November Hatch-a-long...

[Beccazon]

My lone duck egg from my October hatch has emerged today!! I will be cleaning the bator tomorrow to set a batch if just ducks this time, using things I learned in my first hatch ever!

Depending on this lil guy fluffing out and looking good, I will be expecting a November 9th hatch. Fingers crossed for a hatch % as good as my chickens showed!!

Not sure what I will get but my duck ladies laying right now I believe are just my Roeun and my KC with possible dads being F/W runner or Rouen. (The new lil one today hatched out looking Rouenish).

If I didn't start this thread at the proper time or whatever, change it or move it. Didn't want to clutter the October ones since I will have a November hatch.

 

[wolfwalker]

Now that the vacation is over, well working as crew at the balloon fest really , I have eggs on the way and am ready to fire up the incubators again. Black Copper Maran's and Crested Cream Legbars once again.

I'm in the rebuild my breeding flock mode until spring.

 

[FortCluck]

I might do another hatch right after my Halloween hatch is done, depends on how my current one does

 

[Compost King]

And the winner of the race to bust out of the Calcium Prison is a Silver Leghorn.

 

[Chooks man]

70 chicks hatched and 1 died @ hatching.
from shipped CLB eggs got only 1 chicks .good thing he is a boy .
the rst are from my flock ,some cockerels are better than others ,all new working cockerels .
basket full of chicks .I did that tripe 3 time from the hatcher room to a brooder room .

chooks man

 

[Compost King]

More Pictures

 

[Beccazon]

15 duck eggs set. Now I wait...

 

[Compost King]

Temps should be up to speed after Midnight, start day Oct 18th. Hatch Day Nov 7th. Breeds/Crosses...Ayam Cemani, Red Bird Dark Egg project birds, White Leghorns, Silver Leghorns, Barred Leghorn Project birds. RI White X Red Ranger, Naked Neck, Seramas. 50 eggs with 8 on the side as back ups when the ones in the Egg Turner die.

 

[wolfwalker]

eggs arrived and sitting pointy end down till tomorrow when i turn the incubator on. The farm I bought these from breed for egg color and these are some of the darkest FBCM eggs I've ever seen for this time of year. let's see, that would put lock down on the 5th and the 8th will be 21 days

 

[Compost King]

@Compost King how long do you collect eggs for before setting?

I start collecting for the next hatch 10 day into the hatch I am on. Rarely do the early collected eggs actually make it to the incubator because I usually end up with double the amount of eggs I have the capacity for and I weed out the bad eggs which for the most part are the old eggs in the collection. A few malformed or awkward sized eggs get rejected too. With a few exceptions (like breeds I want to hatch as many as possible of) my eggs are usually a week old or less when I incubate them.