June Hatch a Long

[el pollo rey]

WOW you struck GOLD!!!! e

talk about steping in a Pile and smelling like a rose

 

[Wrightsx4]

Hi Hokankai!!! Nice to hatch with you again

 

[el pollo rey]

Maybe the 50 other guinea eggs that I set earlier will hurry them on LOL. 80 guinea eggs WHAT am I thinking? KEETS I guess.

lol I just had some one ask me the other day what intend to do with all the chicks I hatch,, share the wealth I say every one needs a few birds lol

 

[redhen689]

Hi everyone.
Last Wednesday, after not checking on my chickens since Monday evening, I discovered that I had a broody hen sitting on 3 eggs. I added another egg from another nest that was laid that day. They are Colombian Wyandottes. I am expecting them to hatch around June 11-12 One of the eggs laid by the broody hen is flat on one side, I'm not sure how that will affect things. Another issue is there is a non-broody hen that has been going into the same nesting box at night, and I've found that some of the eggs end up not being covered. I've found this when i go out to close things up at night. I've tucked them under the broody hen and hope for the best.
I have lost a few hens of a few different breeds recently and decided that maybe this is a good time to start over and add a new breed or two. I started looking through the breed listings here, and the Swedish Flower hens caught my eye. I looked online and found eggs being auctioned, a 90 minute drive away. I was the only bidder. I picked up 7 eggs on Saturday and put them in my home-made incubator, along with a 3 heritage RIR that I purchased from the same seller. Projected hatch date: June 15.
As the hatch date gets closer I may do some egg swapping between what is under the broody hen and what is in my 'bator. I'm thinking of having her raise the whole brood of chicks if she can manage that. It would be a maximum of 14 chicks, but I really don't think I'll have an 100% hatch rate.

 

[Aschenfire]

I candled mine and I have 8 out of the 25 that look good. I have one pen which has had consistently clear eggs, and they were all clear again from that pen.... then I had a few blood rings and quitters. I am hatching pullet eggs, so I really just hope to get a few from this bunch. I did go ahead and add 18 more, which will be due in 18 days now. Staggered hatch FTW!! LOL!

 

[el pollo rey]

Talk about disapointment. Candled Day 8 and pulled 17 clears and 1 bad egg. Yes their shipped. But the real bummer was the local breeder's eggs.  Most of what I pulled were from his eggs. I think he had dipped them and ruined any fertility. But since he's not a "breeder" per say I doubt I will get anything from him but a Blame game. Guess it just reinforces my thoughts of only my eggs from my birds . Prolly on the way to a power outage will check back in the am

. Any type of dipping or cleaning will not affect fertility acre it will however remove the derma the natural antibacterial coating and will usually end up in bad eggs and blood rings at about 7 or 8 days clears are infertile for the most part and are the result of poor coverage by the roo or posibly a young roo with bad technique improper handling of eggs after Colection can also have bad results on fertility

 

[dolfi]

So you cant wash the eggs before incubatting?

 

[hokankai]

Hello hello! I'm too lazy to read the previous posts, so what are you setting this round?

Hi Hokankai!!! Nice to hatch with you again

 

[Aschenfire]

So you cant wash the eggs before incubatting?

Unless an egg is extremely dirty (and in that case I wouldn't set it anyway) no, avoid washing or scrubbing at them. You will remove the "bloom" which is meant to keep bacteria from getting through the shell.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Yeah I think his roo is older and he has about a dozen hens. He said he bought him a few years back and I think all his hens are around the same age I think. So prolly just bad breeding pricables. Or bad luck on my end. And these had poor quality shells I mean REALLY poor.

Oh well I think I might get a couple out of each batch of eggs so I will be content with that. Can't get too picky with my options.

My best leghorn eggs developement is in a pecked egg that I repaired. I will let you know with what after it hatches LOL. Otherwise everything going ok cept the flood we having. Hoping the rain don't flood any nest outside