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

[dan26552]

Neat. The babies must be soo cute.

Yep. Yes they are.

What do you do with all the rabbits?

Sale some, keep a doe or two, take some to a photographer grow some out to eat, tan the hide.

 

[duluthralphie]

Yep. Yes they are.
Sale some, keep a doe or two, take some to a photographer grow some out to eat, tan the hide.

Do you eat that much rabbit? I cannot even eat enough chicken to keep up with the culls and PITAs,

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Quote: Thank you! I will go check out that post.

Quote: Thank you for the help!

 

[duluthralphie]

ANTY!!! I missed your post, I hatch all of mine upright, Do you lay yours down?

I think I get a better hatch rate upright.

 

[dan26552]

Do you eat that much rabbit? I cannot even eat enough chicken to keep up with the culls and PITAs,

No, I've only killed one and that was for my uncle, I can't seem to raise enough of anything to put in the freezer

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

ANTY!!! I missed your post, I hatch all of mine upright, Do you lay yours down?

I think I get a better hatch rate upright.

I hatch laying down - this was just a group of eggs that went through a horrific trip thanks to the post office, lots of huge saddled mobile air cells. Still did not so bad - got 8 eggs out of 12 in lock down (more than that quit early, though).

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Looks like I'll have to turn manually. How many times a day should I "turn" them in the cartons?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Looks like I'll have to turn manually. How many times a day should I "turn" them in the cartons?

Three times (five is better, but is usually hard to do, and most folks do fine with three). What ever you do, turn an odd number of times a day, though - so the "long" period (overnight) is on a different side each day.

 

[Beer can]

Nice @Fire Ant Farm that's one thing that scares me about shipped eggs, the turner in the Hova I have rolls the eggs on their sides. Guess if I get shipped eggs I will have to do the same by hand with egg carton. Super cute that naked neck coming out the top

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Quote: Awesome, thanks so much for your help. I'm sure I'll be back again asking more questions.