🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[hydroc]

We just hatched 9 Welsh Harlequin ducks. I have a old wine cooler I have converted to an incubator, and a Nuture Rite 360. Ducks are a side business for us, but selling the eggs really doesn't pay the bills. I plan on having multiple turners in the cooler and a dedicated hatcher, so we can have babies every week.

 

[Tmyers]

I'm picking up BBS ameraucana eggs from a breeder Sunday for my first ever hatch. Fingers crossed it goes well Planning to get some chicks from a different source and hopefully next year I'll be hatching all my own eggs!

 

[FortCluck]

I'm picking up BBS ameraucana eggs from a breeder Sunday for my first ever hatch. Fingers crossed it goes well Planning to get some chicks from a different source and hopefully next year I'll be hatching all my own eggs!

Go onto the July hatch along that’s the month your eggs will hatch.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...y-hatch-a-long.1381520/page-109#post-22876137

 

[TheBajan]

We just hatched 9 Welsh Harlequin ducks. I have a old wine cooler I have converted to an incubator, and a Nuture Rite 360. Ducks are a side business for us, but selling the eggs really doesn't pay the bills. I plan on having multiple turners in the cooler and a dedicated hatcher, so we can have babies every week.View attachment 2226270

I love your plan. We are moving in that direction also but we are just now getting (hatching) our foundation flock so it will be spring before we can start offering live chicks or hatching eggs. For us this is a step into retirement. We are a few years out still but would like to supplement our income from home. No ducks for us yet but hopefully next year.

 

[Vantic]

I love your plan. We are moving in that direction also but we are just now getting (hatching) our foundation flock so it will be spring before we can start offering live chicks or hatching eggs. For us this is a step into retirement. We are a few years out still but would like to supplement our income from home. No ducks for us yet but hopefully next year.

My plan as well, I have part of the flock now, but the rest are arriving in August (or hatching in August). So spring for me too. Not the retirement part, I couldn't stand working anymore so I already did that! So now I work harder for no money.

 

[TheBajan]

Not the retirement part, I couldn't stand working anymore so I already did that! So now I work harder for no money.

 

[hydroc]

I love your plan. We are moving in that direction also but we are just now getting (hatching) our foundation flock so it will be spring before we can start offering live chicks or hatching eggs. For us this is a step into retirement. We are a few years out still but would like to supplement our income from home. No ducks for us yet but hopefully next year.

The plan is to have 1 drake and 5 hens of at least 4 different breeds and rotate the Hatches. $5 a dozen for eggs or $5 per duck seams like easy math to me.

 

[FortCluck]

I’ll be setting quail eggs after August 23rd so they’ll be hatching in September.

 

[Vantic]

I’ll be setting quail eggs after Augusta 23rd so they’ll be hatching in September.

Sorry this is the wrong thread, you want the September hatch-a-long. See you there.

 

[kelseyk]

Looks like I will be hatching the first part of August. Vacay got bumped to a later time....and I am still waiting on some of my eggs to arrive.