June 2015 Hatch A Long HAL

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I am a little bit scared for my hatch. This morning I came to my incubator and only the fan was running. The eggs were all room temperature. I switched all the eggs to my homemade incubator but I am not sure what will happen. :/

Don't give up on them! They might hatch a little late, but eggs are amazingly resilient to cooling. I accidentally cooled goose eggs for about eight hours once and they all still hatched.

And I am about to put more goose eggs in the 'bator, and apparently some peafowl It'll be my first time with those, so fingers crossed. They will be due in July though - maybe I should start the new thread

Yeah, I was kind of thinking that I would have a reduced hatch rate. Another issue is that my homemade incubator has a pretty bad hatch rate...we will see.

Hope all goes well.

 

[mollybuck]

what kind of eggs did you get shipped to you

I got BLR Wyandotte for my dad and a couple BBS orps for me!

 

[bantamized]

Candled my bantam eggs today its day 7 all looks to be developing. 18 shipped eggs I got off eBay.super stoked 11 days till lock down this is my first hach on my own

 

[Antiquity]

I am a little bit scared for my hatch. This morning I came to my incubator and only the fan was running. The eggs were all room temperature. I switched all the eggs to my homemade incubator but I am not sure what will happen.

Too hot is far more dangerous than too cold. Give them an extra day and don't sweat it.

I read somewhere once about someone who hatches chickens in a commercial manner who had an order for eggs for balut. He removed and packed up the eggs to be picked up, but the person never got them. A day or two (or three?) later he gave up and put them back in the incubator. He reported only a very slightly higher rate of loss in those eggs, and they hatched the same number of days late that they were packed up and waiting.

I fear high temps far more than low ones.

Do most people keep the chicks they hatch or sell them?

I hatched eggs the first time kind of unexpectedly. A friend's flock was killed in the night by a stray dog, so I offered her some of my fertilized eggs to hatch and reestablish her flock. After two weeks she admitted that she didn't have time to take care of the incubator like they needed and I offered to take it back to my house and bring back the females after hatching. That first hatch failed so I gave her back her incubator and made my own out of a fish tank and tried again. When those hatched I gave her the females from my barred rock and kept the two males and all the chicks from my GLW. A long-winded way to answer your question with my first hatch.

This time I got a surprise broody and I figure I'll do more of the same. Girls go to my friend, boys go in the freezer. If I have too many girls for her to take, I'll probably sell of give away the others. If no one wants them, I'll put them in the freezer, too. I just don't want more chickens right now, but who can say no to free chickens when somebroody else is doing all the work?

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I am a little bit scared for my hatch. This morning I came to my incubator and only the fan was running. The eggs were all room temperature. I switched all the eggs to my homemade incubator but I am not sure what will happen. :/

Too hot is far more dangerous than too cold. Give them an extra day and don't sweat it.


I read somewhere once about someone who hatches chickens in a commercial manner who had an order for eggs for balut. He removed and packed up the eggs to be picked up, but the person never got them. A day or two (or three?) later he gave up and put them back in the incubator. He reported only a very slightly higher rate of loss in those eggs, and they hatched the same number of days late that they were packed up and waiting.


I fear high temps far more than low ones.

Incredible! That is really good to know.
Thanks.

 

[Pyxis]

Incredible! That is really good to know.
Thanks.

I believe that was Metzer Farms. He had an order for balut and the person never picked up. Most of the ducklings hatched late, but it wasn't a terrible loss. You can read the story on the Metzer Farms website.

 

[Antiquity]

I believe that was Metzer Farms. He had an order for balut and the person never picked up. Most of the ducklings hatched late, but it wasn't a terrible loss. You can read the story on the Metzer Farms website.

Name sounds familiar, that's probably the one.

ETA: I even found the story.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Incredible! That is really good to know.
Thanks.

I believe that was Metzer Farms. He had an order for balut and the person never picked up. Most of the ducklings hatched late, but it wasn't a terrible loss. You can read the story on the Metzer Farms website.

Ah okay.

 

[Loc20chick]

My first chick is out yah

!!!

 

[Loc20chick]

My first chick is out yah

!!!

how long should I keep it in the incubator before transferring to brooder?