6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[tresa78]

Time to decide what we should put in the bator !! Can't wait

 

[Blarneyeggs]

I am Mexican, so I guess I wish everyone else a Happy Thanksgiving!

One of my husband's closest business associates is forever teasing us about our choices for holiday meals, he, being Mexican almost always has goat. Turkey and ham just does NOT cut it at his house.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

 
Are ya there yet Ron?  If not..drive safe!! 

I am home baking pies. We leave early in the morning. I will be taking my tablet to keep up with the hatch a long. I can't go without my peeps!

So funny hearing that Ron has a 'Mom', kinda like running into your grade school teacher in the grocery store. In my mind, Ron is about 100 years old, he must be to have accumulated all that chicken wisdom and patience. Ron in my head:

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Time to decide what we should put in the bator !! Can't wait

Welcome aboard! Well, have you decided yet?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Oh, that is good to know. Thanks! I checked the last 15 eggs and they were all dead. One of those had the internal organs exposed as well. One had its brain on the outside and one had a deformed head and very extreme cross beak. So those were pretty obvious to see why they didn't hatch. 2 looked like they died probably day 19 or so - they were still kinda smallish and had the full yolk still yet. The rest looked like they died right at pipping time. They were properly positioned, yolk fully or almost fully absorbed, and no visible deformities or other problems. They just never pipped the membrane. So not sure what happened there.
So, if high temperature is a possible cause, I'll have to do more spot checks to make sure I haven't got any hot spots I missed the first few times. If not, maybe both eggs came from the same hen and it might be hereditary.

These were all my eggs, gathered fresh and not shipped. So that wasn't the cause in this case.

The cross beak is supposedly hereditary. Exposed brain is high temperature or low oxygen early in the incubation.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00008570/00001/6j

What kind of thermometer do you have?

ETA
Since they're all your birds, you have a lot of control over breeder nutrition which can have a huge impact on hatchability.

I am home baking pies. We leave early in the morning. I will be taking my tablet to keep up with the hatch a long. I can't go without my peeps!

If you don't keep up, it may be hard to catch up.

X2! And it's a great excuse to eat pie until your pants don't fit for a day lol

What is my plan if my pants don't fit BEFORE Thanksgiving?

One of my husband's closest business associates is forever teasing us about our choices for holiday meals, he, being Mexican almost always has goat. Turkey and ham just does NOT cut it at his house.

I love goat.

 

[ronott1]

oh I wanna hatch along

I have added you to the participants list!

Time to decide what we should put in the bator !! Can't wait

Let us know what you will be hatching.

 

[ronott1]

One of my husband's closest business associates is forever teasing us about our choices for holiday meals, he, being Mexican almost always has goat. Turkey and ham just does NOT cut it at his house.

So funny hearing that Ron has a 'Mom', kinda like running into your grade school teacher in the grocery store. In my mind, Ron is about 100 years old, he must be to have accumulated all that chicken wisdom and patience. Ron in my head:

Mom is 20years older than me, so she looks darn good at 120....

My member interview was posted yesterday: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/939208/byc-member-interview-ronott1

 

[domesticzoo]

Earl says, "Eat Goat!"

 

[casportpony]

Well I don't think I have any Muscovy eggs to set, so cross that one off my list! Happy Thanksgiving!

-Kathy

 

[bantambury]

Happy thanksgiving everyone! Hope its grEAT!