NY chicken lover!!!!

[PhoredaBurds]

Yes I need to review her information on hatching. I'm pretty excited, but know hatching rates can be lower with shipped eggs.

I've hatched a bunch of shipped eggs and find myself very happy with a 50% hatch rate. Have had 0% hatch on a couple shipments tho. Depends a great deal on how scrambled or cold they get in transit. The only real danger is that when u get good at hatching shipped eggs, the eggs from your own birds will then have a very high hatch rate and "Honey, don't worry that I filled the bator again, half of them won't hatch anyway" doesn't hold up so well anymore.

 

[shodack]

Pyxis, so sorry

 

[Beer can]

I haven't hatched yet but will as much as I'm allowed to come spring Lol.
It seems 50% hatch is the norm on everything I've read, even non-shipped eggs with good incubators. Then I hear people that have thrown together makeshift incubators with no turner, hand turn and hatch 100%
Can't wait to give it a shot.

 

[Pyxis]

Thanks everyone Been a rough few weeks on the chicken front.

On the eggs front, I usually let shipped eggs sit for 24 hours before I set them. If there are any weird air cells I don't turn them for the first couple of days of incubating either. I haven't done shipped eggs lately, but on my last three batches of eggs laid here, I've had a 100% hatch rate. I've actually gotten a 100% hatch rate on shipped eggs twice! That was crazy. Usually I get more around 60 to 70 percent.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I've got seven chicks coming up and they're growing fast on the 20% Dumor.  Plus I've got three Del pullets    on the Dumor grower, plus the three Daisies and all the Dels since two EE's are in there and they're not yet ready to lay.  I may move the Del pullets to the Del coop too. 

I've posted all the C. Rocks on CL and the Daisies.  I'm getting tired. 

Someone offered me the same prices for the Daisies without the rooster but I don't want to separate them as Daisies are hard to come by and I'd like to see someone buy them who will hatch more. 

how old are the Daisies, how many are there that you want to sell and how much for the set? I'm still trying to get hubby to let me get more , I have enough people that want eggs they would not just take up space. Plus I have a really big coop, 8×16 with 30ft of roost space and the girls get out daily to either free range or a 24×24 run. I think I need more birds to make the coop warmer, at least that's what I keep telling him.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I lost my favorite rooster Tesoro this morning to a freak accident He was my last boy out of my first rooster, Honey. He was such a sweetheart and had the same good temperament as his father. I found him the coop this morning behind the dog crate I use for broodies. He was still warm and rigor mortis hadn't set it so he had just passed. I'm not sure if he was fighting with Pretty Boy or what but somehow the entire back of his comb was ripped open and he bled out. His wattles were completely pale. I'm gonna miss that boy Hopefully one of my Halloween chicks is out of him. I guess this means I can keep that really pretty chick if it does turn out to be a rooster, but I'd rather have had Tess.

He'd really filled out since that full body picture - I wish now I'd gotten a newer picture of him.

he was handsome. I'm very sorry for your loss. Hopefully you get a chick or two from him.

 

[shodack]

Just went out to close the coop for the night and it's cooollddd out there! Makes me want to knit up those chicken sweaters. I feel for the girls!

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Just went out to close the coop for the night and it's cooollddd out there! Makes me want to knit up those chicken sweaters. I feel for the girls!

Speaking of cold and chickens. At what point if any, do I stop letting them have outside access? They seem happy to go out and play in the cold, I just don't want them sick from it.

 

[Pyxis]

Speaking of cold and chickens. At what point if any, do I stop letting them have outside access? They seem happy to go out and play in the cold, I just don't want them sick from it.

The cold won't make them sick. I never restrict mine from the run, but after the first snow falls they aren't very interested in free ranging. I snow blow the run for them and they come out into it every day.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I haven't hatched yet but will as much as I'm allowed to come spring Lol.
It seems 50% hatch is the norm on everything I've read, even non-shipped eggs with good incubators. Then I hear people that have thrown together makeshift incubators with no turner, hand turn and hatch 100%
Can't wait to give it a shot.

Maybe we can schedule a hatch at the same time. I've never hatched either. Would be neat to have another newbie to share with.