Setting Eggs Sept. 24th-Oct. 4th-Last Hatch of the Year. Anyone care to join me?

[MarineCorpFarmr]

lol.

 

[ChickenPeep]

Day 11, halfway there.

 

[Brookhavens]

My daughter saw a silkie today. Now she wants her own. May I ask where you got your silkies here in WA?

I got the eggs from Catdance Silkies. Her Silkies are absolutely gorgeous. Karen is wonderful to deal with her name on BYC is kelar. She usually has an ad for eggs in the Buy,Sell, Trade part of BYC.

 

[Brookhavens]

Picanins eggs arrived today. The box was a little dented on the side:
As I unwrapped one of the eggs, I noticed that that the paper towel was a little wet. I looked down at the carton and saw:

It turned out that 4 of the eggs in this carton were cracked (3 pure production reds & 1 EE/PR):

I set the remaining eggs in another carton to set overnight. I will put them in the incubator within 24 hours of receiving them. What I am adding to the incubator is: 6 EE/PR, 1 PR & 1 Australorp/PR.

Looks like the PO strikes again. I have taken pictures of every batch of shipped eggs I got except for this one. Did you candle to see what shape the air cells were in?

 

[Brookhavens]

Day 9 on my batch, candeled them this morning, 34 out of 39 doing well. 2 look kind of iffy, will candle again soon and see how things are going !

WOW!! Nice numbers so far.

 

[ChickenPeep]

Day 11, halfway there.

 

[Brookhavens]

Set this group yesterday (10/3). first set in the incubator i built, so fingers crossed. lol.


overhead before i closed up the box





through the window

What kind of eggs are they so I can add them to the main post? I am using 2 homemade incubators too. I made mine from Igloo coolers and so far they are working great. I just set 24 Silkie eggs last night and the temp was up to 99.5 within an hour.

 

[Brookhavens]

...I love this thread...So much going on!!! That orange silkie is just awesome. Sorry to hear that dent on the box though ...love love love all the pics. ...Hubby and me had a discussion on the incubating of the eggs....talk about as the egg turn drama lol....Anyway, His new supervisor use to be in the production chick business and told the hubby that i need to turn the eggs every 2 hours the minute put them in there. I told him that they are shipped eggs and they need to rest because of there journey over here. Granted the guy was in the chick business and his hatch success rate is up in the 80-90% range. Those eggs he had probable didn't have that far of a distant...hubby just told me just don't screw it up...good grief never butthead this much about this before with chickens. This is turning into a soap opera.

The eggs the supervisor was hatching were probably laid right on the same property by production hens and didn't have to travel by air (think altitude and pressure from the plane taking off, flying and landing.), through the distribution centers and truck rides. Many of us only turn the eggs 3-5 times a day. There is no way that we could do it every 2 hours unless you had an automatic turner. If it will make your DH feel any better, right before I started turning my shipped RIR eggs last night I broke down and candled 2/15 of them. These eggs have been in the incubator for 7 full days without any turning and the embryos and veining are FABULOUS. Granted that is only 2 of the eggs. I will candle all of them on day 10 to see what the remainder look like. I really, really want this batch of eggs to hatch so I am trying not to handle them as much as I have with other batches in the past.

 

[Brookhavens]

well, last night i candled the 1st round of my staggered hatches. out of 5 mille fleur eggs: 2 were clear (possible damage while shipped), 1 quitter (blood ring), and 2 well developed chicks. out of 10 call duck eggs: 3 clear (possible damage while shipped), 7 developing (good veins). the mille fleur d'uccle eggs are due to hatch around the 11th. call ducks take 26 days so they'll be a little longer than the chickens.

c'mon little one....

I have no experience hatching duck eggs but I do remember seeing something about the humidity having to be higher for them. When momma duck gets off and goes swimming she comes back with wet feathers and lays on her eggs so it made sense for me. Are you going to use a separate hatcher for the eggs as they go into lockdown?

 

[Roxanneinla]

The eggs the supervisor was hatching were probably laid right on the same property by production hens and didn't have to travel by air (think altitude and pressure from the plane taking off, flying and landing.), through the distribution centers and truck rides. Many of us only turn the eggs 3-5 times a day. There is no way that we could do it every 2 hours unless you had an automatic turner. If it will make your DH feel any better, right before I started turning my shipped RIR eggs last night I broke down and candled 2/15 of them. These eggs have been in the incubator for 7 full days without any turning and the embryos and veining are FABULOUS. Granted that is only 2 of the eggs. I will candle all of them on day 10 to see what the remainder look like. I really, really want this batch of eggs to hatch so I am trying not to handle them as much as I have with other batches in the past.

Awesome with your eggs ...i tried tell him that his eggs didn't have to travel far. When that day seven come i am going to use a book to raise the egg tray level since no automatic egg turner..