wow that is a LOT of eggs!!Hi guys!
After my dismal May hatch, I’m over here for what hopefully will be a better one!
I have a customer who wants “as many chicks as I can hatch”, along w someone who gave me a very old Farm Innovators Still Air Incubator.
I set 41 eggs in that on Friday, cleaned out my NR360 and just set 28 eggs in there.
I also have 2 Kebonnix Incubators hatching eggs tomorrow that I will be setting eggs in hopefully tomorrow & Tuesday…if not Wednesday.
For a total of 93 eggs set.. I think I’ll be glad I staggered everyone a day or two so I can tend to each group separately. I will be using a very large brooder with 2 heat plates until all are ready for my customer.
Hatch dates are from 6/9-6/13. I will wrap up hatching for the year at that point, and my chick order arrives the week of June 19th, so I’ll be able to focus on my own biddies and the Silkies I am currently hatching with my son.
AWWWW so sad. I really hope you rlittle one makes it!
I still can't tell on the OE, and splash are still going strong. Sure hope that the OE and Ameracauna eggs at least give me a pullet each!
I candled again tonight and it’s moving around a whole lot so I really hope it will survive. It’s shown it’s will to live. My hen would leave the nest to meet her needs and come back but sit in a different nest. I’m not sure if she got confused by the abundance of eggs or what but I have since built a door to keep her in and i provide food and water and open it when i can supervise her. But the egg went uncovered for a least a couple hours and it happened two days in a row. So uncovered for anywhere between 1 to 7 hours for two days and still thriving and to getting cracked and now again still thriving, I have some hope.
wow that poor egg has been though it. My broody would go back to the wrong nest quite often including when her eggs started internally pipping. she would have a couple days in a row she would go back to the right one then it would be a few days in a row she would go to the wrong one. I have a camera in my coop. Thankfully a lot of times the other hens would go inthere and lay but that would mean the eggs were staying warm for that time. it happened when I was at work just about every time... then when I got home I would move her back. She hatched 9/11 eggs. I have no clue how some of those babies made it! On day 20 she was off for about 3-4 hrs with noone else on. I thought for sure the hatch rate would be HORRIBLE! So was happy I got 9.
