Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[caj1985]

I picked up my seven calico cochin bantams today. They look like they range in age from a couple of days to two weeks. These are the mellowist chicks I have ever seen. I've never had cochins is that just their personality or were they really handled a lot? My goofy Arkansas Blues (while in brooder and confined) are psychos. They calm down once they have some space.

 

[Brookhavens]

Wow, this has been a week of advice. I have one more issue that I would love input on. I have a new Sportsman (

), but I am having really weird hatches. I have an excellent hatch rate on turkeys (about 85%) and ducks (90%). In the same incubator, I have a terrible rate on chickens (about 25-30%). Now I realize it could be the eggs (mostly compliments of Krazy and Flocks and my own), but it just seems weird. And I can't hatch a Maran egg to save my life. I have tried about 30 and 1 egg. The seramas did well and SFH are about 40%. Any ideas from the peanut gallery? Maybe humidity? Temp is stable at 100, though I think I will turn it down to 99.5. What does everyone think? Maybe just weird luck.

I run mine at 99.5 and about 30-40% humidity. My Sportsman is an older 1502 with just the turning racks no hatcher at the bottom. I use 2 coolerbators for hatching and I have been getting a 100% hatch rate on my own eggs and about 95% on local eggs. Shipped eggs are another story. The PO does such a number on them that I feel lucky when I get more than 2 or 3 to hatch. The exception to that happened with the last batch of eggs I hatched. Jeannie sent 7 eggs I had one quitter and the other 6 are all running around the brooder now. I have only hatched chickens out in it so far so I can't give you any input on turkeys or ducks.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

Does she need a big bath?  LOL

gotta love some autocorrect!

 

[debs_flock]

Quote:
Ummm, you might owe me some BCM too................

 

[AyeUpChuck]

Ummm, you might owe me some BCM too................

Lol. Good thing I have a few

 

[AyeUpChuck]

I hatched out a solitary bourbon a few days ago and it seemed fine. I guess I didn't pay as much attention to how it was doing as I did last time because they seemed to learn quickly in a group. This little one still seems very dazed and fragile. So I removed it with a few Mille Fleur Cochin babies and made eggs and put down water. I didn't force feed it but I put egg mash in its beak. I'm really hoping it makes it through the next 24 hours and I know now to pay more attention to those poults the first week to two.

 

[krazykat0373]

Wow, this has been a week of advice. I have one more issue that I would love input on. I have a new Sportsman (

), but I am having really weird hatches. I have an excellent hatch rate on turkeys (about 85%) and ducks (90%). In the same incubator, I have a terrible rate on chickens (about 25-30%). Now I realize it could be the eggs (mostly compliments of Krazy and Flocks and my own), but it just seems weird. And I can't hatch a Maran egg to save my life. I have tried about 30 and 1 egg. The seramas did well and SFH are about 40%. Any ideas from the peanut gallery? Maybe humidity? Temp is stable at 100, though I think I will turn it down to 99.5. What does everyone think? Maybe just weird luck.

I have a very hard time with marans as well, out of 8 that I got a few weeks back, 5 went into lockdown, 1 hatched and then died two days later

. Gonna try again though, CRFarm sent me 9 so

I picked up my seven calico cochin bantams today. They look like they range in age from a couple of days to two weeks. These are the mellowist chicks I have ever seen. I've never had cochins is that just their personality or were they really handled a lot? My goofy Arkansas Blues (while in brooder and confined) are psychos. They calm down once they have some space.

my little frizzle cochin roo is very mellow and follows me around everywhere, he is the reason I want more! Going to the auction tonight and will be bringing home a couple lady friends for him, from Joe Villamil. Then going Wednesday to get some calicos as well.

 

[wife2abirdman]

I picked up my seven calico cochin bantams today. They look like they range in age from a couple of days to two weeks. These are the mellowist chicks I have ever seen. I've never had cochins is that just their personality or were they really handled a lot? My goofy Arkansas Blues (while in brooder and confined) are psychos. They calm down once they have some space.

I have to thank you if it weren't for you I would have either payed double the price or not been able to get any eggs at all from that person.




I got KYTinpushers turkey eggs today, definitly a creative use of Easter eggs!

All arrived safely and Thank you for the extra!!

 

[babymakes6]

Now it is my turn to rant a little:

I have a few searches saved for hatching eggs on Ebay. A couple of days ago I got a notice that there is a result for my search for Bielefelders. Someone has a presale of hatching eggs that will be shipped AFTER September 20! Ebay has a rule against offering presales-it must be shipped within thirty days, so they have the estimated arrival as April 30. I reported them for violation of the rules, but nothing has been done about it. Now today I got a notice that there is a Partridge Barthuhner egg auction up (for delivery after October 1st) from the same person!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

you should have seen all of the peafowl and mandarin duck egg auctions in January.