Incubating and hatching eggs chat thread!!

[AmyLynn2374]

I found a breeder in Florida that has beautiful SGs. She is wonderful to work with and has shipped a distance. Because she goes the extra distance to ensure their safe arrival, I am willing to try. She also wants to know how they arrived, etc.

I'll let you know how it goes. It's only been a couple days. But she shipped me 16.

She also sexes her babies by DNA and said it's $20. Seems like a good idea, if we are on the fence of whether or not to keep them based on sex.

Yes, please, let me know how they do.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Anyone have any hatching eggs out there?

Have you checked the 24 hour auction? There was one different auction... but often you can PM one of them and ask them to auction or just ask for an auction.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Yes, please, let me know how they do.

Will do... the breeder wasn't happy that the eggs had some messed up air cells. But, I told her that she had done everything she could (short of hand carrying them). Perhaps I will take a trip to Florida, lol.

My response about UPS shipping (and that when I worked for them, we shipped priority packages thru the Harrisburg HUB) didn't post. I think the trip from FL is rough. The eggs from FL look worse each time than the ones I got from Georgia. I had no surprise that California would look rough, it made it in 2 days-- it had to have been tossed-- .


--- Are these 19, your eggs?

 

[ChcknNurse]

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Wow, love 3rd one down on this post-- so photogenic lol.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Hi all,

I initially bought 2 lots of eggs from 2 separate eBay sellers and this was my first time incubating eggs so that may well have affected things but out of the 12 none were successful!

6 had dislodged/saddled air cells and I suspect 3 were never fertile.

However I tried again and must say I've spent many nights reading posts on this forum and it's helped me so much.

I found an eBay seller that wasn't far away who was happy for me to visit and collect eggs and also see the chickens that had laid them which was great.

So now today I have 2 hatched and doing great and most others have pipped!

They are barred Brahmas and I'm sure I've spent most the day watching them in the brooder!

That's great news! Remember you can find eggs here on BYC! Go to the forum under hatching eggs. Also, the 24 hour auction has great deals.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Will do... the breeder wasn't happy that the eggs had some messed up air cells. But, I told her that she had done everything she could (short of hand carrying them). Perhaps I will take a trip to Florida, lol.

My response about UPS shipping (and that when I worked for them, we shipped priority packages thru the Harrisburg HUB) didn't post. I think the trip from FL is rough. The eggs from FL look worse each time than the ones I got from Georgia. I had no surprise that California would look rough, it made it in 2 days-- it had to have been tossed-- .


--- Are these 19, your eggs?

Yes, the 19 I just hatched were from my own birds. Hatched to sell. They were my 5th hatch this spring.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Awesome! Congrats! Shipped are risky.

Hey guys, on BYC are you guys all posting on your local forum? Where are you? For example, I am on "Pa Unite!" Recently, someone did a chicken train and I got hatching eggs from someone on here. I was sent Welbar, CCL & Black Ameraucana. In addition, the following week, I met someone for a dozen Blue/Black Langshan eggs. I run staggered hatches. For hatching addicts, it's the only way . I run one incubator as an incubator and the other as a hatcher. Of course, currently, I have none ready for lockdown, so I need more eggs!!! It is amazing to see intact air cells, after rolling and detached, by the way. And I still had most hatch, but it's frustrating to start with the deck stacked against us.




This.
If you can find local, within driving distance, that is really what you want. Often you can locate fertile hatching eggs through Craigslist, or local fb poultry pages. Is there a certain breed you want to hatch?


Yup! For sure.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Yes, the 19 I just hatched were from my own birds. Hatched to sell. They were my 5th hatch this spring.

GORGEOUS!! I'm sure you aren't close... but I would love some of your eggs, lol.

Here are the eBay silkies that hatches a few days back.

I didn't expect much from eBay eggs. Not very typey chicks. But adorable, still.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

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GORGEOUS!! I'm sure you aren't close... but I would love some of your eggs, lol.

Here are the eBay silkies that hatches a few days back.

I didn't expect much from eBay eggs. Not very typey chicks. But adorable, still.

Chicks are cute period...lol
I am in Northern NY. Up by the Canadian border. Hopefully in less than two months we will be moving closer to the Syracuse area.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Wow! I'll read it, thanks!! I always wanted to know this, how can they hatch trader joes eggs if they are refrigerated? Or don't they refrigerate them?

I have hatched a bunch of refrigerated eggs. A couple of years ago, a breeder had horrible hatches with her incubator. She was then relying on her broody hen to hatch, but she kept breaking eggs, etc. So, I offered. When I came over to get the eggs from her, she pulled them out of the fridge with dates of about 3 wks prior. She was selling the fresher ones on eBay.

About 85% hatched.