Set more duck and chicken eggs

[Sweetfolly]

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Congrats!

I candled my turkey eggs last night (Day 10), and all but one look clear.

I can't tell what's going on in the brown chicken eggs though - I know at least one of them is developing, but the rest are too murky - they aren't the darkest eggs, but they have pretty thick shells.

Of my duck eggs that are in the same incubator, I have at least 9 out of 13 developing (and the clears were test eggs that came from a pen that I've never seen the drake mount the ducks, so that explains that) - so I whatever went wrong with the turkey eggs must have happened before they came into my hands. My aunt (and her friend that I'm incubating the eggs for) is going to be so disappointed!

 

[MagsC]

Hows the hatching going for everyone!! I havent got on this thread in a bit due to a very busy week.
I set guinea eggs on Friday and just set bantam cochins, d'uccles, seramas, silkies and blue scaled quail.

 

[Sweetfolly]

My Indian Runner started laying again!

I set 5 more of her eggs on Monday, and I've been collecting to set another batch next week - I dropped today's egg on the floor and broke it this morning!

Oh well, hopefully she'll be laying all through the summer now, and there will be plenty more eggs.

The turkey eggs are all clear. They're still in the 'bator, and I'm still turning them for my aunt's sake (she's still holding out hope!), but nothing's going to come of them.

I have some mixed-breed brown layer eggs going into lockdown tomorrow, and some Silkies, Japanese, Polish, and Cochins due a week from today!

 

[MagsC]

I am sorry about your turkey eggs.

Any chance of trying again with a different set of turkey eggs?
Late yesterday I had two little yellow ducklings hatch, they are Pekin/Blue Swedish cross and adorable!! They are already getting along with Pilgrim gosling "Lucy" and Indian Runner/Blue Swedish duckling "Cuddles" (I was going to name him something different but alas, no such luck, my daughter named him first,lol). I havent introduced them to Happy and Grey Duck (the older ducklings born in Feb.) and wont for quite a while yet.
Unless they hatch early this Tuesday is hatch day for ducklings and mottled bantam cochins.
Annarie, sounds like you have quite a variety going to hatch a week from today! I am interested in someday getting Japanese eggs too but right now am up to my eyeballs in babies/incubating/hatching. Eventually though!!

 

[MagsC]

The Indian Runner mix ducklings are hatching.

So far, four out and two pipped. I expect more will hatch but if not, I am happy with six little cuties! The next ones are due May 28th, eggs from the same ducks.
So far my mottled cochin bantams are doing nothing.

Thats disappointing. Not giving up yet. I think it might be a combination incubator and humidity/temp monitor though I did calibrate and have kept a very close eye on everything. It was this same incubator that I didnt get a hatch out of my pheasants, white cochins and another group of silkies so I may have to work with it and do a test run of mixed eggs.

 

[Sweetfolly]

MagsC - Did your Mottled Cochin eggs ever do anything? I have a Black Mottled Cochin pipped right now! I think only one of the Cochin eggs made it to lockdown, but I have them mixed up with the Silkie eggs, so I might end up with two or three of the Cochins - they're the only ones I'm planning on keeping, besides maybe the Japanese.

One of the Mottled Japanese is pipped right now too!

The standard mixed-breed eggs are still in the process of hatching. The eggs were pretty dark, and I think 5/9 were alive when they went into lockdown; so far I have 2 out and 1 pipped (they were due yesterday, but these are the eggs I had in the borrowed LG 'bator, and the temp was a bit high for the first week, and then a little low for the rest of the incubation period). They're really cute - jet black with little white chests:

All 5 of my Runner duck eggs that are due on Memorial Day look great, and I have 7 more saved up right now that will go into the incubator tomorrow morning (I'm hoping the duck lays me another egg tomorrow - she skipped today).

Oh - and it's a no-go with any more turkey eggs, at least from the same guy. All of his turkeys are on nests right now, but I'm beginning to wonder if any of his eggs are even fertile - he had a new Jack Russel Terrier puppy that was terrorizing the turkey tom, and the tom was limping the day I was there.

I don't really want any turkeys, so it was fun to try them out for free (even if it was disappointing), but I'm not going to go buy any from someone else.

 

[MagsC]

Hi Annarie!
Unfortunately my mottled cochin eggs didnt do a darn thing.

Or the white cochins.

We also had a power outage so I am keeping my fingers crossed for the one set of guinea eggs, porcelain d'uccles, silkies and seramas also due around the 28th. With the other duck incubator I have had nothing but trouble and not expecting much from that.
I think I am going to have to buy a new heating element for that one, might as well buy two because I have another incubator out of commision that needs one too.Sigh.
Good news is the other set of guinea eggs looks good so far and my aunt brought over some more duck eggs.
Unless I incubate more duck eggs for her and maybe banties, I am slowing down on the hatching for the time being and concentrating on what I have already.

 

[Sweetfolly]

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On no!

I ended up with 2 Mottled Cochins, 2 Mottled Japanese, and a White Crested Black Polish from my 14 eggs I got in the April Egg Swap.

Of the mixed-breed eggs from my aunt's friend, 4/9 hatched - but, one of the poor little things hatched with an unhealed navel and a little bulge of intestine sticking out. I tried pushing it back in and putting a band-aid on it, but the chick only lived for four days - I think it might have been blind too, because if hardly ever opened its eyes, and I couldn't get it to eat.

So, I have 3 healthy chicks left from those eggs - it's a bit early, but I suspect they're a little trio of one boy and two girls.

I'm slowing down now too. I have a Dark Campbell duckling that just hatched yesterday, a bunch more Dark Campbells and one mixed-breed duck egg (it's either Hookbill/Khaki Campbell or Hookbill/Jumbo Pekin) in the 'bator due this Sunday - and then I'm DONE for the year with everything except my Indian Runners - I have 13 of their eggs in the 'bator now (one batch due Memorial Day, another batch due June 8th, and I'll be setting another batch of 7 eggs tomorrow), and I'm going to keep setting their eggs every week through the first week in June to see what fun colors I hatch out. My last hatch, all the ducklings were the same silvery-buff color, but I sold some eggs to someone else, and she hatched one silvery-buff one and two of the CUTEST very light dusty-yellow ones! So now I have to keep hatching until I get a few of those lighter colored ones to raise up and see how they turn out.

 

[MagsC]

Yeah, I was pretty disappointed about both those sets of banty cochin eggs.

At least I still have my black ones that hatched.
I dont know if you read on the forum where the last hatch of ducks, I hatched out one in my bra because of a power outage,lol.
He is doing great.(Indian Runner cross)
Of that hatch, I had a woman come and buy eight of them. I dont know if it is hereditary but they are the most beautiful, friendly little ducklings.
I lied.....I posted about getting banty eggs because I am going to be testing yet another incubator. I put banties because I think I am only going to be keeping a few standards, along with my ducks and quail.

 

[MagsC]

Even after the power outage....I have a SERAMA chick!!!! They arent actually due until tomorrow so hopefully more will hatch (d'uccles, seramas, silkies and eight guinea eggs) He is a NOISY little thing!!!!