Did the majority of them hatch on day 21? Good percentages. What's your project?I think my hatch is over. I have two left in the incubator that showed movement yesterday. The others hatched two days ago so I'm not holding out much hope for those.
Good news
8/12 project bird 66%
9/10 Cream Legbar 90%
7/7 BYM 100%
none of these were shipped eggs, I only set my eggs and the eggs I picked up locally (kinda of local)
pretty please with the LG even though I gave me some fits at the end
I would say half hatched day 20 and the rest early day 21. Last hatch (one before this one) most of mine hatched day 19&20. With the weather getting hotter out (kind of lol), we used the A/c more so the finicky LG dropped a little (more and more often) in temp at night compared to the day time. It stayed in range but the prev hatch had less temp flucuation and remained more around 101.5 -102 range. Where this time it may go down to 99.5 during the night. The humidity also was affected more as well with the A/C running, I had lower ranges, such as, 28% to 34%. The previous hatch stayed mostly 35%.
Well,,, the project is not actually mine and she wanted to keep it a secret to what she used but she sells them cheap and figured it was worth a try. But when I was talking to her she slipped a little, so I think I may have figured out her mix. She has been working on a dual purpose bird that grows quicker so the meat will be more tender, however still be a great egg producer. And have a better food conversion ration. She slipped and said they were half bielefelder. currently unless she has some hiding birds she don't have many others to mix it with. I think all she has is cream legbars and orphingtons. The eggs are not blue, even the second generation. I'm not sure how true they breed either, she was kind of keeping that quiet. English Black Orpington eggs,English Chocolate/Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington eggs and Blue,Black,Splash Orpington eggs. I'm not sure how they breed because most of them look like the normal chick for Biel's but a few of them came out to almost a light red color. She did say the first generation has not been auto sexing, but the second one is starting to . I'm at work so I will take some pictures when I get home. I am going to pick up a dozen more next week. I am very curious about these, and would like to see how they work out breeding, laying and eating. Could be a good self sustaining chicken. She said she tried crossing the Biel's with several and the other never really worked. I could end up with a whole yard of giant birds
Go to craigslist and put in Shreveport la, and find the Redfelder when searching hatching eggs. There is a pick of one of this mix. She does ship eggs. I was tired of getting beat up shipping eggs and was trying to find something local to try. (and that is slim pickings around here) . Very nice lady to work with. Told her she could be on to something. Not sure where the Red in the name comes from. And I am not expert enough in identifying breeds to have a good guess, other than knowing what she has for sale. Maybe she has a red broiler hidden away back there? Very pretty birds.
My shipped eggs I had placed in my Hovabator. My Javas hatched at 69% where my BCM were beat up badly and only hatched at 28% (4/14). I was not happy at all with the BCM, But talk about some bad air cells.