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

[Chickens4lifee]

Unabsorbed yolk.    Hopefully is will absorb most of the way.  If so, should be fine.

There was alot of yolk left but some I guess was observed the rest came of when the dang then decided it did not want to lay around but get up and go everywhere in the Bator it could to role the other eggs around. Hope it lives.

 

[proctor family coop]

We will be adding chicken eggs to our incubator for Easter. Can't wait!! Our Muscovy apparently got the word as well since she is sitting on 15 eggs. But I think they might hatch about 3 days early (BLAH).

 

[Happy Chooks]

Anyone know what's going on with her and this lump?

Put it in a cup. If the unabsorbed yolk ruptures, the chick will die.

We will be adding chicken eggs to our incubator for Easter. Can't wait!! Our Muscovy apparently got the word as well since she is sitting on 15 eggs. But I think they might hatch about 3 days early (BLAH).

When did your Muscovy start sitting?

 

[Glaseria]

Are you on a mobile devise? If so then you have to enter the codes for them https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/734386/chick-emoticons#post_11984800

I am thanks!


Cool thanks!



Now I can be like the cool kids!

Just put in my first batch of eggs in the old Hovabator we got with the quail. The guy who we got them from found it at the DI and was using it to try and hatch out his eggs. 104 quail eggs of different colored quail! And don't worry the temp bounced back up to 99.7 degrees. When I got home from church today it is now sitting at 100 degrees. But I heard with still air incubators you want 100-102 degrees. Is that right? Seems a little hot to me. I hope they hatch! He had a horrible time with humidity so I'm going to try an do a dry hatch. It's a still air and doesn't have a turner and I've seen some things saying not to open the lid at all, or just roll your hand over them or don't open the lid and just give them a shake. I have no idea what I'm doing so right now I'm just shaking them 6 times a day and watching the temp and humidity and hoping for the best. Any pointers would be appreciated!

Sincerely,
Your Fellow Homesteader,
Glaseria

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[Chickens4lifee]

I am thanks!


Cool thanks!



Now I can be like the cool kids!

Just put in my first batch of eggs in the old Hovabator we got with the quail. The guy who we got them from found it at the DI and was using it to try and hatch out his eggs. 104 quail eggs of different colored quail! And don't worry the temp bounced back up to 99.7 degrees. When I got home from church today it is now sitting at 100 degrees. But I heard with still air incubators you want 100-102 degrees. Is that right? Seems a little hot to me. I hope they hatch! He had a horrible time with humidity so I'm going to try an do a dry hatch. It's a still air and doesn't have a turner and I've seen some things saying not to open the lid at all, or just roll your hand over them or don't open the lid and just give them a shake. I have no idea what I'm doing so right now I'm just shaking them 6 times a day and watching the temp and humidity and hoping for the best. Any pointers would be appreciated!

Sincerely,
Your Fellow Homesteader,
Glaseria

...

I'm getting quail this week!!!!! Are they hard to hatch at all? Plan to breed for a few people that hunt them

 

[katsdar]

I need everyone's HELP

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/357/620/857/let-my-chickens-free-range/

 

[CuzChickens]

Ugh. Gonna rant for a second. My hens are driving me crazy. For this HAL, I am planning to set Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, and Austra-White. I've set these exact breeds from the exact parents nine weeks ago, I collected 27 eggs in 8 days from 4 hens, and had a 92% hatch rate. This was in the dead of winter. This time, I think only my Black Australorp hen and one of my two Buff Orpington hens is laying. Even my White Leghhorn hen is not laying and she has barely missed a day since she began laying. I'm probably going to start collecting eggs early so hopefully I get enough eggs, but now I run the risk of non-purebreed eggs. To make matters even more annoying, I thought I'd have the second pen built by now for my 5 week olds to go in so I could use the one they are currently in for breeding, well, I have not even started, so I divided the pen into two sections and I am probably going to end up with them knocking down the barrier and roosters mating with the wrong hens. OK, rant over. Sorry, I needed to blow off some stress.

 

[sjturner79]

Ugh. Gonna rant for a second. My hens are driving me crazy. For this HAL, I am planning to set Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, and Austra-White. I've set these exact breeds from the exact parents nine weeks ago, I collected 27 eggs in 8 days from 4 hens, and had a 92% hatch rate. This was in the dead of winter. This time, I think only my Black Australorp hen and one of my two Buff Orpington hens is laying. Even my White Leghhorn hen is not laying and she has barely missed a day since she began laying. I'm probably going to start collecting eggs early so hopefully I get enough eggs, but now I run the risk of non-purebreed eggs. To make matters even more annoying, I thought I'd have the second pen built by now for my 5 week olds to go in so I could use the one they are currently in for breeding, well, I have not even started, so I divided the pen into two sections and I am probably going to end up with them knocking down the barrier and roosters mating with the wrong hens. OK, rant over. Sorry, I needed to blow off some stress.

Maybe they decided they needed to have a spring molt.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

isn't more of that white fluffy stuff in your forecast?  

Argh, unfortunately. Forecast is saying 8-14" in my area. I'm so over this stuff. Our garlic is all sprouted and sticking up about 4 inches and half the trees are budding. I just want spring!

No! No! No! I absolutely hate silkies!

How can you hate such sweet, poofy, loveable silkies!

The brinsea I had was unreliable. Always always always test every incubator!

I didn't like the brinsea that I borrowed to try, at all. I'll stick with my GQF.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I bought a Chinese 96 egg incubator to get by till I can get the time to build one it's not the best but it's not the worst! I'll have time to build me one to my liking later on this year and I'll use most of the components out of this one to keep some cost down. But that way I'll know what I have when I go to use it