The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[Minnowey]

Never give up on them until a couple days after an outage. I've had eggs resume and hatch normally after a day without power. Yeah you can lose some, but usually not all.

I would have liked to not give up on them, but didn't know what to do. My incubator was at 15 degrees, I thought about putting them on a heating pad, but my chicks are just recovering from shipping, and they have it. In the end, it is more important to me to keep my new chicks warm, then my new eggs warm. In hindsight, I realize the best thing to do was to go to town and get another heating pad. What was I thinking

 

[I Love Layers]

My PC hen has gone broody so I will let her finish out the last 6 dayd with the eggs. I have literally no space left for chicks. My brooder room isn't set up well and my 40 laying chicks are taking up quite a bit of room at 6 weeks

 

[JaeG]

Can I still join in? I have Button quail eggs due to hatch on Saturday 15th April. They are under their mother in my aviary. She has 6 eggs and I haven't had an opportunity to candle them, but last time she hatched 6 out of 7 eggs.

I've only just sat down and worked out when they'd hatch. I've been quite busy hand rearing finches. I have a pair of society finches and I had to hand rear their remaining two chicks (they managed to kill three) when they abandoned them - the chicks were two weeks old at that stage. I put it down to inexperience. But yesterday I had to rescue their recently hatched chicks. They'd squashed one, one wasn't looking great and it has since died, all had empty crops despite me checking them late morning, and now I am hand feeding two unbelievably tiny chicks.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Can I still join in? I have Button quail eggs due to hatch on Saturday 15th April. They are under their mother in my aviary. She has 6 eggs and I haven't had an opportunity to candle them, but last time she hatched 6 out of 7 eggs.

I've only just sat down and worked out when they'd hatch. I've been quite busy hand rearing finches. I have a pair of society finches and I had to hand rear their remaining two chicks (they managed to kill three) when they abandoned them - the chicks were two weeks old at that stage. I put it down to inexperience. But yesterday I had to rescue their recently hatched chicks. They'd squashed one, one wasn't looking great and it has since died, all had empty crops despite me checking them late morning, and now I am hand feeding two unbelievably tiny chicks.

Welcome!

 

[sumi]

We need you all's votes over here, please!

Time to VOTE for the winner of the Photo Caption Contest - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

The Wife wanted to know if we were going to finish a netflix show. I told her that the cradle on the Brinsea was at the perfect spot for candling and that was the most important thing going today.... She got me back though and started practicing the chello. It is a new instrument for her and there are only so many times one can stand listening to Mary and a little lamb and twinkle twinkle little star. Please oh please get up to Go Row Your Boat already! Incubation is going very well! I will need to find homes if the ones left in the incubator hatch. I pulled three eggs today leaving 36 in the incubator. Two Pita Pinta eggs were clears and one Delaware was a blood ring. That means that all of the Delaware eggs were fertile!

You have to take the rough with the smooth!

Not me. I'll let the broody handle it.

Nice and easy with a broody. My hens are not the broody type so when one did give it a whirl it was a fascinating experience for me

You get lucky. A Welsummer Male over a hatchery Barred Rock female (so black sex link), gave me this egg. Her eggs now that she is older, are less purple-y.

Wow that's a fantastic egg, purple is my favourite colour

Update, candled all the eggs today. 27 left, 5 were never fertilized and 1 was a quitter on day 2 or 3. All the rest seem to be doing well.

I candled tonight, 2 quitters. Have 14 left in the bator.

for the 14 left.

Upon candling last night, I realized I have had a big hairline crack and the chick inside is kicking! I can't remember if I already said that...I am old. Lol

Did you put wax on to seal it?

Well I candled for the first time. ALL of my own eggs were infertile - I was sort of expecting it. But, the shipped eggs are awesome! 1 clear, 1 early death, the rest look great. Unfortunately, there is one egg that is almost completely oval. The slightest narrowing on one end caused me to place that end down. I candled and the air cell is on the wrong end - at least I think so. It's the ONLY air cell that is saddled. I put it back in with the air cell up. We'll see how it does.

Sounds like the shipped are doing well and for the wonky air cell one.

