sounds like you've got the magic touch! what an awesome easter surprise! and you're first hatch? you amaze me!
Am I just lucky or does this happen? **pics added**
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Wow how awesome. Congrats! He looks like a light brahma...my light brahma hen had a deep voice...she growled, a trick she learned from the dog. hahaha
wow! how lucky is that! My 1st hatch I got 2 out of 6. 2nd time around I started with 19 and am down to 11. Mine arent due to hatch till the 20th so we shall see how many i get.
Great hatch, congrats! Your chicks are very pretty. Nice looking flock, too.
When I first got my LG, years ago, no fan, no turner, I turned the eggs by hand every few hours, but I was working full time, 75 miles away, so there was a 12 hr stretch every day with no turning. So they got turned every 12 hours, more or less, and a couple times extra on my days off. My DH was driving truck cross-country, so he wasn't there to turn them, either. I just had the crappy thermometer that came with it, no hygrometer, just put water in the rings. I put a little blue food coloring in the water so I could see it better. I had a nearly 100% hatch rate, with my own mutt eggs.
Now, I have fan kit, an auto turner, a hygrometer, 2 other thermometers, and supposedly know what I'm doing. I just finished a hatch where I only got 8 out of 22 eggs. These were shipped eggs, but they were all but 2 looking great on day 18. So I don't think the problem was the eggs. They were beautifully packed, not an crack or chip anywhere when I got them.
I think I got better hatches when I wasn't so careful with them. I wish I had time to do a test hatch on mutt eggs right now, but I have more shipped eggs coming in a few days. There were some bad temp and humidity swings, the last 3 days.
Is your roo a Brahma? I had a bunch of those, they are wonderful birds. The roos almost always have weird crows! Such deep voices, and they sound kind of strangled at the end. Mine always had really good fertility, too. I still have some Brahma hens, and a bunch of cross-breeds. they're very nice. My light Brahma hens are terrific moms. Yay Brahma Mamas!
When I first got my LG, years ago, no fan, no turner, I turned the eggs by hand every few hours, but I was working full time, 75 miles away, so there was a 12 hr stretch every day with no turning. So they got turned every 12 hours, more or less, and a couple times extra on my days off. My DH was driving truck cross-country, so he wasn't there to turn them, either. I just had the crappy thermometer that came with it, no hygrometer, just put water in the rings. I put a little blue food coloring in the water so I could see it better. I had a nearly 100% hatch rate, with my own mutt eggs.
Now, I have fan kit, an auto turner, a hygrometer, 2 other thermometers, and supposedly know what I'm doing. I just finished a hatch where I only got 8 out of 22 eggs. These were shipped eggs, but they were all but 2 looking great on day 18. So I don't think the problem was the eggs. They were beautifully packed, not an crack or chip anywhere when I got them.
I think I got better hatches when I wasn't so careful with them. I wish I had time to do a test hatch on mutt eggs right now, but I have more shipped eggs coming in a few days. There were some bad temp and humidity swings, the last 3 days.
Is your roo a Brahma? I had a bunch of those, they are wonderful birds. The roos almost always have weird crows! Such deep voices, and they sound kind of strangled at the end. Mine always had really good fertility, too. I still have some Brahma hens, and a bunch of cross-breeds. they're very nice. My light Brahma hens are terrific moms. Yay Brahma Mamas!
Woah, and I thought I did good?!
This was my first hatch too, I incubated ducks though.
I started with 18 shipped eggs. One got dented in shipping so 17 were set:
-1 blood ring
-7 infertile
-All 9 pipped but one died after pipping, 8 living ducks!!
This was my first hatch too, I incubated ducks though.
I started with 18 shipped eggs. One got dented in shipping so 17 were set:
-1 blood ring
-7 infertile
-All 9 pipped but one died after pipping, 8 living ducks!!
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It is a Light Brahma roo. Hmm..what you said makes me wonder if anyone else tried it this way and got 100% also. Wonder if there is a pattern.
It is a Light Brahma roo. Hmm..what you said makes me wonder if anyone else tried it this way and got 100% also. Wonder if there is a pattern.
Congratz, you have a good daddy there!
Great job!!! I think it shows that sometimes Mother Nature is best left to her own devices. You took care of them but didn't overdo it-- super outcome!
man! you are LUCKYYYY!!!!! i have 14 pekin eggs in the bator, all from one girl. i'm hoping at least 6 hatch because i need to get two girls. man, i wish i had your luck!
I think I need to send my LG to her. 95 to 1oo temp. an here I have been upset with 1 degree bounce. day 20 not nothing?
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