June Hatch-A-Long

[FortCluck]

Have your husband give it a little shake!

My beagle was trying to eat it. Nasty disgusting dog I should’ve thrown it at my husband when he was outside.

 

[jolenesdad]

Ok Andrea, make the rest of us look lazy!
Let's try again-
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Omg.

 

[kelseyk]

Fingers crossed for your eggs! I don't expect it of the sellers but I definitely have a greater appreciation for the sellers that are kind enough to send more eggs and they're the ones I find myself recommending or buying from again. Most buyers go into a purchase for shipped hatching eggs knowing that it's a gamble but it's also EXTREMELY disappointing when you put that kind of money into buying eggs and have a deplorable hatch or no hatch at all. Even when it's no fault of the seller, it's not a fault of the buyer either. Most of the hatching eggs online are 2-3 times more expensive than what they're sold for locally, sometimes even from the same seller because of the headache involved for them and I feel like having a customer cover shipping, which is the primary expense, is the right thing to do. Anyway, that was my rambling opinion on the subject. LOL!

I also don't expect sellers to send more eggs, which is why I was so happy. I mostly messaged them so they knew the outcome and could use any info provided to adjust their packing if they chose to. I have absolutely no problem paying shipping again for a second chance at some eggs for chickens I can't find locally.

 

[kelseyk]

Today’s my birthday, I vote for all chicks born today to be named Brett. If you wanted Pullets...... too bad?

On the egg color questions....

blue is actually dominant. So that’s where the unpredictability comes from. Many people breed a Purebred blue egg layer to a white egg layer because the white egg layer will increase production. The subsequent layer is guaranteed to lay blue. It has one blue gene and one white gene.

that’s where the charts get off. You have to know the chicken carries two blue genes to ensure blue or green offspring. Seeing a blue or green or olive egg only ensures You have at least one copy of the blue gene. @FortCluck your blue layer bred to the rock is an EE? If it has two copies of blue, it would be 100% green offspring. If it has one blue and one white, there’s a 50% of green and 50% light brown.

@SnapdragonQ yes there are 15 genes they think that control the amount and shade of brown pigment.

The whiting true blue breed was Ameraucana bred to leghorns and then subsequently test bred as a flock to isolate only breeders with two copies of the blue gene.

true green breeds or like the silverudds are blue layers crossed to brown layers to get the bloom
Coating and then treated the same way, bred back to each other and then isolated that they carry two copies of the blue gene while still carrying brown coating genes as well.

Happy Birthday!!

 

[Vantic]

My beagle was trying to eat it. Nasty disgusting dog I should’ve thrown it at my husband when he was outside.

All failed eggs are the expressed property of the pigs. If I fail to provide said eggs, there will be escape attempts.

 

[FortCluck]

All failed eggs are the expressed property of the pigs. If I fail to provide said eggs, there will be escape attempts.

My beagle is close enough to a pig swear it had nasty grossness growing in it.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I decided not to wait until tonight's candling to try and up the humidity because I knew it would take a few hours and I want to sleep tonight instead of worrying about it working properly. It went up nicely and is sitting at 71%. In about an hour I'll candle, remove the turner, then lock her down.
...and be thankful nobody is hatching in the next few hours so I don't have to name them Brett, or Brettette.

For those with round type bators with lift out turners (or any shape bator really...) do you just leave them in their spots, or do you line them up in a way that makes it easier to see now that the turner is out?

I used to always just leave them in place. I usually use no skid shelf liner now so I take them out, put the liner down, candle and mark the air cells, and place them with the side of the air cell drawing down facing up. This is just what I like to do and not event remotely necessary for a good hatch.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

My beagle is close enough to a pig swear it had nasty grossness growing in it.

Oh, just wait until a whole nest of them explodes in the barn eaves because even with the longest implement you have you can't reach them to get them out before explosion!
Don't know how the h*** the d*** chicken got up there to lay in the first place, da***t!

 

[Vantic]

Talking about aircell position has got me thinking. Does the egg need to roll when hatching? I think no, but I am pretty sure the chicks have done in their brother by rolling the unhatched about (please correct me). What if I put dowels on the hatching tray to keep the eggs from being rolled, it would act like the egg carton did, just without the vertical part... Thoughts?

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Talking about aircell position has got me thinking. Does the egg need to roll when hatching? I think no, but I am pretty sure the chicks have done in their brother by rolling the unhatched about (please correct me). What if I put dowels on the hatching tray to keep the eggs from being rolled, it would act like the egg carton did, just without the vertical part... Thoughts?

Newbie here so I have no idea, but I already have the shelf liner down and with 18 going in to lockdown in a 22 max bator, I'm guessing I'll be reaching in to grab some of the early ones at least. Otherwise it might get pretty cramped in there.