2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[PeepsCA]

Whoa, that's trippy... must be that lucky basket

 

[MinxFox]

Awwwww I want to hug it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you going to keep the pied? It looks like it will be a nice looking pied.

 

[MinxFox]

Uhm guys.....Uhhh it is day 19 and I hear a tap every 30 seconds maybe coming from what I think is the egg.

Earlier today I thought I saw the egg wiggle. Does this egg need to be in lockdown now even though it is way early? I have had the incubator at 99-100 deg all 19 days and I have been keeping track of the days on the calendar so it is definitely day 19. There was a point where it was in maybe the 80's for a bit because I had moved the incubator back home after my trip.

I just went in there to turn it and when I turned it and set it back down and closed the lid I heard a tap. Should I candle it to see if the chick is trying to hatch? I don't want to fool with it too much but don't want the humidity too low if he chick is for some reason ready to come out now.

 

[MinxFox]

Really freaking out now tapping is now back to back!!! AHHHHHH but it is day 19!?!? What do I do what do I do!? I just turned the poor baby and it is trying to hatch! Do I add more water pronto?

 

[Trefoil]

Not to change the subject here but everyone see what weathers coming eastward tonight out of the great plains? Winds 70 plus mph,hail 2-3" in size and heavy rains. I tried all day to locate a portable generator but no luck. Incubator has 3 trays overstuffed with pea eggs(close to 260 eggs) and if we lose power for 5-6 hours no hatch a longs for weeks. Just put 4 taupe eggs in Sunday nite from last weeks egg laying too. I'm dreading this!!

It depends I guess on what stage of incubation they are at, but I've lost power (in the winter) for 13 hours and still had a decent hatch, this was guinea eggs. Hopefully the weather will pass you by. Good luck.

Moving her will stop her from brooding . the sent of a human will not stop a peahen from sitting, i exchange eggs with my hens all the time, i got a few of them gonna be hatching out goslings soon, i wonder how that will go.

I would [pull the eggs and set them under a broody or place them in the incubator if you have one, sounds like you are gonna loose the eggs to your dogs or worse a preditor

One of my hens on her goose eggs.

I can't wait to see your geese trying to fan.

 

[zazouse]

I will only keep it if it is a hen, i got more than enough males and only one gets all the hens young and old, not one hen goes to any other male, very strange, i wondered if the same hens would go back with Master, but never dreamed the yearlings would also become a part of his harem.
This is last years first pied, his name is Pine knot cause i caught him trying to have his way with a pine tree limb

 

[MinxFox]

Okay nevermind I called AugeredIn and he told me what to look for when I candle it. The egg's air sack is not all the way across the egg yet. I could have sworn I heard a peachick tapping but maybe the incubator was making noise...I don't know maybe it is wishful thinking on my part. The air sack does look on track for day 19 though. I guess I just need to calm down and wait for the REAL lockdown day which is next Monday.

 

[zazouse]

I can't wait to see your geese trying to fan.

LOL i can't wait till the goslings want to hit the water, i seen how guineas acted when the geese left them for the pond, a pitiful site they cried and cried for days for the goslings

 

[KsKingBee]

I candle all my eggs, most are around 100 grams, they vary from 90 to low 110's. Up until this point 114 has been my heaviest until tonight I got one that weighs 144 grams!

What to do? Set it and see what happens? I don't need any more eating eggs.

 

[Birdrain92]

Candle light it and see if it's fertile.