*** AUGUST HATCH-A-LONG come join in ***

[featherz]

My husband enabled me to get more eggs after I sold about half of the last hatch right away so I may also be in the September hatch a long!! this is the last batch for the year tho - winter will set in soon and I don't want to have to keep birds in the house for longer than necessary!

 

[silkieowner]

my blue/silver shen sitting on 6 fertile eggs are due to hatch this saturday its wednesday night here.

 

[white01]

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i'm getting eggs in the mail hopefully tomorrow and thurs

then some more next week ( because they cant fill the order until monday ) I have a question i was reading on here that during periods of high heat that some people dont let the eggs set in house after shipping but go straight to the incubator but dont turn them for the first 3 days or so. does anyone know if this is a good idea and how hot is the outside temps before this is something to do? the eggs are coming from Florida, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. i'm in Texas.
thanks all

mine should be hatching around the 5th or 6th, hopefully

 

[Kedreeva]

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If the outside temps are around 80 degrees or above, that means that in an un-air-conditioned carrier truck the eggs could reach incubation temps inside the box. If you have a doubt AT ALL about the eggs, put them in and don't turn them for the first 24 hours. Make sure that they are stored in the incubator the same way you would store them outside the incubator- pointy end down. The point of 'settling' eggs is to allow the air cell to settle into place at the large end of the egg and to allow the chalaza (the spiral tendons holding the yolk suspended in the white) to relax/uncoil as shipping stresses them badly. It has very little to do with anything else unless your eggs have been refrigerated. People allow refrigerated eggs to sit so that they are not shocked by the change in temp from 45 degrees to 99 degrees... but shipped eggs should not have this problem, and can be put straight in without turning.

 

[txmel]

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If the outside temps are around 80 degrees or above, that means that in an un-air-conditioned carrier truck the eggs could reach incubation temps inside the box. If you have a doubt AT ALL about the eggs, put them in and don't turn them for the first 24 hours. Make sure that they are stored in the incubator the same way you would store them outside the incubator- pointy end down. The point of 'settling' eggs is to allow the air cell to settle into place at the large end of the egg and to allow the chalaza (the spiral tendons holding the yolk suspended in the white) to relax/uncoil as shipping stresses them badly. It has very little to do with anything else unless your eggs have been refrigerated. People allow refrigerated eggs to sit so that they are not shocked by the change in temp from 45 degrees to 99 degrees... but shipped eggs should not have this problem, and can be put straight in without turning.

thank you so much. that's what i was needing to know. hopefully my next hatch will be better if i do this. last hatch was 4 out of 33eggs and i think the heat during transport combined with letting them rest in house, had a great deal to do with it.

 

[Surehatch]

My hatch has been going very well - 100% so far in my GQF Sportsman 1502

 

[Lesalynn]

I guess I'll just have to watch the rest of ya'll hatching in Sept.

I'll try and not have 'egg envy', but seeing as how my rooster died, and I won't have another for breeding til after winter, none of my eggs will be fertile.

I can't find anyone local with fertile eggs to sell me. I have a really good friend down the road whose dad raises pure-breeds for his grand-daughters to show in 4-H and FFA, but he won't sell anything, not even an egg....He's not a meany or anything, just doesn't believe in selling, lol. He IS however the one that gave me my EE and BL hens a couple years ago. Hmmm.....maybe I'm going about this wrong.....maybe I should just ASK for the eggs, instead of offering to BUY the eggs....hhmmmm......just maybe....

I think I'll give Mr P a call today and give it one more shot. Wish me luck ya'll.......

 

[txmel]

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good luck

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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i'm getting eggs in the mail hopefully tomorrow and thurs

then some more next week ( because they cant fill the order until monday ) I have a question i was reading on here that during periods of high heat that some people dont let the eggs set in house after shipping but go straight to the incubator but dont turn them for the first 3 days or so. does anyone know if this is a good idea and how hot is the outside temps before this is something to do? the eggs are coming from Florida, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. i'm in Texas.
thanks all

mine should be hatching around the 5th or 6th, hopefully

Really? That's so awesome!
Sending good hatching vibes to everyone that is hatching!

I threw out Fluffy's one egg last night - it didn't really have anything in it.

But I still have 2 chicken eggs, 6 quail eggs and a whole gob of guinea eggs!

 

[NaomiSarah]

Just an update that all four of my chicks that hatched have made it into their second week! I'm always skeptical when a hatch has such a poor rate, but they're doing great. These Australorps are the toughest little chicks I've ever seen, and sweet and cuddly too!

Thirty Australorp eggs in the 'bator for Sept, candling them in 2 days because the bator was slow to warm up. I had a temp spike of 104 for about an hour but it was before the eggs were up to temp so I'm still hopeful they weren't harmed.