I have a GQF cabinet type incubator.
It has been a good one. This hatch has been the biggest one ice set I. It at once. 201 eggs. I had a lot of infertile eggs especially from one of huge roosters.
Checking in on the chatting that is not going on.
Lost a new hen today, too hot I guess.
Getting ready to hatch some babies in September.
So what's going on with the rest of you?
Updating the Designer Egg Swap Chain thread.
Adding a new Naked Neck rooster and two Naked Neck hens tomorrow.
Rooster is from my Salmon Naked Neck rooster line if I understood right it is his grandson. Hens don't know if they're from my line or not.
I pulled the rest of the eggs that I was incubating. 20-12 were not fertile, 8 had chicks but all dead, 2 of the 8 had started hatching but died before they hatched.
So here were the percentages:
Set: 37
Hatched: 17 45.945%
Fertile Eggs: 25
Fertility: 67.567%
So the actual hatch percentage of...
I'm trying to develope a flock of egg laying Naked Necks. The few I have now are descent layers. I have 11 hens that lay. I'm now averaging 6 to 8 eggs a day from them. Today I got ten so some days are better than others.
Two if he hens aren't NN but are actually 1/2 NN, from their daddy...
Been awake sine 2:45 a.m. Cannot go back to sleep.
Got a job interview @ 9:00, I just keep thinking about most likely the reason I can't sleep.
So here I am sitting up looking at BYC and watching Law & Order.
I'm decreasing my flock. I'm getting down to 5 Naked Neck hen lines and 1 line that has a Naked Neck hen her aunt that looks like as EE but is half Naked Neck. The EE/NN hens 3/4 NN hen but lays a green egg. So there will be 6 lines altogether.
You can get some awfully cute chicks from the Designer Egg Swap Thread.
These were some from my flock. They will no longer be available as I no longer have tge rooster that produced these. I will have many more designer eggs available sooner or later.
I have 30 chicks picked out for growing out for myself. Naked Necks, Easter Eggers, Marans, and Aloha chickens.
I also have 48 Sebrights eggs on for a April 23rd hatch. Crossed Golden and Buff. Depends in how they turn out may be keeping a few of those.