How early can lockdown be?

[HuskerHens18]

@WVduckchick, I have had a moderately successful hatch today, 14 babies so far but I just now had a horrible thing happen. My own BCM egg in full zip got stuck so I helped him along a bit and put him back in for him to finish and left to go do something with my son. Came back 5 mins later to find him dead, still warm. I wish to heaven I had just got him out the whole way. He was sooooo close, darn it.. Oh well, a few more coming including one of my only two CCL that is zipping now and the other still alive but not due for a day or so. None of the Lav. Orps. are going to make it I dont think.

Gosh I had a horrible thing too last hatch when one of my Polish pipped all the way around and on the last bit of shell, it pipped a vein.
I had the same problem with my Lavender orphs! I bought 5 eggs, two ended up NOT being fertile and the other three died right after lockdown.
I got LUCKY this last hatch, I just did a barnyard mix of my own flock eggs, and somehow I got ONE pure Lavender orph. And I even had to help it out as it was the malpositioned chick I made a thread for. Are lavenders just hard to hatch in general???

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick, I have had a moderately successful hatch today, 14 babies so far but I just now had a horrible thing happen. My own BCM egg in full zip got stuck so I helped him along a bit and put him back in for him to finish and left to go do something with my son. Came back 5 mins later to find him dead, still warm. I wish to heaven I had just got him out the whole way. He was sooooo close, darn it.. Oh well, a few more coming including one of my only two CCL that is zipping now and the other still alive but not due for a day or so. None of the Lav. Orps. are going to make it I dont think.

Holy smokes, that's horrible.

Gosh I had a horrible thing too last hatch when one of my Polish pipped all the way around and on the last bit of shell, it pipped a vein.
I had the same problem with my Lavender orphs! I bought 5 eggs, two ended up NOT being fertile and the other three died right after lockdown.
I got LUCKY this last hatch, I just did a barnyard mix of my own flock eggs, and somehow I got ONE pure Lavender orph. And I even had to help it out as it was the malpositioned chick I made a thread for. Are lavenders just hard to hatch in general???

I just sold my final lav orps, after breeding them for a few years. They normally hatch fairly easily, but my biggest problem would be full zips, but not full membrane separation, and some would die without being able to push out. I got to where I would let them get three-quarters of the way around, and if they stopped for more than 5 minutes, I'd just break the cap off for them.

 

[HuskerHens18]

I just sold my final lav orps, after breeding them for a few years. They normally hatch fairly easily, but my biggest problem would be full zips, but not full membrane separation, and some would die without being able to push out. I got to where I would let them get three-quarters of the way around, and if they stopped for more than 5 minutes, I'd just break the cap off for them.

Chick hatching can be the most rewarding, yet such a stressful thing to go through! I wish I had to space to continuously incubate eggs. I already have to put the incubator away for this year I've got around 30 chicks in 3 different brooders. Not to mention the 50 adult birds I've got in the coops... I'm too greedy

 

[oregonkat]

Holy smokes, that's horrible.



I just sold my final lav orps, after breeding them for a few years. They normally hatch fairly easily, but my biggest problem would be full zips, but not full membrane separation, and some would die without being able to push out. I got to where I would let them get three-quarters of the way around, and if they stopped for more than 5 minutes, I'd just break the cap off for them.

How come you quit breeding them? I just want some of the color. My BLRW hatched really well 9 out of 12 shipped eggs, one of which I broke right before putting them in the bator, so that doesn't count. Most of them are yellow, splash, I think, which doesn't make me too happy but I don't know anything about the breed so far as the chick color. I want that deep mahogany with the silver lining on the feathers. Do you know anything about this breed?
@HuskerHens18, sorry to have hijacked your thread

 

[RodNTN]

I have 19 eggs in the bator right now, today is day 10 and they are all developing! They are all from my backyard flock of 30.

So sorry about your loss, @oregonkat

 

[WVduckchick]

How come you quit breeding them? I just want some of the color. My BLRW hatched really well 9 out of 12 shipped eggs, one of which I broke right before putting them in the bator, so that doesn't count. Most of them are yellow, splash, I think, which doesn't make me too happy but I don't know anything about the breed so far as the chick color. I want that deep mahogany with the silver lining on the feathers. Do you know anything about this breed?
@HuskerHens18, sorry to have hijacked your thread

I don't know much about them, except they are beautiful! Several pics I just looked up, chicks may hatch light, so hopefully they feather in like you want.

I only got out of the LOs because they were at my farm, which is almost an hour away, and my circumstances have changed this past year and I haven't been able to go there as much as I used to. Ignoring them, not collecting eggs regularly and all was not fair to them. So I found good homes for them.
They were my best sellers by far, but I am pushing it by keeping so many bantams at my house. The LO rooster was just too loud. (I'm not technically zoned, and don't have really close neighbors, but didn't want to be a nuisance, ya know?)

 

[oregonkat]

I have 19 eggs in the bator right now, today is day 10 and they are all developing! They are all from my backyard flock of 30.

So sorry about your loss, @oregonkat

UGH, thank you for the hug, I still feel awful! Good luck with your hatch. I was just telling someone that I am going to try to stick to my own eggs for growing my flock, have a couple of breeding pens maybe as I am sick of the lousy hatch rates from shipped eggs. I may need to invest in a better incubator and use my current one as a hatcher.

 

[oregonkat]

They were my best sellers by far,

I am not surprised, they are gorgeous. I am going to sell some of these BLRW chicks and I think just keep the more grey ones and see how they feather out.
What do you think about the comparison in color between the LO and the Lavender Marans, project color?

 

[RodNTN]

UGH, thank you for the hug, I still feel awful! Good luck with your hatch. I was just telling someone that I am going to try to stick to my own eggs for growing my flock, have a couple of breeding pens maybe as I am sick of the lousy hatch rates from shipped eggs. I may need to invest in a better incubator and use my current one as a hatcher.

You're welcome That's just part of hatching, I lost several Ayam Cemani's during hatching last year, no fun I have only set shipping eggs once, and got an okay hatch rate, not great, though.

 

[CiscoChickens]

Haha yeah! Without meaning to, all my hatches have landed on a weekend.

Weekend babies are the best! Plenty of time to go in and peek on them. If only broody hen had lasted a little longer— that stinker! Glad everything is going well. I would love to see pictures when the fuzzies actually get fuzzy!