- Feb 2, 2013
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My incubation abilities suck.
I' am having such back luck with my eggs that I thinking of calling it quits after this year.
First batch this year I have one bird survive out of 27 eggs.
Three more hatched with it but died a day or two after.
Second batch of 35 eggs I had five hatch.
Yesterday when the bedding was being changed my dog grabbed one out of the box we were holding them in and ran off with it.
I caught him and pried the poult out of his mouth.
I got four tooth punctures in my thumb and the poult died a little later.
Looks like some internal injuries on the neck.
This morning when I woke there was another one dead. I figured that one was going to, didn't look to healthy.
So three from 35.
That's right, I got 4 poults from 62 eggs.
I got 45 eggs still in the incubator so with my luck that's three more poults.
Its not worth my time and energy and the let down.
I even bought a special incubator thermometer this year.
Doesn't make a difference.
Its just so depressing.
I feeling like culling the whole flock.
I' am having such back luck with my eggs that I thinking of calling it quits after this year.
First batch this year I have one bird survive out of 27 eggs.
Three more hatched with it but died a day or two after.
Second batch of 35 eggs I had five hatch.
Yesterday when the bedding was being changed my dog grabbed one out of the box we were holding them in and ran off with it.
I caught him and pried the poult out of his mouth.
I got four tooth punctures in my thumb and the poult died a little later.
Looks like some internal injuries on the neck.
This morning when I woke there was another one dead. I figured that one was going to, didn't look to healthy.
So three from 35.
That's right, I got 4 poults from 62 eggs.
I got 45 eggs still in the incubator so with my luck that's three more poults.
Its not worth my time and energy and the let down.
I even bought a special incubator thermometer this year.
Doesn't make a difference.
Its just so depressing.
I feeling like culling the whole flock.