July Hatch-A-Long

[boyswillbeboys]

Well, I am using my own mixed eggs for this experiment.  There is a chance for colored egg layers, but I guess I have to say I expect some mixed hardy layers.  One of my goals in Chicken Raising is sustainable food.  So, the broody really makes me happy.  These are not going to be show chickens!  But some of them are likely to be beautiful, and all will be hardy egg layers.  I am working on some pure breed chickens as well as a colored egg project, but this is my first summer of hatching.  Have always just added a few chickens before this year.  Oh my gosh, and how fun and exciting it has been!

I'm working on a sustainable flock too, I added the silkies for their broodiness, I also added 5 Cornish Rock Giant Pullets, to increase body size in my flock

 

[Amykins]

Wobbles is a real piece of work! His eggmate's still rocking and rolling away in the bator, hopefully I'll have more good news within the next 24-48 hours! In the meantime though, here's Wob's favorite sleeping position during the rare, fleeting times he tuckers himself out!

 

[darkbluespace]

Wobbles is a real piece of work! His eggmate's still rocking and rolling away in the bator, hopefully I'll have more good news within the next 24-48 hours! In the meantime though, here's Wob's favorite sleeping position during the rare, fleeting times he tuckers himself out!

ohhh baby!!!! He is precious! When I had a few weak ducklings, I mixed up some hard boiled egg, yogurt and vitamin water or nutritional yeast and water, till it was runny and fed them a bit in a dropper... perked them right up! Can't wait to see his friend!

 

[Amykins]

ohhh baby!!!! He is precious! When I had a few weak ducklings, I mixed up some hard boiled egg, yogurt and vitamin water or nutritional yeast and water, till it was runny and fed them a bit in a dropper... perked them right up! Can't wait to see his friend!

Lacry calmed me down last night at 2 in the morning and walked me through what to feed him. I gave him a vitamin B complex with niacin and riboflavin, I think that really helped. I don't know WHAT I'd do without her! As long this lil guy's on a flat surface he can walk and run with the best of them now! ...With only the occasional back flop.

I'll try the egg and yogurt idea, now that he's eating and drinking I'll give him a bit more than just his crumbles.

 

[chantelhatt]

my other six eggs I had in the incubator didn't hatch, and the other 13 eggs in my other incubator some of them look like they have two air sacs, I check them tomorrow it will be Day 14 for them, I will take pictures if they stay the same way,....

 

[guineagirl23]

so we have a guinea hen setting on a whole nest of eggs now! set & guinea eggs under a hen and all 7 hatched 4 days early! The hen is being amazing with them and theyre doing fabulous! also have about 28 chicken eggs left, checking them all tonight! Wish me luck, and good luck to anyone else and congrats to those who've hatched

 

[blkjak]

Just went into lockdown with 16 sussex/mixed brown egg layers and 1 chanteclar egg. Only had to remove 3 early quitters. This is the last chicken hatch for 2014. Still have 17 muscovy eggs in the 2nd incubator. Ofcoarse that didnt stop us from buying 19 plymouth rock chicks yesterday. Chicken crazy!

 

[Tazbeaux]

Well I will be pulling the plug tomorrow on my July hatch a long. I have 11 roughly shipped Buckeye eggs, and 3 Buff Orpington eggs with questionable fertility in the incubator. Today was day 23 and nothing is stirring at all. When I candled the eggs they didn't look very promising so I am not surprised with the outcome. I just thought that I would give them a chance. The shipper of the Buckeye eggs is supposed to ship me another dozen, so maybe I will soon be posting in an August hatch a long thread and hopefully have a better ending next time.

 

[KendyF]

Well I will be pulling the plug tomorrow on my July hatch a long. I have 11 roughly shipped Buckeye eggs, and 3 Buff Orpington eggs with questionable fertility in the incubator. Today was day 23 and nothing is stirring at all. When I candled the eggs they didn't look very promising so I am not surprised with the outcome. I just thought that I would give them a chance. The shipper of the Buckeye eggs is supposed to ship me another dozen, so maybe I will soon be posting in an August hatch a long thread and hopefully have a better ending next time.

Sorry your July hatch did not go well. Looking forward to hearing about August.

 

[Tazbeaux]

Thanks KendyF, I really wasn't expecting any chicks this time around. I just don't seem to have any luck with shipped eggs, the PO is just too rough with them. With the dozen Buckeye eggs, 1 was smashed, 8 had ruptured air cells and 3 seemed to be ok. With the BO eggs, the flock's roo had been killed by a predator 3 weeks earlier, so we were just taking a chance that the eggs might still be fertile.