Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[cheeka]

lindz....so... you best be uploading a chick album on FB!!! those pics are fabulous! and I particularly love the littlest farm kid's pic where she's walking down the wooden path...

it was a gorgeous afternoon here, temps in the mid 60's and sunny! just annoyed that I discovered upon returning home that my cousin has come over and borrowed my truck while I was at work! the noive! ("nerve" with a heavy NY accent) seriously...

that's just not right. then he comes back and proceeds to cough and sneeze all over the place... and to top it all off, he helped himself to a dozen eggs on his way out the door!

free range time was wonderfully relaxing & very therapeutic in as far as letting go of my annoyance about my cousin. and I got 18 Eggs today.

I sold 8 dozen eggs today and picked up 3 new customers because some folks got a peek at the eggs I delivered.

 

[lindz8504]

lindz....so... you best be uploading a chick album on FB!!! those pics are fabulous! and I particularly love the littlest farm kid's pic where she's walking down the wooden path... Done!

it was a gorgeous afternoon here, temps in the mid 60's and sunny! just annoyed that I discovered upon returning home that my cousin has come over and borrowed my truck while I was at work! the noive! ("nerve" with a heavy NY accent) seriously...

that's just not right. then he comes back and proceeds to cough and sneeze all over the place... and to top it all off, he helped himself to a dozen eggs on his way out the door!

That would aggravate me....

free range time was wonderfully relaxing & very therapeutic in as far as letting go of my annoyance about my cousin. and I got 18 Eggs today.

I sold 8 dozen eggs today and picked up 3 new customers because some folks got a peek at the eggs I delivered.

WOOT!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: I don't know either! my BBWs I put out around 5 weeks or so I think.

Lindz, love the pics!!

 

[lindz8504]

I just had my first ever incubator hatch.... I set 33 eggs. 3 were clears from the first candle, but I left them until the next. At lock-down we saw development and movement in all the eggs, with a couple that were dark and we weren't sure, so we left them in. 10 chicks hatched- one died because yolk hadn't been absorbed, so 9 healthy chicks. 2 pipped, but never zipped. The rest did nothing.
Egg-topsied this morning because the incubator was starting to smell funky. Out of 19 eggs left, 1 quit pretty early-you could see development, but not a formed chick. 1- quit early, but had a nearly formed chick, but it was small. The rest had fully formed chicks, several were malpositioned, 2-3 had pipped internally, but MOST had a LOT of fluid. So I am thinking that humidity was too high sometime during lock-down. What do you all think? I didn't take pictures because it was only me doing it, and I couldn't do both. Not sure what I am going to do next round.... I have 2 dozen Salmon Faverolles eggs coming around the 21st.... I don't want to screw up that hatch, because the eggs aren't exactly cheap! So...for those of you that incubate regularly.... What did I do wrong?


I put eggs in the turner fat end up. Did NOT add any water, and humidity stayed between 16-25%, temp stayed 99* (therm. just did whole degrees...) I candled at day 7, 14, 18. I "twisted" the eggs in the turner once every day or two so they were turned more than one way. At lockdown I dropped temp down to 97* and bumped humidity up to 60%.... It did get up to 74% at one point when all the chicks started hatching.... I'm thinking that may have been the problem....



Ok, I know this reads kinda funny since you all know what is going on... but I'm going to copy and paste into the incubation thread. I'm lazy this morning, and only wanted to type it once....

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Lindz, if you get any answers on the incubation thread, I'd love to know what they say. You know I haven't incubated, and if I can stay strong (and get a broody), I probably never will. But I am interested in embryo development and try to pay attention when these problems come up.

The only thing I can think of it's that's it's been a really funky year, maybe from the severe weather?

Seems so many people are reporting poor hatches, from shipped eggs and their own. More than I've heard in the last two seasons. Hope your SFs will do okay.

 

[BullChick]

I read something last week that I had not seen before. High humidity during lock down will not drown your chicks. It is only high humidity during incubation.
For more answers, Sally Sunshine does have a million pictures and explanations for you. Look her up, and check out her hatching link.

Congratulations on the nine healthy chicks!!

 

[BullChick]

 

[Scrambles55]

We are back from the fishing trip. The weather was beautiful! We caught a few small mouth bass and I caught a beautiful Walleye. My biggest so far.

Wayyyy too many ticks out there. We must have pick at least 7 ticks off of my DH and myself... plus the dog. Today on the drive hone, I felt a tick on my head and we had to pull over to pull it out of my scalp.

Came home to 6 eggs and Rumples is still being a great broody.

 

[Scrambles55]

I just had my first ever incubator hatch.... I set 33 eggs. 3 were clears from the first candle, but I left them until the next. At lock-down we saw development and movement in all the eggs, with a couple that were dark and we weren't sure, so we left them in. 10 chicks hatched- one died because yolk hadn't been absorbed, so 9 healthy chicks. 2 pipped, but never zipped. The rest did nothing.
Egg-topsied this morning because the incubator was starting to smell funky. Out of 19 eggs left, 1 quit pretty early-you could see development, but not a formed chick. 1- quit early, but had a nearly formed chick, but it was small. The rest had fully formed chicks, several were malpositioned, 2-3 had pipped internally, but MOST had a LOT of fluid. So I am thinking that humidity was too high sometime during lock-down. What do you all think? I didn't take pictures because it was only me doing it, and I couldn't do both. Not sure what I am going to do next round.... I have 2 dozen Salmon Faverolles eggs coming around the 21st.... I don't want to screw up that hatch, because the eggs aren't exactly cheap! So...for those of you that incubate regularly.... What did I do wrong?


I put eggs in the turner fat end up. Did NOT add any water, and humidity stayed between 16-25%, temp stayed 99* (therm. just did whole degrees...) I candled at day 7, 14, 18. I "twisted" the eggs in the turner once every day or two so they were turned more than one way. At lockdown I dropped temp down to 97* and bumped humidity up to 60%.... It did get up to 74% at one point when all the chicks started hatching.... I'm thinking that may have been the problem....



Ok, I know this reads kinda funny since you all know what is going on... but I'm going to copy and paste into the incubation thread. I'm lazy this morning, and only wanted to type it once....

Congrats on your hatch!

 

[chickenlindz]

Great job on your catch scrambles!!