MAY 2016 "Land of the Free Because of the brave!" Hatch-a-Long Hosted by, Mike & Sally

[Chaos18]

What does it mean when you say the eggs have started to draw down? I want to be up on all of my terms.

Draw down is when the aircell starts to dip/shift on one side. Makes it easier for the chick to pip into.



*IMPORTANT INFO= TIMELINES PIPS ZIPS!!! & MARKING AIR CELLS DAY 18, DRAW DOWN, INTERNAL PIP, EXTERNAL PIP, and ZIPPING post #35770

 

[mlm Mike]

Well eggs are sorted. They forgot to put my super blue eggs in there.

this has been an ordeal of sorts. I did get 3 pale blue cream legbars, 3 pinkish blue laced red wyandotts, 3 blue green easter eggers (green one is busted) and 14 (supposed to pinkish purple) croads langhans. Look more orange/brown lol. But they were all in great shape. So here goes.should hatch about May 23rd. 22 eggs go in.....????? Come out

Good luck, I hope you get lots of chicks!

Oh Boy

Another new broody today.

That brings the total to 9 currently, but there are still a few that aren't sitting...yet.

I already had some May broody hatches. One broody has 2 chicks, but is still sitting. Another broody has 6 chicks, they were April and May hatch. She managed to get in on both! I will get pictures as she gets them out. There are already 2 chicks from the April hatch that the broody abandoned, so I'm raising them. That kinda defeats the purpose.

@Chaos18 Update!

I came home from work today to find 3 ducklings in my incubator! 2 of them are healthy and perfect. One of them didn't absorb the yoke fully and well, it is kind of a mess. It is active and I hope just healing, resting and absorbing.
I have one egg zipping and one other egg pipped. The 2 ducklings are SUPER active and knocking everything and everyone around. So, for now they keep cookin' and I keep waitin'. I haven't noticed anything going on with the other 4.

Meet Cafe Latte! I don't know exactly what color she is yet but it isn't black.

Congratulations!

Set/Hatched so far for May are 89 eggs.
3 little gray OEs from @ForrestGump hatched yesterday and today.
Two sets of BLRW (one batch from @mothergoose ) + Langshan, a few more of Nanci's mixes- probably more NNs, a few eggs under our first ever broody EE, plus CLB, OE & Brown Leghorn from @Sueg4332

Good luck!

Hi All, Cute chicks!! Lots of babies happening!

I have to ask anyone that has shipped eggs.....if someone gives you their address, and asks you to "ask the post "office to hold the package", would you address the package to the person and write "please hold for pickup", or would you ignore their address they gave you, look up a post office in that person's town, go eenie, meenie, minie mo and pick one of the two in town and address the package to that POST OFFICE?

That has happened to me twice. Both people have picked the post office on the other side of town. My post office is right next to my house. They know me. They understand that my boxes have eggs and they call me right away.

Instead they pick the post office address of the main post office in my town, which is NOT MY POST OFFICE. They don't have a match for my name or my phone #. They get around to calling me late in the day. My post office is nice, they took the routing number and tracked the package down, then called me when they found it.

GRRRRRRRR

The shipped eggs I receive have my address, and then written large about that "Hold for PICK UP" and my phone number.

One of my boxes of eggs was delivered to my house today. Thank goodness my daughter was home. I called the post office 3 times telling them I was expecting boxes of eggs. But my shipper didn't put to hold at post office or my number on the box. But did send as fragile and this site up marked clearly. But did not note live embryo or hatching eggs or anything like that. But they were packed well and all made it here.

The bantam egg my broody was over is now on day 23/24 so I removed, candled and confirmed it to be a quitter. She is now sitting on a day 10 egg (her "backup" egg). This egg is from a Rosecomb Bantam and La Bresse mixed hen and the rooster is an Easter Egger. Because it's only 1 egg I started another backup batch in the incubator now on day 3. Eggs in backup batch #2 are: 5 from a Red Ranger hen, 1 from a Cuckoo Marans hen and 1 from a Black Copper Marans/Black Australorp mixed hen. Rooster is an Easter Egger.

Good Luck!

I just candled some of my day 18 eggs, lock down tomorrow!! I pulled 2 of the Polish and 1 D'Uccle. I think 1 of the BCM's looked clear, but I left it in since I really couldn't see for sure.... Since I pulled 2 D'Uccle from the ones I candled on day 15, that leaves 21 D'Uccle, and 4 polish due to lock down tomorrow. Some of the eggs are already starting to draw down, so I'm hopeful they will all hatch! I'll candle all of them as I put them into lockdown.

Happy hatching everyone!

Good Luck!

On lockdown, hoping for a first pip tonight.

7 rocks, 8 blue silkies, 3 white silkies

Congrats to everyone with babies! They are precious!

