She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[Fowling around]

Today is day 7 so we will be candling I will try and get some pics up

 

[cppeace]

Fabulous! Hope you see some nice veins, My remaining 8 duck eggs are all still moving good, the oldest is due in the next day or two. Looks to be close to internally pipping. I shall try and get pics when I'm sure it is. I keep calling it a him lol Is the only for sure mutt n the incubator the rest should be rouens. One or two other mutts may have slipped in but I don't believe so

 

[WVduckchick]

I totally said this exact same thing, though not as eloquently, on another post today!

What's up with blobby?? How many left to hatch?

Haha! Eloquent? Not me!

I can't believe the words came off of my fingers! I'm too technical, I know, and I wanted something concrete to tell me how to hatch these things. But sadly, there is soooooo much more to it! LOL

I'm very doubtful of blobby. Very doubtful of the rest of them, except hope for maybe one more to pip today. Last polish is about ready to zip. I'm watching remotely, so I'll let ya know!

Today is day 7 so we will be candling I will try and get some pics up

Great! Good luck!

Fabulous! Hope you see some nice veins, My remaining 8 duck eggs are all still moving good, the oldest is due in the next day or two. Looks to be close to internally pipping. I shall try and get pics when I'm sure it is. I keep calling it a him lol Is the only for sure mutt n the incubator the rest should be rouens. One or two other mutts may have slipped in but I don't believe so

Good luck to everyone!! I'm so glad I can breathe now...

 

[WVduckchick]

Oops, forgot... my 2nd polish hatched just before midnight. So I have 3 cochin and 2 polish, and 1 polish on the way. Quickly candled when I removed the last one this morning, so I'm doubtful on the rest. Looks like my parade will get rained out!

I do have one splay leg and curled foot -- on the fella that pipped on the wrong side of the egg. And the first polish had a little pasty butt, but looks good this morning.

And since I take a million pictures, I'm going to share a few...

 

[WalnutHill]

Oops, forgot... my 2nd polish hatched just before midnight. So I have 3 cochin and 2 polish, and 1 polish on the way. Quickly candled when I removed the last one this morning, so I'm doubtful on the rest. Looks like my parade will get rained out!

I do have one splay leg and curled foot -- on the fella that pipped on the wrong side of the egg. And the first polish had a little pasty butt, but looks good this morning.

And since I take a million pictures, I'm going to share a few...

Babies just make me want to smile all day.

 

[rossfam06]

Oops, forgot... my 2nd polish hatched just before midnight. So I have 3 cochin and 2 polish, and 1 polish on the way. Quickly candled when I removed the last one this morning, so I'm doubtful on the rest. Looks like my parade will get rained out!

I do have one splay leg and curled foot -- on the fella that pipped on the wrong side of the egg. And the first polish had a little pasty butt, but looks good this morning.

And since I take a million pictures, I'm going to share a few...

So Cute!!!! I cant wait for mine.

I got the eggs in last night and the stupid temp started to fluctuate. So I finally got it to where it needs to be and its holding about 102.4 in the front corner.

 

[scflock]

Not really sure what this is directed at. I have Red Tail Hawks, Fishers, Wolves, Coydogs, and Bears in my bush 50' away from my coop. Yes, I have 4 dogs also, but they don't fixate on the chickens unless I am in the pen. As for failing yet giving advice, I hope I haven't given advice about how to succeed where I failed. I could be wrong, but the space my main flock has does not contribute to my mistakes in the incubator...but if you think it has, pls correct me.

My mistake, I was reading posts on the phone and missed your post before the one I quoted, and I misunderstood what you were saying. When I read this: " See I can understand 10 sq.ft. of free-range space per bird...but not when they're fed from feeders and not allowed to free-range." I took it to mean you were saying that 10ft per bird was not sufficient if the birds were not allowed to free range. I got defensive, because my birds are never allowed to free range, but they are protected and healthy. Early on I read that confined birds needed 10sqft per bird of pen space. My smallest pen is 12x24 with 8 birds in it, so they have over 30sqft of space/bird, but I also plan to add more birds in the future. I thought you were saying that it wasn't fair to keep them penned and not allowed to free range. I didn't realize that you were saying you didn't have the room to have 10ft/ bird with 100 birds. I thought you were telling me I was wrong to pen them. I wasn't implying that had anything to do with incubation mistakes, I just meant that I thought you were looking for help, then criticizing others, but like I said, I misunderstood your post. I apologize.
So, with all of that being said, I think 208sqft of space for 100 birds is tight. My coops have more space/bird than that. I could possibly see that for meat birds, but thats going to be very cramped for layers. Do you have a spot where you can build a longer run, or is Hell's half acre all you are working with?

 

[scflock]

Oops, forgot... my 2nd polish hatched just before midnight. So I have 3 cochin and 2 polish, and 1 polish on the way. Quickly candled when I removed the last one this morning, so I'm doubtful on the rest. Looks like my parade will get rained out!

I do have one splay leg and curled foot -- on the fella that pipped on the wrong side of the egg. And the first polish had a little pasty butt, but looks good this morning.

And since I take a million pictures, I'm going to share a few...

Congratulations on the hatchers! Sorry about the no hatchers, and I hope you are able to correct the leg and toe issues on the others. That polish is adorable!
Did the yellow chested one wake you up with his crowing this morning? That little fellow should have a mustache and be smoking a cigar

 

[NTBugtraq]

...and then there were three...

...still can't catch the 3 Stooges eating from the food dish. I sprinkled some dry chick feed around the dish, see if that helps.

Meanwhile, the bator said 97.3F, spot checks on eggs say 99.5F, so I bumped the bator thermo up 1F. Humidity is 29% today.

 

[NTBugtraq]

My mistake, I was reading posts on the phone and missed your post before the one I quoted, and I misunderstood what you were saying. When I read this: " See I can understand 10 sq.ft. of free-range space per bird...but not when they're fed from feeders and not allowed to free-range." I took it to mean you were saying that 10ft per bird was not sufficient if the birds were not allowed to free range. I got defensive, because my birds are never allowed to free range, but they are protected and healthy. Early on I read that confined birds needed 10sqft per bird of pen space. My smallest pen is 12x24 with 8 birds in it, so they have over 30sqft of space/bird, but I also plan to add more birds in the future. I thought you were saying that it wasn't fair to keep them penned and not allowed to free range. I didn't realize that you were saying you didn't have the room to have 10ft/ bird with 100 birds. I thought you were telling me I was wrong to pen them. I wasn't implying that had anything to do with incubation mistakes, I just meant that I thought you were looking for help, then criticizing others, but like I said, I misunderstood your post. I apologize.
So, with all of that being said, I think 208sqft of space for 100 birds is tight. My coops have more space/bird than that. I could possibly see that for meat birds, but thats going to be very cramped for layers. Do you have a spot where you can build a longer run, or is Hell's half acre all you are working with?

Thanks, I figured things were a tad muddled...;-]

The run uses my house wall as one wall. I could turn it into a T-shaped affair. Alternatively, the layers don't have all of the structure on the house wall, there's a 2nd pen in there with no nesting boxes that I am using for the young ones, and, will keep the roos in there till they go to processing. If I took the wall separating those two coops, I'd have 340 sq.ft. of space. Then I'd have to build another structure to keep the roos and young ones in. At what age do you let young layer chicks mingle with your laying flock?