🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[Muscovy Wunda]

All mine must be pullets then

That'd be nice wouldn't it? I'm just curious how accurate the meme is

 

[Mvan42]

Day 7 with the broody.... it is so much easier to be patient with a broody vs an incubator..

Lol

 

[Oldhallchicks]

7/8 runner duck eggs developing on day 4.

#8 has a rolling air cell even though I picked them up in person, and looks like it’s either infertile or started and quit.

also...pretty sure the ducklings we got with the duck house are drakes. So....they probably won’t be with us for too long before they are dinner. They’re so happy here though...the people who had them before were in the city and didn't even have any grass.

 

[Erba]

My life just got great deal easier. I swopped the egg flat for a turner, so I don't have to touch all the 21 eggs every time I have to turn them. Took the motor off and fitted it to the incubator. So now I can turn them all together in one swoop. I knew that crappy incubator might come in handy one day! Just never to incubate with...parts on the other hand, are very useful

 

[TheBajan]

Update on my FBCM eggs; Today is day 10 (and a half).
I had set 23. On day 5, 3 looked clear and the other 20 looked depressingly dead. So today, I grabbed 5 of them and candled really quickly.
All 5 are alive! Not just alive but doing somersaults! I'm going to assume that means that all 20 I thought looked developed/quit are also alive! I'm doing a happy dance. I won't candle again until day 15 so I can check weight and adjust humidity if needed.

 

[Trisseh]

I guess it’s a good thing when you get a nice email from the hatchery you’ve been ordering from with a coupon code? Bahaha. They have a “German pastel collection” option for quail... I might have to order that as well, so I don’t waste a coupon code, you know. xD

 

[FortCluck]

I guess it’s a good thing when you get a nice email from the hatchery you’ve been ordering from with a coupon code? Bahaha. They have a “German pastel collection” option for quail... I might have to order that as well, so I don’t waste a coupon code, you know. xD

What hatchery?

 

[Trisseh]

What hatchery?

Breezy Bird Farms in Manitoba. small scale, they’ve primarily got heritage and rare breeds. I’ve been most pleased with them.

 

[FortCluck]

Breezy Bird Farms in Manitoba. small scale, they’ve primarily got heritage and rare breeds. I’ve been most pleased with them.

Nice. I do myshire... yours is only Canada based

 

[Trisseh]

Nice. I do myshire... yours is only Canada based

Yep! I wish I had access to what you guys do though! We’re limited here, big time, especially in my area. You can’t find any decent stock of any slightly uncommon breeds and the more commercial hatcheries that we have access to have pretty terrible birds that I’ve seen. There’s a couple places in BC I was checking out but that’s a lonnnnng way for eggs or chicks to travel. :S

although our silvery quail are probably related way back when, didn’t the SSC come from Canada originally? Lol.