Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[sonew123]

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go for the chicks! well worth the $ Go to Foleyswaterfowl.com they are members of BYC great people great communication and the birds are gorgeous!! Alot of breeders on here started off with Foley's BLRW's

 

[sonew123]

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you 2 hours from me:-( Otherwise Id say heck yah! I do have split lav silkie eggs up for auction right now? Its hard I have 2 broodys 2 and I want another broody!

 

[sonew123]

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I don't think the eggs are very hardy. Out of 9 I got 2, gave them to Nava. Nava had multiple BLRW eggs from different members and did not do well either. Personally I think large mutts travel the best. I hope those SLB's ship well, LOL

Yeah, I've noticed that not many folks have much luck with the BLRW's on this thread. With all these experienced hatchers I would think it's probably something with the breed. The eggs came from too many places, to many different bators, etc. for me to think otherwise.

I think they are just very fragile.. If you read and look at breeders expweriences they do great-I mean I got mine sent to me from 2 different places and al arrived happy and healthy-haven't lost one-then I brought Kristen hers-ans I believe shes doing great too...So I think it's all in the traveling and jostling??? That is exactly why I bought birds so that when I want to incubate those eggs all I have to do is walk down to my girls ad pluck their eggs!

 

[hoppy]

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I find with the BLR, I set them and pretty much leave them alone. I don't candle but I do check heart rates (I have a doppler), I do this once, pull any without heartbeats at 2 weeks. of my own, I'm getting 100% hatch, of shipped eggs, greater then 80% (only one set is blr and they are due tomorrow so they don't count). I will say when I was starting my flock, I bought alot but didn't get many to hatch. I stopped buying off of ebay/ and another egg site. one thing about wyandottes in general, the rosecomb decreases fertility, straight combs increase it so that could be part of the problem. I used to freak when I saw single combs, now I don't.
wthchrist, could it be something like your incubator not having enough or too much humitiy at the end or being opened too often?
set them and forget them. I hope you last bunch are girls not boys.

 

[hoppy]

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I am so sorry Nava! I know how that can feel. so sorry

 

[klf73]

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I find with the BLR, I set them and pretty much leave them alone. I don't candle but I do check heart rates (I have a doppler), I do this once, pull any without heartbeats at 2 weeks. of my own, I'm getting 100% hatch, of shipped eggs, greater then 80% (only one set is blr and they are due tomorrow so they don't count). I will say when I was starting my flock, I bought alot but didn't get many to hatch. I stopped buying off of ebay/ and another egg site. one thing about wyandottes in general, the rosecomb decreases fertility, straight combs increase it so that could be part of the problem. I used to freak when I saw single combs, now I don't.
wthchrist, could it be something like your incubator not having enough or too much humitiy at the end or being opened too often?
set them and forget them. I hope you last bunch are girls not boys.

OMG Hoppy! I never thought about using my doppler! That's brilliant! I have one from this last pregnancy(nothing real fancy). Does it work well? At what age can you actually hear their heartbeat?

Nava, sorry about your birds

 

[sonew123]

Hoppy

what kind of eggs do you have besides BLRW??? I know you said you wanted to trade but I dont have any space to take them and I dont plan on incubating anymore this year:-( But Can you do a "rain check" for me?? I have split Lav silkie eggs--thats all the silkie eggs I have

 

[wthchristi]

Good Morning all! Happy Mom's Day!

With the BLRW to be honest, I was horrible at setting and forgetting. I thought that may have been the problem with them and the last batch of coronation (only got 2), so this time I only touched the twice through the incubation period and I am allowing myself one peak per day through hatch. (Soooooo hard). This morning I have 3 more coronation and 5 orps out- an AMAZING difference in hatch rates. The coronation eggs were from Keesmom again.

I learned my lesson- It is already hard on the eggs to ship to Seattle, so NO MORE TOUCHING THE EGGS THROUGH INCUBATION.

Hoppy- Your eggs were great, I am the one who screwed it up. Every hatch I am getting better though.

Thank you for the Foley's contact. I am just going to order some chicks- I think it will cost me less in the long run.

 

[klf73]

wow, my idea for speckled hen's new title won

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4142365#p4142365

eta- I feel so special

 

[klf73]

just wanted to ost a pic of my "little man" because he makes me laugh so