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

[Wickedchicken6]

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With being incubated the same and hatching without assistance...what else is different between the two groups that could account for the difference? Nutrition or maybe parentage? I'm reaching here...but have the bantams been fed in a different pen than the large fowl? Could anything be lacking? Or is this new genetics?

Not exactly the same but if it was cattle this is what I'd be thinking. Weird comparison...I know.

But there must be some common denominator though.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

I would be thrilled if my muscovies would start to lay before the set date lol

ISO blue/splash Isbar, black copper Marans, and blue/splash ameraucana hatching eggs for hatch-along. (Had only one blue ameraucana and Isbar, stupid dog my husband and I were going to keep killed them and 9 others including 3 bcm hens. She's getting rehomed)

Oh no, sorry about the dog attack

I'm in

Welcome!

Hello All!!! I need some advice.

I am finishing up a hatch so I can get the incubator ready for the HAL. The chicks have been hatching out over the last couple days but they aren't doing too good. Most are fine and happily running about the brooder, but I have lost a couple. They won't eat or drink, just sleep until they die. I have tried showing them the water and food, yes there are electrolites in the water. I tried feeding some scrambled eggs. I am tempted to try a couple drops of sugar water in their beaks to perk them up.
The LF chicks are all good. It is the bantam chicks that are dropping. I have lost three cochin bantams. There is a fourth cochin bantam and a serama chick that just hatched yesterday, doing this sluggishness.

Please help!

As they are brooded together and nothing is different I would be inclined to think that it's the actual breed. Parent birds or egg quality. Hope you have no more losses

3/4 of the cochins should be laying by March 25! Can't wait to set eggs

I think I would like to participate.  I have a Little Giant Automatic egg turner that fits the  Little Giant incubator I borrowed from a friend.  I thought it dried out too quickly.  Anyone have any ideas on an incubator I could buy the this egg turner can be used in?

Hi and welcome to the Hatch a Long

I put sponges in the bottom of mine and little dishes of water under the screen as well.  Humidity was still a challenge.  Or maybe my hydrometer was off?  

I find cloth better for getting more surface area of water to get the humidity higher. You can double check the hygrometer though just to be sure.

 

[oneacrewife]

Finishing up my first ever incubation in about a week. I set 19 welsh harlequin ducks eggs from my flock, and three barn yard mix chicken eggs, also from my flock. Lost one of the chicken eggs about half way through, but all 19 ducks are thriving. The remaining chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Going into lock down for the ducks on wednesday! I'm really excited! I've never incubated before and I'm using a little giant still air incubator that I got as gift at few years ago and never opened. I've also been hand turning. I really didn't think that I would get any to hatch, so I'm pretty pumped!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Finishing up my first ever incubation in about a week. I set 19 welsh harlequin ducks eggs from my flock, and three barn yard mix chicken eggs, also from my flock. Lost one of the chicken eggs about half way through, but all 19 ducks are thriving. The remaining chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Going into lock down for the ducks on wednesday! I'm really excited! I've never incubated before and I'm using a little giant still air incubator that I got as gift at few years ago and never opened. I've also been hand turning. I really didn't think that I would get any to hatch, so I'm pretty pumped!

 

[sumi]

Contest time y'all!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...h-a-long-contest-2-photo-caption-contest/0_30

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Finishing up my first ever incubation in about a week. I set 19 welsh harlequin ducks eggs from my flock, and three barn yard mix chicken eggs, also from my flock. Lost one of the chicken eggs about half way through, but all 19 ducks are thriving. The remaining chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Going into lock down for the ducks on wednesday! I'm really excited! I've never incubated before and I'm using a little giant still air incubator that I got as gift at few years ago and never opened. I've also been hand turning. I really didn't think that I would get any to hatch, so I'm pretty pumped!

Congratulations on your new chicks
Good luck with the ducks next week, I hope you have a great hatch

I would love to know your secret on getting a new incubator and not using it? I'm not sure I could resist temptation

Contest time y'all!  https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...h-a-long-contest-2-photo-caption-contest/0_30

Good luck everyone!

 

[Cynthia12]

Finishing up my first ever incubation in about a week. I set 19 welsh harlequin ducks eggs from my flock, and three barn yard mix chicken eggs, also from my flock. Lost one of the chicken eggs about half way through, but all 19 ducks are thriving. The remaining chicks hatched yesterday and this morning. Going into lock down for the ducks on wednesday! I'm really excited! I've never incubated before and I'm using a little giant still air incubator that I got as gift at few years ago and never opened. I've also been hand turning. I really didn't think that I would get any to hatch, so I'm pretty pumped!

Aww..cute! Bet that incubator won't sit for a few yrs. on the shelf from now on! Good luck with the duck eggs..my favorite duck BTW!

 

[wornoutmomto3]

Thanks for all the advice. I did end up loosing both chicks. The cochin last night and the serama just now. All the other chicks are running around the brooder like nothing happened. So, I am hoping for no more losses from this batch. No one else is acting weak or sluggish. All is good right now.

...except allergies. These seasonal spring allergies are knocking me down pretty hard.

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks for all the advice. I did end up loosing both chicks. The cochin last night and the serama just now. All the other chicks are running around the brooder like nothing happened. So, I am hoping for no more losses from this batch. No one else is acting weak or sluggish. All is good right now.

...except allergies. These seasonal spring allergies are knocking me down pretty hard.

Sorry that you lost them!

And, what do you do for your allergies?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Thanks for all the advice. I did end up loosing both chicks. The cochin last night and the serama just now. All the other chicks are running around the brooder like nothing happened. So, I am hoping for no more losses from this batch. No one else is acting weak or sluggish. All is good right now.

...except allergies. These seasonal spring allergies are knocking me down pretty hard.

Sorry to hear you lost them and on the allergies.