June Hatch-A-Long

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

My new babies. 2 Blue Australorps and 2 Black Australorps.

I love blue chickens!!! And I didn’t even know that there were blue australorps! Congratulations!!!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Did I mention that I also ordered some more hatching eggs? I finally found some Buff English Orpington eggs for my friend and the breeder tossed in a couple Isabelle Leghorn eggs for me too. Just to really stick it to me USPS delayed that package and it's supposed to be here Monday. This is going to be a very expensive and likely poor hatching month.

Darn you USPS!!!

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What a bummer!!!

 

[FortCluck]

She’s a teen; her mind agrees with it but her heart doesn’t. My son and I actually did the work, but DD had to catch them last year. She felt like she was betraying them, and it was kind of a mess. I was very surprised that she wanted to try again with meatbirds this year; we will see how it goes!

I don’t name my dual purpose birds and the only thing they get from me is food and water... I don’t want to get attached. If I know they’re pullets or a roo I’m keeping then I interact with them all day every day.

It’s hard to separate your feelings

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Well, I received the Buff/Blue/Gray Sebastopol hatching eggs this morning. I got the call early in the AM and picked them up at the post office. Our packages go through the Jacksonville sorting facility and they terrorize packages there. It's not looking good for these eggs. View attachment 2166208
The breeder packaged them beautifully but every single egg has a completely detached air cell and one of them has hair line cracks all the way around it (in the video). I don't have any way to temporarily incubate goose eggs vertically so I'm going to leave them in the box overnight and hope for the best.

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Oh no!!! That video does not look good!!!

 

[FortCluck]

Well, I received the Buff/Blue/Gray Sebastopol hatching eggs this morning. I got the call early in the AM and picked them up at the post office. Our packages go through the Jacksonville sorting facility and they terrorize packages there. It's not looking good for these eggs. View attachment 2166208
The breeder packaged them beautifully but every single egg has a completely detached air cell and one of them has hair line cracks all the way around it (in the video). I don't have any way to temporarily incubate goose eggs vertically so I'm going to leave them in the box overnight and hope for the best.

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I swear on not turning them for the first week. I had air cells like this with my ducks and the all hatched. The air cell reattached after the week of no turning. It was weird but I was happy!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I swear on not turning them for the first week. I had air cells like this with my ducks and the all hatched. The air cell reattached after the week of no turning. It was weird but I was happy!

Ok! I'm going to try to rig something to stand these giant eggs upright in the incubator. It wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't so big. I'm not sure if the height will work with these. I'm not going to touch them again until tomorrow morning though.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Ok! I'm going to try to rig something to stand these giant eggs upright in the incubator. It wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't so big. I'm not sure if the height will work with these. I'm not going to touch them again until tomorrow morning though.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Ok! I'm going to try to rig something to stand these giant eggs upright in the incubator. It wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't so big. I'm not sure if the height will work with these. I'm not going to touch them again until tomorrow morning though.

I don’t know about those cracks, but if anyone can hatch them it’s you!

 

[FortCluck]

Ok! I'm going to try to rig something to stand these giant eggs upright in the incubator. It wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't so big. I'm not sure if the height will work with these. I'm not going to touch them again until tomorrow morning though.

I still have eggs from my friend sitting next to the bators. They were so dirty I didn’t want to put them in with my clean eggs. I might wait till next week because I have nothing to lose.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

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?