january hatch-a-long

[Tatuana]

That's a long list of possible combinations of chicks. I.D. may be harder than initially thought.

I'm okay with that! I kind of hope they keep their weird colors. It's adorable.

No action with Thing 3 yet.

 

[Tbird84]

We have 3 total out now. Two homegrown mixes and 1 Bielefelder. Uno (now named Pikel) is very happy.

Edit: Total 4 out and 1 pip.

 

[Tatuana]

Three!! Lazy Baby decided to visit. She is so much smaller than my other two.

That means my hatch is done! 17 eggs, 8 days in travel cross country and back, humidity issues, turning issues, more humidity issues, having the top left off of the incubator, and all sorts of small problems later.... We have three tough as nails babies who are determined to live no matter the odds! I'm so proud of them.

 

[mitziworm]

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Three!! Lazy Baby decided to visit. She is so much smaller than my other two.

That means my hatch is done! 17 eggs, 8 days in travel cross country and back, humidity issues, turning issues, more humidity issues, having the top left off of the incubator, and all sorts of small problems later.... We have three tough as nails babies who are determined to live no matter the odds! I'm so proud of them.

Well done!! Congratulations

 

[Tbird84]

That's wonderful! Congratulations! We have 6 so far here, out of 22. Still waiting on the other lazy butts to make their debut.

 

[Matieus27]

What is you alls opinion do non fertile eggs count against your hatch rate or do you calculate hatchrate after non fertile eggs are removed

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That depends on your goals.
If you have actually opened eggs and found most of them fertile, I'd compare hatch rate to eggs set.
If they are shipped eggs, you don't know what the fertility rate was.
Sometimes it is possible to see some development in breakout of failures. This time of year in the northern hemisphere, roosters are less fertile.

 

[muddy75]

What is you alls opinion do non fertile eggs count against your hatch rate or do you calculate hatchrate after non fertile eggs are removed

some people guarantee fertility rate i.e. my quail eggs from purely poultry only guaranteed 70% fertility. so i calculate fertility separate from hatch. I calculate my hatchrate from #eggs in lockdown that successfully hatch. I then do overall rate calculations on eggs set. I also note overall survival rate vs hatch rate. I use all these calculations to help determine improvements in my system and also whether or not to re-order from same person for next hatch.

 

[Matieus27]

some people guarantee fertility rate i.e. my quail eggs from purely poultry only guaranteed 70% fertility. so i calculate fertility separate from hatch. I calculate my hatchrate from #eggs in lockdown that successfully hatch. I then do overall rate calculations on eggs set. I also note overall survival rate vs hatch rate. I use all these calculations to help determine improvements in my system and also whether or not to re-order from same person for next hatch.

Reason I ask is I got local eggs I bought 30 of them 10 did not develop have 20 left today is day 15 and 20 are still growing and alive

 

[fire370]

some people guarantee fertility rate i.e. my quail eggs from purely poultry only guaranteed 70% fertility. so i calculate fertility separate from hatch. I calculate my hatchrate from #eggs in lockdown that successfully hatch. I then do overall rate calculations on eggs set. I also note overall survival rate vs hatch rate. I use all these calculations to help determine improvements in my system and also whether or not to re-order from same person for next hatch.

When I figure mine, I do it similar as well. If I candle, I do it at lockdown. I do not include clears in my percentage because they were never viable to hatch. I do however count quitters because at some point they were hatchable. I have 3 racks of quail about done hatching today and only candled 1 rack at lockdown. 124/rack plus a few extras I had set on top.

130’something set day 1
8 clears at day 15 lockdown
2 quitters at day 15 lockdown
5 left on the rack and I saw 3 pipped

So if those 3 hatch that leaves 4 that didn’t live. The 8 clears are not in the count. Don’t remember how many were set but if I counted chicks I’d know. We’ll call it 135 set minus 8 clears is 127 and 123 hatched. That’s a 96.8% success in my opinion. I am almost always around 90% and up. This rack happens to be an exceptional hatch and that high of a percentage doesn’t happen real often. I just hatched chickens on Saturday, 252 eggs set and ended up at 88.7%. Still a great hatch rate. BTW, both the quail and chickens are my eggs out of my breeders.