3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[farmerChef]

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Smell each egg

 

[JazminesZoo]

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Imprint on cats!

Imprinting on cats is funny but my girlfriend intentionally imprints her goslings on her bulldog. She can train Stella (the dog) to run inside when she sees an eagle flying over, the goslings follow her. It's worked out really well and really helped eliminate a lot of losses. Besides, it gives us something to laugh at watching those little flappers waddling after the dog

I have my golden Retrievers, and We have a nesting pair of Bald eagles in front of the house, and lost of birds of prey, along with new fledglings from the Pair (That we named Samson & Delilah) .... They have been known to take baby lambs & whole placentas from the farms down the road.

I have taught them to bark & jump in the air when they see a Large Bird in the sky, via shadow too. I did this by whenever I see one I shout EAGLE then I clap & then I point to the sky, then I repeat a few times. Now they just do it. I raise puppies, and a Eagle will swoop right in & grab one in a second.

 

[anderson8505]

OH. You gotta find the stinker. Pick them all up and sniff them one by one if you have to. If it blows up, it's an unholy mess, think EXORCIST, but with smellovision!!!!! Blood rings can throw me off too. I usually leave those a few more days because some eggs can be hard to tell.

 

[JazminesZoo]

I had 1 turkey egg weep! I came downstairs in the morning a couple days ago & I was Like Holy Smell !!!

What is that?? I opened the bator & found the culprit, it just leaked on the bottom... (Thankfully I didn't have a hangover because I would have... well yah know) It was on my bottom tray thank goodness!!! So clean up was "easier" I have never smelled anything like slow brewed crock pot rotten egg

So I now; every couple days smell EACH egg. I have now tossed 4 stinkies & man you can tell if they are ! No second guessing on those ripe ones! So a total of 5 tossed of my 95 turkey eggs.

 

[tazcat70]

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Smell each egg

X2 (or how ever many we are up to now.)

If you smell each egg, you will be able to find it, or them.


Good luck and be careful!

 

[tazcat70]

Well I candled. Nothing stinks!

I see a lot on the blue/green/olives but it looks like there are some growing, based on the darkness of the egg, and the lighter air cell.

My project eggs all seem to be clears, but I didn't toss them. Wishful thinking on my part. This is a very young flock and all the eggs were pullet eggs, but I had hoped some would be good. Those project eggs were why I loaded the bator up with EEs.

 

[LarryPQ]

I have had a turkey egg blow in the bator, during lockdown.

It killed a bator full of pricey chicken and turkey eggs.

 

[LarryPQ]

Kaboom!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

All my ducks are hatched, mostly. Still have one on the halfshell. 3 white, 1 black and 1 chipmunk.

Whoever said they were slow to hatch was not exaggerating in the least.

 

[crazypetlady]

I removed 10 clear eggs today. I also fell down the stairs Monday night and broke a bone in my leg. I have eggs in the incubator, hatcher, brooder, in grow out pens, sick ward and outside and my poor DH has to take care of them all right now. Perfect timing. On a good note I had one lone serama egg in the hatcher that haatched sometime between yesterday and today and I have a darling little blondie serama.