March 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[Kelsykin]

Here is what I have set for March Hatches

10 barnyard mixes - due March 4
11 Brahma - due March 4
4 Mixed Bantam Cochins - due March 6
3 Muscovy - due March 16
12 Jersey Giant - due March 13
5 Calico Bantam Cochin - due March 17
43 Barnyard Mix - due March 17

These will be set tomorrow or Saturday
16 Salmon Faverolles - due March 18/19
8 Mille Fleur Cochins - due March 18/19

I have another 18 Jersey Giants and 12 Calico & Mille Fleur bantam cochin eggs I am waiting on to be shipped or arriving here.

I had a major oops today. I dropped a tray of eggs that I was moving to a lower rack in the incubator. I lost a bantam cochin egg, a Brahma egg, and 2 barnyard mix eggs. I was so mad at myself. My punishment is I am not allowed to buy any more hatching eggs until June.
I have some eggs that are owed to be including some peafowl eggs I bought on presale.

 

[Kelsykin]

I've just set 7 eggs for my first ever hatch. Hoping to get some olive egger babies! My roo was an olive egger and I'm hatching 4 welsummer hen eggs, 2 buff orpington hen eggs and I have 1 EE egg. If I put these in last night around 5pm would it hurt to add another EE egg that was laid this morning? It's about 9am now. View attachment 3003852

A few hours less than 24 won't matter.

 

[kurby22]

Here is what I have set for March Hatches

10 barnyard mixes - due March 4
11 Brahma - due March 4
4 Mixed Bantam Cochins - due March 6
3 Muscovy - due March 16
12 Jersey Giant - due March 13
5 Calico Bantam Cochin - due March 17
43 Barnyard Mix - due March 17

These will be set tomorrow or Saturday
16 Salmon Faverolles - due March 18/19
8 Mille Fleur Cochins - due March 18/19

I have another 18 Jersey Giants and 12 Calico & Mille Fleur bantam cochin eggs I am waiting on to be shipped or arriving here.

I had a major oops today. I dropped a tray of eggs that I was moving to a lower rack in the incubator. I lost a bantam cochin egg, a Brahma egg, and 2 barnyard mix eggs. I was so mad at myself. My punishment is I am not allowed to buy any more hatching eggs until June.
I have some eggs that are owed to be including some peafowl eggs I bought on presale.

That is a lot of chickens! I’m very jealous!

I am sorry your dropped eggs! I like your punishment, perfectly appropriate!

 

[Kelsykin]

That is a lot of chickens! I’m very jealous!

I am sorry your dropped eggs! I like your punishment, perfectly appropriate!

I am hoping to have some to sell at the swaps come spring. Maybe list some on Craigslist too.

My husband thinks my not buying hatching eggs is a great idea too, but he just wants my hatching egg money so he can go flying.

 

[WallyG74]

I set 96 eggs from my 4 breeding groups. All wheaten Sulmtaler. Let's see how many will develope. My rooster from the blue group had to be exchanged as he had 0% fertility in my February hatch (which happens to be in about a week). So there might be a lot of non fertile eggs there.
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The 0% rooster. What was his issue? Was he old? I ask because I just threw out 16 eggs at 10 days in. Same deal, 0%. My rooster is just under 2 years old.

 

[kurby22]

I am hoping to have some to sell at the swaps come spring. Maybe list some on Craigslist too.

My husband thinks my not buying hatching eggs is a great idea too, but he just wants my hatching egg money so he can go flying.

Haha, it’s totally fine when it’s THEIR hobby they spend money on!

 

[kurby22]

The 0% rooster. What was his issue? Was he old? I ask because I just threw out 16 eggs at 10 days in. Same deal, 0%. My rooster is just under 2 years old.

I have a rooster that is shooting blanks so far too. I’m not sure if he’s not connecting successfully or if he’s infertile? Mine are both only about 7 months old so it may just be that they’re too young? I hope that’s it, as I’d love to hatch some of their babies!

 

[WallyG74]

I have a rooster that is shooting blanks so far too. I’m not sure if he’s not connecting successfully or if he’s infertile? Mine are both only about 7 months old so it may just be that they’re too young? I hope that’s it, as I’d love to hatch some of their babies!

I hatched a lot of good chicks off him last year. It was a huge shock to see all those infertile eggs.

 

[LAYAM]

Day 14 of the Sebastopol incubation, #3 and #4 never developed but #1 and #2 are thriving ... pictures do not do them justice ...

#1 was doing somersaults (literally), #2 was flexing it's lil legs again and again

they are so stinking cute to watch but will have to wait for another couple of days before we check in on them again ...

 

[Kelsykin]

Haha, it’s totally fine when it’s THEIR hobby they spend money on!

Yep, of course, it is. LOL, He works hard so I don't mind all that much. As long as the bills are paid I am not too picky about what he spends money on. I just give him a hard time about it for a while.