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

[CGilbert]

Today I got my f2 Olive egger eggs for the Easter hatch!!! And they are beautiful!!! They were also packaged amazingly! There were styrofoam only the sides of the box, and then the eggs were in wrapped in 2 layers (paper towel and bubble wrap). And they were in all in a bed of wood chips. I got 8 eggs, and only 2 are cracked. But it all works out because my incubator only holds 7 eggs, and now I have room for my Silkie egg. Here they are:

Any chance of using wax to seal the cracks?

 

[deserteggs22]

Any chance of using wax to seal the cracks?

No, the whites in the egg were seeping out in both of them.

 

[CGilbert]

Slight issue with my eggs... I currently have 10 eggs and only 12 spots in my incubator available for the hatch along... Probably going too start eating dilkie eggs (Dorking/silkie)

Edited to add:
And I get anywhere between 1-4 a day

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks everybody.

Tomorrow is another day and another batch of shipped eggs... The saga continues...

Same eggs? Being replaced?

 

[Cynthia12]

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.

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[TheChickenQueen]

I think I'll be joining in!

 

[Cynthia12]

I think I'll be joining in!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think I have the addiction bad...

just went to Meyer's website and was browsing all the brown egg layers and planning when i could get them and what was available and everything... figured August was good, even added a couple birds to my cart just for kicks!!! 2 SLW, 2 BR and another BO. But don't worry, didn't place the order!! Couldn't even if I wanted to lol

But then shipping was like $40 so I wasn't about to pay $60 for 4 or 5 little chickies. Plus I WANT A SPECKLED SUSSEX

SOOOOO THEEEEENNNNN...

I went back to the Morrison's website to their chick list and was looking at all the dates and trying to figure out what I could get when. And they have Speckled Sussex coming in April 11th but then that's sooo soon.... and it's a 3 order min from the same ship date and there's only one other breed that week. But I think that's also for placing your order, guarantee they would probably still have other breeds from the previous weeks in store.

Or I could go to TSC.

Or just get 3 Speckled Sussex.

Or just get none since the limit is 8 and mine haven't even begun laying yet.

But by the time the Speckled Sussex come in I will probably have my license and may just drive to one of the feed stores and wind up coming home with 3 little Speckled Sussex babies.... and possibly some barred rocks, buff orpingtons, and/or rhode island reds.....

I don't even know if my coop will even be finished by then. And even if it is, this is exactly why I wanted to build a bigger coop.

OMG.

I've got it bad....

 

[UGLYFOOT]

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Not sure what you mean about seal? I just made a wire cave, put the heating pad on top. Then I covered it with a towel that drapes down around the sides and back, with a flap in the front. I did not cover the towel with the press and seal, as I have several that I just change out when they get gross and wash them. The pad on the bottom is just covered with a hand size towel.