***JULY HATCH-A-LONG come join in***

[buffbeauty]

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I love your chicken tractor. Can I steal a few ideas? Your chickens look very happy with it!

Thanks so much and Sure! Since I stole ideas from my other one that was built for me, I can hardly say no!! hehehe If you have any questions just PM me and I'll do my best ie., measurements, materials, etc

 

[GlitterKitty]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4531439#p4531439 Help!

 

[missred871]

WELL GUESS WHAT!?! I got up to two more babies, then I left for 2 hours came home and it was like an explosion of fuzz in the bator! I left with two and came home to 14....OH YEAH!


Well I had 8 left to hatch, did a float test 2 were definate and one was iffy so one of those 2 just hatched out and we have one definate left.

Here are the numbers

14/19 buttons one died. so 13/19

24/30 manchurian golden coturnix (still one left to hatch out I am pretty sure he will in the next 24 hrs) (there were 40 shipped, 3 no starters and 7 EARLY quitters)

17/18 coturnix mixed eggs


FANTASTICAL HATCH RATE PEOPLE!

 

[StormyMoon]

how sweet those chicks are adorable, everyones are......

My daughter asked me mom what if we wake up and baby chickies running around all over the floor lol
I have 2 broodies inside cause the heat is extremely high here in TX for now they are in boxes in my sons room with lots of water and feed.

I just want to let them be today is day 17 and I am losing my mind but trying not to show it lol.......I can't wait ...

We cleaned their nests today both broodies were standing up complaining about dirty nests. EWW!!!!
Thank Goodness thats all cleaned up though.....

I worried about them over heating and killing over on me we even had to take a fan out side to the other chickens.
We placed bottles we had saved from sodas in the freezer so everyone got frozen water today in the water containers out side...

The Broodies got ice cubes in their water dish inside cause it even got really hot in here.

I will be ready for fall......sooooooon!

 

[ChksontheRun]

3 have hatched so far with 4 more eggs in the bator. Not seeing any rocking of the ones left so 3 may be it. I am happy. Total newbie to hatching with shipped eggs. I am thankful for what I got. To the new brooder tonight!

 

[Cattitude]

missred, congratulations on your terrific hatch! I could look at those little fuzzy butts all day long. *sigh*

ChksontheRun, congratz on your 3! for shipped eggs, that's darned good! We want pictures soon!

Sounds like July has been a Hatching Success... we should celebrate!

 

[GlitterKitty]

Emily~

 

[SportChick]

@BuffBeauty, your tractor is great!

 

[Kedreeva]

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Oh noes! Already placing the blame on me!

Well, you've at least chosen an awesome breed. They'll take 35 days to hatch instead of 28, and they'll have really soft, almost pleasant voices when they are young (well, at least compared to the others here, who have horribly, horrible shrill, high voices). You'll still want to observe the incubation differences for ducks- Same temp through incubation, but temp should be dropped down to ~97 for lockdown. You'll want humidity at 70% through the hatch and closer to 85-90% for hatch (I think mine sat around 60 because I had chicken eggs in there too and then I couldn't get it higher than 88% according to my thermostat, but the hatch was great anyway).You'll want to 'cool' the eggs for about 10-15 minutes a day- I just opened the incubator and took my time candling the eggs and topping the water wells and changing the soaked paper towels I used to keep the humidity up. Then before you close it, mist them with warm water and close the incubator. Even if you don't cool them, make sure that you mist them. They're made to compensate for mama duck doing swimming and then coming back to the nest wet, and if they don't get that the air cell will most likely not be large enough.

The worst part about ducks........ they take FOREVER from pip to zip. None of mine zipped in less than 48 hours. It's nerve wracking.

@ Coretta: Congrats! Are you glad you waited for them to zip?

@ Buffbeauty: Beautiful coop and birds!

@ Cattitude: We -should- celebrate! I do a little dance for every successful hatcher XD

 

[PunkinPeep]

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Oh noes! Already placing the blame on me!

Well, you've at least chosen an awesome breed. They'll take 35 days to hatch instead of 28, and they'll have really soft, almost pleasant voices when they are young (well, at least compared to the others here, who have horribly, horrible shrill, high voices). You'll still want to observe the incubation differences for ducks- Same temp through incubation, but temp should be dropped down to ~97 for lockdown. You'll want humidity at 70% through the hatch and closer to 85-90% for hatch (I think mine sat around 60 because I had chicken eggs in there too and then I couldn't get it higher than 88% according to my thermostat, but the hatch was great anyway).You'll want to 'cool' the eggs for about 10-15 minutes a day- I just opened the incubator and took my time candling the eggs and topping the water wells and changing the soaked paper towels I used to keep the humidity up. Then before you close it, mist them with warm water and close the incubator. Even if you don't cool them, make sure that you mist them. They're made to compensate for mama duck doing swimming and then coming back to the nest wet, and if they don't get that the air cell will most likely not be large enough.

The worst part about ducks........ they take FOREVER from pip to zip. None of mine zipped in less than 48 hours. It's nerve wracking.

Thank you very much for this info! I have it bookmarked now. Duck information is not nearly as easy to find as chicken information. I'm searching for muscovy eggs as we speak.