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

[scflock]

That they are fertile?

Eggs, or women?

 

[WVduckchick]

How do you always show up at parade time?

 

[dan26552]

That's disturbing, BR

I knew you'd like it

 

[scflock]

Ok people, we've seen a few of these so we know how it works. I can't put them all in one post, so BR will tie them together when the parade is complete. Please hold your applause until the end...

 

[dan26552]

How do you always show up at parade time?

Its a talent I have

 

[RubyNala97]

So happy for you! Why don't you go get them? I drove almost 3 hours each way. You are going to get some good silkies eventually! I have not thrown away my clears yet. I think I'll try to blow some out. Thanks for mentioning that!

I would drive but I have an 8th month old baby that HATES the car!! We went to the beach last month, a 1 hour trip ended up taking 2 hours because he was hysterical and I had to pull over 3 times! I just couldn't imagine a 3 hour trip with this stinker!!

agree with WalnutHill, @kwhites634 Calibration is key, high humidity and low temps = bad hatch. I run all my bators at 100.5 to 101 until lockdown, I have cleaner hatches and you can look in the shell for proof of great incubation, you will not have any goop in the shells and the veining/membrane is clear light pink in the shell after hatch, chicks will not have any umbilical goop remaining, just the tiny string at hatch!! I decrease to 99.5 and first pip I lower to 98-99. Never look at humidity as a number, its all about weight loss in the eggs, be weighing or watching air cells, it will vary from home to home, your current climate, bator to bator, type fowl, etc. No one can tell you what humidity you need, only you know what you started with as far as weight loss, and what you have at 7 10 14 weeks!

And this is with a forced air incubator? I've been thinking of lowering the temp during hatch time. It doesn't delay the rest of the eggs when you lower it for the first pip? And do you lower it so there is less heat shock for the chick?

Clean, not odd shaped, fresh real eggs. What about air cell size & shape?

Air cells on fresh eggs are nice and small. Just make sure they are not detached or loose. They should be firm in place. It's not common to get a loose/detached air cell with home eggs but it does happen.

My oddly shaped eggs never develop

I have one right now in the incubator that is oblong, kinda torpedo-ish. I marked it down when I first got them and was sure it would not develop but sure enough it is!! I don't know how the chick will do if it keeps developing.

I know you have a little one, but I'd really think about driving to get them too~ But I'm a sucker for a road trip.

I know! See my reply above to WV~Ugh!!

I have been collecting my duck eggs for the past week. I have them in a styrofoam egg container sitting on the floor near the bator. I checked to make sure I had the air cells up (hard for me to tell with Peking eggs) and found 1 cracked. Also found one with a rounded heartish shaped cell, not sure if I should keep it or not. Also will be getting some more eggs from DH coworker.

Good luck!!!

 

[scflock]

This parade has a soundtrack, and the Thundering Herd will be playing

 

[dan26552]

Ok people, we've seen a few of these so we know how it works. I can't put them all in one post, so BR will tie them together when the parade is complete. Please hold your applause until the end...

 

[scflock]

 

[sideWing]

I liked snow birds barrels for show birds been thinking about doing that . it seemed like a good ideal . one bird one barrel . If their not with the hens they should grow faster to their full size.

I also think they start dropping their wings around the ladies for the little dance. My Marans tail and wings changed form when he started breeding.

I had a horrible day at work. I hate it when work gets in the way of my BYC time!

SC, you are probably already gone for the evening, but you can bring the old SC back when you see this... not much new to add really.

4 of 4 silver duckwing OEGBs hatched - 100% that is!! Yes!
1 of 1 silver sebright (although I just found out its not pure... oops) 100%
5 of 6 black tail buff Japanese - which is excellent considering they carry a lethal gene - I think 83.33% is pretty darn good!
My parade ruiner is the golden sebrights. 8 of 13. I didn't mention this before, because I chose to lock it down anyway, but I cracked one egg when I took the rails out. I hoped it would make it and I left it in because it deserved a chance. But it died. My bad. I still have the 3 in the Brinsea, and one has internally pipped and is still alive, but I think it is shrinkwrapped. I made an air hole, but hubby says after he culled my slipped-tendon baby, he won't do it again. So I'm more inclined to let this one die in shell if it can't get out on its own. I set at 10pm, so I "plan" to give it till 10 tonight. I highly doubt it will make it.

So overall, I guess I'm shy of your parade percentage. I'm sorry. You can bring the old SC back and smack me for not meeting your quota! But I'm pretty happy about the hatch and the Brinsea anyway. (I still think the BTBJ's are parade worthy on their own!)

I had to cull two that I helped out last hatch and I'm starting to be more SCish.

Ok, there are a few different ways to look at this:
18/24 is 75%, but the cracked egg should never have been counted, so 18/23 is 78%. Considering you drove over 2 hours to get the eggs, I think some leeway should be given in the "shipped" category. 75% is still a great hatch, and I know 85% is the hatch rate for unshipped parades, but a 2 hour drive for untested eggs is a new variable

Ok, now for the "creative" math:
By breed, 100%+100%+83.33%+61.5%= 344.83%
344.83/4= 86.2075. Over a point over parade qualification

If we go purely by breed, then you get two parades: One for the OEGBs and one for the silver sebright. Add those two 100% hatches to the black tailed Japanese, and that pulls the three breed average to 94.44%, and that equals three parades. Assuming those lazy goldens drop the averages of two of those breeds below 85%, I still owe you the third parade.


It's up to you and the thread. I won't throw it if you don't want it, but the numbers don't lie

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I have good news!! There is this small farm in NJ, that I found on brinsea's website (believe it or not) long before I ever hatched. Beautiful silkies and only 3 hours away. I wanted my very first eggs from there. When I contacted the woman she said she incubates what her girls lay but I could stay in touch. So every other month I shoot her an email (she's really nice). But she never has any extra eggs. Last night she messaged me that her incubator is full and her girls laid 11 eggs yesterday. She said if I wanted them, she'd collect whatever was laid this morning and send them out by lunch time today!!! So I have eggs coming!!

I use this all the time. Very few people get it, but when they do..... it's a big win.