May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[BertyRoux]

Thanks I hope so too I really hope I get a couple pullets good luck with your hatch hopefully we get a couple pics when they arrive

Oh definitely! IF any of them arrive lots yet could still go wrong.

Lockdown is happening this afternoon! It's finally Monday! I didn't make it out to pick up and chick crumble this weekend, DH ended up being busy with mowing and fixing his truck so I'll have to go out today or tomorrow. I need more bedding pellets for the barn and coop, anyway. Last time they gave me 'pellet crumbles' instead of regular pellets, which I didn't know was a thing but I'm liking it better than the whole pellets.

 

[FortCluck]

I pulled a few infertile chicken and duck eggs. I replaced them with the quail eggs. I have 3 separate hatches going on right now.

 

[BertyRoux]

I pulled a few infertile chicken and duck eggs. I replaced them with the quail eggs. I have 3 separate hatches going on right now.

Oh my, you're going to be busy! I can hardly keep track of dates for one hatch!

 

[kelseyk]

I pulled a few infertile chicken and duck eggs. I replaced them with the quail eggs. I have 3 separate hatches going on right now.

I seem to just have a continuous hatch going on. LOL! I have 9 eggs in the hatcher now with a hatch date of 4/30.Then I get a little break before I start my May marathon. I have eggs with hatch dates of: Svart Hona 5/12, Gold Appenzeller 5/15, Delaware 5/16, Gold neck d'Uccle 5/19 (Setting tomorrow), and some Olive eggers that will be shipping here soon that I will set after they rest for 24 hours.

 

[FortCluck]

I seem to just have a continuous hatch going on. LOL! I have 9 eggs in the hatcher now with a hatch date of 4/30.Then I get a little break before I start my May marathon. I have eggs with hatch dates of: Svart Hona 5/12, Gold Appenzeller 5/15, Delaware 5/16, Gold neck d'Uccle 5/19 (Setting tomorrow), and some Olive eggers that will be shipping here soon that I will set after they rest for 24 hours.

Awesome! Can't wait to see them.

 

[FortCluck]

Oh my, you're going to be busy! I can hardly keep track of dates for one hatch!

I put mine on my phone calendar. Not like it helps much because I rarely look at it

 

[Honora]

We set 28 eggs yesterday and today. Most of them are shipped eggs, but 7 of them are our own. Temp has been steady at about 100.4 and humidity at 42%. Hoping for some babies in a few weeks!

My nieces' teacher is also incubating a dozen eggs for us, which will be a very early May hatch. They're a bunch of our barnyard mixes, which will be exciting!

We also have a broody on day 7 with 5 eggs (3 of which are for sure developing), for a May hatch. View attachment 2110309

Your hen is so pretty, what breed is she?

 

[SharW75]

Your hen is so pretty, what breed is she?

Thank you so much! Flower is a calico cochin bantam. My daughter saw her at our county fair last year and fell in love with her. Thankfully, her owner wanted to sell her, so we bought her and a beautiful lavender orpintgon. Both hens have been wonderful additions to the flock.

 

[Rakaiachick]

While I have lurked here for a while now, I finally created an account today! I'm excited to participate, there are so many knowledgeable chicken tenders here and pretty birds.

I just put a dozen eggs in a shiny new incubator today, after fiddling with it for a few days, so hatch date should be around. The 30th/1st. My ladies are just barnyard layer stock, black and gold sex links - I have two roos, the elder was *supposed* to be a black sex link pullet (ha!) and the younger is his offspring from a clutch my bigger goldie hen hatched out last fall.

This will be my first attempt at doing a full incubation myself! On last fall's hatch, when I went to dispose of the duds a day or two after she'd left with her 5 new babies - I heard peeping from one egg. I ended up taking the eggs into the house, rigged up a heat lamp and hatched out seven more babies over the course of the week!

Wow that amazing that you could hatch them under a heat lamp. How many did you rescue?

 

[BertyRoux]

Wow that amazing that you could hatch them under a heat lamp. How many did you rescue?

There were quite a few eggs that didn't hatch - the situation was kind of a cluster, she went broody a few days before we went on a camping trip and my farm sitter wasn't capable of doing the extra care to break her, so I let her sit. I don't remember the exact number of eggs she had collected, but I want to say it was around 20.