FFA hatching!! Quail are reproducing! WOOT!!!

[Fudgie]

It was not too bad with a spreadsheet! LOL! It was funny how some hatched really well and some did not. it was very interesting.

 

[shelleyd2008]

OMG!! If my dad saw that you thought his eggs were from leghorns, he would blow a gasket!! He has RIR and white rocks mostly, no leghorns here!

 

[bockbock2008]

Oh the dissapointment, in my eggs not in you. I thought you had said one mine had hatched and was hopeful.

 

[Fudgie]

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YOU DID! One of your little guys made it and it is doing great! otherwise you would have had a 0% you had an 8% so that is not bad! BE HAPPY! one hatched!

If you wanna try again, we are doing another hatching. There were a few others that did not have eggs at the time we were doing the first project and now do. They are sending them in. I am doing some staggered hatches in the 3 drawer big incubator so bring em on!

Honestly, I figured from Indiana, they should have made it ok. None of them arrived broken. I am honestly thinking a lot of the non hatching came from the frigid temps when we were shipping eggs. Coldness will kill them in a heartbeat.

I feel bad for the ones that had 0% hatchrate I honestly think those got shaken pretty bad. I know RedHen's got shook up bad, there were lots without air cells so I imagine they were tossed pretty good through the mail service.

 

[Fudgie]

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I fixed it I fixed it! LOL, I had about 4 different kinds listed on yours because you were not sure what you were sending. LOL Guess I got creative!

 

[pdsavage]

Was wondering if my eggs did anything?

 

[Fudgie]

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PDsavage, I put yours in on March 9th so they are due to come out to the hatcher this weekend. Keep your fingers crossed, some of them looked good, some were clear early on.

 

[Fudgie]

Oh and I put in some of my own. 36 buff orpingtons and black sexlinks and silkie/frizzle/cochin mixes and here they are. 32 of 36 hatched of these beauties. 2 of them were fully developed, pipped the air cell and went no further.

They hatched Sunday evening and Monday morning.

 

[Fudgie]

I did add up the entire batch of how many we received how many were set(I took out the broken ones) and how many hatched and here is the results of that.

received = 590
Set = 9
Hatched = 274

percentage 274 / (590-9) = 47% hatch rate overall. I don't think that is too bad considering the distance traveled and the mail handlers and the incubation.

Thanks guys and gals for all the help and the Eggs and shipping donated to these kids. The shipping alone was $250.00 total and that does not even count the egg cost! There were 25 people that participated in the first hatch. (more are sending some but for the first hatch). The kids sold the extra chickens and quail at the sale and made $70.00 and another $25.00 on ducks so basically they made $100.00 on the project and learned a whole lot. I will keep posting on here on the others that I have received. The kids and the Ag instructor and I have learned SO MUCH by doing this. We have learned about how to ship properly, how to ship chickens, what happens when you open up the incubator while a hatch is going on(oops!), how much fun incubating is and so much more. I think this was an invaluable lesson for the kids to encourage them to try to incubate eggs in the future and that they can do anything they set their minds to.

 

[pdsavage]

any update on mine?