldn't be dead now.

On a better note, though it is snowing and cold, both Coulsen and Agent are doing well and keeping up with their mothers. Buttercream seems to be getting around fine, so I'm hoping her leg strengthens on its own. I found a home for Acorn and Diamond, so hopefully more of my Dalmatians will actually be white with black spots. The two chicks that were white both died. I buried Canary next to Snart out in the field and finally caught up on some sleep. An obnoxius wild bird out the window keeps making the calls of a hatching chick, which keeps distracting me. I keep thinking the eggs in the bator are hatching way early!

I checked on Goldie's eggs for the first time and found a few of them eaten. I cleaned up the other eggs and put some hay under them to keep the nest clean. Hopefully that predator won't return, whatever it was. I know it can't be the skunk, they can't climb at all.

Anyways, I'm going to be cleaning up the incubator soon, getting the blood out of it and sweeping off my carpet, which is COVERED in egg shells. I'm still wondering though, why were so many of my chickens upside-down in their shell? Was it because I put them into lock-down too early? (I didn't know when they would be hatching so I put them in on the 18th and they hatched on the 26th). I stopped turning them. Is that why they were positioned wrong?

 

[misfit acres]

So I was wondering if my ladies were gonna give me enough eggs to fill my bator (holds 48) and I am 4 away as of this morning!! I think we will make it!! Woo Hoo!!

So my question is this, how dirty is too dirty???

I have a few that have some smears on them, can they be set or will they add germs? I will hopefully be able to weed them out if my ladies keep laying like they are, but with as cold as it is & me working, I hope they don't freeze.............

Thanks all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

Hey. I can't find the help info link on the shipped eggs. I've never done them and my eggs should be here today/tomorrow God willing in 1 piece.

Is this what you are looking for:


Follow this link to the hatching 101 guide, look for shipped eggs section:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

How Sally Sunshine Incubates SHIPPED EGGS post #53845
REQUEST HOW YOU WANT YOUR eggs SHIPPED PEOPLE!!!! post #1050
HOW I PERSONALLY SHIP EGGS AND THE REASONS BEHIND IT ALL
Alettertoeggshippers.doc 30k .doc file
ShippingEggsTheSallySunshineWay.docx 175k .docx file
note these files are still a work in progress, thank you @Chaos18 for creating them post #40168
How Sally Sunshine Incubates SHIPPED EGGS post #53845
COLD? REQUESTING HEAT PACKS discussion post #32219
different types of heat packs for shipping animals/etc http://www.tsksupply.com/categories/Heat-Packs/
SHIPPED EGGS = CHANGE OF PLANS! Hatching Eggs 101 & post #1087

Shipped Eggs = Change Of Plans! post #23032 & Hatching Eggs 101
SHIPPED EGGS DELAYED EGGS GETTING OLD length of time en-route requires another change of plans! post #31779
SEVERELY Shipped and DAMAGED POLISH EGGS! post #30250
DETACHED AIR CELLS & LOOSE/Saddle AIR CELLS how to incubate? post #34107 post #42515


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[TJordan]

Is this what you are looking for: [COLOR=333333]Follow this link to the hatching 101 guide, look for shipped eggs section:[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]How Sally Sunshine Incubates SHIPPED EGGS[/COLOR] post #53845[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=FF0000]REQUEST HOW YOU WANT YOUR eggs SHIPPED PEOPLE!!!! post #1050[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=FF0000]HOW I PERSONALLY SHIP EGGS AND THE REASONS BEHIND IT ALL[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Alettertoeggshippers.doc 30k .doc file[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]ShippingEggsTheSallySunshineWay.docx 175k .docx file[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]note these files are still a work in progress, thank you @Chaos18 for creating them post #40168[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]How Sally Sunshine Incubates SHIPPED EGGS[/COLOR] post #53845[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]COLD? REQUESTING HEAT PACKS discussion[/COLOR] post #32219[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]different types of heat packs for shipping animals/etc http://www.tsksupply.com/categories/Heat-Packs/[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]
[COLOR=008080]SHIPPED EGGS = CHANGE OF PLANS! Hatching Eggs 101 & post #1087[/COLOR]

[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]Shipped Eggs = Change Of Plans! [/COLOR]post #23032 & Hatching Eggs 101[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]SHIPPED EGGS DELAYED EGGS GETTING OLD[/COLOR][COLOR=FF0000] [/COLOR] length of time en-route requires another change of plans! post #31779[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]SEVERELY Shipped and DAMAGED POLISH EGGS! [/COLOR]post #30250[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=008080]DETACHED AIR CELLS & LOOSE/Saddle AIR CELLS how to incubate? [/COLOR] post #34107 post #42515[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]\[/COLOR]

Perfect thanks

 

[casportpony]

Does anyone use the heating pad method for brooding? If so which do you use?

Do you mean heating plate? If so, I use the Eco Glow 50's and I love them!

-Kathy