March 2023 hatch-a-long

[Canadian Wind]

Okay, spoke with guy I got my eggs from and he does in fact have 1 Cemani hen and roo, so I got lucky on that one. Heres the whole list of what he has (free range) so should make for some interesting detective work..

Hens:
Ayam cemani (ivory egg)
Light brahma (light tan egg)
Easter egger (blue or green egg)
Faverolle (tan eggs)
Bl & Blu Australorp (tan eggs)
Black minorca (white egg)
Barnevelder (med brown egg)
Wh & Br Leghorn (white eggs)
Buff orpington (tan egg)
Silver laced wyandotte (tan egg)
Bl Maran (dark brown egg)
Golden laced polish (light tan eg)
Speckled sussex (tan egg)
Welsummer (med brown w speckles egg)
Opal legbar (blue egg, smaller than easter egger eggs)

Roosters:
Cuckoo Maran
Ayam cemani
Golden Laced polish
Opal Legbar
Buff/Red-leakage Silkie
Silver laced Sebright bantam

I would love to see a Sebright/Brahma cross! LOL!

 

[junior67]

Still waiting...... Lol

My day 21 starts at 230pm on Friday. I took Friday off of work so I could be home.... Now I need to watch my granddaughter at 6am, well she will be sleeping but I need to be there then wake her up and get her ready for school and on the bus. So I have to leave my house around 530am...... I know I will not sleep much overnight Thurs..... Hopefully I can stay awake long enough to see some hatch after I get home. Lol

 

[Kikilu]

Still waiting...... Lol

My day 21 starts at 230pm on Friday. I took Friday off of work so I could be home.... Now I need to watch my granddaughter at 6am, well she will be sleeping but I need to be there then wake her up and get her ready for school and on the bus. So I have to leave my house around 530am...... I know I will not sleep much overnight Thurs..... Hopefully I can stay awake long enough to see some hatch after I get home. Lol

Oh hopefully it all works out well! Which breeds made it to lockdown? These are your shipped eggs I think. Any lavender orpingtons make it?

 

[junior67]

Oh hopefully it all works out well! Which breeds made it to lockdown? These are your shipped eggs I think. Any lavender orpingtons make it?

Yes shipped eggs. No lavender Orpington developed. They had only started back to laying a bit before so thinking maybe the roo hadn't had a chance to fertilize those ones yet??? I have lavender Brahmas, black golden laced blue brahmas, 1 EE and 1 BYM. Then I have 5 of my splash Cochin/splash project Cochin girls eggs.

I have more eggs in the mail and know some of those are lavender Orpington so hoping for better results since it has been a few weeks.

 

[Dinoroar]

I have my first hatcher and more pips coming.

Meanwhile I am trying to solve an incubator puzzle… I went to pick up eggs to hatch for a customer yesterday and they had said there would 120 but there were actually 160! I got out my brinsea which is supposed to hold 14 eggs and the nr 360 that holds 22 and moved sone of my Eggs in there to make space. But they are double stacked. On top of that I had ordered shipped eggs which she sent out yesterday. I thought it would be 12 and they would go in the brinsea but she just told me she actually sent 18! Which is awesome… but I either need to figure out a turner for the hatch shelf in my Dickey’s or maybe in my Hatcher after the ones in there finish.

 

[Kikilu]

Yes shipped eggs. No lavender Orpington developed. They had only started back to laying a bit before so thinking maybe the roo hadn't had a chance to fertilize those ones yet??? I have lavender Brahmas, black golden laced blue brahmas, 1 EE and 1 BYM. Then I have 5 of my splash Cochin/splash project Cochin girls eggs.

I have more eggs in the mail and know some of those are lavender Orpington so hoping for better results since it has been a few weeks.

I really want to see how both those Brahmas look
Sending out positive vibes for your hatch!

 

[Iluveggers]

I have my first hatcher and more pips coming.

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Meanwhile I am trying to solve an incubator puzzle… I went to pick up eggs to hatch for a customer yesterday and they had said there would 120 but there were actually 160! I got out my brinsea which is supposed to hold 14 eggs and the nr 360 that holds 22 and moved sone of my Eggs in there to make space. But they are double stacked. On top of that I had ordered shipped eggs which she sent out yesterday. I thought it would be 12 and they would go in the brinsea but she just told me she actually sent 18! Which is awesome… but I either need to figure out a turner for the hatch shelf in my Dickey’s or maybe in my Hatcher after the ones in there finish.

I fit 30 in the 360. It wasn’t comfortable and I had to auto-turn the top group. But 25 hatched lol.

 

[NagemTX]

I fit 30 in the 360. It wasn’t comfortable and I had to auto-turn the top group. But 25 hatched lol.

I'm thinking of buying another 360. Its because if I order hatching eggs I feel I need to order dubble to get anything out of it.

 

[Dinoroar]

I fit 30 in the 360. It wasn’t comfortable and I had to auto-turn the top group. But 25 hatched lol.

I thought when I got the Dickeys that my double stacking days were done… but here I am . I suppose I could just tell people sorry I can’t hatch your eggs…. But what fun would that be.

 

[Shipgirl]

My hatch is officially over. Set 12 eggs, pulled a clear on day 5 or 6, the other 11 made it to lockdown. 9 hatched, checked the other 2 this morning but sadly they were gone. Still 9 is far higher than I initially expected.

::Insert obligatory cuteness::

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What is this one? It’s so cute!