Hello everyone!!
I am fairly new to the chicken and duck thing. I love my chickens! I have had Momma, Jellybean, Alex (Aracauna rooster) and Fluffy (his hen), For a year now.. I also have 7 juevenile production red hens, Momma and Jellybean. I also have 5 Buff Orpington hens, 6 Black stars, 5 Delawares, 3 Silver Wyndotes (who are just starting to layeggs), 1 Barred Rock named Barbara, and two golden sex links (the rooster is named Peaches, he was supposed to be a girl and the hen is Butterscotch), I also have 7 juvenile Aracauna hens, 2 muscovy ducks (not sure of their sex yet, a mallard named David (he lost his mate and my 2 Rowens to a dog, grr), I lost 4 Aracaunas last summer to the heat, they went into the dog/duck house and wouldn't come out because our hen Momma was in the duck enclosure, I guess, and I have a pair of Indian Runners, (Speckles, the female, is currently sitting on 13 eggs due to hatch any day! She started with 20 but after candling several of them I found two dead almost ready to hatch (sad), and 3 nasty smelly ones! I candled a few more and they are pipped and one, I thought was dead, was alive, but the membrane is almost all white. I put tape over the small hole and put it back in the nest.
Question; Should I take her remaining eggs and put them in the incubator to hatch? I'm sure there must be a humidity or heat issue. It gets cold at night (38-48 F) and the days are pretty cool also (50-68 degrees F). She lays on them most of the time, but she got off the nest for 2 hours today, so I'm getting concerned about them being able to hatch. Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance!
I am fairly new to the chicken and duck thing. I love my chickens! I have had Momma, Jellybean, Alex (Aracauna rooster) and Fluffy (his hen), For a year now.. I also have 7 juevenile production red hens, Momma and Jellybean. I also have 5 Buff Orpington hens, 6 Black stars, 5 Delawares, 3 Silver Wyndotes (who are just starting to layeggs), 1 Barred Rock named Barbara, and two golden sex links (the rooster is named Peaches, he was supposed to be a girl and the hen is Butterscotch), I also have 7 juvenile Aracauna hens, 2 muscovy ducks (not sure of their sex yet, a mallard named David (he lost his mate and my 2 Rowens to a dog, grr), I lost 4 Aracaunas last summer to the heat, they went into the dog/duck house and wouldn't come out because our hen Momma was in the duck enclosure, I guess, and I have a pair of Indian Runners, (Speckles, the female, is currently sitting on 13 eggs due to hatch any day! She started with 20 but after candling several of them I found two dead almost ready to hatch (sad), and 3 nasty smelly ones! I candled a few more and they are pipped and one, I thought was dead, was alive, but the membrane is almost all white. I put tape over the small hole and put it back in the nest.
Question; Should I take her remaining eggs and put them in the incubator to hatch? I'm sure there must be a humidity or heat issue. It gets cold at night (38-48 F) and the days are pretty cool also (50-68 degrees F). She lays on them most of the time, but she got off the nest for 2 hours today, so I'm getting concerned about them being able to hatch. Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance!
! Great to have you with us! I am a hatching rookie so I'll leave that topic to those better suited to discuss it. But I wish hatching success and thanks for joining BYC! :cd
