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No fun at all. It always seems that if I don't really, really want the chicks, everything hatches. But should I be looking forward to something special, everything goes to pot. This morning I found an egg laying out in the middle of the coop. It had spoiled and stuck to the hens feathers. Now to clean the nests and give new bedding to make sure there is no unwanted bacteria from spoiled egg residue. Six more days and counting.
 
nchls school said:
No fun at all. It always seems that if I don't really, really want the chicks, everything hatches. But should I be looking forward to something special, everything goes to pot. This morning I found an egg laying out in the middle of the coop. It had spoiled and stuck to the hens feathers. Now to clean the nests and give new bedding to make sure there is no unwanted bacteria from spoiled egg residue. Six more days and counting.
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I posted this on the serama thread and received no reply. I'm hoping that someone here will answer.



I'm new to seramas.  I have a dozen eggs that should be hatching by next Friday.  Since they are something new I have been doing a lot of reading.  In a number of places, "lethal factor" has been mentioned in regards to 25% embryos dying in the shell.  I have not been able to find a better source of information on this.  I assume that 25% is an average overall?  Do the embryos die throughout incubation or is it at a more definite point in incubation?  From my original 20 serama eggs 12 are developing.  I'm hoping that I do not loose many more.
 
nchls school said:
I posted this on the serama thread and received no reply. I'm hoping that someone here will answer.



I'm new to seramas. I have a dozen eggs that should be hatching by next Friday. Since they are something new I have been doing a lot of reading. In a number of places, "lethal factor" has been mentioned in regards to 25% embryos dying in the shell. I have not been able to find a better source of information on this. I assume that 25% is an average overall? Do the embryos die throughout incubation or is it at a more definite point in incubation? From my original 20 serama eggs 12 are developing. I'm hoping that I do not loose many more.
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As I said I don't know much about them but I would assume that is overall. But, I don't think you should lose many more if any. I guess you'll see what happens.
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Good luck to ya!
 


I've hatched seramas before. I actually did pretty good..but in an incubator, not under a hen. The sad thing I found out, was they don't do well in the cold..even with a heat lamp! :/
 
Chickenloving said:
As I said I don't know much about them but I would assume that is overall. But, I don't think you should lose many more if any. I guess you'll see what happens.
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Good luck to ya!
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Thank you. I hope you are right. When I was feeding the birds this morning I could have sworn that I heard a baby chick. I'm hearing things-getting old-it's the seventeenth day-much too soon.
 

Yes, I've read that they do not do well with cold; and that is a concern for Wisconsin. We have lots of cold-down in the twenties again last night. To beat the cold, I have a heated room in the garage. The only luck I have had with incubators was with quail eggs. I have tried the incubator time and again with chicken eggs. Each time something happens. Twice it was power outages. I've had chickens hatch in an incubator but with results that do not even come close to what a good broody hen does.
 
Chickenloving said:
How's it going now? Any changes?
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This weekend two of my broody hens hatched seven chicks each; of the fourteen, seven are from eggs that were in the incubator. Eleven are serama and three are silkie. I am very happy to get so many when I had pretty much accepted the idea that I was not going to get much. And so small. They are really fun to watch.
 
nchls school said:
This weekend two of my broody hens hatched seven chicks each; of the fourteen, seven are from eggs that were in the incubator. Eleven are serama and three are silkie. I am very happy to get so many when I had pretty much accepted the idea that I was not going to get much. And so small. They are really fun to watch.
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I'm glad it's going well. :)
 

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