Anyone hatching April 5-7 or so? ALL DONE, READY TO BE LOCKED

[snazzyboots]

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i'm so sorry. we lost a few too and it is so sad.

 

[newbiechickenowner]

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well, I have been really happy with the fact that they have all started off until at least day 10 except for ONE for each batch! (1/29 and 1/38)...this is exciting because I do sell them fertilized and can do so with somewhat certainty if I am seeing these results at home as well as I hatch for a farm (Pekins) so I also really need to make sure that my drake/hen ratio is working out so I am excited about that. The amount that actually hatched after the fertile ones took off, would be 19/28 so that is..... WOW...I too must be bleary eyed..I said 50% before, BUT, clearly that is not the case...I need to calculate that so that would be about 68%...am I doing that correctly?

 

[speckledhen]

I think, if I understood what you said, 29-1 infertile=28 is your starting number
28-6 quitters=22 hatched

22/28= 78% hatch rate. Dang, I can't think today!

 

[newbiechickenowner]

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So, 19 hatched. So it would be 19/28= hatch rate
and my fertility rate would be 28/29...which is really good right?

The ducklings are off to their new farm as of yesterday. The people are very happy with our relationship....The thing that I learned while doing this is that, there is no way that the big hatcheries would have time to deal with the last 6 in the way that I did...there is no way. But, I ended up with 6 extra ducklings with a little TLC...

 

[chevgrl]

so im so bummed my remaining 8 eggs that were supposed to hatch last thursday all DIS (dead in shell) 5 of them had even absorbed the yoke

i dont know what happened!!

 

[snazzyboots]

sorry to hear that chev. i had 7 that didn't hatch but i didn't open them. couldn't quite bring myself to do it. how many chicks do you have?

 

[chevgrl]

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11 but one chick i think had a neurological problem it just kept stumbling around and running into things I didn't think anything about it until the chicks that hatched after it were walking around like normal.
it passed away afew hours ago

 

[chevgrl]

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hey did you put them up on ebay or BYC? I totally want to see pics of your flock

 

[latebloomer]

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i'm sorry to hear that too.

 

[snazzyboots]

any news on your lost baby latebloomer???