2019 may hatch a long!!!!!!

[Rockporters]

@jas humbert That is awesome. And lol at “cut way down to 200!” I’ll check out her page. I’m jealous of all the colors you might end up hatching. How many eggs did you start with? Hope all is going well with your hat so far!

My eggs are from Kate Morreale in MA. White, black, blue/splash. I picked up 16, and she shipped the other 12 to me. 28 eggs in total. 11 of the 16 I picked up developed, and 7 hatched. Of the shipped eggs, 7 of the 12 developed, we will see how many of those hatch. 3 have pipped so far! (Today is day 20)

 

[john_wrightson2003]

You are right, it could be clearer. Go to Indigo Egg website and how to purchase page. She has a section on shipped eggs. She's super nice but kind of casual and doing a lot of other things. If you text or email she will eventually answer you but maybe not the same day. I think she's worth the wait.

As you probably know, shipped eggs are risky. You may not even get a 50% hatch rate even if you are incubating correctly. I ordered from her once before about 2 years ago. I had not quite a dozen eggs developing and my wild cats knocked the incubator off the table and most of the eggs smashed. I hatched only one egg from that batch- a gorgeous partridge boy and I couldn't even keep him because I couldn't have roosters at the time. I see you've had some bad luck with your last hatch. Detached air cells are a fact of life with shipped eggs. I had a detached and some loose ones. Standard advice is don't turn them at all for the first few days but sometimes nothing helps. All of my detached and loose eggs in this batch did not develop at all. Don't assume eggs weren't fertile just because they didn't develop. (Most breeders would be insulted if you said half their eggs weren't fertile- much more accurate to say half didn't develop). Shipping is hard on eggs and they are often subtly damaged- not obviously cracked but too shook up to develop even if they were fertile. Practice getting your empty incubator stable with temp and humidity-figure out how much water and how often it has to be added to keep the stable humidity you want. Good luck!

Well, I know how to achieve correct humidity and temp levels, but I did turn those eggs ever since I stuck em in there #didntknowanybetter lol... and im ashamed to say it, cause it makes me sound like an idiot, but im in Jacksonville Nc where it has been getting around 100 for the last 2 weeks r so, and I had the incubator on my non air-conditioned shop, which my mentor says probs cooked em, but... oh well, you win some and you lose some. And i was wondering, how much did you pay for those silkie eggs from indigo egg? If you don't mind my asking...

 

[jas humbert]

You'd better get with her on prices. Depends on what you want. I think she has some prices listed on the website. She's not cheap but she's equivalent or less expensive than some mediocre stuff I've seen on e-bay. I've always been thrifty, but to an extent, I think you get what you pay for. But that depends on what matters to you. Personally I'm not interested in $20 a dozen low quality silkie eggs with the occasional red single comb, missing toes and limited fluff. I don't know why because I will likely never show but I want the good ones. I can only have so many chickens and every one needs to be what I want. I usually raise a batch and once they are old enough that I can see what I've got, sell off what doesn't work for me. You can only have so many roosters, right? The high quality ones usually sell much better. On the other hand, I love funky colors. If I were showing, I might be more interested in sticking to recognized colors. To each their own.

I don't know if you cooked them or not. It has been up to mid 90s here lately and mine are incubating in the garage- no A/C. After all, you want the incubator at 100 (or more for still air). Do you have a reliable tested thermometer you can see without opening the incubator up? Check it at the hot part of the day a few times with the empty running incubator. If its running well over 100 then you will either have to move the unit inside to the A/C or wait until it cools down in the fall.

 

[elorraine52]

thanks for all the replies, I did slip my hand in quickly and got out the dry ones yesterday, them more today...one is still pipping, tonight, if no more hatch, I'll be done.

 

[jas humbert]

@Rockport- you did better with the shipped eggs than the ones you picked up? Well, I guess you didn't have them shipped far. I occasionally lust after stuff I see on the other side of the country but in my limited experience, I've done so much better the closer the eggs are to me. My best hatch of all time from shipped eggs was 15 eggs- 11 healthy chicks but they were 110 miles from me. This time she's 500 miles away I received 3 dozen (but to be fair I only ordered 2 dozen- she was just extra generous) and am putting 11 into lock down. 4 pippers so far. Lots of eggs just didn't develop at all. Luck of the draw. But if you don't have what you want nearby, what choice do you have? I joined a local facebook chicken group and have got some eggs from there and generally I do much better with local eggs but it can be such a limited selection.

 

[Rockporters]

@jas humbert Ugh, that is hard. Especially when you’re excited about the potential, and when you pay a little more. How is your hatch going?

It was close, but the eggs I picked up were slightly better percentage-wise for developing. The shipped eggs might do better hatching. Some have been pipped for 12 hours though... so we will see.

Here is tonight's 2nd hatch. Egg was marked white. It’s too cute regardless.

 

[Rockporters]

5 chicks so far this morning. The one in the video is actually white, I think. It’s very light, which is why it looked so dark, if that makes sense. 2 eggs to go now..

 

[jas humbert]

Of 11 eggs put in lockdown, 10 hatched. Well 9 and 3/4- one is is nearly out and I'm pretty sure he'll make it. One malposition died, one malposition I managed to help him get out safely. I've got two reds, one odd kind of whitish gray, two light buffs, two partridge, one blue naked neck (he's half the size of everybody else but very active), one that isnt dried enough to be sure but maybe white or silvery, and who knows on the one who isn't out yet? Kind of dark? Pictures after the last one hatches. I can't get decent pictures in the incubator.

 

[MagpieDucks]

Of 11 eggs put in lockdown, 10 hatched. Well 9 and 3/4- one is is nearly out and I'm pretty sure he'll make it. One malposition died, one malposition I managed to help him get out safely. I've got two reds, one odd kind of whitish gray, two light buffs, two partridge, one blue naked neck (he's half the size of everybody else but very active), one that isnt dried enough to be sure but maybe white or silvery, and who knows on the one who isn't out yet? Kind of dark? Pictures after the last one hatches. I can't get decent pictures in the incubator.

 

[Rockporters]

@jas humbert Congratulations! Please post pics!!! I would love to see all those wonderful colors.

My tally from Part 2:

12 eggs (shipped in-state)
7 developed
1 died at hatch
6 alive and chirping away

This round I got 2 whites, 1 splash (?), and 3 blacks. Between the 2 hatches I have 13 chicks.

1 splash (it has streaks, but maybe I’m just hoping it is lol)
1 idk
2 blue
5 white (4 with the buff tones, 1 very pale bright yellow)
4 black