June 2025 hatch-a-long

[junior67]

I got 14 Jubilee Orpington eggs so 2 extras. All arrived in good condition and are in the incubator with the turner off for a few days so hopefully any air cells that need to settle can.

Next 2 groups should come tm. 6 lemon Owlbeard and I think 12 BCM.

 

[junior67]

I got the rest of my eggs today. 12 BCM and 8 lemon owlbeard. So putting 34 eggs total in the incubator!!!!!!!!

I will candle the Orpington eggs on Sat which will be day 3! hopefully I will see something.

Pic of my BCM and Owlbeard eggs

 

[PrettyCoolChicks]

Nice! I'm excited to hear how it goes and what fertility rates end up being.

 

[PrettyCoolChicks]

I have 8 ducks going, 5 of which are on day 28. Of the 7 new eggs, I had 4 quitters - not super surprising considering I had 2 4-h long power outages.

I tried incubating 7 chicken eggs from my new hen just in case but after 5 days it looked like she either never met a roo before or it was too long ago, so no new chicks after all.

 

[RoseHawke]

I have 8 ducks going, 5 of which are on day 28. Of the 7 new eggs, I had 4 quitters - not super surprising considering I had 2 4-h long power outages.

I tried incubating 7 chicken eggs from my new hen just in case but after 5 days it looked like she either never met a roo before or it was too long ago, so no new chicks after all.

I feel your pain. Out of the 14 eggs I started with, I've ended up with TWO that might make it to lockdown Tuesday.

 

[ChickenCrazy1608]

I'd like to join! This is my first time using an incubator, I've put 32 BLR Wyandotte eggs in and expected hatch date is june 20th! I'm so excited!!

 

[junior67]

Candled the jubilee Orpington eggs on day 3. I would say 3 no development, 9 yes and 2 not sure!! So starting out strong especially since they were in the mail for 6 days.

 

[RoseHawke]

That is rough!

I'm not too happy with the hovabator so far myself (first time using it). Twice now, several eggs fell out of the turner rack and got stuck beneath it. And twice I forgot to plug the turner back in after troubleshooting for like 24h...

Seems my large duck eggs are too small for the duck/goose egg turner racks so I moved most into the chicken egg turner parts. no more turner accidents from here on I hope...

I am DONE with the Hova-bator. It takes constantly fiddling to get it to the proper temperature range, and once you get it there it seems fine, but as soon as you turn your back on it, the temp is either too high or too low again. You think you've got an idea of how far to move the adjusting screw, but nope, the goalposts have moved since last time. Quite frankly it will be a miracle if either of the two eggs I've got left actually hatch.

So. I may never use it, but I ordered a Brinsea scratch-n-dent Maxi 24 EX fully automatic 24 egg incubator this morning. At least with that I can hope that it will be consistently wrong!