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So I have 7 hens and 1 roo..... I decided to try to hatch out some BBS Cochins (I have 1 blue hen and 1 blue roo)...... got an incubator and started some of the blue hens eggs......... None hatched...... checked fertility some here said fertilized some said no........ tried again no luck (added a couple of the other girls eggs to see if they did anything as well with no luck)......... Trimmed butt fluff on the roo and hens and started to collect eggs from the blue hen again. the day she laid her 3rd egg she went broody........
Ordered eggs on ebay that SHOULD have been BBS Cochin eggs. 4/12 were broken when they arrived. Gave my broody 4 plus 2 of her own eggs, and put 4 plus 1 of my blue Cochins eggs in the incubator...... I had 2 shipped under the broody start to grow, and 2 shipped in the incubator plus my broody's (the one she laid the day she went broody)........ 1 incubator shipped quit around day 5 I think it was. Then my Blue hens egg quit around day 10...... 1 shipped incubator baby hatched, 1 under mama hatched. The 2nd under mama internally pipped, absorbed all the yolk and veins but never externally pipped and DIS. (this part was bad luck was the 2 that hatched weren't even cochins never mine BBS cochins which is what I ordered from ebay). so hatched 2/12 total eggs but 2/8 that came unbroken (1 in incubator, 1 under broody)
Then 2 more girls went broody..... I ordered BBS Cochin eggs again from a different seller. All arrived unbroken. gave each broody 9 shipped eggs and gave them each 1 from 2 of my other girls (just to see. one was from my EE one my buff cochin)....... The ONLY egg out of 20 eggs to develop was the EE egg.......... That egg is now on day 15.....
while those were under my broody hens my Blue mama Cochin started to lay again so after 8 days of the shipped eggs being sat on I got rid of any I could 100% tell were clear and gave the first broody the rest plus my EE egg that was growing....... I gave the other broody 3 of my Blue hens eggs and 3 of my EE eggs (figuring one was already growing so that should mean they were fertilized (all eggs laid with in 4 days of giving them to her. maybe 5 but 2 of them laid the day I gave them to her). She sat on them from Sun-Wed. I was going camping and every now and then the broody would go back to the wrong nest (both of them) but I have a cam in the coop so I would get them back to the right nest fairly quick..... so I didn't want them doing that and not being around for a few days so I put the 6 new eggs and the viable EE egg into my incubator on Wed. I checked them tonight when I got home...... Day 7 for the new eggs and there is ZERO development....... The first EE egg that is on day 15 is still going strong.
So am I messing something up??? I have calibrated hygrometers/thermometers in my incubator so temp has averaged 99.8 and 44.5% humidity. I have the NR360, but it isn't even just in the incubator but under my broodys that I am having bad results........ so is it just bad luck with eggs or am I doing something?
How could one EE egg be fertilized and grow then 8 days later 3 of the same hens eggs do nothing?????
I have more shipped eggs coming this week so want to be sure I am not messing something up first. I let my shipped eggs sit about 12-24 hrs before I set them. I know shipping is hard on eggs and don't expect a good hatch rate but would think at least 4 out of 18 would do something..... But it is my own eggs too. I see my roo doing his job......... Maybe he needs trimming again? but he has fertilized 2 eggs weeks apart.....
So I have 7 hens and 1 roo..... I decided to try to hatch out some BBS Cochins (I have 1 blue hen and 1 blue roo)...... got an incubator and started some of the blue hens eggs......... None hatched...... checked fertility some here said fertilized some said no........ tried again no luck (added a couple of the other girls eggs to see if they did anything as well with no luck)......... Trimmed butt fluff on the roo and hens and started to collect eggs from the blue hen again. the day she laid her 3rd egg she went broody........
Ordered eggs on ebay that SHOULD have been BBS Cochin eggs. 4/12 were broken when they arrived. Gave my broody 4 plus 2 of her own eggs, and put 4 plus 1 of my blue Cochins eggs in the incubator...... I had 2 shipped under the broody start to grow, and 2 shipped in the incubator plus my broody's (the one she laid the day she went broody)........ 1 incubator shipped quit around day 5 I think it was. Then my Blue hens egg quit around day 10...... 1 shipped incubator baby hatched, 1 under mama hatched. The 2nd under mama internally pipped, absorbed all the yolk and veins but never externally pipped and DIS. (this part was bad luck was the 2 that hatched weren't even cochins never mine BBS cochins which is what I ordered from ebay). so hatched 2/12 total eggs but 2/8 that came unbroken (1 in incubator, 1 under broody)
Then 2 more girls went broody..... I ordered BBS Cochin eggs again from a different seller. All arrived unbroken. gave each broody 9 shipped eggs and gave them each 1 from 2 of my other girls (just to see. one was from my EE one my buff cochin)....... The ONLY egg out of 20 eggs to develop was the EE egg.......... That egg is now on day 15.....
while those were under my broody hens my Blue mama Cochin started to lay again so after 8 days of the shipped eggs being sat on I got rid of any I could 100% tell were clear and gave the first broody the rest plus my EE egg that was growing....... I gave the other broody 3 of my Blue hens eggs and 3 of my EE eggs (figuring one was already growing so that should mean they were fertilized (all eggs laid with in 4 days of giving them to her. maybe 5 but 2 of them laid the day I gave them to her). She sat on them from Sun-Wed. I was going camping and every now and then the broody would go back to the wrong nest (both of them) but I have a cam in the coop so I would get them back to the right nest fairly quick..... so I didn't want them doing that and not being around for a few days so I put the 6 new eggs and the viable EE egg into my incubator on Wed. I checked them tonight when I got home...... Day 7 for the new eggs and there is ZERO development....... The first EE egg that is on day 15 is still going strong.
So am I messing something up??? I have calibrated hygrometers/thermometers in my incubator so temp has averaged 99.8 and 44.5% humidity. I have the NR360, but it isn't even just in the incubator but under my broodys that I am having bad results........ so is it just bad luck with eggs or am I doing something?
How could one EE egg be fertilized and grow then 8 days later 3 of the same hens eggs do nothing?????
I have more shipped eggs coming this week so want to be sure I am not messing something up first. I let my shipped eggs sit about 12-24 hrs before I set them. I know shipping is hard on eggs and don't expect a good hatch rate but would think at least 4 out of 18 would do something..... But it is my own eggs too. I see my roo doing his job......... Maybe he needs trimming again? but he has fertilized 2 eggs weeks apart.....