Setting eggs on Thurs. Nov. 10th - Any buddies? Hatch due Dec. 1st

[bikerchic]

Just messaged you back.

21 into lockdown. 3 breeders, catdance, simplyspendid, and jlynn. The last two are showgirls.

 

[cmom]

Here is the latest hatch.

 

[CarolJ]

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WOW! That's a lot of babies! Congratulations!

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

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I'm sorry about your 5 that didn't make it. But, congratulations on the 10 fuzzies.
So far, I have 4 hatched, 1 zipping, 5 pipped, and 3 no pips. I'm on pins and needles.

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

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Go cmom go. That's a lot of cuties.

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

How does the song go??? I'm so excited, I just can't hid it, bum bum!!!

I had 25 BA eggs at lockdown on the 27th Sun. On Wed. the 30th at 0100 the hatch began and lasted until 2200 last night with 14 BA's happy and healthy. There are 11 eggs left with no pips. My question is how long do I wait until they could possibly explode???
All the eggs were shipped from the infamous Hot2Pot and I am a happy camper with the results so far!

How is hatch rate calculated? If you go by original amount set, say 40. You don't even know if they are fertile until you candle, so can lockdown be used for the amount calculated against the actual hatch at the end. That seems fair to me, but nothing is fair in love, war, and chicken addiction.

Pics will follow when I figure that out.

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

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What I do is calculate by the amount I paid for. Like my last hatch, I paid for 12, received 15, and hatched 6. So, I consider that a 50% hatch rate. Otherwise, if they were from my own flock, I would calculate by what I started with. This is just how I would do it.

 

[dwegg]

So I paid for 18...got 24...and hatched 10...so that would give me a 56% hatch rate

BUT.... 9 were not fertile...? so i count from what actually made it to lockdown...

so 15 made it to lockdown and I hatched 10...so that gives me a 67% hatch rate...

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

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So if those 15 hatched. That measure would make it 100%. I guess it depends on whether you are measuring for your success rate or the seller's good/bad ratio.

 

[Evelle]

duckling # 5 just made it out

waiting for it to fluff out to put in the brooder with the others..
kinda worried... so far ive had them hatch in twos and the grouped in to those twos (maybe to help keep warm... but they run away from the light???)
where is this little loner going to go