I finally had the opportunity to candle my eggs. None of the free range eggs are fertile, so I'm down to 7 buff orpington eggs. Not a big disappointment. I knew my free range rooster was getting too old to be fertile.

The poor boy, good luck with the buff eggs.

[COLOR=333333]EHAL - Day 14 Candling Report: [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Crele Orpinton - 20 set, 2 clears = 18 - 1 quitter = 17 remaining, but 3 are questionable[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Jubilee Orpington- 9 set, 1 clear = 8 - 1 quitter = 7 remaining[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Cream Legbar - 9 set, no clears = 9 - 3 quitters = 6 remaining[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Langshan - 5 set, no clears = 5 - 2 quitters = 3 remaining [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Bredha - 5 set, no clears = 5 - no quitters = 5 remaining[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Out of 48 set, 38 are still in the running although 3 of those remaining are questionable. Okay with the results of the second candling, but finding 7 quitters was somewhat disappointing.[/COLOR]

It sounds good, any that quit are a disappointment though.

Day 14 already? I was so excited to come home and candle my eggs, ontly to find that my incubator broke. All of the eggs are dead .

Oh no I'm sorry about this

Candled, down to 18/35 starters. Shipped eggs, so not bad still.

Out of 35 eggs started, only pulled out 2 clears! All other eggs have babies growing well.

That's a great candling result

First candling pulled 25 eggs. 12 of the non-fertile were the lemon frisians. This is weird as earlier in the spring I hatched from them, the eggs were fertile and I had a good hatch. This time 3 good ones out of 15. IDK what is going on in that house! Second candling tonight and all that stayed a week ago are still good tonight. Broody #1 is due to hatch her chicks on Monday. Since I posted her picture, I have 2 more broodys; a silver ameraucana and a black ameraucana. The silver AM got totally out of my control and has MANY eggs. There were a couple of days we had bad storms and I didn't feel like fighting her in the lightening and wind. Those girls can lay a dozen a day and it looks like she has at least 2 dozen under her. She is sequestered now though on her many eggs.

Mmm thats a strange one with you hatching from them already :/ Sounds like your silver is a egg hoarder!

Update: I broke another CL egg between my last post and now. I'd been having to play musical chairs between my, now, 3 incubators, and knocked my hand, and the egg, into the side of one as I was turning to switch bators. I've had butter fingers lately. Anyway, I did my second candling, and other than a questionable BCM, everybody still looks great! All 31 of them!e :yiipchick

Can I still join in? I have Button quail eggs due to hatch on Saturday 15th April. They are under their mother in my aviary. She has 6 eggs and I haven't had an opportunity to candle them, but last time she hatched 6 out of 7 eggs. I've only just sat down and worked out when they'd hatch. I've been quite busy hand rearing finches. I have a pair of society finches and I had to hand rear their remaining two chicks (they managed to kill three) when they abandoned them - the chicks were two weeks old at that stage. I put it down to inexperience. But yesterday I had to rescue their recently hatched chicks. They'd squashed one, one wasn't looking great and it has since died, all had empty crops despite me checking them late morning, and now I am hand feeding two unbelievably tiny chicks.

Welcome Good luck with your quail hatch

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Day 14 candling for me was as suspected, 5 clears removed. 3 polish and the 2 mutt eggs.
10 Brahma and 6 polish looking good but the air cells are a tad large for day 14 so I have put the humidity up to try and even things out.

 

[CuzChickens]

Day 14 already? I was so excited to come home and candle my eggs, ontly to find that my incubator broke. All of the eggs are dead .

I am so so so sorry. That has got to be heartbreaking.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Contest #9​

8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong​

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But, How Many Will [COLOR=800080]Hatch?[/COLOR]


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Well I missed that count!!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I have an incubator question I have had to add water for about a week just to keep the humidity up to 35% now this morning I had to add water measured out for every 2 degrees to go up I have 4 temp/humidity in the incubators for safety one on each side. But now when I came the n from workout no all day it was down to 34 again but since I have been in here the last hour it has risen all by itself!! It's went from 34 to 37 and on one up to 40 even! All 4 has been within 2 % of each other any idea as to why that would happen?