April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[CluckNDoodle]

Hi everyone! Excited to say I get to join the hatch a long for April! It is pretty unexpected. I bid on some GFF Pita Pinta eggs on EBay, and ended up winning, for cheap! I’ve been eyeing up this breed for months, but the auctions just got too expensive.

I hatched 21 beautiful chicks in early February. I sold 6 right away, and re homed 12 cockerels. I have one cockerel I’m keeping and only 2, yes, only 2 pullets. I’m not even 100% sure on them yet either. It was my worst hatch ratio ever!!

So I am really looking forward to hopefully hatching some more! I pick up the eggs tomorrow!

Fingers crossed for more pullets for everyone!

 

[FortCluck]

Does anyone use a Farm Innovator 4250, I have the opportunity to get one for extremely low price still in sealed box, wanted get everyone's opinion on it first, thank you

That's what I have and I've been very successful with it

 

[FortCluck]

I want Cockerels not pullets I need freezer meat

 

[hysop]

I want Cockerels not pullets I need freezer meat

Same! I was so happy my first batch had a good handful of males because I would have felt bad eating the girls, but my husband wanted girls since the chicken in stores is girls, right? So he wanted female chicken meat.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Well then I hope you two get all the roos so the rest of us can have pullets.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Day 7 duck

Does anyone use a Farm Innovator 4250, I have the opportunity to get one for extremely low price still in sealed box, wanted get everyone's opinion on it first, thank you

I have one. I'd consider it a bit fiddly. It has hot spots and if your temperature probe drops below the turner it will cause a temperature spike within minutes. Other than that I like it. Mine has been a workhorse that's excellent for humidity and overall temperature (with proper probe placement). I liked the brand so much I bought the Farm Innovators Still Air incubator. It was under $50 new including shipping. I figured I'd use it as a hatcher but I've been incubating in it since January. Great machine.

Hi everyone! Excited to say I get to join the hatch a long for April! It is pretty unexpected. I bid on some GFF Pita Pinta eggs on EBay, and ended up winning, for cheap! I’ve been eyeing up this breed for months, but the auctions just got too expensive.

I hatched 21 beautiful chicks in early February. I sold 6 right away, and re homed 12 cockerels. I have one cockerel I’m keeping and only 2, yes, only 2 pullets. I’m not even 100% sure on them yet either. It was my worst hatch ratio ever!!

So I am really looking forward to hopefully hatching some more! I pick up the eggs tomorrow!

No way! What luck! I remember you from the February hatch. My keepers from that hatch are down to 9 pullets and 2 roos after giving away 4 today (3 pullets, 1 roo). Here's a picture of my February Hatchalong chicks. They're 6 weeks tomorrow!

 

[FortCluck]

Same! I was so happy my first batch had a good handful of males because I would have felt bad eating the girls, but my husband wanted girls since the chicken in stores is girls, right? So he wanted female chicken meat.

Yeah they usually use hens

 

[juliasflock]

Eggs are here and in the incubator! I start incubation but I don’t turn on the turner for 24 hours

They sent 12, the auction was for 10. One egg was severely cracked in multiple spots, it almost looks like a pre shipment crack? Also, there were 3-4 that were very porous. I guess I’ll have to wait and see! All air cells looked good in the non porous eggs.

I contacted GFF and they said they would let their egg packagers know not to put in porous eggs, but didn’t offer anything for mine. If I don’t hatch any of the porous, I might reach back out.

 

[Trisseh]

My runner eggs went in on Monday! 10 eggs received, one with a really bad crack all the way through. pitched that one. One more with a pretty bad crack, but it’s not through the membrane so I held onto it and will try patching it up once I have space to put it. The other 8 went in and now I wait. Lol. These should be 100% blue from my understanding, the breeder had blue and splash girls and a black and blue drake.

 

[glenstorm]

Started 9 Wyandotes today. This is my second time hatching eggs. Did it a few years ago with a DIY incubator made out of a cooler. This time around I'm using a MagicFly incubator.

Now tax day is hatch day!!