yeah. im pretty livid about it. i mean i can still use them but id rather them be hatched since thats what they were collected for ya know?
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yeah. im pretty livid about it. i mean i can still use them but id rather them be hatched since thats what they were collected for ya know?
they are RIR x GLW. nothing special. im predicting good egg output but definitely backyard breed. going to all pure bred by next year. i had RIR hens and got the GLW roo cause hes so pretty now hes getting same breed hens and the girls same breed roo
My electricity company- without telling me- switched my kWh from 8cents to 17cents !!! my bill was obscene. I switched companies the minute i got the bill but I still have to pay it. I am more than infuriated.
my bator is on lockdown or id pop em in lol.
So, I am hatching in a mini brinsea advanced. I have had two previous hatches, both times shipped marans eggs. The eggs came from CA, and I am at 5300 ft elevation. I followed the instructions on the 'bator got one live chick out of twelve eggs. Most appeared to die fully formed, just didn't hatch. This time I have local CCL eggs. I have kept the humidity lower, this time, about 35%, and I have what appear to be all five eggs in the 'bator with wiggling chicks inside and loosing weight according to the schedule.
My questions are:
Should I sort of prop the incubator slightly open at lockdown to increase air circulation?
Or spritz the eggs once or twice a day during lockdown to get the air moving through them?
I am going to hatch them in egg carton cut - outs, big end up.
I plan to intervene and make a small external pip in the aircell end of the egg at the end of the 22nd day.
Any other ideas or suggestions?
I am really hoping for better results. I believe the fact that these are local eggs is a big plus. The dry incubation seems to have kept the aircells growing on track.
I use the same type of incubator. We don't have the same elevation,, but I'm still learning and trying to improve my hatches. The Top has an air vent, so I don't think propping it open is necessary. Is that a high elevation issue?
For me, I noticed the temps seemed to be running higher than the digital display was saying.
Well see how next batch does. Good luck to you!
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Oh boy, 5 dozen eggs is a lot to flake on.
Can you try listing them on craigslist or on your states thread here on BYC so they don't go to waste?
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Thanks for all the advice. My rooster is still young, and I haven't seen him they to mate with any of the hens, so I think I'm okay there. My broody does steal all the eggs my other 5 girls lay, but I take them from her so she can concentrate on hatching the two fertile eggs and two golf ballsI really don't want to move her, because I tried when she first went broody to move her to the broody pen. I moved eggs, golf balls, bedding, everything. But she wouldn't sit on the eggs, and demanded to be let out. Then she went back to her original spot and sat on eggs the other girls had laid. I don't think she wants to move!
Yaa!! some are stubborn like that!! That's what I mean you really have to base it off of your hens personality! I have ducks like that so how ever inconvenient their nests are I just have to put gates and boxes and anything else I can around them to keep them safe!!!! lol! they are humorous but make you frustrated some times!
she was probably like "noooo, no, no! NOOO! this is not my nest! I did not nest here! That's my nest and my nest only! I want my nest, right here, and here only and you CANNOT MAKE ME MOVE!!!! MINE!!!!!!!" "Now I command you give me my nest and eggs back human! Nowwww!!"
LOLOL! but if she has only two eggs and two golf balls (lol I used ping pong balls for my bantams!!) and she is THAT broody then I would leave her there! Plus she only has two eggs, so two chicks at most will not be hard to keep under her! If she had a next full of eggs up to her skirt and she has just enough feather wings and body to keep them in then it would be a lot harder to keep all those chicks underneath! She will probably hoard her chicks under her like her eggs! and yell at them if they try to venture away from her!
I just love when you get such a good broody momma that hoards eggs and is more than willing to take any kind of eggs you will throw at her and can shove under her! LOL!
It can be annoying but when you have such a good girl or girls you can never stay annoyed or upset for long!
I'm still laughing at the thought of her hoarding eggs as soon as the others lay them and also her screaming at the door of her cage demanding to be let out then strutting straight back to her box all upset and poofed out yelling and letting everyone know about her debacle as she went! I love when broodys walk around voicing their troubles, and take their frustration out on anything that gets too close or gets just a little in the way of their mission! LOL! and how everything in their path would step aside or run out of the way so they wouldn't get pecked and screamed at!
I listed them on my states page here, a few local chicken trade pages on fb, and a couple national chicken pages hoping someone might be close there too. never thought of CL.. going there now
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