June Hatch a Long

[Reurra]

lockdown tonight on my 9 SLW'S.
I may go out and stick them under the
broody though......I am tired with all the ones in the brooders..............
chicks here. chicks there..........baby chickens every where.................

OMG.......just told my DH that my hatching was over for the year..................
then kylelauchie posted the pic of her chick.....

I don't have any of those.....................soooooooooooo maybe I'll put the incubator away.............

maybe not.....................

Good old Chicken Math.

I started with 5 cornish chicks this March. 4 of the 5 were boys. Rehomed the boys, kept the girl.

I hatched 8 chicks the last week of March. 6 of the 8 were boys. I kept one boy and 1 girl. I rehomed the rest.

I got 5 Light Sussex. 4 out of 5 are boys...again. Im going to make meat out of 3 of the boys, keep one boy and one girl.

I got 6 australorp chicks. 2 out of 6 were boys. 2 of the girls were so neurotic i gave up trying to tame them and rehomed them with one of the boys. Now I have 3 Australorp chicks.

I got 5 Buff Orpingtons....Judging the shape of the bodies (4 are long and narrow, one is short and round), 4 are boys, 1 is a girl. I still havent decided what to do with the boys yet...they are so friendly!!.

I ordered and received 10 meat birds and 2 brown egg layers.

Im now at 31 chickens, 3 of which are adults.

I have 4 eggs in the incubator set to hatch Monday.

Is there a cure for Chicken Math?

 

[bigT88]

Anyone else with a June 24 hatch date?

Hatch day is the 26th for me

 

[Pyxis]

I pulled an (almost) stink bomb last night. I candled after smelling something a little...off...and when I got to this particular egg, oh my So glad I caught it.

 

[dutchbunny83]

JNJMANNING:

Lavender Orpingtons!!!! They're so pretty, I've been wanting them forever, I have some in the incubator now.
How did you win eggs????
Congrats!

 

[monita]

Hatch day is the 26th for me

I have 29 American Game looking great and due to hatch the 22nd

 

[dutchbunny83]

My hatch date is the 28th, but I'm hoping they come a day or two early!

 

[mlongworth]

Got woke up at 4 am to the sound of chainsaws outside my house. The power was out im not sure how long so of course now im worried about my eggs due the 22nd. Go out this morning and the electric guy had taken half of my mulberry tree out and a maple out front. Really sucks. My bator was at 82 when we got up. I stayed up til 6 when they got it on until my bator was back up to temp. I sure hope they are ok, even if it does delay them a bit.

 

[bigT88]

Got woke up at 4 am to the sound of chainsaws outside my house. The power was out im not sure how long so of course now im worried about my eggs due the 22nd. Go out this morning and the electric guy had taken half of my mulberry tree out and a maple out front. Really sucks. My bator was at 82 when we got up. I stayed up til 6 when they got it on until my bator was back up to temp. I sure hope they are ok, even if it does delay them a bit.

you will be fine eggs can cool down for up to 24 hours and still have good hatch rates.

 

[kynewbchickie]

Congrats to everyone's hatches this month! We're done hatching for this year

 

[TheCrazyChick]

Well, crud. Yesterday after candling on Day 7 in the morning (lots of eggs looked really GOOD), there was an unidentified glitch with my incubator. I know this because when I checked the eggs to turn late afternoon, they were ice cold and the thermometer said 75 degrees. If that wasn't bad enough, a bad weather alert hit soon afterwards, so after turning up the heat to get it warm again, I needed to go rescue some outside chickens etc and forgot about checking the temp again. When I had a moment to check, it read 110 degrees!!!! This was several hours afterwards. Now I can't get the dang thing back to 99.5. I guess the grandkids won't see chicks hatching this trip after all. Very frustrating. I think I am done with this incubating thing until I make a decision on a better incubator that regulates itself.