Anyone setting eggs starting July 15 -July 22? - Page 98

Success! I found a buddy!

I went downtown to this feed store that I knew took in chickens that no one wants, so I decided I might as well look. But I really didn't think they would have one young enough.

Well, as luck would have it, someone just brought in the day earlier 20 million white leghorns and a few buff orps.

They were 2 days old!!

So I took home one of the buff orps :) Say hello to Clove and Sage!

It was really sad though, there were 3 other buff orps, and one of them had spraddle leg really bad. I wanted to get it so bad, but something told me not to. I don't know why.

I would have bought her and a normal buff orp, but I didn't bring enough money.

Now I feel guilty :( I might go back and get her.

My hatch is all done now as well.

I wound up with 9 of the Swedish Flower Hens ( prolly all roos though! ) and 2 RIR. I'm fairly happy with that. I lost 2 due to shrinkwrapping. Out of 7 prior hatchings this is the first one that I actually lost chicks that had pipped. It was pretty sad, but it's hard to have a mid week hatch when no one is home for 12 hours a day. I don't really understand the shrinkwrapping, as humidity never got below 73%. Maybe I need to do the salt test on my thermo/hygro again, but I can't imagine it being that far off, there was condensation on my glass from the time the second one hatched till I took them out. I can't really blame it on one specific breed either, because I lost one of each. I also had one of each that did nothing.

So in the end, out of 18 set eggs, I put 15 in lockdown, hatched 11 and lost 2. My percentage was 73% with all locally harvested eggs, and I got 85% with cochin eggs I bought from Luckypickens, a BYCer that lives in Danville, AR, and I'm in Middle TN. And those eggs shipped to me in temps of over 100 degrees. IDK

Here are some pics, the RIR are easy enough to spot in the full color pic. As far as the SFH go, I have 3 color patterns in them, but my source bought hers from Greenfire, so I went to their website, and coloration for that breed seems all over the place.

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Originally Posted by MajorJC 

My hatch is complete.  

 

What	Started	Lock down	Hatch	Hatch Rate
Shipped Eggs – Mille Fleur d’Uccle	15	1	0	0%
Local Eggs – “Farm Fresh Eggs” – Unknown breed  - $2.00/doz	21	18	17	81%

 

 

On my shipped eggs, 14 were clear and showed no development and were discarded at day 14.  The last one's eggtopsy  showed a mostly developed chick with a small yolk sac but it was upside down in the egg.  I guess it drowned.

 

On my local eggs, one clear egg was discarded at day 14, one "stinker" was discarded around day 16, and the last one never pipped so I candled it today and saw no life.  It's eggtopsy showed a very developed chick that must have died just in the last few days.

 

Here are the little puffballs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I could not get them all to look at the camera. 

 

 

For my next hatch I just ordered 18 "mixed duckling" hatching eggs from Metzer Farms.  They will ship next week, so I will probably start them Friday morning on the 17th.

thats such a cute picture. I love the backdrop

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Originally Posted by sandmbaker 

thats such a cute picture. I love the backdrop

Thanks.  I've had that fabric for years.  I bought it to make a scrub tunic with because I'm a RN in a pediatric hospital and you just can't find any printed scrubs for men.

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Originally Posted by MajorJC 

 

Thanks.  I've had that fabric for years.  I bought it to make a scrub tunic with because I'm a RN in a pediatric hospital and you just can't find any printed scrubs for men.

You sew? i went to school for sewing. im tall so I have to make alot of my clothes. and pediactrics you cant beat that job