Michigan Hatchers! What'cha got cookin?

[Peep-Chicken]

Eddie found a new wonderful home!
Now hes gonna make pretty mottled babies for his new mommy!

Lucky. I wish my Roos went that fast!

 

[RoostersCrow HensDeliver!]

What about ducks!? No one said anything about ducks

Just put 11 Muscovy eggs in the bator, picked them up in Florida so hopefully they may have a better chance than shipped eggs ...but Ive heard they are really hard to incubate so I don't want to get my hopes up.
And my chicken eggs are on day 14 now, I just got home and candled. I had 6 clears out of 41, so not bad at all considering they were collected in 5* weather.

 

[JackieandChicks]

So far...three blacks, two brown, one yellow Still have 7 more eggs to go but this is day 22 - not sure what is going to happen with them. I kind of hope they hatch, yet if they don't - with this weather I have 15 four-week olds and these 7 in my laundry room - the only place that sounds like spring around here!

 

[JackieandChicks]

Four eggs left that passed the "float test". This is day 23. Three of the eggs that I candled were clear with some development but didn't make it. Keeping fingers crossed for these four but you never know. They have a good air pocket, I think one was wiggling in the water but couldn't really tell as I didn't want them out of the incubator too long so just kinda dunked and put back.

 

[gladahmae]

If you use 100deg. water, it's not going to be terrible for the eggs to be out for a couple of minutes. You are putting them in to SEE the wiggling......that tells you if there is a live chick in there or not. Pretty much any egg that you've incubated for 21 days is going to float because you've evaporated it.

My girls are NOT cooperating with my 'set eggs when we go on vaca' plan. I got 3 measly eggs today out of over 20 hens. I just don't get it. They laid better than this all winter, and NOW when it's actually SUNNY out, they quit. And to think I was even thinking of putting all my barred hens into a pen to know for sure when they laid. HAH!

 

[aart]

If you use 100deg. water, it's not going to be terrible for the eggs to be out for a couple of minutes. You are putting them in to SEE the wiggling......that tells you if there is a live chick in there or not. Pretty much any egg that you've incubated for 21 days is going to float because you've evaporated it.

My girls are NOT cooperating with my 'set eggs when we go on vaca' plan. I got 3 measly eggs today out of over 20 hens. I just don't get it. They laid better than this all winter, and NOW when it's actually SUNNY out, they quit. And to think I was even thinking of putting all my barred hens into a pen to know for sure when they laid. HAH!

People Plan, Hens Laugh!

 

[JackieandChicks]

If you use 100deg. water, it's not going to be terrible for the eggs to be out for a couple of minutes. You are putting them in to SEE the wiggling......that tells you if there is a live chick in there or not. Pretty much any egg that you've incubated for 21 days is going to float because you've evaporated it.

My girls are NOT cooperating with my 'set eggs when we go on vaca' plan. I got 3 measly eggs today out of over 20 hens. I just don't get it. They laid better than this all winter, and NOW when it's actually SUNNY out, they quit. And to think I was even thinking of putting all my barred hens into a pen to know for sure when they laid. HAH!

Thanks! I was reviewing the "Floating Test" thread and got mixed reviews on what happens. All I know is that these last for are iffy - they do not look like they are rotting like the three I tossed, but I never did see any of my eggs move in the incubator until they actually started pipping. And hearing them in the laundry doesn't work as the brooder is in there full of noisy chicks. So what will be will be with these last four eggs, I am happy with what I got as I collected when we had single degree days and minus nights and this run was really to see if I could incubate with any success at all. Who knows, maybe I'll be surprised!

And good luck with those hens - mine just started to give me more eggs these last few days.

 

[WalnutHill]

I have an incubator load of Narragansett turkey eggs, setting every Tuesday and have just started getting eggs into lockdown (1 out of six in the first set, but all 24 gathered eggs have been subjected to temps between -8 and low 30s for hours after lay). So I will end up, if all goes well, with a series of different-aged poults spread a week apart. The first one is going to be all by him/herself for at least a week...should I try to find a chick to keep it company, or just wait for siblings to follow next week?

My Narragensett hen has been laying since January, and my 150 red sex link hens are laying 110 eggs a day on average, so the birds say spring is here, even if the thermometer doesn't agree. Go away, Michigan winter!

 

[gladahmae]

150 birdies? 110 eggs? That's a lot! Sounds like fun! If you can easily find another poult it would probably be good for your lone hatchling, otherwise maybe get a feather duster and a mirror?


Seriously thinking about worming EVERYONE while they're not laying. Ugh. Of course, they'll probably start laying like crazy the next day if I do that.

 

[WalnutHill]

The girls were laying in the low 80s a couple of weeks ago, they've leveled off for the past few days. I headed over to TSC in hopes of picking up a single banty chick, which should pose no threat even to a day old turkey poult. They only want to sell six or more...so I will have to check the farther-away elevators. I don't need a bunch of assorted banties in the coop, though one could be a treat (especially if a pullet!)