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Got them in the hatcher now! One has pipped.
On a sad note, none of the Polish eggs hatched. I opened them today and they had developed but none had pipped and they were dead in the shell.
It is my firm belief that without proper nutrition a lot of chicks wind up this way. I have hatched for many other folks and from what I have experienced with their eggs, brought to me by them, that their hatches often do not do as well as mine.
Not saying I have the perfect recipe but, case in point, just last week I hatched for someone I had not hatched for before, she is the friend of my friend with the still air bator I use for her. Of the 2 dz she brought me from her pens, 2 eggs exploded in the bator (thank goodness it wasn't mine but I still had to clean the stinking thing!) and half did not develop and some did develop (about a dz) but did not pip. She also loses a lot of her chicks. I can't get much info out of her about how she feeds or collects her eggs but it obviously isn't anything like mine.
She is the one I got the Muscovy pair from, Herman and Penelope, parents to my lovely ladies, Kisses and Huggs. Penelope went broody a few months back but none of the eggs hatched so she decided to trade them to me and Penelope just hatched out all the eggs she was left with (from, I am guessing, a snake) and Huggs hatched out 3. So I am saying nutrition.
These Muscovy get laying mash, starter and sweet feed plus bugs and other treats.
Also, I want to add, this is the first time I have had eggs explode in a bator! Disgusting! My house is usually a wreck but that, I swear, is the worse stink ever to have been in my home!
That's just gross. Yuck!
That's horrible! Where do you keep the bator in your house at?? I remember when we were kids we brought home a science project (hatch a chick experiment) and we ended up losing the egg under the couch for a few weeks until someone somehow squished it~ I thought my mom was going to kill us!! It was pretty bad~ I still can't remember how long it took to get the smell out of the room~ as a matter a fact I think she even got rid of the couch
Amy!!! your buying all the creamed honey
Haha it looks like I'll be waiting till the end of the month to get some of that, it must be that gOOd!
Got them in the hatcher now! One has pipped.
On a sad note, none of the Polish eggs hatched. I opened them today and they had developed but none had pipped and they were dead in the shell.
It is my firm belief that without proper nutrition a lot of chicks wind up this way. I have hatched for many other folks and from what I have experienced with their eggs, brought to me by them, that their hatches often do not do as well as mine.
Not saying I have the perfect recipe but, case in point, just last week I hatched for someone I had not hatched for before, she is the friend of my friend with the still air bator I use for her. Of the 2 dz she brought me from her pens, 2 eggs exploded in the bator (thank goodness it wasn't mine but I still had to clean the stinking thing!) and half did not develop and some did develop (about a dz) but did not pip. She also loses a lot of her chicks. I can't get much info out of her about how she feeds or collects her eggs but it obviously isn't anything like mine.
She is the one I got the Muscovy pair from, Herman and Penelope, parents to my lovely ladies, Kisses and Huggs. Penelope went broody a few months back but none of the eggs hatched so she decided to trade them to me and Penelope just hatched out all the eggs she was left with (from, I am guessing, a snake) and Huggs hatched out 3. So I am saying nutrition.
These Muscovy get laying mash, starter and sweet feed plus bugs and other treats.
Also, I want to add, this is the first time I have had eggs explode in a bator! Disgusting! My house is usually a wreck but that, I swear, is the worse stink ever to have been in my home!
That's just gross. Yuck!
Amy!!! your buying all the creamed honey
