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

[ChickenCanoe]

Money or wisdom.

 

[BantyChooks]

Money or wisdom.

I'm betting money.

I have officially kicked off this year's hatching season with a set of 28 quail eggs. So far, they are all fertile and developing well. I am happy with the performance of my cabinet incubator and can't believe I waited so long to build it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm betting money.

I have officially kicked off this year's hatching season with a set of 28 quail eggs. So far, they are all fertile and developing well. I am happy with the performance of my cabinet incubator and can't believe I waited so long to build it.

I'm betting you're right.
I had two batches of chicken eggs hatch so far with another due tomorrow or the next day.
The first yielded 15 chicks (11 days old), the second 5 (8 days old) but one is probably too cripple to fix. Looks like a hip dislocation. Too bad.
I'll probably set some tomorrow or the next day. Resumption of laying has been slower than usual this winter.
I was just talking to someone who hatched grocery store quail eggs. I thought about doing that but I think they will be the wrong species. I want bobwhite quail.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm betting you're right.
I had two batches of chicken eggs hatch so far with another due tomorrow or the next day.
The first yielded 15 chicks (11 days old), the second 5 (8 days old) but one is probably too cripple to fix. Looks like a hip dislocation. Too bad.
I'll probably set some tomorrow or the next day. Resumption of laying has been slower than usual this winter.
I was just talking to someone who hatched grocery store quail eggs. I thought about doing that but I think they will be the wrong species. I want bobwhite quail.

I have looked into purchasing some of what I believe is called the "snowflake" mutation or variation of bobwhite quail, but I can't justify the space they would take up; pens are at a premium right now because my buff chanteclers take up most of them.

 

[Pensmaster]

12 shipped eggs due on 19th.
5 are looking really good.

I'm betting you're right.
I had two batches of chicken eggs hatch so far with another due tomorrow or the next day.
The first yielded 15 chicks (11 days old), the second 5 (8 days old) but one is probably too cripple to fix. Looks like a hip dislocation. Too bad.
I'll probably set some tomorrow or the next day. Resumption of laying has been slower than usual this winter.
I was just talking to someone who hatched grocery store quail eggs. I thought about doing that but I think they will be the wrong species. I want bobwhite quail.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have looked into purchasing some of what I believe is called the "snowflake" mutation or variation of bobwhite quail, but I can't justify the space they would take up; pens are at a premium right now because my buff chanteclers take up most of them.

How do you like your chanteclers? How long have you had them? What is their production like? A chart I have says 150-220 eggs a year.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

12 shipped eggs due on 19th.
5 are looking really good.

What breed/s?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse,

I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital.

After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator.
On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him.

'I don't know,' he said. 'She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown.

 

[BantyChooks]

How do you like your chanteclers? How long have you had them? What is their production like? A chart I have says 150-220 eggs a year.

I have had the partridge variety since 2017, I believe, though I have since stopped breeding them and moved to bantam buff chanteclers a year and a half ago for multiple reasons. The bantams are currently very much a work in progress; they need significant work on type, colour, production, and hardiness. I would not class them as good layers.

I found the partridge LF to be quite satisfactory. The chart sounds correct; while not stellar layers, they are reliable, don't burn out after one season, and keep laying through cold weather better than the high production seasonal layers do. (Note that the truly elite layers, such as Leghorns, still pass them up in winter laying.)

Overall, I would say that I have found "my" breed in them. I enjoy looking at them; I enjoy their type, their personalities, and they seem fairly economical, though in general the available stock isn't bred as close to standard as some of the more common breeds such as Plymouth rocks due to their limited breeding population and how few breeders are actually working on them.

 

[Pensmaster]

What breed/s?

Pita Pinta