May Hatch Thread--Fill up those bators n' broodies!

[el pollo rey]

Picked up 29 eggs at a chicken exchange last week, will be candling tonight! Sure hope they are developing, I went all out with the fancy eggs; some Cream Legbars, Blue Barnevelders, Swedish flower hens, Olive eggers, and of course, some mystery eggs. Everyone needs a few mystery eggs to add to the mix! Hatch day should be 5/19 if everything goes right.

welcome to the thread happy hatching

 

[Friar_Tuck]

Woohoo! 3 more hatched, now I am up to 23 out including the nicest looking blue eggs!
Plus I see another zipped, and many more pips.
I think everyone should do a batch of eggs that have not been shipped now and then, just to build up your confidence again.
I have been doing everything the same, and with shipped eggs I was getting some horrid hatch percentages.
Now these non shipped eggs are already up to 54%, and they are not due to start hatching until tomorrow!
I am having fun again.
Jim

 

[hunter109]

I could not find anything on how to calibrate my digital thermomitor could you all hell it a acurite probe kind

 

[Justoldbobo]

Awesome Deal

Jim.....looks like you got one heck of a deal!!!!

 

[misschickenlittle]

Awesome Deal

Ditto!

 

[pickitfarm]

We are finishing our hatching out chicks tomorrow. We set 21 and took out 1 because it was not developing. We had two types, Rhodebars and Buff Orpingtons. The Rhodebars were puchased at a local farm but the Buffs were mailed and they were a hot mess when we received them. Not only did we get broken eggs (bad packaging) but the air sacs were pretty wonky. So far we have over 60% success with Rhodebars and 0% success on the Buff Orpingtons. The person we purchased the the Buffs from has agreed to at least provide us replacement of the broken eggs. I am now in search of Welsummers and/or Wheaton Americauna hatching eggs so we can set a new batch by mid-month.

 

[hokankai]

That is SO true. Hatching shipped eggs should be looked at totally different than local eggs. When I hatch shipped eggs I have zero expectations, so if even one hatches I'm thrilled! The vast majority of my eggs are local this time, so I'm hoping it goes well

Woohoo! 3 more hatched, now I am up to 23 out including the nicest looking blue eggs!
Plus I see another zipped, and many more pips.
I think everyone should do a batch of eggs that have not been shipped now and then, just to build up your confidence again.
I have been doing everything the same, and with shipped eggs I was getting some horrid hatch percentages.
Now these non shipped eggs are already up to 54%, and they are not due to start hatching until tomorrow!
I am having fun again.
Jim

 

[Friar_Tuck]

Up to 25 now, so I better go to bed!
Sure curious to see what this is going to be, it came out of a blue egg.


And this one feather legged beaut.


OK, now I promise to quit flooding this thread with pics.
Jim

 

[Keggen]

Up to 25 now, so I better go to bed! Sure curious to see what this is going to be, it came out of a blue egg. And this one feather legged beaut. OK, now I promise to quit flooding this thread with pics. Jim

Ooooh my goodness they are lovely!!!

 

[hokankai]

Did my first major egg cull tonight in Incubator 2. I'm officially DONE with shipped eggs...or at least shipped bantam eggs. Down to 4/14 of my shipped bantam BRs, and 8/12 of the local seramas. Had a few blood rings, but the vast majority was no development. Of the BBRs developing only 1 has a stable air cell even after not being turned for 5 days. Oh well...we'll see what happens.

Incubator 1 gets weighed and candled tomorrow