We are breeding by Hen to see what the Hens are throwing. The different groups are separated into tomato containers!
SG Dorkings are in this one. One group of Dorkings and Dels are not in baskets so you can see a yellow fluff ball to the right.
Here are more Yellow Fluff Ball Dells!
This is the first UofA Blues to hatch. It is a Black one. These are the plastic trays I use for hatching larger numbers of eggs. You can also see the water wiggle with the Brinsea probe. I am hatching at 98.5 today.
This container thing is a great idea. I have a bunch of those strawberry containers with the slit type holes in them. Maybe I'll use those to separate my hatches so I can easily keep my blue eggs and my d'Uccle eggs separate from my backyard mix. I want to be able to have them separate to sell them but hadn't yet determined how I would keep them separate at hatch. I wonder if these containers I have will fit inside my 'bator. Hope they aren't too tall.
The hatching. The weird thing was, that when I started taking pic, with every click click, of my camera, he would try to bust out again!, So after 8 hours of having the same cracks in the egg, I took a pic of it, and he started busting out, and was out in 3 mins!
Sally, if I ordered some serama eggs from you do you think they would be here in time for the hatch along? Also pming you but figured you might see this first
I might actually have a broody now that I am collecting eggs for another person's hatch. Three girls sitting on eggs, but only one doing it from two days before - and she grabbed some food/water and went right back on. I have some older eggs (up to 11 days) I am going to toss under her so the fresh ones can go out. Time to risk life and limb touching her nest - if I type funny after this you know why!
We are breeding by Hen to see what the Hens are throwing. The different groups are separated into tomato containers!
SG Dorkings are in this one. One group of Dorkings and Dels are not in baskets so you can see a yellow fluff ball to the right.
Here are more Yellow Fluff Ball Dells!
This is the first UofA Blues to hatch. It is a Black one. These are the plastic trays I use for hatching larger numbers of eggs. You can also see the water wiggle with the Brinsea probe. I am hatching at 98.5 today.
Speaking of photos:
what was hatched this morning- 18 coturnix quail. I can see 8 different colors. there are 17 eggs left in the incubator. Also I now have 4 silver lakevelder chicks, but 3 of them have a large pea sized amount of unabsorbed yolk, so I didn't take any photos until that heals up.
Duck and turkey eggs set! (Didn't I say I wasn't going to do turkeys?) Oh well. I had the eggs so I might as well try hatching them... again. I talked to someone yesterday that said he just keeps his bator at 65% humidity the whole time and has great luck hatching turkeys. So I might try that.
Wow! Caleb that it an amazing set of photos- you can see it go through all the classic "stages" of hatch. If you don't mind, I would like to show that to my students. They were asking about the process, and seemed so interested, I'm almost tempted to set up my Easter hatch along at school. Almost.
The hatching. The weird thing was, that when I started taking pic, with every click click, of my camera, he would try to bust out again!, So after 8 hours of having the same cracks in the egg, I took a pic of it, and he started busting out, and was out in 3 mins!
Wow! Caleb that it an amazing set of photos- you can see it go through all the classic "stages" of hatch. If you don't mind, I would like to show that to my students. They were asking about the process, and seemed so interested, I'm almost tempted to set up my Easter hatch along at school. Almost.
