March 2017! Hatch with us!

[orrpeople]

Please meet number 8.

so great!! Congratulations!!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Bwahaha... you mean it doesn't mean throw it in the carrier's truck for a long day of rural route delivery? My local PO seems to think that's what it means. Grrrrr.

I know!

 

[Jessimom]

All the rest of the poults were dead without pipping internally, malpositioned. One was completely upside down. I definitely had a humidity problem. So, just the one poult. Hopefully my silkie will do better with her hatch. I feel awful. :-(

So sorry Mylied!! My fingers are crossed for your broody silkie!!

 

[dan26552]

Duck eggs lockdown today.

 

[DancingWthDucks]

Duck eggs lockdown today.

Good luck!

 

[dan26552]

Thanks No internals yet but they are all alive.

 

[Cerise1924]

Thanks

No internals yet but they are all alive.

Hoping for fuzzy little ducklings for you soon.

 

[Cerise1924]

So, I have a nearly full incubator with my LF eggs, hatch due date of March 31.

Now, I have a couple of surprise Silkie eggs which may possibly be fertile, from my 5 month old pullet. With no extra incubator and no broody hen, I have two choices:

1) Hold the eggs at room temperature for a full week, and put them in the incubator after the LF hatch is done.

2) Put them in the incubator now with the LF eggs, subjecting them to a few days of very high humidity during lockdown for those eggs.

I decided on Option 2, figuring I can watch air cells and run the rest of the hatch time drier to adjust, if I need to. It seemed better to start with fresh eggs.

Would you have done differently?

It would be a miracle for those eggs to be fertile, but I am trying just in case.

 

[dan26552]

Hoping for fuzzy little ducklings for you soon. 

Me too.

 

[dannyelle123]

I've got a pip a day early! When it rains it pours! LOL My bees also arrived early! Aghh, I can hardly contain my excitement... Good thing I just moved my last hatch outside this morning!