June Hatch-A-Long

[FortCluck]

I remember that some people think they can count to three, but I think you’ll be fine. (As in they can tell what one is, what two is, and three or more is all the same.

I thought I sounded dumb saying that... I am actually shocked. Today the broodies came out for a few to eat and my black Cochin did a good job protecting nothing because she doesn’t have chicks yet. She has two eggs so I’ll slip the chicks with her then I’ll take the 2 eggs and put them in the bator.

 

[Crestcrazy2]

Hello everyone ( again)
Tomorrow is lockdown for the quail eggs ! Should I stop turning them in the morning or at the end of the day , still a little confused. Haha

 

[Crestcrazy2]

Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Vantic]

Hello everyone ( again)
Tomorrow is lockdown for the quail eggs ! Should I stop turning them in the morning or at the end of the day , still a little confused. Haha

You are fine stopping the turn in the morning. With chickens you can stop turning on day 14 with no damage to development. So hours will not hurt.

 

[Crestcrazy2]

You are fine stopping the turn in the morning. With chickens you can stop turning on day 14 with no damage to development. So hours will not hurt.

Ok thanks

 

[AquaDuck]

The Hatch Has Begun! The chickens are right on time at day 21. First one hatched yesterday. Unfortunately it had a problem, the yolk wasn't fully absorbed. It absorbed the content during the night, but left a "pouch" on the outside. Think I'll leave it until it falls off on its own.

5 chicks so far (taken out 2), and one duckling!

 

[Oldhallchicks]

Love seeing all of your fluffies hatching!!


Well, we lost the last BO, and we are down to 3 speckled Sussex.

Ive learned a couple of lessons: 1) don't get your hopes up for all the eggs that start to develop to make it full term 2)just leave the eggs be for the first week.

I think I was so nervous and excitedthat I couldn’t help but have a peek at the eggs every day. now that I’ve done that and lost so many eggs, I’m afraid that I killed some of them by opening the incubator too often.

so I’m getting 6 more BO shipped from the guy on eBay for free and hoping for at least a couple of those to hatch, and I’m also going to pick up a couple more Brahma eggs from the guy I got them from locally because they are obviously my healthiest happiest eggs in there. (Plus...how cute are brahma’s?! )

I’ll put them all in Wednesday/Thursday and do a staggered hatch, as I’ve got a really large incubator that I can divide up so I think it’ll work fine.

 

[Melontine]

1st broody hen hatched had her eggs hatch yesterday. Apparently she was sitting on a clutch of a total 2 eggs, but she’s so proud of her two puff balls. The other girls in there are jealous.
2nd broody is due to hatch this coming Saturday.

I was mistaken, hen actually has three little puff balls.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Love seeing all of your fluffies hatching!!


Well, we lost the last BO, and we are down to 3 speckled Sussex.

Ive learned a couple of lessons: 1) don't get your hopes up for all the eggs that start to develop to make it full term 2)just leave the eggs be for the first week.

I think I was so nervous and excitedthat I couldn’t help but have a peek at the eggs every day. now that I’ve done that and lost so many eggs, I’m afraid that I killed some of them by opening the incubator too often.

so I’m getting 6 more BO shipped from the guy on eBay for free and hoping for at least a couple of those to hatch, and I’m also going to pick up a couple more Brahma eggs from the guy I got them from locally because they are obviously my healthiest happiest eggs in there. (Plus...how cute are brahma’s?! )

I’ll put them all in Wednesday/Thursday and do a staggered hatch, as I’ve got a really large incubator that I can divide up so I think it’ll work fine.

If it helps you any, this was my first batch and I could not keep my hands off of them and candled at least some of the eggs every day. Well, I think on day 16 or 17 I didn't touch anyone, but only because I knew I wasn't far from another candling day.
I was very quick and very careful with them, but I still did it too much and mine hatched out fine. It could be it was just a bad set of eggs.
Good luck with the next BO eggs and now you get to join the next Hatch-a-long.

 

[FortCluck]

Went into the hatching room thinking the marans hatched because I could here a new chick chirping... NOPE! My other bator had a chick hatched and I hadn’t even shut off the turner. The ones I put in the 31st are hatching too Maybe they were developing in the incubator room while they were sitting waiting to be put in... That room can get about 85+ sometimes if it’s hot enough because I keep the door shut so my cat won’t eat my chicks in the storage bins.