November Hatch -- Who's going to have late fall babies?

[Rozzie]

karaokechick -- take out the numbers for the one batch of Silkies, and those look like decent hatch rates for shipped eggs. After all, your turkeys & ducks are at at 91.6% rate so far. That's pretty dang good.

Take out that batch of silkie eggs, and ignore the kind of eggs that you can't candle reliably and you have a 60% potential hatch rate there so far.


Even with those silkie eggs you have a 51% potential hatch rate so far. So, even if you lose a few more before hatch you are in good shape.

50% hatch rate on shipped eggs is a GOOD rate. It's a rate that you need to be HAPPY to get, not an average rate from what I understand.

I have 15 shipped eggs in my bator. I'll be thrilled if I get 6 healthy chicks. I'll be ecstatic if I get 8.

 

[emvickrey]

I just put 12 Sizzle eggs in lock down I got from Pamperedpoultry. The last bunch I got from them did very well and the ones I kept are laying. One of them is actually my house chicken. And spoiled rotten.

 

[sloallie10]

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I have eggs in the bator from her too. What chicks did you get from her and how many did you get to hatch?

 

[gryeyes]

Whoa! Am I surprised! A second bantam Barnevelder has hatched! The first hatched yesterday, and had pipped the night before. This one pipped this afternoon and hatched about 45 minutes ago. So maybe it's not all that "bad" to forget to take out the egg divider rails and leave the eggs standing upright, after all. Huh.

So now I'm gonna wait a couple more days for the other 7 eggs.... instead of giving up tomorrow.

Two new babies!

The first is holding its own in the brooder with the week-old chicks, although it does get bowled over a whole lot by very active chicks. They're in the Running Like Mad and Jumping At Each Other stage.

And of those 14 chicks, the one little bantam cochin's feathers are starting to frizzle!

 

[karaokechick]

Thank You ! It really isn't so bad after all then.

I was just feeling so depressed over throwing so many away. My first try I had none hatch, too high humidity in a homemade bator, so I bought the new incubators figuring I couldn't screw it up! The brahma's are in lockdown, so I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and out of the incubator.
They made it this far!!
Thank You Again!

 

[Rozzie]

You're welcome. Shipped eggs have a lower hatch rate because of the banging around they take when they are going through the USPS. While sometimes it is from rough treatment, probably a lot of it is just from them bumping around so much in trucks and carts. After all, eggs weren't designed by nature to be transported more than a few inches from the time the hen lays them to the time they hatch.

I'm on pins and needles with mine. They are quail eggs, so who knows how many are good. A few look clear to me when candled BUT my candling experience is very small so I left them in. At least a couple seem to have developed. A bunch have shells I can't see through AT ALL even with my powerful maglite.

Hatch is this week so I'm not messing with them again.

 

[emvickrey]

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I have eggs in the bator from her too. What chicks did you get from her and how many did you get to hatch?

I got 16 BBS Sizzles 2 clears and 2 quitters. That left me with 12. Last time I got some they where all white but one and I got 18 and 14 hatched. I don't remember what it was that happened to the 4 eggs that didn't make it but with shipped eggs I was very satisfied. This time my incubators temps have not been stable so I blame loosing the 2 quitters on that. It's a good possibility anyway. The clears could have been from the shipping. The air sacs are on the large side and look uneven but there are live chicks inside so I always give them all a chance instead of tossing one because the air sac doesn't look perfect. We'll see in a few days. I have some silkie and some project eggs, Jersey Giants, Morans and oegb's in the bators also. My silkies started laying but those aren't due till the beginning of next month.

 

[shelleyd2008]

So far I have 2 or 3 ducklings and a bantam cochin in the incubator....they are a bit early

I know the ducks were set on the 19th, making them due on the 16th and the cochin egg was set on the 25th, making it due on the 15th (today technically). They all started hatching yesterday. Early bird gets the worm I guess, but these guys are wormless until tomorrow at least until I get their brooder cleaned out

 

[emvickrey]

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With quail eggs it's really easy to spot the clears. They are very light when candled. If fertile they will have a red hue to the inside. I always wait 7 to 10 days before I bother with candling quail unless they are Bob Whites. You can see the veins in them.

 

[Rozzie]

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With quail eggs it's really easy to spot the clears. They are very light when candled. If fertile they will have a red hue to the inside. I always wait 7 to 10 days before I bother with candling quail unless they are Bob Whites. You can see the veins in them.

The light won't pass through my heavily spotted eggs, though...