June Hatch A Long

[PirateGirl]

Awww, such a sweet and funny pic with mama hen! Do you mind if I ask why the others passed? Just trying to learn as much as I can from everyone...

I have no idea! One egg was dead a few days ago when I candled. The last two had movement yesterday. Only one of those had movement today, internally pipped this morning, when I checked this evening there was no external pip and no movement. I opened this egg a bit and it was definitely internally pipped but for some reason unable to externally pip and died/ran out of air.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I have no idea! One egg was dead a few days ago when I candled. The last two had movement yesterday. Only one of those had movement today, internally pipped this morning, when I checked this evening there was no external pip and no movement. I opened this egg a bit and it was definitely internally pipped but for some reason unable to externally pip and died/ran out of air.

Oh how sad! We were just talking about how frustrating it is to have late quitters!!! So glad you got those little cuties that did hatch!

 

[PirateGirl]

Oh how sad! We were just talking about how frustrating it is to have late quitters!!! So glad you got those little cuties that did hatch!

I’m bothered by the one that pipped. The others not so much. He was sooooo close.

 

[AquaDuck]

I’m bothered by the one that pipped. The others not so much. He was sooooo close.

Sorry about your late quitters. Duck eggs are frustrating! And heart breaking when they just stop like that, just before seeing the world.

 

[AquaDuck]

Update on my June hatches! The mystery batch is doing great. I REALLY want this one to be a girl, it's Santa the extremely fluffy chick. And it's turning brown!

I believe the one in the middle's a pure breed orpington. Nice surprise!

The three duckiduckes are doing fine too. One of the yellow ones grew slowly in the beginning, but with some TLC it's now gotten bigger. The yellow one in the back might be a girl, it's a barred blue.

Snow White lost one of her pheasant chicks (I think she sat it to death, they're so small...) but the other three are running around, tiny as ever!

That's all folks! See ya in July for a huge Muscovy hatch!

 

[dougieee]

I feel like I exhausted myself researching shipped eggs after my first 50% hatch that I thought I was already prepared for.

I read a lot of opinions that you should hatch an egg the way it was incubated across the board. I don’t have experience one way or the other to know. And rules are made to be broken. I got these ducks so I could keep a trio and hatch my own eggs to learn and learn and learn.

Anyway I got off topic. In general it seems like 75/25 on hatching shipped eggs on their side. Some people swear by it, and, in general the air cell is supposed to be pretty solid by day 15, or you’re sort of SOL anyway.

I don’t know totally what I think yet... I’m a newbie forming my opinions. It seems that hatching on sides is a purist view. One of the “only the strongest survive” don’t ever assist, it’s bad for genetics kind of things. From what I read, it’s pretty accepted that hatching shipped eggs upright after turning upright is the way to go and slightly increases the poor hatch rates.

Back to your point, I’m going to hatch the local eggs I got upright that are being turned upright. I haven’t seen it a whole lot but those that DO use cartons say it, and it got me thinking. I’ve watched multiple videos lately of large scale commercial hatcheries with the automated systems and they are hatching upright. In a propaganda gig) video for the “organic” Broiler hatchery, I can’t remember the name, i saw they developed these hatching trays where they are hatched upright and fall to the tray below.

I’m going to ask Moyer hatchery next time I talk to them about it and if the large scalers are doing it for automation or hatch rates.

Interesting....

It is interesting because in my mind laying the eggs on their side to hatch seems like a more natural position (they will never stay upright under a broody).
This is the first time ive done upright and it was forced on me because of the air cells.
Its annoying that im not going to be able to judge the success rate because they were shipped.
I think im going to try and do one more batch of eggs this year, my brahmas are a month old now and fledging well so they wil be out the way soon i will incubate them uprght but collect the eggs this time.
I want some Ayam Cemanis and somone is selling eggs at a reasonable price about 150k away from me so it looks like a family road trip

 

[Bookworm0124]

Stubborn baby is still going hopefully this morning sometime lol

 

[SueT]

In the Bells and Evans hatchery video, I'm impressed that they give water and feed to the newly hatched chicks. That their chicks are making happy sounds instead of screaming.
This is the first time I have hatched chicks here, and they were definitely hungry/thirsty on day 1. They are using nipple waterers, they figured it out right away.

 

[Bookworm0124]

Stubborn baby is still going hopefully this morning sometime lol

It's out!!

 

[HolyDuckBatman]

Idk what's going on with my little guy ! Today, I woke up to him still in the shell, & he squirmed out finally, but he still has some very deflated looking yolk so I put him back in...he's also not opening his eyes, but he did last night for a bit. Is he going to be okay ? What can I do for him ?