June Hatch a Long

[el pollo rey]

Such a fun thread.  This is my first time joining in.  I set 24 shipped silkie eggs for May 21 with no luck.  Only 3 even started, 2 of those quit and the final one didn't hatch   On a whim I saw a craigslist ad near where hubby was going to pick up some supplies the other day and purchased some local eggs.  I am hoping to have a lot more success with those.  I bought 24 eggs and hubby came home with 40!  The seller of the eggs said she included extras for my boys since they were only going to be wasted that day anyway since there were no other buyers.  Wasn't that nice!?!  We are so excited.  So...on 5/23 I set the following:
2 Red Phoenix
3 Silver or Gold Phoenix
3 Blue Marans
7 Blue Silkies
6 BB Reds
9 Easter Eggers
7 Blue Cochins
3 Millie Fleur Duccles
I am not planning to candle until day 7 and will update at that time.  Good luck everyone!  How fun!

. Well we welcome you to the thread we had a blast in may and I don't see june any less exciting keep the updates coming and happy hatching !

 

[el pollo rey]

 And People call me hatchaholic..... ok I set 30 more guinea and 10 (I think hafta recount to be sure) rouen eggs in the DIY. Its getting ummm full so I hoping my 1st batch due to hatch all come healthy and EARLY. LOL Naw have breathing room but its almost shell to shell. Would have more space but I meant to use wire to seperate the eggs in 1 styro hatcher, but that threw the temps way up. Guess metal holds heat TOO well.
  And I want to know what I have and not guess for a week or 2.. I had to cull a Roo last night bad foot injury. He's in the freezer, but got to recheck the working order of my DIY plucker. And I am totally happy with results. Except the bruised knuckles from the thing, rubber at 2200 rpm (Feels like 50 million rpm at the time.) does NOT feel good.

 After these I am waiting for awhile before I set anything else. Maybe even try some late summer/fall hatches.

. Hatch a holic u are acre lol and I need to see pics of the feather shreder lol

 

[Madpolak]

Today is day 10 and not to happy with what I have found. I have 4 eggs out of nine where I can only see large dark blobs. The other 5 are showing embryos but kinda small for where I think they should be. But then I don't particularly know where tey should be since this is my first time hatching so maybe those are OK.

So are the blob ones toast or should I leave them in a while and see if maybe I'm just not seeing things correctly?

 

[Alaskan]

If this is your first time hatching and candling, and the eggs don't stink (yes, smell them). I would leave them in.

 

[dolfi]

i have two more days for my hatch to come out. its hard to wait and not touch. Then the uncertainty of if they will hatch and how many is overwelming. But it seems that the reward is bigger than all of the above. on tuesday i get 12 eggs that hopefully be fizzle ones. so here i am in the june hatching. maybe they can hatch for my birthday. june 21. lol that would be cool.

 

[Alaskan]

i have two more days for my hatch to come out. its hard to wait and not touch.  Then the uncertainty of if they will hatch and how many is overwelming.   But it seems that the reward is bigger than all of the above.  on tuesday i get 12 eggs that hopefully be fizzle ones.  so here i am in the june hatching.  maybe they can hatch for my birthday. june 21. lol that would be cool.

It is always so exciting isn't it?

Hope it all works!

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

. Hatch a holic u are acre lol and I need to see pics of the feather shreder lol

Will have to get a pic of it. Its redneck as they come but works. Still don't know if I canpost pics though. And guess what I might have again...... another guinea hen is missing from the coop in the last couple days. Sooooooooo hoping another nest of eggs, those kind I don't have to do all the work for.

I can take a brak from temp roll humidity checks and be stress free for 4 weeks.... YEAH RIGHT.

 

[AmandaGrace]

I candled my eggs today too they are on day seven and I am also seeing a dark blob in some I'm really not sure what it is but since someone else is experiencing it to I guess it's not abnormal.

 

[Madpolak]

I candled my eggs today too they are on day seven and I am also seeing a dark blob in some I'm really not sure what it is but since someone else is experiencing it to I guess it's not abnormal.

Alaskan wrote earlier "If this is your first time hatching and candling, and the eggs don't stink (yes, smell them). I would leave them in."

I will follow that advice. I actually tried a couple again this morning in a room completely devoid of light and I can still see the outline of an embyo. I put together a better candler yesterday and I will wait a few days and candle again with that. I wll smell them when I turn them later. I actually had the presence of mind to number them yesterday. I think I am fiddling with them too much.

The broody wore me out. Tired of stealing eggs when she is so determined. She has two again (1 each from her and her sister). I may even shove the ones I get today under her and see what happens. Earlier post made sense about less work and angst. Let the broody do it!! LOL!!

Do I need to do anything to make sure she is getting enough food and water (there I go causing more work for myself) or can I assume they take care of that on their own if it's available?

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan wrote earlier "If this is your first time hatching and candling, and the eggs don't stink (yes, smell them). I would leave them in."

I will follow that advice. I actually tried a couple again this morning in a room completely devoid of light and I can still see the outline of an embyo. I put together a better candler yesterday and I will wait a few days and candle again with that. I wll smell them when I turn them later. I actually had the presence of mind to number them yesterday.  I think I am fiddling with them too much.

The broody wore me out. Tired of stealing eggs when she is so determined. She has two again (1 each from her and her sister). I may even shove the ones I get today under her and see what happens. Earlier post made sense about less work and angst. Let the broody do it!!  LOL!!

Do I need to do anything to make sure she is getting enough food and water (there I go causing more work for myself) or can I assume they take care of that on their own if it's available?

Usually they take care of that by themselves. But I read one poster with a very determine broody, and that poster would pick up the broody once a day, put her down in the yard, and the hen would be all ruffled, eat and drink, run around for a few minutes, then go back to her nest. And the poster had done that once a day for several days and it was still going well.

As to a broody being less work.....

AWESOME!

I would put chicks I had bought under a broody, and she would take care of them perfectly, do all the work.

She would fuss and make sure they ate and drank and stayed warm or cooled off. And then she was priceless when I wanted to add them into my current flock. Even with the chicks still tiny, she would not let any of the other chickens near her babies. It was so much less work!


If you have her, use her!