California - Northern

[zooweemama]

re: photography gear, i use everything from my iphone to an old speed graphic 4x5, with lots of toy cameras and polaroids and medium-formats in between. the chickens look good regardless of which camera i use.

Love my iPhone camera! haha!

 

[zooweemama]

That's a silver laced, this is a Tolbunt.

This is a frizzled tolbunt.

A closeup of her loveliness

You really can't beat a teenage polish for fuggly.


Deanne, I've had pretty good hatch rates with my Marans (hatched 25 just recently), I just put them in with all the other eggs and they've done fine. No special treatment at all. That was 25 chicks out of about 30 eggs set.

I've got some blue Marans cooking right now that were shipped eggs

See how much I know! The polish ones are mysterious to me like the Silkies lol.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

OK, NOW one of the chicks I've noticed has the pins of the feathers on it's wings but there still just fluff on them. Looks like a skeleton wing! The others this one's age has feathers..what??????

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Check into hatching Goose eggs(like you did not already). I have read posts that there were different things you needed to do for them.

I read posts about Duck eggs needing special care but the ones I got from you hatched fine when treated like chicken eggs...

I am very interested in your Goose hatching experience.

I just read a thing that said to candle the Goose egg on days 8 and 15. I bet you will see development on day 7 but check again on day 8.

 

[ronott1]

OK, NOW one of the chicks I've noticed has the pins of the feathers on it's wings but there still just fluff on them. Looks like a skeleton wing! The others this one's age has feathers..what??????

pullet vs. cockerel?

They often feather different.

 

[SilkieRose]

Mornin'!

I cannot keep up with you guys!!! 182 posts since last night?! Geesh!!!

I cannot believe I'm going to do this, but I've been bitten by the Coturnix quail bug & I will be getting a dozen shipped eggs tomorrow!!! I have read & read & read, but nothing is really telling me how long to let them SIT before I SET

. I'm collecting fertile eggs from my own Jumbo Pharaoh's to add to the bunch!! So excited!! Is a day ok? Also, they are being shipped from Kansas... just wondering how well people do with shipped quail eggs & the fertility when they get here.

I have a 7 week old chick that looks a little weak this morning...brought her in & giving her sav-a-chick & vitamins/electrolytes. I hope she perks up quick.
I hope everybody is having a good morning. Looks like the rain is coming.... bleh!

 

[ronott1]

Mornin'!

I cannot keep up with you guys!!! 182 posts since last night?! Geesh!!!

I cannot believe I'm going to do this, but I've been bitten by the Coturnix quail bug & I will be getting a dozen shipped eggs tomorrow!!! I have read & read & read, but nothing is really telling me how long to let them SIT before I SET

. I'm collecting fertile eggs from my own Jumbo Pharaoh's to add to the bunch!! So excited!! Is a day ok? Also, they are being shipped from Kansas... just wondering how well people do with shipped quail eggs & the fertility when they get here.

I have a 7 week old chick that looks a little weak this morning...brought her in & giving her sav-a-chick & vitamins/electrolytes. I hope she perks up quick.
I hope everybody is having a good morning. Looks like the rain is coming.... bleh!

I used to let shipped egg sit for a day but not any more. I wait until they are at room temp and the incubator is warmed up and put them straight in. For shipped eggs, I do leave the big end up for a day or two and then turn the turner on. I try real hard not to touch them for 5 to 7 days after that.

The benefit of letting them rest is out weighed by the age of egg lowering fertility with shipped eggs. Shipped eggs need to start by day 5 and if it take 3 days to collect them and 2 days to ship them then the oldest ones are already 5 days old..

Please ignore for local or eggs from you own flock. Things are a bunch different for them.

 

[zooweemama]

Check into hatching Goose eggs(like you did not already). I have read posts that there were different things you needed to do for them.

I read posts about Duck eggs needing special care but the ones I got from you hatched fine when treated like chicken eggs...

I am very interested in your Goose hatching experience.

I just read a thing that said to candle the Goose egg on days 8 and 15. I bet you will see development on day 7 but check again on day 8.

I've been reading some. So much conflicting info sometimes! Will candling frequently hurt them? Too much handling or temp changes?

 

[SilkieRose]

I used to let shipped egg sit for a day but not any more. I wait until they are at room temp and the incubator is warmed up and put them straight in. For shipped eggs, I do leave the big end up for a day or two and then turn the turner on. I try real hard not to touch them for 5 to 7 days after that.

The benefit of letting them rest is out weighed by the age of egg lowering fertility with shipped eggs. Shipped eggs need to start by day 5 and if it take 3 days to collect them and 2 days to ship them then the oldest ones are already 5 days old..

Please ignore for local or eggs from you own flock. Things are a bunch different for them.

I'm hand-turning in my DIY tiny bator This is my 1st shot at quail hatching... since I don't have a turner should I NOT turn those eggs for the 1st 5 days after I put them in the bator? I'm confused. I will wait until they are room temp, the bator is ready now.

 

[tommysgirl]

I used to let shipped egg sit for a day but not any more. I wait until they are at room temp and the incubator is warmed up and put them straight in. For shipped eggs, I do leave the big end up for a day or two and then turn the turner on. I try real hard not to touch them for 5 to 7 days after that.

The benefit of letting them rest is out weighed by the age of egg lowering fertility with shipped eggs. Shipped eggs need to start by day 5 and if it take 3 days to collect them and 2 days to ship them then the oldest ones are already 5 days old..

Please ignore for local or eggs from you own flock. Things are a bunch different for them.

So if my hatch has both shipped and my own eggs I should put my own on the floor and keep the shipped in the carton big end up then at lockdown keep the shipped ones in the carton but tilt them more like you showed in that one picture so they are still big end up but at an angle that allows easier hatching. Am I right?

My shipped eggs will be laid between the 1st and the 3rd.... My H is gathering my own dozen the 2nd 3rd and 4th getting closer and more real