The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

[ronott1]

One of my eggs has been zipped about an inch for the last 12ish hours. I can see it breathing but it hasn't moved. Do you think it will finish on its own?

Check the membrane--if it looks dark brown moisten with coconut oil or olive oil. Work fast but carefully and toss in a couple of wet paper towels to get humidity up.
Give it until morning and then help it out if it has not hatched.

Usually they hatch by then though

 

[AlezaJ]

Check the membrane--if it looks dark brown moisten with coconut oil or olive oil. Work fast but carefully and toss in a couple of wet paper towels to get humidity up.
Give it until morning and then help it out if it has not hatched.

Usually they hatch by then though

Thanks I'll try that.

 

[ChickenMath101]

I got a little desperate....
I was making peeping noises through the ventilation holes

I do this and have no excuse. ‍ It helps to feel as if I can do something to help!

 

[ChickenMath101]

Well, at the end of day 21, all 12 of my Olive Eggers are out, we have 8 Black Copper Marans and 3 more with pips. One big, gorgeous brown egg just sitting in there without even a wiggle. It seems like the babies from that hen just don’t make it. :/
I did have to help the last Olive Egger out. Poor thing pipped and just sat and sat and sat. Everybody else was out and he was still sitting. I peeled open the egg. He was malpositioned with his elbow under his beak and I’m thinking he wouldn’t have been able to escape at all without help. As soon as he was free he popped out and was running around with the others, I won’t be able to tell which one he was.
Hoping for 23/24...
Photo is a pile of Marans tucked into a shirt, waiting for their leg jewelry.

 

[MontainBourbons]

I got 12/14 blue Maran chicks. 2 are splash which is cool.
Sadly I only got 11/54 sulmtaler chicks. I think that there is just something wrong with this rare breed. they never seem to get in position with their skinny eggs. If anyone has hatched these I can use help.
Happy with my marans though.

 

[maddysmamaw]

 

[azchickens14]

Hatching has begun! I got to see 2 baby silkies under the broody silkies before I left for work and then made the boyfriend check on the incubator eggs that had just been rocking when I left and one had now zipped and inch!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Been rocking and rolling for 13 hours now... only 1 of 3...going into day 23 now

 

[Hyroler]

I ended up with 11 out of original 18 hatching.Not the best hatch rate but 3 never really developed and I dropped 1. Hope everyone else was successful.Enjoy your Easter!God Bless everyone and all the little baby chicks

I still have couple chicks in incubator waiting few more hours before they are strong enough to move.

 

[NotAFarm]