5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[kara1015]

Not yet, no one has been broody. Maybe this Spring/Summer.

 

[champer]

We already filed a claim and will have more eggs shipped this week or early next week. It takes 30 days to process a claim. Dmrippy has been wonderful to work with. I will be doing business with her again!

So glad to hear your eggs are being replaced! If the old box ever appears, cook them up for your birds, they've been prescrambled!

 

[ronott1]

I like these hatch alongs first time but nice having all do it with me. I cant wait for an easter hatch along. I want to find black indian runners and sneek them in without wife knowing. She dont want ducks then again she dont want chickens. Good thing she has me around to show her its not weather you want them but you neeeeeed them and got to have them!! I thought she was going to kill me all this year. I told her 6 chickens well dirst day that 6 turned to 11. Now 38 so need ducks cant let her get a break of being mad or she may leave me next time she gets mad. I fugure if its one long period of being mad she can only hold it againts me once not 2+ times. Love my logic.

You have it bad!

I just caught up. Will try to get my picture posted, for real tonight, got home late last night. You guys are going crazy posting.

We have been very busy! I can't wait to see the picture.

 

[BoereMeisie]

I think Blossom is toying with the idea of going broody. She was sleeping on the nest last night, but off this morning at feeding time. Then after all the hens had laid their eggs in the nest, she hopped on again and there she sat until late-afternoon feeding time. She's settled on the perch for the night, but I've moved the Silkies into their own coop this evening, away from the mixed flock (want them separate when they go broody). I will see what she does tomorrow, but I keep my eggs on a rotation system so there are always some to set under a broody. The first 7 days they are stored out of the fridge at an angle, and the angle is changed twice a day, and after that they go into the fridge... which means on a daily basis I am putting fresh eggs into the "in case someone goes broody" tray, and taking 7-day old eggs out into the "you're breakfast" tray in the fridge. I was caught unprepared when 3 of my chickens went broody at the same time, and from then on I am always prepared with eggs.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Quote: Ah Ha! The spelling....that would explain why my Google search said zero results found, lol! Here, I thought you had a new breed of chicken Google didn't know about!

Quote:At this point I would say they are unhatchable and get your money back from the Po insurance. Get more eggs. No reason to beat yourself up over not hatching unwatchable eggs when you can get more. The membranes will be streached so far even if chicks developed they will not hatch.
x2 Gotta agree on this one!

 

[mstricer]

Once you catch up it goes slow. Has anyone noticed the new thing on the mobile screen where it says saving draft or asks save draft, then says draft saved?

 

[Aphrael]

Once you catch up it goes slow. Has anyone noticed the new thing on the mobile screen where it says saving draft or asks save draft, then says draft saved?

It's doing that on my computer as well. I think they added a new feature for saving drafts of your posts. Could be useful as there have been a few times where I have accidentally closed the page or navigated away and lost everything I had typed.

 

[insanity]

Yes. It was giving me trouble yesterday when I was trying to post pics. I finally gave up and switched to the laptop.

 

[Penny Hen]

Good thinkin' Blarney!!!

There is a YouTube video of someone helping a double yolked egg hatch. The problem is that it can get so tight inside that they can't move enough to break out of the egg. I would definitely try the technique of cooling the egg to 65˚ on the 16th day for 6 hours. This is done to mimic when the hen gets off her eggs to eat. The final metabolic processes of growing can get too hot and cook the chick. The article explaining this was sited earlier. It is an amazing read. It explains all of those fully formed mystery deaths in the eggs.

 

[SunnySkies]

Ok, I just got a update on my lost marans eggs! They have been lost for 8 days, been all over the United States. I haven't received them yet and don't know what shape they are in. I know the hatch rate goes down considerably with each passing day. How long should I let them rest before putting them in the incubator? I will post pictures when they arrive

Carriebain i thought i read somewhere that mail will now insure upto $50.00 on hatching eggs. If that is true you may want to put a claim in. Maybe someone with more experiance mailing could give ya a for sure answer on that. Being lost this long who knows the shape they are in. I hope the best but i would plan for worst thata just me though.

This happened to me this summer. Eggs got lost, nobody could find them, they made it to me after 10 days. Box was kind of messed up. I set them anyway, none hatched. I wasn't terribly surprised, as SFH are very difficult to hatch after being shipped, and being lost in the mail sure did not help. But the shipper did get $50 and shipping refunded, so nobody was out anything.