ok so do you guys do your hatch rates off how many eggs total sat on day one or how many viable eggs went into lockdown?? i mean do infertile eggs count againt you?? that just dont seem fair.
ok so at what ages is it easyist to try and figure out what breeds are in a mutt??? i know all the hens and roos that could be the parents so that should make it easyier right??
all but 4 (i think) of the 33 i have are of my own hens and roos.
little big foot is finally right side up lol!!!!! ive been working with it a few times a day holding it on its feet, and this evening its hopping around like the others....its sooo tiny to have such big feet..
looks like 3 is all i will get out of these and one is doing bad dont know if it will make it dont know what happened it pipped and zipped fine but once it zipped its just laying there every once in a while it spins around or rolls over....(maybe its deformed or some thing it has HUGE feet)
2 are out so far one more pipped.. no signs from the other 4 yet but not giving up yet, they were all wiggling when i candled on day 18 so im hopeful they are just late.
finally got a pip!! on day 20. hope some of these 7 hatch as i lost one of the hens who layed some of these. (she was the hen who had went broody on these then left them after 3 days)
i had one do this i gave it about 30 hours and it still haddnt done anything, so i chipped the shell away for it (in zipp fashion) and it was able to finish on its own. it was upside down and backwards in there. just try to make sure you need to help before you help give it plenty of time on its...
yes they are eating purina medicated chick starter. they are a week old. i asked before if i needed to give grit and was told the starter was fine alone. now im kinda worried.
so any tips for intagrating new chicks in with older ones?? the older ones were hatched sept 8th-11th new ones hatching now...more to follow next week too.
mondays hatch is finally piped 3 more silkie mixes..
andddddd looks like i will be joining oct hatch along, a friend of mine heard i lost a bunch of my hens and is giving me all the eggs she has. blue laced red Wyandotte, golden laced Wyandotte, and black copper marans...
i cant belive these little guys were born the begining of the week and they are soo differnt already!!! they older ones are already growing feathers!!! WOW
soo glad i desided to do eggtopsys of the eggs that had shown no signs of life yet of mondays hatch...so my total just went from 23 of 33 to 27 of 33 lol two were pipped when i picked them up and i put them back real quik... then as i was opening the others (i candled before hand and was quite...
my homemade junkubators seem to be giving me a hatch rate of about 95 percent and the temp is set to flux from 100 to 95.
so far of the 33 eggs that put in lock down friday 23 have hatched. yes they are a bit behide but at one point my cats unpluged them so temps went into the 80s and a bulb...