Where are you?I think goats are terrible pets to be honest. But I hace 30hectares of weeds on my new land, so I need some help!
These 3 are in my suburban backyard this week, because I don't trust the little terd burgers not to somehow-houdini-style-escape from the farm. Just giving them a bit of time to adjust and accept us (they hate us) before I leave them unsupervised.
How are your quailies doing?
Can I use the date April 25 for all of these hatches? Or do you have different dates?12/12 hatched! Set 16 but only 12 were fertile and 2 chicks died shortly after the hatch (one needed assistance, the other one had unabsorb organ(s) hanging out...). Left with 10 chicks
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We also tested three different incubators (2 different brands, all Styrofoam ones) at different areas of the house. Here's the result so far...
Kitchen Incubator (Farm Innovators 2450):
Set 95 shipped eggs to start, 15 were infertile, 60/80 made it to lockdown (75%).
Note - this incubator has a cold area in the centre (96), while the edges were at 100.5.
Basement Incubator (Farm Innovators 2450):
Set 120 shipped eggs to start, 19 infertile, 91/101 made it to lockdown (90%).
Note - this incubator has cold spot on the bottom left side (97.6) while other areas were at 101.
Basement Incubator (Little Giant, an old still air model with a dial, fan added):
Set 120 shipped eggs, 17 infertile, 88/103 made it to lockdown (85%).
Note - this old incubator has no cold spots and is quite reliable temp. wise, but had a hard time keeping the humidity in.
There's another 50 or so on day 7, many were infertile (low roos atm).
This is our first time stagger hatching. So far it's worked out well I think...we never really get great results but it's always been acceptable. Also to note that we did NOT let the eggs sit for a day before popping them in the incubators, only about 6 hours.
Just thought I'd share this....in case anyone is interested
No, no pips when I checked in at 8:30 either. 45 minutes later, boom!
Next door.
Babe, I don’t believe in candling at this stage. I know you like to, but I ... brb!!@BullChick
Get back here!
What's going on? Are there more external pips?
Are you candling them all right now?
Go get her so she can babysit the bator!Don’t.
False alarm.
You have to hold one in your hand while it's zipping.
Does it count if I have held a chicken chick that zipped while assisting?
