June Hatch-A-Long

[FortCluck]

What’s the advantage over laying on their sides? 36 Guinea eggs are in turner and going into lockdown today!

Someone on here has better hatches hatching in his upright turner. I figured I would try it and see if I like it because I truly hate taking out the turner to lay the eggs down. It’s a pain. That would be the biggest advantage for me if it continues to go smoothly.

I was getting wrong end pips so I’m hoping this stops that.

My bantam Brahma eggs seem to like this hatching method better as well so that’s an advantage for me considering I could never get them to hatch before and had a lot of DIS last month.

I like experimenting so this is just another to add to the list.

 

[FortCluck]

Woohoo, I hatched BCM and Whiting True blue on my sons birthday in January and they’re starting to lay the week of my birthday!!!

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Happy Birthday to you!!! They wanted to give you the best present ever!

 

[jolenesdad]

Awww, I swear, half the time I read your posts I don't know if I'm going to laugh, tear up (from the good stories, not the losses) or faint from cuteness!
Happy early, on time, or belated Birthday!! What cute little cadbury eggs.

It’s Wednesday. So time for another one to come “on-line” too! Thank you!!!!

 

[chickiebaby1]

We got four salmon Favorelles chicks from a hatchery last year - 3 hens and one roo! They have short little legs, are smaller than I expected, and lay a small egg, so wondering if ours are actually bantam.

They might be. My girls do have short legs but they lay a medium brown egg and are the same size as my standard size polish.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I looked it up. They have more rules. All states require NPIP to cross the state lines, some require AI cert as well. If you look at eBay and buy from a non-NPIP seller you and they are breaking a law... Anyway here are the rules for Hawaii:

Poultry
For the purposes of entry, “Poultry” means ducks, geese, pigeons, and birds of the order Galliformes such as chickens, turkeys, guinea fowls, peafowl, pheasants, grouse, partridges, and quail, including their eggs for hatching.

In summary, poultry except chicken hatching eggs and day-old birds, and chickens, pheasants, quail, chuckers, and rock doves (domestic pigeons) that are older than four weeks, require a pre-arrival seven-day (168 hours) isolation from mosquitoes under the supervision of an accredited veterinarian and must enter the State within 36 hours of completing isolation.

In addition, poultry must originate from a flock having a Pullorum-Typhoid clean rating in a state or national plan, or have been tested for Pullorum-Typhoid disease with negative results within 30 days of entry. The poultry cannot be vaccinated for any disease with a vaccine containing a live agent within 60 days of shipment.

An individual identification device (leg or wing band) must be on each bird and numbers listed on the Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI); however, individual identification does not apply to day-old birds. The CVI must also contain a Statement that the poultry are “Free of external parasites.” All poultry entering the State must be kept in isolation from other resident birds for a period of 7 days at the importer’s premises.

Non-commercial chickens are required to be test-negative for Newcastle’s disease virus by the hemagglutination inhibition assay within 14 days of entry.

Thanks! So you can see why no one wants to ship here! Quarantine does not count for shipped eggs and day old chicks. The only exception.
It took us 6 months to get the paper work in order for our dog!

 

[Sue Gremlin]

I have 4 new Araucana chicks and an Araucana/Barred rock cross. (disclaimer: The eggs are not hers, she's an olive egger-we got them from a neighbor, but we haven't broken the news to her yet).

 

[FortCluck]

I haven’t been keeping track of my broodies hatch. I’m just letting them do their own thing. I don’t even know when they are hatching think we have a week or so left.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Two that pipped last night hatched sometime in the early morning.

One hatched white once again. Is it possible the white leghorn seed was still in her? This is ridongculous! They’ve been separated since at least late February to early March. 10 weeks is clearly not enough to flush it outta their system

That is an extremely fertile rooster. Lol

 

[FortCluck]

That is an extremely fertile rooster. Lol

Sounds like Squatch I have a Cochin egg and if it’s black I’ll

 

[kelseyk]

Where did they come from?

I would candle the eggs at night and look for cracks. If none, I don’t think they’re a risk. The risk is more to them if they’ve lost their Bloom. Otherwise, fingers crossed!

I had some welsummer eggs that were a disaster in shipping damage that I ordered from Deer Run Farm and a few still hatched. They were gorgeous eggs.

My Welsummer eggs came from North Carolina. I have my incubator in our finished basement not too far from our "Workout room" which has no windows, so it is pretty much pitch black in there at all times of the day. I candled the remaining 7 after soaking the eggs for 3 minutes in a cleaning solution and rinsing them off without scrubbing, let them dry, then sprayed them with hydrogen peroxide to get whatever the cleaning solution didn't get, let them dry again, washed hands and applied hand sanitizer, then candled because I am worried about the bloom after the wash.