A tale of two hatches

[Susan Skylark]

So you buy and ship some expensive eggs and end up with 1 bird you keep out of 40 eggs (saddled air cells, shipping disaster, 25% hatch rate, psycho chicks…) and then you just throw 20 random eggs in the incubator and go on vacation (literally unsupervised for a week) not really caring if they hatch or not and get home and go into lockdown with 15 viable eggs…I believe I have just proved that Murphy’s law is real! And yes, I do care about my chicks, I’m just not rabidly excited like I was for my cool mixed colors shipped eggs!

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Or you pay $5 to $6 per egg for breeder quality eggs, and you get a poor hatching because your "faithful" broody quit 2 weeks into it leaving them stone cold for a day, killing embryos, because of course that is the one day you had to be gone all day. Then, unbeknownst to you, a hen from the flock, you thought lost to predators, comes out from behind the woodshed after being gone for 3 weeks with 10 mixed mutt chicks, all healthy, and keeps them alive to adult.

Yes, Murphy's Law is strong with chicken keeping.

LOL. Sorry for your mishaps. I've never had good luck with shipped eggs.

LofMc

 

[Perris]

Less fuss = more success? Perhaps broodies and embryos/foetuses do better with less interest or 'help' from us.