Hatch Update - We are done with batch #1 - PIC HEAVY

[Mareloo]

Yea... You just don't post them very far!

Thank you MissP!

BirdBrain.. After all that.. You start to look at other people's chickens with renewed interest.. Mind ticking.. Slippery,... sharp downhill, slope!

Hang on, it is going to be one hell of a ride!!!

 

[lacyloo]

 

[BirdBrain]

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Yeah, that is what I am worried about!

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Your eggs are TOO cheap. But even if I could buy a diamond for $1 I wouldn't
use it as a piece of chicken grit.

Let me rephrase:
If you want to hatch SpeckledHens chicks as your first hatch you will immediately
become addicted to hatching and lose your house, car, marriage and friends.
Don't say I didn't warn ya.

 

[PurpleChicken]

5:00 Sunday - They keep coming (I had to open the bator - one was stuck on his back
with membrane attached to half a shell - The chick is ok and warm again)

Hatches from Thursday through Saturday morning:

The teenagers (3 weeks old)

 

[speckledhen]

Good looking bunch with some obvious roosters there. Wish they were always as obvious! Congrats, Don.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Those roos are breaking my heart. Their dad was my favorite until the "roo" came
out in him. I promised him I'd let him reproduce before we made soup. He's the
proud father of 17 chicks so far, and a good pot of soup.

They are SOOO friendly. 2 Full leghorns, 2 mutt leghorns, & 2 of Jody's Buffs.

 

[tazcat70]

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I could not live with myself if I used some of her blues as a test run!!!!!

Tonya

 

[PurpleChicken]

OK final EXACT tally for first batch:

Forget about previous numbers - I had too many eggs to be accurate.
We did a final count and opened up the unhatched eggs.

25 of OUR eggs went into bator between 10/20 & 10/22

15 peeping little chicks

4 didn't make it (dead in shell)

6 were not fertile


Does this mean our hatch rate is 80%

 

[speckledhen]

Don, I never count the ones that were never fertile for my hatch rate; if you do, you're getting the fertility rate. 15 divided by 19 = 79% rate, the way I do it. I treat infertiles like they didn't exist.