June Hatch-A-Long

[Vantic]

I candled my friends "oh your incubator is running" eggs today. 18 "she has no idea what" eggs from her stock, all fertilized, two early quitters. 16 continue down the path to life.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Applied **glitter** nail polish.

What's funnier is that I actually took a moment to deliberate and asked my daughter which polish she thought would look nicer on the egg.

 

[kelseyk]

It's a rough month for shipped eggs!

It is! I just hope I get at least 2 pullets from each batch.

ETA: And 3-4 Call Ducks from that batch.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

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.

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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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.

I should have joined the hatch-a-long threads years ago!
Nails, rings, and glitter polish......I'm learning so many cool things!

 

[Knighstar679]

My first eggs for my June hatch on the second just went into lock down today.

I officially have a broody Duck. This is day three she hasn’t got her fluffy hinny off the nest more than an hour or so.


Here is her don’t mess with me look.

 

[kelseyk]

The Wheaten Marans I am hatching for a friend go into lockdown this next week.....so I just ordered some Welsummer hatching eggs to fill in the empty spots. Lol!

 

[Skyfyre]

Tomorrow evening is Day 14! I'm going to candle again tomorrow night, and then again on Wednesday evening to make sure that everyone is still alive and kicking, and then they go on lockdown, with a hatch date of Saturday the 6th! It's going by so fast!

 

[Melontine]

Guess I have two broody hens now
Silkie eggs hatch in 1 week!
1st broody hen should hatch the following week,
And now my 2nds broody hen might hatch the week after if she keeps sitting.

I did my last candling for the silkie eggs. I could probably candle the eggs under the 1st broody hen, but I'm just going to leave her be. I don't even know how many eggs she has under her or the other hen, just that they're camped out in different nesting boxes/coops.

 

[rebeccaH86]

Does this one still look alive ? I didn't see movement but I could still see lots of big veins , this is the one egg I didn't have high hopes for since it has a big hole in the shell. Tomorrowis lockdown .

 

[shober]

I’m so excited to finally be incubating eggs! And, I’m in Southern California where the VND quarantine has just been lifted. We can get chicks and eggs again! It’s been 2 years!