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

[southernhusky]

Dropped an egg from the Blue and Splash Cochin Pen..

Awws, hate it when that happens. I bumped a pen door and smooshed a blue cream legbar egg.....and cracked a fancy polish egg(the only one i get from a frizzle tolbunt roo thats with a red/buff hen). At least it didn't cover my other 4 or 5 eggs that was in with them. >.< I felt so bad. On the plus side the polish egg seems to have survived and is developing after covering it in wax(this is like my 5th wax covering and haven't had one like that hatch)...the blue egg was a lost cause so it got scrambled up.

 

[southernhusky]

I have 10 of those mix eggs I got that were a mess when I got them. I am sure that 9 are alive, one questionable..thought I saw movement, but if so, it's way behind..set it anyway for lock down.
Now we will see what happens..day 20...6 of them have very large air sacs up the side. Big eggs though, so they may hatch ok.

Best of luck!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I found a manuel online for the cabinet incubator im going to use and it is a GQF model #1202. It holds 216 chicken eggs. Thats alot of chicks

Yep, that's a lot of chicks! Is awesome for staggered hatches but causes a problem when your hatcher can't hold them all lol

 

[I Love Layers]

I currently have 42 chicks for layers. They just hit 3 weeks on Thursday, they were not impressed when I put them in here to clean their brooder

 

[Razadia]

I thought I'd share some pics of my flock since I managed to find my camera. I apparently took a lot of pics of Brick the EE.




As you can see by the vacant look in his eye, no one is home.

His legs look moldy.

 

[Glaseria]

Oh my goodness!  Had to share this darling goose!    What a love!  

That is so adorable!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

Raz, seeing your roosters makes me want on soo bad..and I already wanted one sooo bad! Beautiful!

 

[Cynthia12]

I have a pip in my eggs that came a mess.

I had messaged they guy that I had 10 go into lock down. He told me again that the eggs take 21 .. 22 days to hatch, and have had them go as long as 23.

This egg that has pipped, is a big egg! With a big air sac. It is pipped at the right end, but at the top. I've had them zip sideways..will see. It's a pretty dark speckled egg. He has Welsummers. A lot of those made it to lock down. I had a small one .. same coloring rocking earlier.

 

[bauerdog]

Count me in! It is +/- 2 days for set date of Saturday, right?

 

[katsdar]

Count me in! It is +/- 2 days for set date of Saturday, right?

Everyone sets on Saturday the 25 at noon your time