🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[Vantic]

It is irritating. I'm already making plans to sell them as crosses if any hatch. I ordered 10 from another seller and have already contacted Cindy (foxfirepavillions) to see if she was thinking she would have anymore (which she said she was going to), so will probably get more from her too. (If I hatched mostly cockerels from her the first time....then I should get mostly pullets the 2nd time right? Lol! Wishful thinking.)

I'll let you know when mine hatch, maybe I have your pullets? (11 more days and we will know)

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

That’s waste left from the duckling. Duck hatching is messy. They don’t have clean shells like chickens do when they hatch.

Wait chickens don't have waste? I've hatched ducks afew times before... I just never remember it being green like that

 

[FortCluck]

Wait chickens don't have waste? I've hatched ducks afew times before... I just never remember it being green like that

They do but ducks are much messier overall

 

[Trisseh]

Wait chickens don't have waste? I've hatched ducks afew times before... I just never remember it being green like that

I had one hatch like that, it had pooped in there since it had half zipped and was stuck the rest of the way and sat in there for a few hours til I got home to release it. I would just keep a close eye on that one’s navel just in case.

 

[AusHen]

I just put 6 silkie eggs in. I could have waited for more but I didn't want the first ones to get too old since it's two girls laying and they lay every 2 to 3 days lol. I also got my 3 dozen eggs, 3 cross breed eggs were broken beyond repair and a Marans was cracked, I guess I could have repaired that one but the seller sent 2 extra of those so I fed that one to the lizard instead of fixing and risking
Edited to correct my mistake

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

They do but ducks are much messier overall

I feel like I would find chicks very easy in comparison to ducklings... I am finding the quail easier to keep clean, but at the same time I am so worried about accidently squishing one, they are so little and fast!

 

[FortCluck]

I feel like I would find chicks very easy in comparison to ducklings... I am finding the quail easier to keep clean, but at the same time I am so worried about accidently squishing one, they are so little and fast!

I love my quail. They’re fast growing. One day they’re small the next they aren’t

 

[JJeffrey]

Huge freakout yesterday after a very tiring day: Just before 8 p.m. we had a power outage. Manitoba Hydro's help line held a message saying 226 subscribers were without power in our area, they didn't know what caused it, they didn't have a time projected for restoration. I threw a heavy polarfleece blanket over the Brinsea to slow down cooling, and headed for the shop to set up my new little 950 watt generator, purchased a month or so ago knowing that sooner or later this would happen. Of course I had not even tried it out, so wasted time reviewing the instructions, filling the fuel tank and locating the controls. It all probably took half an hour, I was too rattled to check. I carefully carried the Brinsea with its precious developing cargo of Silkies-to-be out to the shop, feeling like Charlie Brown carefully carrying Snoopy's supper dish. (Well? The incubator normally sits on a low table beside my bed in the basement. Can't run a gasoline generator in the basement.) When I got power restored to the incubator the temp was only down to 30-ish from the correct 37.5, thanks to the blanket. After about an hour and a half of fretfully wandering back and forth between house and shop, not knowing how long the gen would run on one filling and not able to hear the gen from anywhere in the house, wondering what I'd do if the outage lasted all night -- the power came back on. I heaved a sigh of relief, waited another five minutes to be sure it was going to stay on, then shut down the gen and carefully carried the Brinsea back to its accustomed spot at my bedside.

With any luck at all, we should be okay. I don't want to candle again; those eggs have been through enough as it is and I'm content to await hatching day. I need to think about this and find a spot or build a small shelter beside a basement window, so I can run a short extension cord inside and monitor the gen more easily the next time this happens.

There seems to be so much anxiety attached to all aspects of "hatching eggs."

 

[CindyinSD]

Pigs are lucky! I need a pig so it can eat the eggs that aren’t good for me

I need a pig, too—well, two 'cause you can't have just one any more than just one chicken. Only DH does not understand that we need two little piggies.

 

[CindyinSD]

Huge freakout yesterday after a very tiring day: Just before 8 p.m. we had a power outage. Manitoba Hydro's help line held a message saying 226 subscribers were without power in our area, they didn't know what caused it, they didn't have a time projected for restoration. I threw a heavy polarfleece blanket over the Brinsea to slow down cooling, and headed for the shop to set up my new little 950 watt generator, purchased a month or so ago knowing that sooner or later this would happen. Of course I had not even tried it out, so wasted time reviewing the instructions, filling the fuel tank and locating the controls. It all probably took half an hour, I was too rattled to check. I carefully carried the Brinsea with its precious developing cargo of Silkies-to-be out to the shop, feeling like Charlie Brown carefully carrying Snoopy's supper dish. (Well? The incubator normally sits on a low table beside my bed in the basement. Can't run a gasoline generator in the basement.) When I got power restored to the incubator the temp was only down to 30-ish from the correct 37.5, thanks to the blanket. After about an hour and a half of fretfully wandering back and forth between house and shop, not knowing how long the gen would run on one filling and not able to hear the gen from anywhere in the house, wondering what I'd do if the outage lasted all night -- the power came back on. I heaved a sigh of relief, waited another five minutes to be sure it was going to stay on, then shut down the gen and carefully carried the Brinsea back to its accustomed spot at my bedside.

With any luck at all, we should be okay. I don't want to candle again; those eggs have been through enough as it is and I'm content to await hatching day. I need to think about this and find a spot or build a small shelter beside a basement window, so I can run a short extension cord inside and monitor the gen more easily the next time this happens.

There seems to be so much anxiety attached to all aspects of "hatching eggs."

Get a security camera—or several. We got ones with wires (cheaper and analog—so, no one sees them but us.) They're a pain putting up with all the cables, but they are so worth it.