🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[Misfits Farm 92]

The egg that pipped first did not survive. I opened up its egg and it had a head deformity, so it probably wouldn't have survived anyway. On the bright side, two baby quail hatched.

 

[CindyinSD]

Very rarely for sure. My magpie was a troublemaker at hatch but he’s fine now, but he’s the only one from all my hatches this year that’s survived and thrived after helping.

I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt and will see what happens with the eggs she’s sitting on... not sure if it’s my fault or not but I didn’t calculate dates properly and she was still within the withdrawal period for antibiotics. since some drugs can cause repro issues or problems with babies in other species, I’m wondering if there’s a correlation. These eggs she’s on now were laid after the withdrawal was completed so I’m hoping that was the problem... she is, of course, my favorite, lol, so I wanted a daughter from her.

What I meant was that if a chick needs helped out of the egg, I wouldn't breed that chick (should it survive) in future. Unless the mama routinely produces chicks with problems I don't think it's necessarily a problem with her own genetics or health. It could just be a faulty bit of DNA that didn't "print" correctly or similar. The chick though, is a victim of that and may pass on the genetic error.

 

[Trisseh]

What I meant was that if a chick needs helped out of the egg, I wouldn't breed that chick (should it survive) in future. Unless the mama routinely produces chicks with problems I don't think it's necessarily a problem with her own genetics or health. It could just be a faulty bit of DNA that didn't "print" correctly or similar. The chick though, is a victim of that and may pass on the genetic error.

My bad! Haha! Totally misunderstood. I haven’t kept any of my problem hatched birds, except for the magpie duckling that was stuck in his narrow pullet sized egg. Lol. I doubt he’ll be siring any offspring anyways and will be joining the boys club - he was just too cute to not keep.
And I guess my Legbar pullet falls in the problem child category but I won’t be hatching any of her eggs, i hatched her solely to have some color in my egg basket. Lol.

 

[FortCluck]

What I meant was that if a chick needs helped out of the egg, I wouldn't breed that chick (should it survive) in future. Unless the mama routinely produces chicks with problems I don't think it's necessarily a problem with her own genetics or health. It could just be a faulty bit of DNA that didn't "print" correctly or similar. The chick though, is a victim of that and may pass on the genetic error.

I’m picky like this too My breeders are the best of the best in my opinion. I’m weeding out my flock now

 

[aliciaplus3]

Not a great hatch right now.... 12 maybe? I will try to count soon... but

I may accidentally have put22 marans eggs in the bator tonight so it looks like I have joined the September hatch

 

[aliciaplus3]

Final count on my last hatch 16... out of 78 eggs. I am not impressed. I hope the next one goes better

 

[kelseyk]

Final count on my last hatch 16... out of 78 eggs. I am not impressed. I hope the next one goes better

Sounds a lot like my hatches for June and July. I hope your September hatch goes well. I will also be hatching Marans in September.

 

[kelseyk]

18 eggs (isbar/silverudd and CCL) went into the hatcher today. I am pretty sure I saw all but 1 move while tracing the air cells. Hoping for a good hatch (and lots of pullets) as I have a friend interested in any pullets I do not keep.

 

[Colleen556]

Update. None of the Phoenix eggs hatched but I have 3 of the 4 Deathlayers with pips 2 days early. One is piped on the bottom and I don't want to open the Bator will it hatch?

 

[Trisseh]

I’ve got my first external pip on the bantam EE (8 of them) that I’ve got in the incubator... those things are really hard to see into! Some are blue but there are some olive ones in the mix and I couldn’t see a thing up until now. Lol. And it looks like all but 1 of the 7 sebright eggs are good, they’re all internally pipped.