November Hatch-A-Long (2014)

[DuckLover1029]

they were supposed to get here yesterday

 

[rachelpotter]

they were supposed to get here yesterday

Do you have a tracking #?

 

[darkbluespace]

they were supposed to get here yesterday

Do you have a tracking number... hopefully they will arrive tomorrow! I wouldn't expect them to be lost but the mail can sometimes take an extra day or so.

 

[Sustained]

they were supposed to get here yesterday

An extra day or two to arrive isn't a big concern. Reiterating everyone else, do you have a tracking number?

 

[ochochicas]

Like Dcat said, the red spots on the yolk are normal. It means the egg is really fresh. The spots are more common in some breeds. What kind of egg was it that cracked? My Wheaten Marans usually has the blood spots on the yolks.

 

[Sustained]

Like Dcat said, the red spots on the yolk are normal. It means the egg is really fresh. The spots are more common in some breeds. What kind of egg was it that cracked? My Wheaten Marans usually has the blood spots on the yolks.

It was a silkie egg. I've never cracked an unincubated fertilized egg before. Glad to know it's normal. And there was no mistaking fertilization so I guess some positive came out of the damaged egg.

 

[rachelpotter]

Woohooo! Scored a spare incubator! Its a styrofoam still air, but it will be better than nothing! I'll use it for the spares and as I have to cull eggs, I'll move them mine.



ON a side note.. while playing with my Brinsea Octagon, and trying to learn its quirks.. I stuck a few of my hen's eggs in there. We only have 2 layers ( a RIR and a Delaware) We have two rogue Silkie roos that were given to me a few months ago. They don't get out together much but apparently it was enough! I put two hen eggs and two duck eggs in the bator a week ago. I candled just for practice today and I HAVE A MOVING BODY INSIDE!!! Only one of them, but I guess this one will go in the other bator when the real eggs come in as well. A RIR or Delaware Silkie mutt... oh my. This should be interesting!

 

[Sustained]

Woohooo! Scored a spare incubator! Its a styrofoam still air, but it will be better than nothing! I'll use it for the spares and as I have to cull eggs, I'll move them mine.



ON a side note.. while playing with my Brinsea Octagon, and trying to learn its quirks.. I stuck a few of my hen's eggs in there. We only have 2 layers ( a RIR and a Delaware) We have two rogue Silkie roos that were given to me a few months ago. They don't get out together much but apparently it was enough! I put two hen eggs and two duck eggs in the bator a week ago. I candled just for practice today and I HAVE A MOVING BODY INSIDE!!! Only one of them, but I guess this one will go in the other bator when the real eggs come in as well. A RIR or Delaware Silkie mutt... oh my. This should be interesting!

congrats!!! I can't wait to see what that will look like

 

[pickledpenny]

Full Update on my November babies:

11 out of 12 lavender orpingtons are developing as of day 9, #2 was infertile

Farmers market mix day 11 only 3 developing out of 10 (#'s 2, 9, 1) 1 blood ring, the rest of the 12 set failed to start

5 remaining of the barnyard mix on day 9. Again, high infertility on these. No early quitters, just plain infertile. I have 14, 4, 2, 5, 10 developing nicely. All but one from cream leg bar eggs (and there's a chance of them being pure)

 

[Steampunked]

Hello folks

Technically my chicks might come on Haloween but I think it's more likely it will be Nov 1 now.

I'm a first timer with a cheap *** Chinese incubator from eBay - it's automatic, but controlling the humidity is awkward. I'm aiming for too high rather than too low if it has to be imprecise, hope that inst a mistake.

I started with twelve eggs - four red anconas, four silver laced wyandottes, and four silkies.

Candling recently showed that three (two wyandottes and an ancona) were infertile - they cracked out perfectly clear too, and by now in the others I can see seriously developing chicks, so I guess those weren't meant to be.

Pretty excited despite my lack of experience, but amazingly worried about everything that can go wrong - I shouldn't have read all those disaster threads...but I always do. :/. Should have seen my face when I flew to Africa and decided to read the human parasite documents on the plane.

I'll never learn.