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

[OneMountainAcres]

I will take any chance I can get to create an interest in ancona to help get their numbers back up!

They're absolutely beautiful!


Since we're talking ducks, when do muscovies usualy start to lay?

 

[BullChick]

They're absolutely beautiful!


Since we're talking ducks, when do muscovies usualy start to lay?

About 24 weeks. But mine quit for the winter.

 

[BantyChooks]

Incubating w/ Friends Hatcher List

Birthdays: deserteggs22, Oct. 2, MommaHen2Four, Oct 6, heatherfeather 7, Nov 29

Sally Sunshine AKA Sally

BantyChooks AKA Banti, Bubbles or Chicken Little
Nothing till spring. I think. Well, actually...

Chaos18 AKA Trouble, Ginger, or Chaos

MotorcycleChick AKA MC, Meebrong, or Abi

daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi

mlm Mike AKA Mike
Serama hatched

attimus AKA Zach
Hatching is on hold. Currently watching Marek's rip through my flock.

Leave a LightOn AKA LaLo

DwayneNLiz AKA Liz
Broody hatched out 2 eggs.

heatherfeather7 AKA Heather

campingshaws AKA camping

country lovin AKA TyAnna
I just put some f2 olive eggers in the coolerbator yesterday and I have a couple mixes under a serama broody that should lay a spearmint green color.

Roada Red AKA Dale

Akrnaf2 AKA Benny

Honora

metel
@meltel

Pensmaster

kajira

Phage

chicken hawk 33

Auroradream26
Silkies

(Tag: HatcherUpdate)
Please tag me if you'd like to be added or if you have updates.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Incubating w/ Friends Hatcher List

Birthdays: deserteggs22, Oct. 2, MommaHen2Four, Oct 6, heatherfeather 7, Nov 29

Sally Sunshine AKA Sally

BantyChooks AKA Banti, Bubbles or Chicken Little
Nothing till spring. I think. Well, actually...

Chaos18 AKA Trouble, Ginger, or Chaos

MotorcycleChick AKA MC, Meebrong, or Abi

daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi

mlm Mike AKA Mike
Serama hatched

attimus AKA Zach
Hatching is on hold. Currently watching Marek's rip through my flock.

Leave a LightOn AKA LaLo

DwayneNLiz AKA Liz
Broody hatched out 2 eggs.

heatherfeather7 AKA Heather

campingshaws AKA camping

country lovin AKA TyAnna
I just put some f2 olive eggers in the coolerbator yesterday and I have a couple mixes under a serama broody that should lay a spearmint green color.

Roada Red AKA Dale

Akrnaf2 AKA Benny

Honora

metel
@meltel

Pensmaster

kajira

Phage

chicken hawk 33

Auroradream26
Silkies

(Tag: HatcherUpdate)
Please tag me if you'd like to be added or if you have updates.

I'll probably pull the incubator back out in January...

- Ant Farm

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Wow - thanks! But I'll actually probably take the plunge next year, I have 25-50 chicks I'll be raising this spring as it is, and don't want to make things even more complicated for a poultry sitter when I travel this summer. I may just order live ducklings from Metzer then (and hope to have some ducks go broody the next year!) 

- Ant Farm 

i could hatch 'em for u then ship

This being the busiest thread I figured I would ask on here...

I need ideas for breeding pens

I breed sizzles on a small scale and am redoing a 20x10 dog kennel tomorrow.(that is going to be roofed and sided)

I have 5 foot metal panels I usually use to separate my trios and also chicks.

Just looking to do something new and ergonomic to flow better.

Thanks

not me sorry!!!

​I have looked at tons of those threads and have gotten several great ideas but not many use chain link dog kennels

depends on your predators , good luck!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I'll probably pull the incubator back out in January...  

- Ant Farm

NYD hatch a long????

 

[dan26552]

Wow - thanks! But I'll actually probably take the plunge next year, I have 25-50 chicks I'll be raising this spring as it is, and don't want to make things even more complicated for a poultry sitter when I travel this summer. I may just order live ducklings from Metzer then (and hope to have some ducks go broody the next year!) 

- Ant Farm 

We got our ducks from Cackle last December (they shipped the 9th) there was a Cayuga but she got eating by a fox Any way back in August, so 9 months old, one of the pekins went broody and you know what, she actually hatched 6 ducklings.

 

[dan26552]

About 24 weeks. But mine quit for the winter.

My uncles lay clutches all year.

 

[Honora]

Incubating w/ Friends Hatcher List

Birthdays: deserteggs22, Oct. 2, MommaHen2Four, Oct 6, heatherfeather 7, Nov 29

Sally Sunshine AKA Sally

BantyChooks AKA Banti, Bubbles or Chicken Little
Nothing till spring. I think. Well, actually...

Chaos18 AKA Trouble, Ginger, or Chaos

MotorcycleChick AKA MC, Meebrong, or Abi

daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi

mlm Mike AKA Mike
Serama hatched

attimus AKA Zach
Hatching is on hold. Currently watching Marek's rip through my flock.

Leave a LightOn AKA LaLo

DwayneNLiz AKA Liz
Broody hatched out 2 eggs.

heatherfeather7 AKA Heather

campingshaws AKA camping

country lovin AKA TyAnna
I just put some f2 olive eggers in the coolerbator yesterday and I have a couple mixes under a serama broody that should lay a spearmint green color.

Roada Red AKA Dale

Akrnaf2 AKA Benny

Honora

metel
@meltel

Pensmaster

kajira

Phage

chicken hawk 33

Auroradream26
Silkies

(Tag: HatcherUpdate)
Please tag me if you'd like to be added or if you have updates.

OMG I am not hatching right now. I just ordered chicks for the Spring though. I am going to take a break from hatching and just give the hens chicks the next time they go broody.

I still have 5 of my chicks that hatched in September. One just started crowing so he needs to go. Two of them I am still not sure if they are male or female. And I have 2 for sure pullets.

 

[BantyChooks]

Okey dokey, been browsing thru the notes and noticed one thing I can't find much of is stuff on cold weather egg shipping... And I got curious.

What's y'all's experiences been with cold weather egg shipping? I see suggestions to add heat packs, but how does a 8hr heat pack keep eggs safe for 48+ hours?

What's the coldest you've had eggs get yet still hatch?

These are in the notes:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...y-sunshine-bantychooks/36200_20#post_16409628


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...y-sunshine-bantychooks/32200_20#post_16378695