Anyone hatching around July 7th and 12th?

[tnlorprazer]

walkswithdog - where are you located at?

 

[walkswithdog]

I'm near Knoxville. (waving) Hi.

Had a temp spike last night when dogs unplugged the fans for Darthbator. It's always something. Bad enough they're marans and shipped eggs. Now a spike...

If any of these replacement eggs (first hatch only two even went they were so badly scrambled) and only one hatched the other had it's intestines out and didn't make it.

The silkies and sizzles and possible showgirls are due the week after and are because of my first hatch being FIVE boys and TWO girls, bad odds, and I needed some smooth hens or frilkie hens and got none. So trying again...

But with the stupid spike - who knows.

 

[tnlorprazer]

Wow! Those were bad odds. I always thought you would get way more girls than boys. Guess its like everything else you just never know.

I've been to Knoxville several times. I always thought you guys stayed cooler than we do over here on the other end of the state. We've been in the lower 90's this week.

I have shipped eggs in my bator right now (which I hate the bator I bought so I've talked hubby in trying to make one). I'm just hoping for a good hatch.

 

[embkm]

I have 28 mutt eggs due to hatch on the 8th. It's mostly a test to see if my redesigns on the bator helped eliminate cold spots. If I get a good hatch, I'll be ready to start more in the fall when it cools off a bit.

 

[walkswithdog]

Having your own eggs to test hatch with really rocks.

Hope you have it tweaked perfectly now! But you have all summer to tinker LOL. I'm laying plans now for tinkering after the last batch hatches...

I have a bator intruder - I found a stomped unhatched egg/chick in the turkey coop, they must have oopsed one. Well, I thought dead for sure, picked it up to see where it was at - thought they were about due to hatch, when he moved, bloody, squashed, ice cold, torn yolk, stomped rolled and tossed out and there he was still trying.

I brought him in dredged him in flour to stop the bleeding wrapped him in a hanky and stuffed him in with the eggs.

He's gonna be a royal mess to clean up later but four hours, maybe five now - he's still alive, I tied off the yolksack removed the remainder of egg and torn membranes and got some of his "breading" off, and he's still going. Tough lil spud. His name is officially STOMP if he survives. Since I never did learn the name of the guy in Godzilla pictures who always gets stomped to death first. And KFC has been done. I briefly considered tempura - egg yolk, flour... get it???

 

[Kismet]

I have about 30 due to hatch on the 9th, and 18 more on the 13th. Mostly Ameracaunas, Marans, and blue laced red wyandottes.

I candled today and everybody looks pretty good. I took out 3 duds, and I know there are a few questionables.

My humidity is about 36% Do people think that's about right? Some of the airpockets look too big (Ameracaunas) and some look a little small (Marans). Just curious as to what other people keep their humidity at. The temperature is a pretty constant 99.7 to 100.5.

 

[tnlorprazer]

walkswithdog- I really hope Stomp pulls through. Poor little guy.

Kismet- I have been keeping my humidity around 50% for the first 18 days and then will bump it up to around 65% for days 19-21

 

[paddock36]

What's a sizzle?

 

[silkieluver_07]

I have 4 rosecomb eggs and 5 buff orpington eggs under a buff orp broody due out the 6th.

I have 5 silkie eggs under a blue silkie broody due out on the 8th.

I have 4 cochin/silkie eggs under a splash silkie broody due out the 9th.

 

[walkswithdog]

Quote:
A Sizzle is a new breed, it's basically a Frizzle taken back to silkies so that the bird is essentially silkie in size, type and character (five toes, topknot, bearded or non-bearded, dark skin mulberry or black walnut comb) but with either frizzled feathers or smooth feathers, depending on it's form.

Sizzles when bred produce four types of bird, Sizzles - frizzled hard feathered birds, sizzles (small s) to denote a smooth, hard feathered) sizzle, frilkie - frizzled silkies and frazzles a bird with a double of the frizzle gene that has over curled brittle feathers.

The breed is a work in progress. I currently hold a few fourth generation sizzles where the type is setting quite nicely now. And am working on my set up for the next generation. My show project is blue, black and splash.

My pet project is shooting for Gold birchen or Lemon Blues.