2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[zazouse]

Readings under a broody, i just reset this and will see if i get the same kind of readings.
I know this is an accurate read as i used this one and 2 others in my hatcher and they all read the same within a degree depending what shelf they were on

Notice the temp spike and the drop when she left the nest that shows up on the lower right side of the temp reading .
I have brooded a dozen eggs with these 2 hens and all but 2 hatched.

 

[casportpony]

Readings under a broody, i just reset this and will see if i get the same kind of readings.
I know this is an accurate read as i used this one and 2 others in my hatcher and they all read the same within a degree depending what shelf they were on

Notice the temp spike and the drop when she left the nest that shows up on the lower right side of the temp reading .
I have brooded a dozen eggs with these 2 hens and all but 2 hatched.

Interesting!

-Kathy

 

[AugeredIn]

Got lots of experience candling exploders from chickens and ducks and they *always* have the same basic look, so I'm pretty confident I'll be able to toss them before they explode. One sure sign is if you jiggle one and hear sloshing inside, toss it, 'cause that ones about to explode, lol.

-Kathy

Even the thought of jiggling a Bator Bomb causes certain physiological reactions to the body. Skunk got nothing on a rotten peafowl egg.

Knock on wood, we have not had one this year. You would think as crappy a year as it has been we would have had a few. Last year was a dream in terms of fertility and hatch percentage and we had three. And we candle every egg every week too!

 

[casportpony]

The smell is something else, isn't it? My ducks are always making nests in horrible spots, then they leave after awhile. Often I don't find those nests until I hear one explode, then I just follow the smell and careful toss the rest of the eggs.

Will do another experiment... I let my turkey start sitting on some eggs on 5-3. A couple weren't fertile, so I left those with her (not sure why) and put the others under a chicken. So the egg under her is a non-fertile that she's been trying to hatch for 8 weeks. Been thinking she should get off it, so just for grins, today I'll take a look at it, crack it open in a safe place and take some pictures. Should be fun in a sick and twisted way, lol.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

The smell is something else, isn't it? My ducks are always making nests in horrible spots, then they leave after awhile. Often I don't find those nests until I hear one explode, then I just follow the smell and careful toss the rest of the eggs.

Will do another experiment... I let my turkey start sitting on some eggs on 5-3. A couple weren't fertile, so I left those with her (not sure why) and put the others under a chicken. So the egg under her is a non-fertile that she's been trying to hatch for 8 weeks. Been thinking she should get off it, so just for grins, today I'll take a look at it, crack it open in a safe place and take some pictures. Should be fun in a sick and twisted way, lol.

-Kathy

You have way too much free time!

One down, 12 more to go!

 

[DylansMom]

Last hatch before my trip in July. A BS or Cameo BS, and a pied from the LP/SP pair that Kathy and KsKingBee each have a sibling from. I have an IB drying off in the hatcher and another malposition that probably won't make it. So 3 out of 4 this time. I swore I was not going to do a bunch of little hatches this year..... just 1 or 2 big ones, but here I am with 4 eggs. I drive myself crazy sometimes.

 

[casportpony]

Last hatch before my trip in July. A BS or Cameo BS, and a pied from the LP/SP pair that Kathy and KsKingBee each have a sibling from. I have an IB drying off in the hatcher and another malposition that probably won't make it. So 3 out of 4 this time. I swore I was not going to do a bunch of little hatches this year..... just 1 or 2 big ones, but here I am with 4 eggs. I drive myself crazy sometimes.

Very cute! Sorry about your malpostion, hope it makes it!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here is the liquid pea egg. Oddly enough, it did not smell.







-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This is the temp and humidty under one of my broodies:


-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@DylansMom , curiously, how is the one chick malpostioned? This interests me since I have seen so many of them in the last year, and not just peafowl, it's been ducks and chickens, too.

-Kathy