EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[NaJoBeLe]

@DwayneNLiz

were they pullet eggs?
how long did you store before set?
breeder nutrition?

my 5yo has helped me eggtopsy

How long is an egg considered a pullet egg? the youngest hens are 2-3 months into their laying cycle.
Storage for this batch was 2 weeks tops and they were on the turner outside of the incubator prior.
Nutrition is a combination of purina flock raiser, scratch grains, and BOSS all free choice. Also free range time almost everyday for around 3-4 hrs.

I suspect if I had explained the process my daughter would have been interested and been able to handle it. I think it was more a question in my mind if I could do it and didnt want the added stress of her asking questions and distracting me. Maybe next time. My son would have probably chosen not to be a part of it.

 

[duluthralphie]

he could be calling you a cow

And how exactly is this helping me get out of this hole I dug?

 

[daxigait]

I'm not suggesting it would hurt it. I think the idea is to let it settle so you can see more details. I have never candled a lot. Most of the time I couldn't see a thing. I think my current flashlight is 420 lumens and for the first time I can see an embryo move in extremely dark eggs. I still can't see much in the line of veins though. This is what I have to candle. X2 I've enjoyed it all. Have you estimated how many total miles you'll be hiking/backpacking and pack/trail riding? You'll need to go to work to rest up. Have you been climbing, hiking, working out to build up?

I have just started to really condition for it. Of course, with eleven hundred feet of fence cleared Saturday, and fifty one t-posts driven last night in MO I have some basic condition to work from. I have a mile long hill near me that has real hilly shoulder sections where the road was cut through to practice on. Not to mention I have to be riding or my body will never survive the pack trip.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

 

he could be calling you a cow

And how exactly is this helping me get out of this hole I dug?

No need to get out, just dig deeper.

 

[duluthralphie]

Why do chicks try so hard to screw up my life?


I planted egg three weeks ago figuring the Legbars would go 22 1/2 days like always I wanted them to hatch late Saturday and Sunday for Mondays mail. I went to move them this morning and 3 were hatched (day 19) and most are pipped. So much for 2 days in the Hatcher to rest....


The turkey eggs also set for late Saturday are really active in their shells and three of them have external pips.


The rest seem on target.. NO the temps were not high if anything a tad low in the bator they came out of. I only have 9 viable PC's I am hoping to get 8* for a friend.

I put 10 toad eggs in, one is bad 9 look good!...

Looks lke a decent hatch, which I really did not need. I had all the EE sold and the person backed out. I had to move her back 2 weeks because of the tornado we had she was not happy and told me where to put the chicks when I called her..

I am not sure I can put the chicks there, and whether that is animal cruelty or not...

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@DwayneNLiz

How long is an egg considered a pullet egg? the youngest hens are 2-3 months into their laying cycle.
Storage for this batch was 2 weeks tops and they were on the turner outside of the incubator prior.
Nutrition is a combination of purina flock raiser, scratch grains, and BOSS all free choice. Also free range time almost everyday for around 3-4 hrs.

I suspect if I had explained the process my daughter would have been interested and been able to handle it. I think it was more a question in my mind if I could do it and didnt want the added stress of her asking questions and distracting me. Maybe next time. My son would have probably chosen not to be a part of it.

a female chicken is a pullet until she is about a year old, after her first molt
there have been studies that you have more DIS, late deaths in pullet eggs

after 10 days in storage hatchability decreases much more quickly @Akrnaf2 knows the numbers better BUT i think each day from 1-7 it drops by like 5%, 7-10 it drops by like 8% then after day 10 the hatchability drops like 20% per day

flock raiser is good but @ChickenCanoe can give better advice than i in this field BUT
get rid of the scratch and up their other vitamins and minerals

And how exactly is this helping me get out of this hole I dug?

never said i was trying to help

 

[duluthralphie]

No need to get out, just dig deeper.

I feel like she saw me at the bottom of the hole and threw a lit piece of dynamite down to me...

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Why do chicks try so hard to screw up my life?

I planted egg three weeks ago figuring the Legbars would go 22 1/2 days like always I wanted them to hatch late Saturday and Sunday for Mondays mail. I went to move them this morning and 3 were hatched (day 19) and most are pipped. So much for 2 days in the Hatcher to rest....

The turkey eggs also set for late Saturday are really active in their shells and three of them have external pips.

The rest seem on target.. NO the temps were not high if anything a tad low in the bator they came out of. I only have 9 viable PC's I am hoping to get 8* for a friend.

I put 10 toad eggs in, one is bad 9 look good!...

Looks lke a decent hatch, which I really did not need. I had all the EE sold and the person backed out. I had to move her back 2 weeks because of the tornado we had she was not happy and told me where to put the chicks when I called her..

I am not sure I can put the chicks there, and whether that is animal cruelty or not...

i like when things ship saturdays, maybe you can ship on saturday for a monday delivery

I feel like she saw me at the bottom of the hole and threw a lit piece of dynamite down to me...

 

[5Sons Coop]

Busy morning had to drop the boys at school today. Then took the flat bed truck to pick up a load of pallets. Dr. Called and just now let the chickens out.

Caught up on read back, I can't seem to multi quote on my iPad sorry.

Compass: you are a total idiot if you step in the northern Wisconsin woods and swamps without one. There is some dense forest here that all looks the same so no reference points at all. I learned to use one at about 6 yrs old. Once we killed a large black bear in the middle of a vast trac of land. Not sure exactly where we were in the section we decided to head west because we couldn't miss the river. My uncle took the tracking collar off one dog and put it on the field dressed bear. So with each of us having 2 dogs leased we headed west. Long story short it was one of those nights you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. I cuddled 2 stinky hounds took a nap and we found the river just after first light.

Dr. Call: upped rx to 1,200 mg gabapentin, 200mg Celebrex, and tizanidine as needed up to 8mg. Next steroid shot scheduled for 5-5.

@DwayneNLiz. The fan came out of the boys hockey table they had broken. It was made of cheap pressboard (aka beaver puke) .

 

[The Duck Ladie]

did you add a damp paper towel to up humidity


how long has it been zipping??
whats humidity at

No, i put a bowl in which has a damp clothe in it. It is at 75% now, but it was at about 66% A while. Though she isnt really going around yet, she just has a patch of cracking. though it had made many cracks it had not outside air. I made a tiny hole after i brought into the humid and hot bathroom. Seems to be fine.