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

[Cynthia12]

I love my Brinsea never had a bad hatch with it. Wouldn't trade it for the world

What size is yours?

 

[Cynthia12]

We'll give it a shot,
6 americanas
6 olive eggers

 

[Cynthia12]

oops...sy

 

[Cynthia12]

I'd given up hope on these bantam eggs. Just running late from getting moved to my new house. Look @WVduckchick

Aww, I'm happy for you!

 

[katsdar]

I'd given up hope on these bantam eggs. Just running late from getting moved to my new house. Look @WVduckchick

I love late bloomers!!!

 

[katsdar]

What size is yours?

Mine is the like the small one, I don't have the turner etc and mine is the old model without all the bells and whistles, I just turn my eggs every so many hours and the water wells I put sponges in them (cut to fit) to help with the humidity, and I have a store bought humidity thermometer to keep track of it, the bator was a lot cheaper that way, and I bought it off Amazon end of season and got it brand new for $113.00. I dropped the lid and had to send it in for repairs so other than that it is a dream.

 

[brucifer]

Just finished my fourth hatch of 2017, so after the Easter H-A-L hatch, I hope to be finished setting eggs for awhile. In hatch four, 16 chicks hatched out of 27 fertilized eggs, so if was an okay hatch, but not great. All four show-quality silkie eggs hatched, and I was happy with that, but 7 out of 11 BO eggs hatched, and only 5 out of 12 BBS orpington eggs successfully hatched. One BBS had complications (blind) and has since died, so I didn't count that one. Also, one of the BOs hatched with curled toes on one foot, but it seems to be responding well to therapy and is eating and drinking, so I think it will be okay. (He's put in about three years worth of chirping in four days. lol)

One weird thing is that one of the BBS eggs hatched five days later that the first egg in the hatch. All were placed in the incubator at the same time. The early bird hatched a couple of days earlier than the others (day 19), and the Johnny-come-lately hatched three days late, two days later than the second-to-last chick to hatch (day 24). It looks like I had an outlier on each end of the range. I don't recall ever having had a hatching range span that wide before in the same hatch. Go figure. I was tempted to crack the late eggs open to check for development, but I'm glad I waited. The first and last chicks in the hatch are both healthy and doing great. All the other eggs in the hatch hatched right on schedule.

Anyway, I'm glad to get a two-week breather before the next hatch. I'll have a dozed crele orp eggs and a dozen silver-laced orp eggs to set, and I hope my wife doesn't try to slip in some more silkie eggs like she always does on every hatch.... I think she's addicted to silkie babies. I have to admit; they are awfully cute.

 

[casportpony]

Anyone else setting Muscovy eggs today?

 

[Chickens4lifee]

6 of 30 eggs are pippd and hatching today. Hope ther rest are out by toommorow.

 

[casportpony]

6 of 30 eggs are pippd and hatching today. Hope ther rest are out by toommorow.

Congrats, and good luck on the rest!