June Hatch A Long

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I'm sorry to hear about the hatch.

Thanks! I did know that shipped eggs were risky and that a 50% hatch is very good, but this is frustratingly poor! I guess that the whole batch must have had something awful happen in transit. Most aircells weren’t too bad, so I wonder what else makes them all quit like that?

 

[starri33]

Thanks! I did know that shipped eggs were risky and that a 50% hatch is very good, but this is frustratingly poor! I guess that the whole batch must have had something awful happen in transit. Most aircells weren’t too bad, so I wonder what else makes them all quit like that?

I've never had shipped eggs, but one of the ladies in my state thread just had some silkies come in. @BlueBaby

 

[BlueBaby]

I've never had shipped eggs, but one of the ladies in my state thread just had some silkies come in. @BlueBaby

Shipped egg's are an expensive gamble for the most part. I have had some that arrived a total scrambled mess. Some weren't even fertile, and once I even only had 1 lonely chick that hatched out. This last batch of shipped egg's are silkies from Magnolia Silkies out of Florida. I split an order with another one of my states member's here( @Michelle Guynn ). I took 16 of the egg's. I candled last night and it look's like 11 of those are starting a tiny bit of veins. I have joined in with the July 4th hatch-a-long.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Shipped egg's are an expensive gamble for the most part. I have had some that arrived a total scrambled mess. Some weren't even fertile, and once I even only had 1 lonely chick that hatched out. This last batch of shipped egg's are silkies from Magnolia Silkies out of Florida. I split an order with another one of my states member's here( @Michelle Guynn ). I took 16 of the egg's. I candled last night and it look's like 11 of those are starting a tiny bit of veins. I have joined in with the July 4th hatch-a-long.

Expensive gamble indeed! GL with your silkies!

 

[BlueBaby]

Expensive gamble indeed! GL with your silkies!

Thank you!

 

[Bookworm0124]

Ugh, I’m not feeling the love on shipped eggs right now! Yours look alive at least! I couldn’t see into these BCM well enough to tell if they were developing in layers like that, but I do seem to recall someone else talking about this issue in shipped eggs. I’ve been practicing on candling dark eggs and can finally get a good idea of what I’m looking for, at least this late in development. So, I decided to re-candle the eggs tonight, day 17, ahead of broody placement tomorrow. Of the 12 shipped eggs I set, only ONE looks good with one questionable (embryo filled the shell but no movement). Of our own OE eggs, I think that one is DIS, leaving five. I pulled the BCM eggs that are clearly not filled with a 17 day baby out and examined closely with the high intensity light. All have dead embryos, some quite small and some that were maybe midway through. I’m really pretty sad about the whole shipped eggs thing (first time with shipped eggs).

Oh no I'm sorry. I'm worried about the same with my shipped eggs under my broody. I candled them two day ago (she was so mad at me) and only one looks questionable bringing it down to 11 out of 15 so far. But we're still fairly early. Only at day 17

 

[Bookworm0124]

Woke up to two babies!! The third is still hanging out. Plus side, looks like two girls so far. I did a time lapse video for my friends daughter so she could see. She came yesterday and left probably 30 minutes before the first one hatched.

 

[Mosey2003]

I got the second one out of the shell. So two out of 34. Blah.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Woke up to two babies!! The third is still hanging out. Plus side, looks like two girls so far. I did a time lapse video for my friends daughter so she could see. She came yesterday and left probably 30 minutes before the first one hatched.

Great time lapse video! Adorable ducklings! Are yours autosexing? I understand that a lot of WH breeders no longer select for that trait.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I got the second one out of the shell. So two out of 34. Blah.

I hope the rest hatch today!