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

[el pollo rey]

I have a pip! e e

cool cool cool go chickies

 

[el pollo rey]

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Lmao u are to funny jn I just woke up and read this and laughed like a pirate lol

. Well I have to get my log out and I'm about half blind in the am. Its a lil after 5:30 am me and the wife finished about 11:30 hold on hold on I need to fire up my lap top I can't see this darn phone ,,,,,, coffee smells good though

 

[Twizzlebee]

i have another pip! so excited, maybe my other chick wont be alone!!!

 

[el pollo rey]

. Well I have to get my log out and I'm about half blind in the am. Its a lil after 5:30 am me and the wife finished about 11:30 hold on hold on I need to fire up my lap top I can't see this darn phone ,,,,,, coffee smells good though

OK i can see this 17 inch screen i cant see the phone till after a cup of java,,,,,, any hoot i can say with out a doubt that there will be no light Sussex birds in Costa Rica on this go around all 18 are clear with two a lil to dark to call for sure but if the others are any indication the Sussex i so wanted are a big fat bust ,,,, the momma curry eggs lol my lifelong best Friends mom 5 ee and 5 cream leg bars are a toss up the dark green ee,s are too dark but it looks like only two are developing the leg bars are a bust with two ringers and three clears they are all young birds in there first laying cycle and the shell quality is horrid they look like a porous sponge but these 10 eggs were last minute fill in,s and had been refrigerated for about ten hours before packing and my flight home, OK so lets reflect that's 28 down i only removed two last night that looked funky as in really funky the rest i will cull at next candle day 16 ( we all know that hope thing) now we move on to bator two the German new Hampshire's and silver laced wyandottes the Germans are some of the most active embryos i have hatched in a long time these guys were just having a egg shell smash dance at day 8 out of 18 13 are moving on I'm eggstatic as these are the birds i need for my breeding program so a breeding trio is a good possibility at this point

TOO happy

the silver laced look good as well out of 18 i have 11 with good movement and solid development so again a breeding trio is a possibility for the silvers at this point in retrospect 24 are moving on to day 16 candling so i am at about 47 % on all the immigrant eggs i flew down and set may 1st I'm bumming about the Sussex but I'm sure the problem lay in the barn yard and not in my transport and incubation all the air cells look text book no wonky or detached on setting day and on day 8 they are growing at the correct rate so there ya go 300 miles on the ground in Ohio and 6000 miles in the air so going into day 9 at 47% is not too bad,,,,,,, still bumming about my Sussex

 

[el pollo rey]

i have another pip! so excited, maybe my other chick wont be alone!!!

it,s a jail break up there good deal

 

[el pollo rey]

I have a pip!

whats up with that lil pipper jn ??????

 

[el pollo rey]

Peeps,
If you have room, you can set a big sponge right under one of the vent holes. Then put a straw from the hole to the sponge, then you can use a turkey baster, or a bulb syringe and squirt water through the straw into the sponge.

i use aquarium tube and a child's medicine syringe works great

 

[el pollo rey]

Mr El pollo Rey is taking way too long!

sorry jn 81 took me a while lol

 

[el pollo rey]

Lol!!! That's HiLarious!!!

i know right, i woke up at 5:30 picked up my phone in a haze and cracked up ! Arrrrrrr

 

[el pollo rey]

I am taking the easy way and have ordered a Dorking from Meyer's for August pick up. Along with a Sultan and Spitzhauben. I have a credit to use, so why not.

So fun to be maybe hatching with you again. My next hatch after tomorrow is May 23.

they have good stock crazychick i have some of their eggs on day 9 they look great after a 6000 mile trip ,,,, when i lived up that way in the tundra i raised their buckeyes and they were true to the breed sop they can throw great birds for a hatchery