Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[ozexpat]

take a deep breath and relax. mother nature is equipped for power outages.

15 minutes later there were 5 out.

The trials and tribulations of getting live birds. You have no idea. Big breaths? I need sedation

 

[wescottwomen]

Lockdown yesterday 7 pipps today so I'm very hopefull

 

[cochins1088]

We had a major power outage. 10 hours. The battery was good for 6 of them but I have had pipping guineas, 40 guinea eggs, 21 duck eggs. 5 peafowl and 5 turkey slowly dying.

Power just came on

Here is hoping

I had a batch continue hatching during a 6 hour power outage. 4 chicks hatched at 75 degrees and none passed away.

As soon as the eggs warmed the action started. 1 Guinea hatched, 3 are zipping.

Yay!

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[ozexpat]

laugh as you will coch

7 of those zippy little buggers have hatched. 2 are zipping several pipping

Bernies new camera is doing a relay trip to the town to email me the pictures.

I hope to post Chukar and Guinea pics tomorrow

 

[bantamfarm]

Hatching around here 9 Cochins hatch. Still have tomorrow for another hatch day and there is a whole lotta pipping goin on. I set 120 guinea eggs this morning in the cabinet incubator DH made for me ( he is such a inabler ). August I have hatches every week, the guineas sell as fast as I hatch, but this time I am keeping my picks.. Last hatch I let them be sold like a dope.

 

[kaybee123]

snip drop flush is my procedure

You flush them in the toilet? Doesn't that stop it up?

 

[ozexpat]

You flush them in the toilet? Doesn't that stop it up?

not as new borns

out of the few hundred chicks i have hatched, i have culled 2. bernie has culled 1. that was this weekend. it was an andalusian born with 1 eye and a cross beak.

 

[scooter16]

So much for the empty bators, stupid broodies. LAST time I said didn't I, why did I try it again! Two eggs crushed two half eaten chicks. I had DH towel her and put her back in the brahma run and I took the rest and I am attempting to save what's left. One splash is assisted out that was totally crushed, she seems fine but huge wet chick, stupid broody had way too high humidity with all this rain, she needed to add some rice to her nest! Two more have pips, another one was dead in shell huge and wet. I will be lucky if I get three chicks out of the eggs, but at least I am fairly sure the first one assisted is a splash! That makes three splashes for us!

I wanted to share the Blue gene/Partridge genetics for those of you who don't understand them..... We really really want a splash roo and a few hens... this is why....


Partridge x Partridge = 100% Partridge
Partridge x Blue Partridge = 50% Partridge and 50% Blue Partridge
Partridge x Splash Partridge = 100% Blue Partridge
Blue Partridge x Blue Partridge = 25% Partridge, 50% Blue Partridge and 25% Splash Partridge
Blue Partridge x Splash Partridge = 50% Blue Partidge and 50% Splash Partidge
Splash Partridge x Splash Partridge = 100% Splash Partridge

Sally, I need more info. How do you figure this out? I have recently been studying genetics and Punnett Squares. Is this similar? What is the dominant gene? Thanks--I am a science detailed sort of person and would love to understand better. Lynn

 

[familypendragon]

Does this help? https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/basic-chicken-color-genetics

 

[familypendragon]

Or here is the deep mumbo jumbo http://kippenjungle.nl/basisEN.htm Mostly all over my head, LOL!