Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[3Dchicken]

So 19.5 days ago I received 12 Buff Orpington eggs in the mail all the way from TN. I wanted to see how to deal with USPS eggs as a large number of my Easter Egg run will be coming from the mid west and the south.

12 arrived, at 10 days I had 2 clears and 1 blood ring. The air cells were all over the place. I incubated them for 4 days upright and then in a turner. I am really unsure how many are viable - they are so hard to tell with huge saddled air cells but threw all 9 into lock down and this afternoon I had 5 pipping and in a still air hatching bator. It looks like I have some more chicks to unload.

The local Cochins have a week to go.

YAY!

 

[Ashburnham]

A pity you can't take them pack to the Phillipines.
You could try a pair of Budgie Smugglers.

 

[ozexpat]

A pity you can't take them pack to the Phillipines.
You could try a pair of Budgie Smugglers.

i may end up in an orange jumpsuit dancing gangnam style in a cebu prison if i did that

 

[OffGridMAMA]

YAY! 

Double yaay I think you're an expert now Oz!

 

[ozexpat]

Double yaay

I think you're an expert now Oz!

lol

heck no.

 

[ozexpat]

We have a chicken. 1 out, 1 close. 3 other pips

 

[ozexpat]

5 from 12 hatched all within 7 hrs of the first pip.

The remaining 4 will stay in the bator till day 22. its barely day 20 now. Realistically, I dont expect any more to be kicking out. I am happy with that given the fact that they arrived in an egg carton with some paper towel between them.

This helps reassure me that 24 eggs is the minimum for shipped eggs I want to carry for each breed for my main flock to build fairly quickly, and 12-18 be the minimum for breeds that I want to play with and see how they fair in the tropics.

 

[kacklinkelly]

pix please - I can't keep up with your travels. Are you in CA or Phillipines with these new chicks?

 

[ozexpat]

pix please - I can't keep up with your travels. Are you in CA or Phillipines with these new chicks?

pics tomorrow when I get them out of the bator.

currently I am in CA and I leave for the Phils in 31 days

 

[hillfloweranch]

Oz,
Will you drop me a note bout 6 days before you leave for the PI, I want to make sure daisy is laying daily so I have at least half dozen eggs to give you.