June Hatch-A-Long

[GhislaineDel]

So, my DD has a business selling guinea keets and hatching eggs. She tried to post the guineas hatching eggs on FB marketplace and Craigslist, but the FB ad was rejected so she just went with Craigslist.... crickets. I got frustrated watching the guinea eggs pile up in the fridge and managed to word differently and get the guinea hatching eggs accepted onto FB marketplace at$12/dozen. Y’all, I’ve had so many requests from that ad! Just cleaned out my fridge for a woman willing to take a chance hatching refrigerated eggs! More requests for as many as we can sell! I’m gobsmacked!!!Obviously we need to raise the price - $20/dozen?

Goodness, maybe we should be selling guinea hatching eggs!

 

[wolfwalker]

It was a long day yesterday. But before I went to bed 26 Lavender Orpington eggs went into the incubator. They should have a hatch day of June 19th. And I have a hatch for June 13 of White Ameraucana. I thought I would be done for the summer, but the next chicken meet is the third Saturday in September, so that means I need chicks hatching on or around August 10th to be able to have 6 week olds to sell, which means starting the incubators back up come July.

I had taken 32 young 6 week olds up last weekend and had all but three of them sold thirty minutes after the event opened. the last were Roosters, but they sold before I had to pack up to come home, I could have sold a lot more if I had them. My theory that people would want youngsters no longer needing heat and ready to go outside and be willing to pay a decent price for them seems to have been proved.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Goodness, maybe we should be selling guinea hatching eggs!

It was a funny 24 hr after first posting, though some of the frenzy has died down... Oklahoma has so many ticks!!!

 

[kelseyk]

Nail trick??

I have been doing an experiment on the ring/nail test (where you tie a ring or nail to a piece of string and dangle it over a chick to determine it's gender). Knighstar679 has been following along and reporting on their ducks reading and resulting gender. Knighstar679 is at about 40-50% accuracy on the gender test while I am still waiting for my chicks to grow out for results. Anyway....I have done a couple mini experiments within the experiment and one of those was to see if you could pick up a gender reading on an egg and how early you could pick one up. I found that you can get a reading as early as 5 days (but am more comfortable with 7) and that the nail/ring will not show any movement over a clear, quitter, or dead in shell egg. (I have had 100% accuracy on the no nail movement over the clear, quitter, DIS eggs - I have left all the clear eggs in until at least day 7-10, blood rings are pretty obvious during candling and get removed right away, and I have left all DIS eggs in the hatcher until day 23-24 just to make sure.) So that is the trick they are referring to.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So this is my mess for the June hatch-a-long. lol!

The Sebastopol goose eggs are upright in the IncuView and barely fit (yes, I realize everything says to never incubate goose eggs upright but all of the air cells are completely detached sooo) and I went ahead and set all of the Buff English Orpington and Isabella Leghorn eggs in the Nurture Right even though I'm positive that the majority of them can't develop, I've decided to put them all in and see what happens because I'm apparently a glutton for punishment.

 

[Knighstar679]

Nail trick??

The idea is that you suspend a nail on a string over an egg. The developing birds natural megntic field usually will trigger the nail to move. No movement usually means dead egg.

 

[kelseyk]

7 Lavender Orpington eggs set in the incubator! My Swedish Flower Hens and Black Copper Marans eggs arrived today - all packed well. Unpacked and resting- will set them all tomorrow. Still waiting on word of the silkie eggs shipment.

When I unpacked the SFH eggs, the first egg I unwrapped was wet on one side. I have not candled them yet (waiting for the hydrogen peroxide to dry), but did not see any cracks and the egg did not smell at all. Wondering what it might have been?

 

[kelseyk]

UGH!!! I just went down and candled my SFH and BCM eggs.

Out of 7 BCM eggs, 3 have completely detached air cells.

Out of 7 SFH eggs, 4 have completely detached air cells.

Don't want to take my egg turner out of the Hovabator, so going to try and fit those 7 in with my Call Duck eggs that have the extremely poor air cells, in my little Janoel 12. Crossing my fingers they even develop.

 

[jolenesdad]

So this is my mess for the June hatch-a-long. lol!

The Sebastopol goose eggs are upright in the IncuView and barely fit (yes, I realize everything says to never incubate goose eggs upright but all of the air cells are completely detached sooo) and I went ahead and set all of the Buff English Orpington and Isabella Leghorn eggs in the Nurture Right even though I'm positive that the majority of them can't develop, I've decided to put them all in and see what happens because I'm apparently a glutton for punishment.

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Applied **glitter** nail polish.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

UGH!!! I just went down and candled my SFH and BCM eggs.

Out of 7 BCM eggs, 3 have completely detached air cells.

Out of 7 SFH eggs, 4 have completely detached air cells.

Don't want to take my egg turner out of the Hovabator, so going to try and fit those 7 in with my Call Duck eggs that have the extremely poor air cells, in my little Janoel 12. Crossing my fingers they even develop.

It's a rough month for shipped eggs!