FarmerViola - sorry about your lost chick. But it sounds like your hatch rate was good for shipped eggs. Congrats.
I officially ended my hatch on a gut feeling that my other three eggs weren't going to hatch. Turns out that they were not even close to full development. I only lifted the air cell off the eggs, and all I could see was a thick yellow liquid. Early quitters, maybe?
Here's my breakdown:
Egg source: local breeder
12 to start
3 Sweedish Flower - clear on day 10
2 BCM (pullet eggs) - very early quitters
1 BCM - clear on day 10
Went to lockdown:
1 Golden Lackenvelder/Sweedish Flower cross - went to lock down, but I think it had quit the day before
3 large BCM, quit developing early on, but I don't know when, culled day 24
2 BCM hatched and healthy - days 21 & 22
Now...how do I figure out what went wrong with my quitters?
I officially ended my hatch on a gut feeling that my other three eggs weren't going to hatch. Turns out that they were not even close to full development. I only lifted the air cell off the eggs, and all I could see was a thick yellow liquid. Early quitters, maybe?
Here's my breakdown:
Egg source: local breeder
12 to start
3 Sweedish Flower - clear on day 10
2 BCM (pullet eggs) - very early quitters
1 BCM - clear on day 10
Went to lockdown:
1 Golden Lackenvelder/Sweedish Flower cross - went to lock down, but I think it had quit the day before
3 large BCM, quit developing early on, but I don't know when, culled day 24
2 BCM hatched and healthy - days 21 & 22
Now...how do I figure out what went wrong with my quitters?
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