 

[wabbit1964]

May update so far:

3 eggs from my April HAL ended up joining the May HAL 1 ee and 2 brown eggs hatched on May 1st

5 turkey eggs from a friend in an incubator waiting to hatch out end of this week (never hatching turkeys before I am unsure if these guys are where they should be but they clearly were all fertile and developing) This friend has lost all the turkey eggs she tried to hatch this year so I am really hoping I don't have that same result.

Due May 14th Runner duck eggs 5 of the runner duck eggs I got from the crazy auction thread are growing and active, the rest look to have not developed. The duck eggs were the easiest I have ever found to candle and see clearly that they are alive and kicking.

The royal palm turkey eggs I got in the crazy auction due the 14th I don't see anything happening? The turkey shells being thicker maybe it is just harder to see?

More to come in May but waiting to do candling to give more time for things to be visible.

 

[mlm Mike]

May update so far:

3 eggs from my April HAL ended up joining the May HAL 1 ee and 2 brown eggs hatched on May 1st

5 turkey eggs from a friend in an incubator waiting to hatch out end of this week (never hatching turkeys before I am unsure if these guys are where they should be but they clearly were all fertile and developing) This friend has lost all the turkey eggs she tried to hatch this year so I am really hoping I don't have that same result.

Due May 14th Runner duck eggs 5 of the runner duck eggs I got from the crazy auction thread are growing and active, the rest look to have not developed. The duck eggs were the easiest I have ever found to candle and see clearly that they are alive and kicking.

The royal palm turkey eggs I got in the crazy auction due the 14th I don't see anything happening? The turkey shells being thicker maybe it is just harder to see?

More to come in May but waiting to do candling to give more time for things to be visible.

Congratulations and good luck.

 

[cree57i]

Hi All, Cute chicks!! Lots of babies happening!

I have to ask anyone that has shipped eggs.....if someone gives you their address, and asks you to "ask the post "office to hold the package", would you address the package to the person and write "please hold for pickup", or would you ignore their address they gave you, look up a post office in that person's town, go eenie, meenie, minie mo and pick one of the two in town and address the package to that POST OFFICE?

That has happened to me twice. Both people have picked the post office on the other side of town. My post office is right next to my house. They know me. They understand that my boxes have eggs and they call me right away.

Instead they pick the post office address of the main post office in my town, which is NOT MY POST OFFICE. They don't have a match for my name or my phone #. They get around to calling me late in the day. My post office is nice, they took the routing number and tracked the package down, then called me when they found it.

GRRRRRRRR

That would be quite annoying. As a shipper of eggs, I have gotten to the PO and they have wanted me to change the address on the package as the customer gave it to me. I think I would ask your nice PO to put your address in and see what comes up. That might be a starting place. For 2 people to do that is very strange.
It turned out in my case, the customer had a typo in the address I was sent. It was a good save on the PO part, but I have a wonderful PO. I think that is an exception.
My own address, they took the 's' off the end of the road because of discussion and dissention about where the apostrophe went. (Apparently no English majors around here). Now it doesn't sound right AND it comes up several ways. Paypal, for one, has a difficult time with the apostrophe change and recognizing the address.

 

[shahtir101]

So, the person watching my chickens did not realize you need to collect them or else my hens will go broody. The person was freaking out that the hen kept pecking him and I said well she is broody so pull the eggs out from her before they start to develop. I was told they could not get the eggs because the chicken was pecking...so I come home to find her sitting on 2 eggs that look to be on day 7! So I am putting. Those eggs in the incubator and giving her some of the eggs I actually wanted to hatch! So I have 2 hatched happening in May!

 

[Chaos18]

So, the person watching my chickens did not realize you need to collect them or else my hens will go broody. The person was freaking out that the hen kept pecking him and I said well she is broody so pull the eggs out from her before they start to develop. I was told they could not get the eggs because the chicken was pecking...so I come home to find her sitting on 2 eggs that look to be on day 7! So I am putting. Those eggs in the incubator and giving her some of the eggs I actually wanted to hatch! So I have 2 hatched happening in May!

and Welcome.

 

[mlm Mike]

So, the person watching my chickens did not realize you need to collect them or else my hens will go broody. The person was freaking out that the hen kept pecking him and I said well she is broody so pull the eggs out from her before they start to develop. I was told they could not get the eggs because the chicken was pecking...so I come home to find her sitting on 2 eggs that look to be on day 7! So I am putting. Those eggs in the incubator and giving her some of the eggs I actually wanted to hatch! So I have 2 hatched happening in May!

Wonderful!

 

[minihorse927]

My first hatch this month is done and over. 53 ducklings and 25 chicks. 97% hatch rate. Not bad. More this weekend!

 

[Chaos18]

My first hatch this month is done and over. 53 ducklings and 25 chicks. 97% hatch rate. Not bad. More this weekend!

Nice hatch rate. You know we need pics right?