June Hatch-A-Long

[ShrekDawg]

Yes but it doesn’t entirely work that way..... Metzer has wholesale contracts that are paid for up front so they may hatch 1,000 of a breed but Meyer has already bought 200 or whatever, just an example. the Africans I ordered were sold out at Metzer but Meyer still had some.

a lot of things are this way.

if a meat bird requires an order of 25, they’re not coming from the hatchery, they’re coming from somewhere else. Anything that says “can’t be mixed” or “cannot be picked up” is drop shipped.

almost every single guinea in the entire country comes from one hatchery.

most waterfowl comes from Metzer, but for sure most sexed waterfowl. If it’s not sexed it comes from the hatchery selling it usually. It’s weird to me that waterfowl is supposed to be easier to sex but they don’t do it. Like ideal. They hatch lots of waterfowl bit don’t sex any. neither does Hoover.

Oh wow that really is weird but so interesting! Haha

 

[Oldhallchicks]

Good morning and hope everyone is having a great week-end so far!
DAY 14 and just candled what is left of my 33 eggs I started with 2 weeks ago.
3 of 7 Silver Laced Orpingtons look great, the little chicks are dancing in their shells! Pretty excited about these! One has a jiggly air cell still, has been upright the whole time and will hatch that way, too. The chick looks strong though, fingers crossed!
1 of 8 Marans is left , one of the BCM and I THINK I see something moving, but who knows with that dark shell, could just be a mind trick, because I WANT to see something move!
0 of 13 Lavender Ameraucanas are left, total bummer, but I did buy 2 Ameraucana pullets 2 days ago from a local breeder, one splash and one blue, and they are the sweetest birds!
And lastly 2 of 6 grocery store eggs look great, excited to see what these look like!
Had the best air cells in the bunch!
So 6 eggs left that will likely go to lockdown in 4-5 days. We will see...

you're doing Grocery store eggs too?! Where’d you get them?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

you're doing Grocery store eggs too?! Where’d you get them?

Got them at a local store here on the Big Island called Foodland. Small grocery chain here in Hawaii. Eggs were advertised as fertile, imported from California, I believe they came from Petaluma in Sonoma County. They were minimum at least a week on the way by ship I found out from someone who works in the food supply chain. I expect these eggs are packed much better than anything that we get shipped over on our own. I put them in my oldest incubator that doesn’t even work that well most of the time, just as a lark more than anything else not expecting them to do anything really. Two of them look absolutely fantastic, there was a third that was an early quitter and the other three never did anything. I’ve been joking to my friends that I’m getting my hatching eggs from Foodland from now on!
Not sure what breed they are but I believe they’ll be some kind of production red or Rhode Island red cross. Most brown eggs that are sold in grocery stores are. The white ones usually from Leghorns or Leghorn crosses.
I will definitely post photos of the chicks when and if they actually hatch!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

For those of you on the “mainland“, people seem to do well with Trader Joe’s fertilized eggs for some reason.

 

[FortCluck]

For those of you on the “mainland“, people seem to do well with Trader Joe’s fertilized eggs for some reason.

I almost bought blue eggs at Publix today

 

[TexasTurkeyMama]

It's that time again

All hatchers and birds welcome

Don't forget to share pics because we all love pics of cute little fluffers


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If you want to hatch for Fathers Day (hatch day June 21st)...

Chickens: Set on May 31st

Quail: Set on June 3rd

Turkeys/Guinea/Ducks (excluding Muscovy): Set on May 24th

Muscovy: Set on May 17th

**If you are busy on Fathers Day just set the eggs a day or so earlier than these dates**

Any birds are welcome... Just let us know what you are hatching

Buffie, Scruffie, and Duckie make their BYC debut as a new clutch today.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Round 1 of 3 just finished hatching! 4 Buff English Orpingtons and 1 Isabella Leghorn!

So while this was technically an 83% hatch rate on eggs that started developing because there was only 1 quitter, it's 42% overall (5 out of 12 shipped eggs hatched). This was from my scrambled shipment that had detached & saddled air cells, some scrambled, a couple that had started embryo development from being under a broody hen and were then scrambled in shipment DOA, 1 leghorn also had the air cell at the pointed end and was cracked. Considering the mess I started with I'm actually really happy that 5 chicks hatched!

Started with 12, 6 infertile/scrambled, 1 quitter, 5 live chicks.

 

[SharW75]

Two bantam eggs left, and both are progressing well. After they hatch, I'll be giving my borrowed incubator back and calling it a season. Just broodies from now on--this incubating thing is too addicting!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Just found out that the two birchen marans that I kept, out of all the marans I hatched last month, are likely female! Breeder saw their combs and was pretty convinced they are pullets. They are barely four weeks, isn’t it too early to tell? I sold the other five that I had as straight run and kept these two because I liked the blue’s coloring and the other one is the one I had to assist and had chick physical therapy in a cup for a day and a half. So excited if it’s true!

 

[manorhousechix]

Just hatched yesterday- about 10 hours apart! They are awfully cute and we are dying to know the sex!

We don’t have a rooster but one of our hens (Mary Kate- the millefleur d’uccle) has been chronically broody this spring. These eggs were acquired from a neighbor and they are supposedly welsummer/buff orp mixes. She started sitting on them May 30th so we were surprised for our early arrivals! She’s still sitting on one last egg which is a welsummer/Hamburg mix... that one should auto-sex if it hatches. Fingers crossed!