Lavender patterned Isabel duckwing barred - lavender brown cuckoo barred - project and genetic dis

[ChicKat]

My crazy mixed up split pullet.... the one who makes sage green shells -- laid a triple yolk egg --

 

[Kiki]

Very neat Kat....I've never seen a triple before. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ChicKat]

You've already gotten most of the answers I was going to give, but I use Brinseas and have found that I needed to incubate the CL eggs from Lissa at about 25-30% to get the right weight loss. (My first Cl hatch was lots of sticky goopy chicks, and a few died, because humidity was too high). But this year I also found that for one young group of maran and OE pullets, their eggs must have been porous or something, because they lost moisture WAY too fast compared to the NN eggs I was incubating - I had to move them to a different incubator on day 7 and incubate them at something insane like 60%. I use weight loss (inexpensive high accuracy small jewelers scale I got on Amazon) to adjust humidity (weigh them the day they go in, and then when I candle - expected weight loss 0.65% per day). I have an auto-calculating spread sheet I created that I can share if you are interested.

If you run dry and the incubator doesn't have a lot of gaps, you should be able to get the humidity down on the inside, but as mentioned earlier, you can use a small container of uncooked rice as well.

- Ant Farm

Thanks Ant Farm -- I use a spreadsheet too. Is yours Excel ? Mine is Google sheets (love all the free software from Google!)

How often are you turning? How large are your air cells? High rate of mal positioned chicks would indicate inadequate turning or overly large aircells-- chick lacks room to turn and maneuver itself into hatch position.
If air cells are too large it indicates too much weight is lost. Slight increase in humidity to put them in track.

That is another thing I may fall down on -- turning both before I put in the incubator and in that one incubator with the broken turner.

Very neat Kat....I've never seen a triple before. Thanks for sharing!

You don't hear much about triples do you?

 

[Finnie]

Thank you @campingshaws !

That's good info to know. I will watch both those things. I must also admit that I ditched the homemade bator and most of my good hatches were in my Incuview, although some started in the homemade and then finished out in the Incuview. It has an auto turner.

I guess it's a good idea not to swing too far in the opposite direction and have too low of humidity either.

 

[ChicKat]

All the splits and two of the Isabels that have Betty Boop curls are going tomorrow. That was quick huh? - They have such personalities -- already and they are so cute. I almost think that the splits show more variety than the Isabel coloration -- but I have too many chicks -- So it's good that they will be gone before I get too attached. Maybe will hold Silver Jackson's two sisters for a friend that needs some pullets.


There's a Betty Boop in the back corner.

ETA - I'm keeping Maori-tattoo as a grow out. I'm making a projection that the down indicates the breast will be fainter in color -- what if I'm wrong and it's the opposite? or the non-E-Locus e+ birds have better stronger barring?

 

[cjwaldon]

I dry incubate, adding water only if humidity drops below 30%, often forgetting to even check the humidity. I up humidity to 60-65% at lockdown. Lockdown is on day 19, and since my chicks often start hatching a day early, I often hear cheeping when I'm putting them in lockdown. Eggs are hatched in cartons in the same position as incubated. I hatch about once a week, so humidity is pretty high for two to three days a week. I don't monitor the eggs other than candling to remove quitters.

Yesterday's hatch results:
I set 89 eggs. 87 eggs were put in lockdown. I now have 86 chicks.

I wasn't expecting so many chicks . . . .



But on to a more interesting topic. Eight of those chicks are project "opal Legbars".

This is the first hatch from my B Line. They aren't as easy to sex as my A Line.

If I have sexed them correctly, I've got 7 males and only 1 pullet in this hatch.






This is a photo I previously shared with ChicKat from my A Line.

 

[cjwaldon]

My crazy mixed up split pullet.... the one who makes sage green shells -- laid a triple yolk egg --

I've never gotten a triple before. I've gotten some fart eggs though, lol!

 

[cjwaldon]

While I was out there -- the big-kid brooder grabbed a shot - (different camera- auto flashed them) -- Now I see 5 for sure males and the one standing right in the feeder in the center -- dunno? Female with big comb, or late developing boy.

Any opinions ?

ETA - there are some little crests coming in on this bunch too....

I think I see five boys.

 

[Kiki]

I dry incubate, adding water only if humidity drops below 30%, often forgetting to even check the humidity. I up humidity to 60-65% at lockdown. Lockdown is on day 19, and since my chicks often start hatching a day early, I often hear cheeping when I'm putting them in lockdown. Eggs are hatched in cartons in the same position as incubated. I hatch about once a week, so humidity is pretty high for two to three days a week. I don't monitor the eggs other than candling to remove quitters.

Yesterday's hatch results:
I set 89 eggs. 87 eggs were put in lockdown. I now have 86 chicks.

I wasn't expecting so many chicks . . . .



But on to a more interesting topic. Eight of those chicks are project "opal Legbars".

This is the first hatch from my B Line. They aren't as easy to sex as my A Line.

If I have sexed them correctly, I've got 7 males and only 1 pullet in this hatch.

Girl on right?


You are up to your ears in chicks!
Congrats.

 

[ChicKat]

Girl on right?


You are up to your ears in chicks!
Congrats.

Wow, I agree - that is an amazing hatch -- And that is a lot of chicks.

It is so cool that you have autosexing! Are your males double barred? I guess that would have to be for headspot. I am so excited for you, I think I will turn cartwheels down the hallway in celebration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!