Ready Set Hatch! Set 3/17 Hatch 4/7 - ready now! Hatch-Along

[bamachicks8]

Oh my gosh, you guys have been busy!  But I've been sick and missed a few days.  Still sick but well enough to get off the couch and sit at the computer for a while. 

That's a touching story Wrightsx4.  Go #10!!!  I candled again at day 10 to get rid of the unfertilized eggs and found two more quitters, all in the coronation sussex department.  I have two of the seven left.   I'll be lucky if one hatches and even luckier if it were a pullet.  We'll see.  Saw movement in all five of the marans eggs and all six of our mutt eggs so good news there. 

interesting were your eggs shipped or collected from your own chickens

 

[Bens-Hens]

Very happy for you Pam, #10 still doing well!

Tonight is our Day 14 candle. Clear will come out, hope to see 13 large dark masses still. Some movement would also be satisfying to see.

Then, just 3 short sleeps before the transfer to the Hova-bator (and last candle) for the first part of our staggered hatch. A week exactly until our DIY incubator has it's first hatch as the lavender Araucana reach that special time! Can't wait to see who arrives.

This is supposed to be my last hatch this season (if it is successful!) so we are hoping for the best result.

Good luck to everyone else!

 

[hokankai]

Just candled everyone and I had one Day 12/13 quitter, one of the barred Orps. Everyone else looked great! So far we're at 41/52. Woohoo!

 

[hokankai]

So yesterday was CRAZY. I was sitting outside with my chickens and reading a book when I heard the chickens start squawking and flapping. I got up and found a coyote with a mouthful of my rooster's tail! I started yelling/howling and running after it as fast as I could in my boots and managed to scare him off pretty good. My poor rooster lost all his tail feathers but two sorry sickle feathers at the tip of his tail. Thankfully his wounds are relatively minor, considering the alternative, just 3 lacerations from the coyotes canines. I am so grateful I was out there, otherwise Duke would have performed the ultimate rooster duty of sacrificing himself for the hens. I am also thankful that he is a huge Orpington and had a full tail that the coyote grabbed rather than this back. He's currently separated and being treated but is doing well

Here is what he looked like before:



And after...LOL




Helping me research first aid

 

[Bens-Hens]

Wowzers!

Everyone raves about how dangerous Oz is, yet we don't have many of these problem animals!

He's a good looking rooster.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Oh my goodness! These woods animals are daring this spring! Coyotes usually avoid people - maybe it didn't see/smell you (not sure which sense they rely on!) I'm so glad he's going to be okay.
Btw, he's still handsome

 

[Wrightsx4]

Day 14. so yesterday my eggs started putting off some heat! I have a thermometer in a water wiggler - registering normal temp. My other thermometers measure shell temps in various spots around the incubated - those were reading 101+ where they've always read 98.5-100. I bumped the temp down a little. I guess because my thermostat is below the eggs maybe it's not registering their heat...?

 

[ladyrsanti]

interesting were your eggs shipped or collected from your own chickens

The mutt eggs are mine, the marans were picked up from a hatchery and the coronation sussex were picked up from a local BYCer.

 

[maryhysong]

So yesterday was CRAZY. I was sitting outside with my chickens and reading a book when I heard the chickens start squawking and flapping. I got up and found a coyote with a mouthful of my rooster's tail! I started yelling/howling and running after it as fast as I could in my boots and managed to scare him off pretty good. My poor rooster lost all his tail feathers but two sorry sickle feathers at the tip of his tail. Thankfully his wounds are relatively minor, considering the alternative, just 3 lacerations from the coyotes canines. I am so grateful I was out there, otherwise Duke would have performed the ultimate rooster duty of sacrificing himself for the hens. I am also thankful that he is a huge Orpington and had a full tail that the coyote grabbed rather than this back. He's currently separated and being treated but is doing well

Here is what he looked like before:



And after...LOL




Helping me research first aid

nice looking boy; glad he wasn't lunch!

 

[Bens-Hens]

Day 14 candle complete.

The five clears (aka heat sinks) were removed. At the Day 7 candle there was also a suspicious egg, it had some shape to it but seemed clearer than the developing eggs, but murkier than the clears. We had hopes that it was perhaps in a cold spot and just a bit behind. Was removed this time (pics below).

All up we are down to 12 from the 18 we started with.

Here are a couple of pictures of the suspicious one we had, both in and out of the shell. Any help as to what this is/caused it would be great thanks.

Our clears,
1 Araucana
1 A/Lorp
4 SPW


No. 6 Had this shape to it, we thought it may be a shell anomoly.





When we cracked it open, it was very runny, not smelly (none were) no bloody but did have a long stringy membrane that I can only assume was the part around the yolk.


The other five looked like normal eggs, just warm and a bit 'runnier' no blood or smell so we assume they were just non fertile or very early deaths.