Incubating and hatching eggs chat thread!!

[Mountainbeauty]

that is very helpful info. I have heard so many things from different people i have talked too. after one day on backyard I was corrected in my wrong teaching and learned so much more.

 

[JRNash]

that is very helpful info. I have heard so many things from different people i have talked too. after one day on backyard I was corrected in my wrong teaching and learned so much more.

Always verify the information through multiple sources. There are some well meaning idiots on BYC just like anywhere else. Also,there ARE exceptions to EVERY rule.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Could be a slipped tendon.

I guess that could happen during hatch. But when I watch her, she reminds me of my pediatric spine bifida patients. She seems to always try to use her wings to get around. The other D'uccles haven't done this. I haven't seen her move her bowels, either. That tells me it's only hours or a day until she weakens and passes. In the brooder (daytime) she's a target for the bigger chicks. I use a heating pad or even bra if needed to keep her calm. But she stopped eating anything now.

 

[JRNash]

Sorry.

 

[JRNash]

I will give hatchlings a chance, if they continue in a downward spiral I cull them. Competition is strong in my birds,a weak or injured bird generally won't survive.

 

[ChcknNurse]

I will give hatchlings a chance, if they continue in a downward spiral I cull them. Competition is strong in my birds,a weak or injured bird generally won't survive.

This one won't survive. Just had to cull a couple recently. This one isn't weak at all. So I'm providing palliative care... it's all I can do.

 

[abraga]

Hello! Has anyone had any experience hatching eggs? Or incubating? Has anyone gotten their eggs off ebay? If so, how many hatched?


Anyone want to join?

 

[KaylorFarms]

I need to go to whole foods soon and get some fertile eggs!

 

[abraga]

I just started incubating eggs again. I have a brinsea and hovabator. I have purchased serama eggs from several breeders on ebay. So far..all eggs arrived intact. Ist batch of seramas...only one egg was fertile and haychted in the brinsea. I incubated the others in the hovabator..got them on lockdown in the brinsea now waiting. I read seramas are hard to incubate. I have gotton a lot of infertile eggs and a few that started but died. One breeders eggs had a lit of poo on them. I contacted the seller and they sent me 7 more eggs. Only three of those are fertile. It is risky..u dont know what your really getting, and i do think shipping is a big factor as far as hatchability.

 

[abraga]

There are lots of factors that effect hatchabilty. Fertility..shipping..incubation practices..etc.