Setting Today - Who's With Me?

[sonjab314]

I locked down this morning with my first hatch. I'm super excited.

 

[PriceFamilyFarms]

locked down and waiting....

 

[FenDruadin]

Good luck!! Wish I had that many bators. Wish I had that much space to raise the babies!

How are those four little Runner eggs coming? And the Welsummers?

I just put 21 duck eggs in the bator, plus four little quail eggs (on behalf of my son--long story...). I also had to hand off a half dozen three-week-incubated eggs to a friend because my broody disappeared (I now believe she was nabbed by a predator

) and I'm leaving town in the morning. Sad to miss the hatch, but it's the first time for her family, so they're excited.

Can't wait to hear how your hatch goes!

 

[flgardengirl]

I locked down at 4:30 pm today. I've had 3 power outages this incubation due to the stupid thunderstorms. I'm hoping it didn't hurt anything.
Congrats to everyone for making it this far

I'm really looking forward to seeing and hearing about everyone's different kinds of babies!

 

[PriceFamilyFarms]

I candled the runner eggs and 2 of the 4 look good so far

and there are 6 of the 8 welsummers that look good so far.

We poured the foundation for the new hatchery today and the steel building was delivered this afternoon...the construction crew starts putting it all together on Tuesday and they say 5 working days to erect it.

I lost one of the 11 older babies to the heat...I had them in one of the new pens and they were all swimming then about an hour later when I checked on them they all had went in the coop and the poor guy was just laying in the grass right in the sun. I took him inside and he passed

Sunday's hatch is going to be crazy - biggest hatch yet and I have all the brooders ready to go.

 

[FenDruadin]

Glad to hear it's moving along! I'm sorry about your older baby, but I have come to accept that some losses are just going to happen. I hate it, and try to minimize it, but it still happens. Could have been heat, could have been he ate something stupid, could have been an infection. Anything, really.

I'm surprised only two eggs are looking good. I've had 95+% fertility rates all year so far. I wonder if the trip was hard on them? I'm glad the two are doing well though--I sure hope they both hatch--one lonely duckling is sad! Of course, you could probably brood it with some other birds. I had a singleton hatch recently from under a broody (who kicked them out of the nest right at the end and started brooding fresh eggs--rascal), but I was able to put her in with the two I retained from the group I sold to you (I think that's right... I get confused about which hatch is which...). Anyway, they're two weeks apart, and it's super cute to see the little one snuggled up under the other two with just her head sticking out and resting on someone else's back. Also cute to see the older two panting like crazy from the heat because they're determined to be with the little one, and the little one is right under the heat lamp.

Fingers crossed for your hatch this weekend--

 

[cubalaya]

we have pippage!

 

[sonjab314]

 

[Cattitude]

I went into lockdown on my 8 guinea eggs last night. Just you watch: those critters will choose to hatch during the BBQ on the 4th!

 

[flgardengirl]

I have a pip! Whoohoo, it is my day 20...never had them pip this early. They say they want out to join the 4th of July celebrations.