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

[duluthralphie]

@duluthralphie

Tail angle is coming up nicely on this cockerel, not near so rock-like now... thinking to try a smallish batch next spring with him as a father to see if he can help put some pencilling on the hens. He's got lovely wide feathers. Thoughts? Would I be nuts to even consider it?
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He said he wasn't going to pose nicely for pictures.

Posing is not a chanticler trait.


At the speed he is running it is hard to see, but the back line looks good, the color is good, the hackles are a tad red but not bad.

I would breed him, the light legs could give you help lighten hem legs. As far as penciling goes, you got me, I am still chasing good penciling and when I get it, it is a accident. I need 50 pullets to get 2 good ones.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

omg look who the cat drug in!!! Hi Chaos

 

[arwenreborn]

Morning mister dux hater...


Leave it alone. Malpoes take longer to hatch. Unless you're positive the membrane hasn't broken?

Generally with wrong-enders you just make sure they can breathe and then leave them alone.

Thanks BC, I really don't think the outer membrane is broken, it looks intact but he hasn't been using his beak to push up for awhile now so I can't 100% tell. Hopefully now a few have hatched they might encourage him to come out!

As for the duck talk, I really want ducks but hubby says no! =(

 

[kwhites634]

Two chicks have hatched and a third currently unzipping, the others that have pipped are still busy sleeping and then breaking more of the pip open - except one of the ones that is pipping the wrong way. The membrane is still intact and I haven't seen any movement now for awhile. He was the first one to pip this morning, it's now almost 9pm here. Is there anything I should do or just leave him be?

Also my incubator is quite full - it's a 24 egg incubator and I've got 23 eggs, the two hatched chicks are stumbling all over the eggs and it's quite squishy in there - will they all be OK? Not worried about the hatching eggs, more about the hatched chicks and their legs etc.

Never had that many going all at once, but my gut tells me it's better that they run an obstacle course for a little while than to be opening the lid frequently. That's just me; don't take it to the bank.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

upgraded to hughsnet gen5 having issues with internet go figure ughhh

 

[BantyChooks]

Posing is not a chanticler trait.


At the speed he is running it is hard to see, but the back line looks good, the color is good, the hackles are a tad red but not bad.

I would breed him, the light legs could give you help lighten hem legs. As far as penciling goes, you got me, I am still chasing good penciling and when I get it, it is a accident. I need 50 pullets to get 2 good ones.

The brat just ran into the woods when I asked him to stop running. No, dumb birdie, that wasn't what I meant... sigh.

Thanks. He's got some red leakage in breast feathers and red shafting in a few saddle/hackles so I'm hoping that maybe with all those traits combined he might throw nicer daughters.

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks BC, I really don't think the outer membrane is broken, it looks intact but he hasn't been using his beak to push up for awhile now so I can't 100% tell. Hopefully now a few have hatched they might encourage him to come out!

As for the duck talk, I really want ducks but hubby says no! =(

If it were my egg, I'd snag it out real quick and carefully nick the outer membrane just to ensure it's broken. Ralphie will disagree.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Liar!!!!

BTW all this dux talk is making me nauseous........


Morning all...

Mornin Ralphie!



Gotcha whites, no clue where the multi quote of yours went ughhh did I mention I have issues with this new site lol

 

[kwhites634]

Thanks BC, I really don't think the outer membrane is broken, it looks intact but he hasn't been using his beak to push up for awhile now so I can't 100% tell. Hopefully now a few have hatched they might encourage him to come out!

As for the duck talk, I really want ducks but hubby says no! =(

"BC"
I doubt she's quite that old!

 

[Chaos18]

omg look who the cat drug in!!! Hi Chaos

How are you Madam GoatMaster?