October-hatch-along 2019

[john_wrightson2003]

A bunch of shipped English Orp eggs..Isabel Cuckoo, Choc Cuckoo, Lavender and Split Blk Lavender, & Gold Laced.
I dont have a lot of faith in the Gold Laced because I had to throw a few out on arrival because they had a bad odor, then one was weeping in the incubator. They looked kinda porous when I candled them to check for cracks on arrival. I hope I get at least a few because I really Love the Gold Laced Orps.

Ugh, wish my incubator was full of orp eggs. I love them too, but my favorite is hands down the lavs, I just love that color, on any breed...

I have a thing for the big fluffy blue girls.

Thats a good one

I used to have a bunch of regular Lavender Orps several yrs ago..They were so sweet and the roosters all got along and loved each other like brothers (well they were lol) Look how sweet they were together making nests in my flower pots lolView attachment 1924789 View attachment 1924784

Aww, I am working on getting some lavender eggs from @mbrobbins, so well see if i do

 

[john_wrightson2003]

But here is my dilemma, I have these eggs that i am going to hatch that I got from @WVduckchick, and they need to go in like right now because the oldest ones are 9 days old. But I only have one bator, and dont h ave a chicken budget large enough to get another one, so I would be forced to do a staggered hatc if i got those lav orp eggs, i am also in an auction for some gorgeous silkie eggs. I just went through a horrible staggered hatch, it was messy, a ton of the eggs started seeping crap out of em while during lockdown, and it stank up my hatching room, and i think where i went wrong was when I took the chicks out from the first of those two hatches, I shouldve quickly cleaned the bator, and i think more would have hatched bc there would hav been alot less bacteria in there. So if i get these eggs, and have to do a staggered hatch, i wil put paper towels down (my friend locked down for me cause i was gone, and he didnt know to put paper towels down), and then pull the paper towels out after the first hatch. But i just got an idea, i could just wait, and get the lav orps from @mbrobbins after this hatch goes down... yea, that sounds like a much better idea...

 

[flgardengirl]

Yes I would def wait for the Lav Orp eggs so you wont mess up the ones you're gonna do now. There will always be somone selling Lav Orp eggs lol.
You will love Lav Orps though. The roos would all fight over who got to get up on my lap first and cuddle. If I sat down anywhere in the yard, here the fat fluffy Lavs would cone running lol. I used to have one roo that let all the chicks ride around on his back
I think after Orps I wanna hatch some silkies and maybe sizzle silkies or polish...They look like little Muppet Babies

 

[WVduckchick]

But here is my dilemma, I have these eggs that i am going to hatch that I got from @WVduckchick, and they need to go in like right now because the oldest ones are 9 days old. But I only have one bator, and dont h ave a chicken budget large enough to get another one, so I would be forced to do a staggered hatc if i got those lav orp eggs, i am also in an auction for some gorgeous silkie eggs. I just went through a horrible staggered hatch, it was messy, a ton of the eggs started seeping crap out of em while during lockdown, and it stank up my hatching room, and i think where i went wrong was when I took the chicks out from the first of those two hatches, I shouldve quickly cleaned the bator, and i think more would have hatched bc there would hav been alot less bacteria in there. So if i get these eggs, and have to do a staggered hatch, i wil put paper towels down (my friend locked down for me cause i was gone, and he didnt know to put paper towels down), and then pull the paper towels out after the first hatch. But i just got an idea, i could just wait, and get the lav orps from @mbrobbins after this hatch goes down... yea, that sounds like a much better idea...

Sorry, but it sounds to me like you are hatching more than you can handle.

Yes I would def wait for the Lav Orp eggs so you wont mess up the ones you're gonna do now. There will always be somone selling Lav Orp eggs lol.
You will love Lav Orps though. The roos would all fight over who got to get up on my lap first and cuddle. If I sat down anywhere in the yard, here the fat fluffy Lavs would cone running lol. I used to have one roo that let all the chicks ride around on his back
I think after Orps I wanna hatch some silkies and maybe sizzle silkies or polish...They look like little Muppet Babies

Loved my lav orps. They sold really well and were such beautiful birds. I’m almost sorry I sold my flock when I decided to keep more bantams.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

The problem with a staggered hatch is that each time you put in cold eggs the incubator has to compensate. I wonder if it warms up the new eggs to slowly or overheats the eggs already in the incubator. Whatever it is it seems like all the eggs suffer... It makes my hatch rate go down.

 

[john_wrightson2003]

Sorry, but it sounds to me like you are hatching more than you can handle.

Oh yea, definitely, but I love it!

 

[Kat MacK]

Jumping in: trying, or rather, kind of accidentally doing a staggered hatch. See, someone unexpectedly gave me three OD eggs and nine OD/bantam Cochin cross eggs, but I'm pretty sure all the crosses are infertile (based on the previous batch they gave me) ... so OF COURSE, being the responsible chicken owner that I am, I didn't want to end up with one pitiful surviving chick by itself. SO, I went looking for local hatching eggs while starting the ODs, and it took three days to get my hands on some that were bantams (we only raise bantams). So the second half of the hatch has two bantam barnyard crosses...and ten EEs that are large fowl. Looks like we're raising large fowl again (first time in four years). All so three OD eggs, if they yielded a live chick, wouldn't go lonely.

But hey, it's our first time hatching EEs, and there were blue, sage, olive, dark brown, and cream eggs in the batch, so heaven knows what the resulting chickens will look like, or lay. Plus, the staggered hatch. Hatch dates approx 10/19 (ODs have been hatching Day 19 for us) and 10/21-23. Fun adventure!

 

[john_wrightson2003]

Jumping in: trying, or rather, kind of accidentally doing a staggered hatch. See, someone unexpectedly gave me three OD eggs and nine OD/bantam Cochin cross eggs, but I'm pretty sure all the crosses are infertile (based on the previous batch they gave me) ... so OF COURSE, being the responsible chicken owner that I am, I didn't want to end up with one pitiful surviving chick by itself. SO, I looking for local hatching eggs while starting the ODs, and it took three days to get my hands on some that were bantams (we only raise bantams). So the second half of the hatch has two bantam barnyard crosses...and ten EEs that are large fowl. Looks like we're raising large fowl again (first time in four years). All so three OD eggs, if they yielded a live chick, wouldn't go lonely.

But hey, it's our first time hatching EEs, and there were blue, sage, olive, dark brown, and cream eggs in the batch, so heaven knows what the resulting chickens will look like, or lay. Plus, the staggered hatch. Hatch dates approx 10/19 (ODs have been hatching Day 19 for us) and 10/21-23. Fun adventure!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I'm somewhere between day 10 and 12... I dunno how much the power outages have delayed this hatch yet, but I do know I'm not even half way! So... how's everyone elses clutches looking? Anything eggciting happening?

 

[john_wrightson2003]

Well as of last night, the eggs are acookin...