Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

A rooster that has a tuft on each cheek.


Exoticducklover,

congrats. I have had higher fluxuations than that and have still had chicks hatch so never give up.

Lanae

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Hey, would you keep track of the genders on those that hatched? Each and every time I fry a batch of eggs, the chicks that hatch are roosters. My friend recently had two chicks hatch out after being certain that they had all fried at 104 degrees and both of her chicks are clearly roosters. I think I may be onto something here.... something that only those of us who habitually lose control of temp during incubating could discover...... Good luck there exoticduckluvr!

 

[exoticduckluvr]

I can tell you that out of 2 batches of D'Uccle eggs I got over the long very hot summer from the same guy and the P.O. took 8 days on the first batch and 10 days on the 2nd batch. both living birds 1 from each batch are Roosters. The first batch took 8 days and I had 2 hatch 1 day apart but the 2nd one died in a couple days, think it would have been a hen but not for sure

Just put the 1 hatchling in with the other older chicks. No progress on the pip. I will give them until tomorrow afternoon then have to move my next batch in for lock down.
I will take pics tomorrow of the new chick and maybe someone can tell if roo or hen

 

[star2525]

There was a discussion on a previous group about the eggs that are hatched in higher temps, they say Roosters hatch from the higher temps, that the eggs that contain pullets don't survive the higher temps but that the Roosters do, I got told to stay at 99 as close as possible, I do hatch cockrels and I also hatch pullets at that temp. Percentage wise on the Bantam Marans chicks and Araucana chicks I've hatched I had more pullets than cockrels from the hatches. Almost 3 pullets to every cockrel that I hatched, at one point I could have put Quads together.

I purchased an Old GQF Cabinet Incubator and the Old Man that sold it to me said not to touch any of the temperature adjustments, they were set exactly as they needed to be and he said he always got good hatches, he told me he'd hatch 2 to 300 chicks at a time, so I left everything just like he told me. It runs at 99.5 or pretty close to that.

Victoria

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Wow, three pullets to one roo! What I wouldn't give for numbers like those. I had the worst time in my little cheep=o hovabator keeping the temp down and ended up with so many roosters. The incubator that my husband built functions much better and I had hatches all over the place in regards to pullet/cockeral ratio - I found that that unit works best at about 101.00 But I was pulling my hair out over the broody hens! I was getting at least twice as many roosters, not once this season did I get better than 2 cockerals to one pullet, and in one case I got one females and 9 roosters. It makes me wish I understood the biology of gender better, is there anything that I was doing that could possible have caused that? All of the eggs under my broodys were eggs from my own chickens, where as incubator eggs were usually shipped or ones that I drove and picked up from another breeder.
I think I'm about to seal a deal on a used but mint-condition cabinet sportsman's GQF incubator!! Trying not to get too excited in case it doesn't happen, but.........

 

[cashdl]

Here's hoping for you Megan. I would love to find a used sportsman. I built my own cabinet incubator and hatch more pullets than roos but that is not saying much because the humidity fluxuates so badly that I lose half of every batch. Maybe I am losing only the roos, who knows.


Lanae

 

[exoticduckluvr]

my fans only lasted for 3 hatches each in my LG incubators so that's why I incubate at 101.5 or as close to it as I can get. The constantly changing weather here in the south during winter keeps you on your toes checking incubator temps. I even have them in my bator boxes lined with bubble wrap, then the bator, and bubble wrap laid loosely on top with the box lid on top of that. If it gets to warm I remove top and bubble wrap and sometimes open 1 or both vents

the 1 pip has made a half hearted effort to pop off a tiny piece of shell and I hear it peep once in awhile. I see I have another pip now too

 

[smoothmule]

exoticduckluvr,
How is your hatch coming along? Hope it went well.
As far as temps and sex, it may be interesting that you had males with the higher temps but there was a study and there was no correlation found. If the hatcheries could control that, they would already be doing it. It would take far more than a few individual chicks to see any trends and then hundreds to prove they were from the higher heat and not other causes. Sure is a nice idea but it won't work.

 

[exoticduckluvr]

have 2 more hatched this morning. Not seeing any more pips but then again the incubator temp is showing 99.8 This is getting so frustrating

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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I'm not saying that I would expect that there is a perfect temp for hatching out primarily pullets - I think that at the perfect temp we just get more eggs to hatch overall and end up with more healthy, happy chicks of both genders. So, your saying that there was a study and they found that pullets survive the high temps just as well as the cockeral fetuses do?
But what I did find myself wondering about a lot last season was, given that the hen determines sex in the chick, is there anyway that I could be unknowingly breeding into my lines hens that produce more male eggs than female eggs? Or was that just some intensely annoying random happenstance that the vast majority of eggs set from my flock hatched out guys?