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[maggiemo]

Welcome gogetter!

 

[uzisuzuki]

So, I've been waiting for some Phoenix bantam eggs since the end of January & I decided to email the seller to check when he thought he'd be sending them since our weather here turned winter again & got some great news. He was going to ship them on Monday but said he'd be more than happy to hold off a few days to wait for better weather! I'm so excited!

But then I had a predicament. I got an egg each from my hens yesterday that I want to try incubating. I can't hold onto them until the Phoenix bantam eggs show up because I've read viability goes down quickly after 10 days & because I have the Brinsea Mini & it'll only hold 7 eggs. My question to you experienced chicken keepers is: if I start the 4 eggs I have now, will a staggered hatch in the same incubator be doable with 7+ days between the 2 sets? I don't expect all or any of my 4 to be fertile or for all 6 of the shipped eggs to be hatchable, so I'm anticipating tossing some out during the incubation. However, on the off chance at least 1 of my eggs starts developing, I want to make sure that a week between each set won't lower my success anymore than it already is lowered with the shipped eggs.

I get to stay home from work today due to being snowed in, so I am scouring the boards for staggered hatching advice as well. Just thought if anyone here had experience, I'd ask for tips.

 

[maggiemo]

Hi Uzi,
I have only incubated eggs once, and it wasn't staggered. So, I am sure you will get better advise from others. I'll just say that the incubator I borrowed held 40 eggs, I only set 23, 14 went into lock-down and 8 hatched. One died and I think it died because when it was hatching the chicks that had already hatched were pecking at it and 'helped' it hatch. It didn't have it's yolk absorbed and it died. after a long sad day.

It is also very messy to hatch. I wouldn't stagger after seeing what happens. But, maybe I just don't know what I am doing?

 

[Ashdoes]

So, I've been waiting for some Phoenix bantam eggs since the end of January & I decided to email the seller to check when he thought he'd be sending them since our weather here turned winter again & got some great news. He was going to ship them on Monday but said he'd be more than happy to hold off a few days to wait for better weather! I'm so excited!

But then I had a predicament. I got an egg each from my hens yesterday that I want to try incubating. I can't hold onto them until the Phoenix bantam eggs show up because I've read viability goes down quickly after 10 days & because I have the Brinsea Mini & it'll only hold 7 eggs. My question to you experienced chicken keepers is: if I start the 4 eggs I have now, will a staggered hatch in the same incubator be doable with 7+ days between the 2 sets? I don't expect all or any of my 4 to be fertile or for all 6 of the shipped eggs to be hatchable, so I'm anticipating tossing some out during the incubation. However, on the off chance at least 1 of my eggs starts developing, I want to make sure that a week between each set won't lower my success anymore than it already is lowered with the shipped eggs.

I get to stay home from work today due to being snowed in, so I am scouring the boards for staggered hatching advice as well. Just thought if anyone here had experience, I'd ask for tips.

Staggered hatching is not easy with two incubators, and I for sure wouldn't do it with one. I say, hold your hands behind your back, and just wait for your shipped eggs. Your girls will still be laying when the shipped eggs are done, and you can try them then. Be patient...I know it's hard though.

 

[Ashdoes]

I only got one NN! I emailed the women I got the eggs from (asking what the fuheck?) and she said she only has one rooster and it is a red NN, all her hens are different types of marans. I don't understand the genetics, but I think what happened is the rooster had a 'bow tie'. (A bow tie on a NN is a naked neck with a feather front part of the neck). I think that means that he will have some offspring with NN and some without NN. So I think that is what happened.

The offspring of her eggs (4 hatched), one black NN with a white beard, one is yellow, one is black and one I can't remember now without looking at them.
The eggs that hatched from your eggs are two yellow Easter egger chipmunk looking birds, the biggest and strongest by far. And one that died looked like the two EE's and the other, I think was from your egg is what looks like a male BR, black with a white spot on it's head. Oh, there is one black chick, that is the one I forgot, all black with black legs, so that might be from your bird or it could be one of hers?

So, we can see which ones turn out to be hens and roosters and you can see what you want of these, ok? 

So she sold you NN eggs, without telling you they wouldn't all be NN? I'd be a little mad...just say'n.

 

[COChix]

From what I understand, it has to be the hen that is barred to create the sex links. You'll probably get some super cute babies, but I wouldn't plan to sex them at hatch with that pairing.

Welcome to the thread, I see you are already afflicted by chicken math, lol. I think you have me confused with Late, he posted before me about the sex links. I was just wondering if our BO roo over the dark Cornish and EE if the males might have smaller combs.

So she sold you NN eggs, without telling you they wouldn't all be NN? I'd be a little mad...just say'n.

I agree...that stinks Maggie.

Cold here we probably have a foot of snow now. The coop was warm overnight and the feeders and waters all seem to be holding up just fine. I for one am starting to go a little stir crazy.

 

[Percheron chick]

Not the best pictures

 

[maggiemo]

So she sold you NN eggs, without telling you they wouldn't all be NN? I'd be a little mad...just say'n.

Right? She said that she would send me more egg if I paid shipping...why would I do that?
Blah.

 

[maggiemo]

Not the best pictures

Oh, pretty! I hope this is the mum of the chicks that hatched from you!

 

[Percheron chick]

The first person that whines about the heat this summer is going to be taken out back and beat. I am avoiding the fact that I need to go out and shovel paths around the property so I can feed the horses. It's probably 3 hours of shoveling and at least 2/10th of a mile. No I'm not exaggerating. My car was stuck in the driveway so I made it worse and let it roll down the hill so I wouldn't totally block the driveway. I've got eggs, milk and coffee so I can survive. I've thought about making a plow for the horses but we haven't had snow like this in 5-7 years so you forget how bad it can get so that project goes to the bottom of the list.

I would think if you ordered NN eggs, you would get NN chicks or is the nakedness recessive? The black chick is more than likely out of the blue Am. I can't find my color charts but if I remember right they have a 25% chance of black chicks plus the dark legs would indicate Am not NN. Interesting too on the BR chick. That's one hen the boys never hang with. If Margie doesn't want the incubator back, I can gather more eggs for you to try. I'm averaging 8-10 a day.