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

[chattery41]

WOW!!! I haven't been online for a while and I am nearly 2000 posts behind!!

With everything that has gone on over the last couple weeks (Rec Soccer Championships, oldest turned 12 Celebration, impromptu trip to Orlando, FL to see family and go to Universal Studios) I haven't been able to post any updates. Well, the Easter HAL eggs for the classroom were set last Thursday. I actually was permitted some time to speak with the children about chickens and eggs. This set will be the sum total for this HAL. Too much going on. So here are my numbers

Heritage RIR = 4
Speckled Sussex = 3
Blue/Black/Splash Maran = 3
Salmon Faverolle = 2

Black bantam (can't remember which breed) = 1
Millie Fluer d'Uccle = 3
Gold Neck d'Uccle = 6
Backyard mystery mixes = 3

Grand Total eggs set = 25


Bonus update:
Returned from Orlando Monday night to two pipped duck eggs, one pipped chicken egg, and two hatched chicks. (Eggs were "locked-down" right before we left.) All have hatched and the newest duckling additions are adorable. The ducklings are White Crested/Rouen cross. The both look like standard Rouen except one inherited it's mother's crest.

This little one has already received the name Montana (Moe for short).

Awww that little ducky was wore out.

 

[Chaos18]

 I wish I could get serama eggs like that. Maybe they'd stand a chance at hatching.

I hope the next batch gets to you safely. 

Communication with the seller is what it takes. Ask them to ship that way and offer to pay the extra. Thats what I did.

 

[chattery41]

@TJordan Lord i was lookin at the pics of the eggs cree57i just got and my stomach hurts wondering if i packed those eggs good enough. I would like pics plz, good or bad, i want to know.

Gonna be a nervous wreck all night now. lol stupid huh ? Not like they are rare or anything. But i would feel like crap after having told you i would help u out. Oh well, i think i'll take a valium and go to bed. JK LOL

 

[chickadeeNSC]

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I use it. I brood out side in a non insulated coop. For the really small 3+ days old chicks, I use a heating pad on top and bottom set on medium heat. I went to every thrift store around, to find old ones that do not have an auto shut off. You can purchase those from Sunbeam directly though. As they get older i only use the top pad. I got the idea from the thread quoted below. It is way cheaper than heat lamps, and less danger of fire. I have 4 brooders in that coop.
I agree 100% and plan to make several more!


Do you seal your as well?

 

[cree57i]

@TJordan Lord i was lookin at the pics of the eggs cree57i just got and my stomach hurts wondering if i packed those eggs good enough. I would like pics plz, good or bad, i want to know.

Gonna be a nervous wreck all night now. lol stupid huh ? Not like they are rare or anything. But i would feel like crap after having told you i would help u out. Oh well, i think i'll take a valium and go to bed. JK LOL

You are good people @chattery41

I've got a bunch of my own eggs and I think I'm going to fill up a bator and medicate that way.

 

[Mirajane]

My Mille Fleur eggs just got here! They came all the way from Georgia to California! All 12 have no cracks, and 3 have bad saddle cells, 2 minor saddle cells, and the rest are perfect! All the yolks look intact, these eggs are really easy to see through with a candler! I'm so happy!

 

[generaldsherman]

Ok, here is the video I post at this time for a hatch a long..when eggs start arriving.  

If you can get through him talking about the cars in the beginning..he explains he is a P.O. worker.   Watch for the truck, and when he asks..you didn't think we handled everything by hand did you?

Ouch, amazing ANYTHING hatches that gets shipped

I mailed 16 eggs to the eastern GA. yesterday using the @SallySunshine method. Seller got them in less than 24 hours and reported they were the best eggs he ever received!

I sent them Priority Express and wrote syrup in glass on the package. IDK if that helped, but he is very happy with what he got and I'm very happy he is very happy.

Of course they did not go through MEMPHIS  . 

look great!

just got 4 new pullets today. The seller stupidly let them sleep in the nesting boxes and, go figure, they knock eggs out which then get cracked and eaten. Any ideas on breaking them from egg-eating habbits? They'll be my only layers for at least 4 months. Right now they are in a wire-bottom rabbit hutch. Figured they were worth a risk for 5 bucks each. But hutch is too small for daytime. Will it hurt training to let the twerps forage in the yard? Maybe it'll discourage bad behavior.

(Figure I'll train them out of bad habbits and then list 3 of the 4 for sale at the local TSC so I can keep more of my own hatchers.)

 

[TJordan]

@TJordan
Lord i was lookin at the pics of the eggs cree57i  just got and my stomach hurts wondering if i packed those eggs good enough. I would like pics plz, good or bad, i want to know. Gonna be a nervous wreck all night now. lol stupid huh ? Not like they are rare or anything. But i would feel like crap after having told you i would help u out. Oh well, i think i'll take a valium and go to bed. JK LOL

Trust God. I'll send pictures as soon as they arrive. I tried tracking them but nothing was up yet earlier.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I'm going to have to bow out. I promised myself and my husband that I'd only hatch when my regular broody gets broody, and it's safe to say that, at this point, she's not going to go broody in time for eggs to arrive in time to be set even for the latest official set time, Monday.

 

[Razadia]

Quote: True. With any luck this hatch will go well and I'll be able to afford them.