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Marty, my most important updates for today: I bought a pair of buff dewlap goslings from Carole and I killed 2, maybe all 3 of my cayuga eggs with a bad temp spike.

I know!  And I think back to my 1st time hatching. I hatched 8 of 11 and sold 5 thinking I'd easily hatch more.  Then, out of the next 19 eggs I hatch one.  And now I'm down to 1 of 4 with my last set.  I give up and will be happy with my threesome. 

you have better luck than me!

Well, egg #1 that I opened, died.  When I did my eggtopsy, I discovered the other side of his head was mishapen.  He never peeped or anything, so I thought that was odd, and wasn't suprised when he died.  Still a bummer though.  He wasn't sticky wet or sticky dry, so my incubation parameters are good.  Egg #2 that was shadowing is still in the hatcher and still alive.  I checked #3 and it quit sometime today.  So....I have one egg going for this hatch.  I'm baffled by the whole deal, but some of the changes I made did make a difference with this batch.

The next batch I have due on the 14th has done well the whole way through.  I've had 8 eggs all along, without a loss.  The difference is the changes I made were put into affect only a few days after I set them.  Maybe they will do better.

Hi everyone.  Sorry I've hardly been on today.  I went to pick up my dad for breakfast today, but he'd passed away in his sleep.  To say its been a rough day, would be accurate.

I'm his only child (but not my moms - he was her second of 3 husbands), so that pretty well leaves me alone to try to figure out what to do.    I'll probobly not be on lots for a few days.

Well, egg #1 that I opened, died.  When I did my eggtopsy, I discovered the other side of his head was mishapen.  He never peeped or anything, so I thought that was odd, and wasn't suprised when he died.  Still a bummer though.  He wasn't sticky wet or sticky dry, so my incubation parameters are good.  Egg #2 that was shadowing is still in the hatcher and still alive.  I checked #3 and it quit sometime today.  So....I have one egg going for this hatch.  I'm baffled by the whole deal, but some of the changes I made did make a difference with this batch.

The next batch I have due on the 14th has done well the whole way through.  I've had 8 eggs all along, without a loss.  The difference is the changes I made were put into affect only a few days after I set them.  Maybe they will do better.

Ok...I'm thirsty now.  Think I'll have a Bacardi Silver Sangria...yum

My second hatch was a nightmare compared to my first. I think it is a beginners luck thing. First time hatchers are so much less compelled to help... or improve on a process that's already working.

Of course, once I got brave enough to hatch shipped eggs... well, that may have helped the downgrade in hatch rate. But I have a set of penciled runners and a set of saxony that I wouldn't have had if I hadn't bought shipped eggs. I need to get some more bei eggs because I've only got a single baby (dummie that I am, I presold the others without accounting for my keepers).

Still trying for that elusive silkie duck. I sure hope one or three of the little boogers hatch for me soon.

Sounds like it's best that #1 didn't make it. I only eggtopsy to make sure that duckling is dead. Once I assess that, it's as far as I want to go.

I've got one batch that I'm hand-turning right now, not because I wanted to experiment, but because I ran out of room in bator 1 and bator 2. So little hatcher is now acting as bator 3 and I'm hatching with Hercules (for those who missed it, hubby named the new hatcher).

I keep seeing great deals on call duck eggs, but I don't know if I could handle trying to hatch another breed of duck with notoriously bad hatch rates. The elusive silkie duck is still calling to me... (mind you, I could probably make the 2-day drive to Holderreads and get my own without the hatching stress, but that wouldn't be nearly as fun)...

My second hatch was a nightmare compared to my first. I think it is a beginners luck thing. First time hatchers are so much less compelled to help... or improve on a process that's already working.

Of course, once I got brave enough to hatch shipped eggs... well, that may have helped the downgrade in hatch rate. But I have a set of penciled runners and a set of saxony that I wouldn't have had if I hadn't bought shipped eggs. I need to get some more bei eggs because I've only got a single baby (dummie that I am, I presold the others without accounting for my keepers).

Still trying for that elusive silkie duck. I sure hope one or three of the little boogers hatch for me soon.

Sounds like it's best that #1 didn't make it. I only eggtopsy to make sure that duckling is dead. Once I assess that, it's as far as I want to go.

I've got one batch that I'm hand-turning right now, not because I wanted to experiment, but because I ran out of room in bator 1 and bator 2. So little hatcher is now acting as bator 3 and I'm hatching with Hercules (for those who missed it, hubby named the new hatcher).

I keep seeing great deals on call duck eggs, but I don't know if I could handle trying to hatch another breed of duck with notoriously bad hatch rates. The elusive silkie duck is still calling to me... (mind you, I could probably make the 2-day drive to Holderreads and get my own without the hatching stress, but that wouldn't be nearly as fun)...

 for you to get some silkie ducklings to hatch......