JULY HATCH ALONG!!

[SunHwaKwon]

I have bought quite a few eggs on eBay. Mostly great people to deal with, but because of the luck of the draw when mailing things, especially in the summer, I always sort the search by 'nearest distance'. A lot of the time, if the seller is in reasonable driving distance, you can pick up and not be at the tender mercies of the USPS and fate.

Unfortunately, because of where I live, there are rarely any within a reasonable driving distance. I do sort the auctions by distance though even listings described as under a hundred miles away are actually closer to five hours away each direction unless I take a boat lol.

My very first try incubating was eBay turkey eggs. I now have one $75 turkey poult lol. I did a lot of things wrong, though, including buying from too far away. All of my eggs have arrived now. Ameracaunas and Marans are in the incubator and the Mille eggs are resting until tonight. They are the worst of the bunch. The seller didn't even put them all pointy end down and didn't include extras.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My broody "Tomi" blue isbar sitting on not her eggs, but Blue Isbar, SFH, and one BCM eggs, due the 5th or 6th.

 

[Kilkilkorken]

Unfortunately, I don't think I will have of my July babies hatch. I had 3 Serama eggs go into lockdown and I've heard they may hatch early due to their size,....today is day 20 and nothing, nada. No internal or external pips. Two look DIS...one is still alive with veins but doesn't look like it's even internally pipped. I've been keeping an eye on everything, temp. and humidity, throughout this whole process like a hawk and it seems it still didn't help. Sad sad sad....

 

[gimmie birdies]

Depends on how old the eggs were when set, I would keep trying...

3 of mine hatched day 21, one is still under mom hatching, ...
2 were duds, and one hatched but crawled out from under mom overnight, or the mom kicked out the old shell and chick with it. it got cold. Below is the 4th and last egg to hatch, SFH.

 

[omilona]

Entering day 21, nothing yet...

 

[gimmie birdies]

These 6 chicks hatched on day 23 a number of years ago. out of 6 eggs...

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I candled my Bantam Ameracauna eggs today. Out of 14, the 2 with detached air cells look no good, 7 have good strong embryos, and the others are iffy. If I can get the seven to hatch, though, I will be happy!

I need a little more development before I can discern what's going on in the Marans eggs. I do not have high hopes for my D'Uccle eggs.They were packaged well but in the box every which way and the air cells were all over the place.

ETA I forgot two of my Ameracauna eggs are under the broody so I just candled those and one looks really good. so that makes 8 - yay! I also noticed that my turner is not working in my incubator and now that I think about it I don't think it's been working for at least a couple weeks! I just fixed it so hopefully my guineas that are due on the 21st will be okay. I was wondering why I could only fit bantam and guinea eggs in there. The trays were leaning too far to the side because they were not attached to the motor and the angle they were laying meant I could only fit full size eggs on the two outside rows, which has been an issue since some time after I started incubating my barred rocks that just hatched.

 

[omilona]

These 6 chicks hatched on day 23 a number of years ago. out of 6 eggs...

Good to know! Still nothing going on. They were fully developed when I locked them down.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have 11 fridge eggs due on the 14th, under a hen, and just went back to the organic food store, and bought
more BCM eggs, and SFH eggs, not concerned about hatching rate, I am setting alot, because not all will hatch.

 

[omilona]

FINALLY some action! So far we have 2 true rumpless/tufted Araucana out of 4 completely hatched, and one more pipped. 5 of 8 exchequer leghorns pipped, a few of them on the way to zipping and 1 copper Marans ( one of the 3 I couldnt see into at all and almost chucked) with 2 more of those that were well developed and 2 more I couldn't see into. So far on day 22 1/2 with 4 Marans, 3 leghorns and 1 Araucana nothing as yet.