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    The mystery/humor of buying straight runs

    I have a roo SLW. He is very pretty but absolutely useless (crows far too often for no reason and is scared of everything at the peril of the hens).
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    The mystery/humor of buying straight runs

    Boy, wouldn't that be nice! What does SLW stand for?
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    The mystery/humor of buying straight runs

    I hope so! We really want a Welsummer roo to replace Mr. Nasty.
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    The mystery/humor of buying straight runs

    Those are pretty!
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    The mystery/humor of buying straight runs

    Yes indeed! Darn that Murphy!
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    The mystery/humor of buying straight runs

    Just thought I'd share for a good laugh. Most people are crossing their fingers for pullets. We bought 6 straight runs from a store in hopes of a a pure bred Welsummer rooster. We bought 6 just to be sure we'd have at least two pullets. We thought we'd and up with a lot of roosters! Well fast...
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    Such a great angle! Really cool to see every chicken in the frame :)
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    Terrible hatch rates

    That's extremely interesting! It's amazing how hard it is to incubate and the mama hen just sits on them and they pretty much all hatch. I really hope one of mine goes broody so I don't have to go through this hassle lol. With my luck, the whole bunch of them will go broody at the same time!
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    Terrible hatch rates

    Thanks everyone! I will get that external thermometer!
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    Terrible hatch rates

    My thoughts EXACTLY. None of the hens seem interested though :mad:
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    Terrible hatch rates

    I'm sorry I don't know what internal pipped looks like or the correct position. I had to rip the membrane, it wasn't easy to get to the chick, and it was white. The shells also broke into little pieces when I cracked them. Does that mean shrink wrapped?
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    Terrible hatch rates

    This was so helpful! Thank you! Dumb question: do you put the thermometer inside the incubator?
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    Terrible hatch rates

    Maybe. The four that hatched didn't hatch until day 23-25. I'm going to try one more time before throwing in the towel.
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    Quail eggs - late hatching

    I have the same issue. Our recent hatch out of 40, 9 hatched and they hatched on day 21! I have no advice but wanted to let you know you're not alone with this issue.
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    Terrible hatch rates

    Yes, we leave them until day 25. Nothing. This time we had two pip and then zip :\ The rest didn't even pip.
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