chaoticflock
Hatching
- Jul 31, 2022
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Hi everyone, this is my first post here and I felt really overwhelmed of what I'm trying to achieve vs. how much I can actually handle.
Since last month, I've been getting new egg shipment about once in 3-4 day period and gradually put them in the incubator
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Things were hatched in 4 different incubators, 6 different breeds of chicken totally around 50 eggs, 3 breeds of duck total around 15 eggs, around 50 quail eggs, and around 10 goose eggs.
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What happened? All the quail died due to the first incubator was homemade, and the temperature control was a whack, also frequent power outages (1 hour to 8 hour long) until I got spare power system after that. Around 30 chickens and 5 ducks from the first set of eggs all died except one brahma hatched with disabilities and died within a week, and a pekin duck who is surviving strong on day 5 with no issues observed yet.
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Next are the 24 pastel eggs (black copper marans, Swedish Isbars, Cream Legbars, Olive eggers, Amereucanas), this batch hatched out more, seem to be pretty strong, but still high mortality: 4 died from drowning (externally pipped then died), and one died from having intestines out, the rest 10 eggs are still hatching.
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I felt really overwhelmed in how much information I had to learn in a short amount of time, not to mention building brooding spaces and coop too. I'd like to know if this is too much for a first timer and what are recommended things to change?
Thank you!
Since last month, I've been getting new egg shipment about once in 3-4 day period and gradually put them in the incubator
.
Things were hatched in 4 different incubators, 6 different breeds of chicken totally around 50 eggs, 3 breeds of duck total around 15 eggs, around 50 quail eggs, and around 10 goose eggs.
.
What happened? All the quail died due to the first incubator was homemade, and the temperature control was a whack, also frequent power outages (1 hour to 8 hour long) until I got spare power system after that. Around 30 chickens and 5 ducks from the first set of eggs all died except one brahma hatched with disabilities and died within a week, and a pekin duck who is surviving strong on day 5 with no issues observed yet.
.
Next are the 24 pastel eggs (black copper marans, Swedish Isbars, Cream Legbars, Olive eggers, Amereucanas), this batch hatched out more, seem to be pretty strong, but still high mortality: 4 died from drowning (externally pipped then died), and one died from having intestines out, the rest 10 eggs are still hatching.
.
I felt really overwhelmed in how much information I had to learn in a short amount of time, not to mention building brooding spaces and coop too. I'd like to know if this is too much for a first timer and what are recommended things to change?
Thank you!
