Second Time Hatching — shipped & backyard eggs

[cluckingheck]

one of the two remaining shipped eggs — the olive egger — and two chicks from my own flock have hatched. i think there’s only 4 of local dude’s eggs left, but I couldn’t tell if they had pipped yet or not

 

[cluckingheck]

well, the shipped welsummer egg hasn’t done anything yet, so it’s not looking great for that egg

 

[cluckingheck]

One of local dude’s chicks died trying to hatch. The membrane turned yellow/dried out and it got stuck. I should’ve helped it

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

One of local dude’s chicks died trying to hatch. The membrane turned yellow/dried out and it got stuck. I should’ve helped it

It happens. Try not to feel bad. More often than not people make it worse by interfering, so having a light hand when it comes to that is best.

 

[cluckingheck]

16 total chicks hatched from Emmy when 42 were originally set in it. Well, they were originally in the 2006 crapubator. 13 were infertile and the rest were quitters except for two that got dried to the membrane and died. I had to assist the last two with hatching because the membranes had also dried to them. I moved them into Hatch Batch ( that I had just cleaned ) because I was afraid they were going to get trampled by the chicks that had hatched hours before them. They’re moving around and chirping, so I think they’ll be okay.

assisted chicks:

the rest of the gang:

my only remaining shipped egg, the olive egger:

now watch them turn out to be a boy....the only chick I was keeping out of this batch lol

 

[cluckingheck]

honestly not that great

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

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honestly not that great

I feel you. My last few hatches have been awful, all with mailed eggs, so I'm sticking to local for the time being.

 

[cluckingheck]

I feel you. My last few hatches have been awful, all with mailed eggs, so I'm sticking to local for the time being.

8 of the eggs were shipped, but the rest were from my chickens and a local guy. I know the big loss in the last batch was from the 2006 crapubator spiking to 106f and dropping down to 95f.

 

[cluckingheck]

 

[cluckingheck]

Kind of curious... is it possible to tell my oliver egger’s gender? Meyer’s says they make the cross with a brown egg layer hen and a blue egg layer rooster. The lil guy hatched from a brown speckled egg and they have a chipmunk pattern down. Some of the pictures from reviews looks like the dad was a legbar, but Meyer’s says they have different breeding programs for their olive eggers. So, I don’t know, honestly. Genetics are weird. Guesses on possible parents? Right now I’m kind of thinking welsummer x legbar