Lockdown Hatching Completed - NEW PHOTOS ADDED

[joebryant]

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New ones Friday morning:
(?) A.M. #16 hatched - #2 in row #4
6:15 A.M. #17 hatched - #1 in row #3
8:30 A.M. #18 hatched - #1 in row #5

 

[joebryant]

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I'm sorry, save the favs, but I really don't know how it would work in your incubator. This was my first time to use an egg carton, and it will be the way that I will go every time from now.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Morning!!

Sounds like you have had one incredible hatch....congrats!

If only I was brave enough to hatch in this cold weather......auugghhh. I have a brand new Sportsman just begging to be cranked up. I guess my soft side hates to see the little ones go thru winter (even in the deep south where I am...its 26deg this AM). I know they're supposed to be ok with a good heat lamp and all "but".....

Great job Joe.

More pix when the hatch is over??

Did you get anything other than black and blue? Any splash?

Have a great day

Scott

 

[joebryant]

Yard full o' rocks :

Morning!!

Sounds like you have had one incredible hatch....congrats!

If only I was brave enough to hatch in this cold weather......auugghhh. I have a brand new Sportsman just begging to be cranked up. I guess my soft side hates to see the little ones go thru winter (even in the deep south where I am...its 26deg this AM). I know they're supposed to be ok with a good heat lamp and all "but".....

Great job Joe.

More pix when the hatch is over??

Did you get anything other than black and blue? Any splash?

Have a great day

Scott

Hi, Scott, can't tell you how much I appreciate your having been here to help get me through my first time with the Genesis 1588. It'd've been a disaster without your early instructions. Thanks again.

I only have one splash; at first I thought it was a very light blue. It was the first chick to hatch yesterday. All the others are black and blue (no I have not been beating them), but I haven't looked closely enough yet to tell how many blacks and how many blue, probably 50/50.
I put in 27 eggs to start, and considering what all they went through while I was gathering them from the barn, sometimes in freezing weather, I'm amazed and overjoyed that I got 17 chicks because I was just hoping for at least ten.

I'm taking them around noon to my doctor's wife. She has a large box with heat lamp set on 95* F, waterer, feeder, feed, wood chips, paper towels, etc. all set up and waiting for them. I'll be taking her a couple pounds of food-grade diatomaceous earth for the wood chips and for her coop later. When they're pretty much feathered out in a month or so, I will go get them and put them in a very well insulated coop with a heat lamp. Then I will take them to her new coop/run in March where they will stay.

She's going to flip out when she sees 17. She thinks there are at least eight; that's what it was when I called her yesterday. We were hoping for at least ten. These are my Christmas gift to her.

When I take them out around noon today, I will leave the last ten eggs in with 99-d100*F/humidity going in the incubator for a couple more days just in case there are some slow pokes. Again, thanks for all your good advice.​

 

[joebryant]

BTW, I forgot to tell you that the purpose of my breeding out my own line is that I am going to aim for a VERY dark blue Orpington line.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

I saw a post on here from Dick Horstman offering BLUE orp eggs for sale. I understand he has an incredible line of show/exhibit birds

I am doing similar with my blue rocks, but aiming more toward darker birds with excellent lacing. I have a few nice ones now. Will send ya pix later

Talk to you soon

 

[joebryant]

SURPRISE, I just walked in to look to see if #17 had completely dried yet, and lo and behold #18 has hatched.
It must have popped out around 8:30 A.M.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Joe, that is wonderful. You did a great job and I love the pics!

 

[joebryant]

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Thanks, rustyswoman, I'm just sitting here with a great big grin on my face thinking 18/27=2/3=66 2/3%. That's a whole lot better than I was hoping for. Ahhhhhhhhh!

EDIT: Maybe there'll be even more later. ?

 

[chickenmeadow]

Suechick: thanks for your reply regarding the use of an egg carton for hatching in the incubator, that all makes sense. Will investigate to see if it is needed or can be used in my Marsh dome incubators; there is the wire grid which seperates each egg & allows for tilting eggs nearly upright.

joebryandt: congrats on the beautiful hatch! Thanks for showing pics. It made me curious about the egg carton & I can see how necessary it is for your incubator type. Had recently read the thread on "dry incubation" on the BYC (which makes perfect sense) & have been using this theory on the eggs in my incubator right now; promising so far.

Best wishes to all!