The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[kidykat]

So out of my 36 set, 24 were set Thursday night and 12 were set Sunday afternoon due to being out of town. I candled the Thursday batch and, sadly have 2 quiters in my various polish from Texas & 1 not fertile. I have 1 not fertile in my wc black polish from Florida. Figure those are ro be expected with shipped eggs. More astonishingly, I had 6 not fertile out of my own backyard flock! I am gonna have to give my roo a talking to. Looks like he is playing favorites.

 

[Cynthia12]

No were in Utah!

And right now we have two incubators.

This one is the Old Hovabator that came with our quail that we bought from a Nieghbor. He got it from the DI aka a Charity Shop and apparently before that it came from an Elementary school so it's got lots of history and lots of problem and is literally taped together. No lie! It's held together by scotch tape! It swings in temp from 78-104 degrees and has trouble holding humidity too. But I think we might have figured it out enough to work. We put 104 Japanese Quail aka Coturnix Quail in it as a Tester Run and will just have to wait and see what happens. They are trying to hatch today!

This would be our first hatching and we don't know what we're doing here so we greatly appreciate all the ideas and help we've been getting here!!! THANK YOU!

This is our other incubator, the new Incuview.

It has all of our BYC-EHAL Eggs in it!
We originally filled it with 27 Welsh Harlequin Duck Eggs but only 13 were viable.
So we pulled out the blanks last night and added 35 Coturnix Quail Eggs to it.

-13 Welsh Harlequin Duck Eggs &
-35 Coturnix Quail Eggs

*Making The BYC-EHAL at The Glaseria Residence a Grand Total of 48 Eggs!!!

We hope all your hatchings go well!

Here in Utah too!

 

[ChickAsThieves]

So out of my 36 set, 24 were set Thursday night and 12 were set Sunday afternoon due to being out of town. I candled the Thursday batch and, sadly have 2 quiters in my various polish from Texas & 1 not fertile. I have 1 not fertile in my wc black polish from Florida. Figure those are ro be expected with shipped eggs. More astonishingly, I had 6 not fertile out of my own backyard flock! I am gonna have to give my roo a talking to. Looks like he is playing favorites.

I've got 7 eggs set from my own flock, and it's my first attempt at hatching their eggs. Once I knew I wanted to start collecting eggs for the HAL (but before they would have been viable for the HAL) I started meticulously examining the fertility of all of the OE, EE, and Cream Legbar eggs, as well as the FBCM eggs to make sure that the roo was breeding all of those hens, which it appears that he was. The funny thing is, I ended up setting an egg from my Blue Andalusian last minute and I had never tested the fertility of her eggs previously. Yesterday I checked out one of her eggs, and sure enough, it was fertile! Tomorrow is day 7 for me, so I'll be candling tomorrow night! I'm hoping they're all fertile!

 

[kidykat]

I've got 7 eggs set from my own flock, and it's my first attempt at hatching their eggs. Once I knew I wanted to start collecting eggs for the HAL (but before they would have been viable for the HAL) I started meticulously examining the fertility of all of the OE, EE, and Cream Legbar eggs, as well as the FBCM eggs to make sure that the roo was breeding all of those hens, which it appears that he was. The funny thing is, I ended up setting an egg from my Blue Andalusian last minute and I had never tested the fertility of her eggs previously. Yesterday I checked out one of her eggs, and sure enough, it was fertile! Tomorrow is day 7 for me, so I'll be candling tomorrow night! I'm hoping they're all fertile! 

I hope your luck is better than mine. I hatched some of mine in January and did not have this problem. I guess I should have rechecked before the HAL. Live and learn.

 

[ChickAsThieves]

I only have one roo and 20+ hens, so I know there's a good chance he's not getting to all the girls. That's fine by me, as long as he's getting to the ones I want fertile eggs from!

I'll know for sure tomorrow!

 

[emvickrey]

All my gold laced English Orpington chicks hatched. They where shipped eggs too. I tried to upload a pic but can't right now

 

[feedman77]

I decided to see if my new little roos were getting the job done. Had some white eggs in the bator candled them and they are already forming little veins.

So roos figured it out. My cabinet is doing its job. These are some hal eggs.

Hope they keep on developing

 

[clokwachr]

Yay! Finally time to set quail eggs! I set a total of 73 eggs!

 

[chickenwuver]

Hi everyone! I wound up setting 16 eggs from my Rhode Island Red hens! Can't wait to see the total of all eggs set!

 

[Cynthia12]

Sounds like we are having some luck with eggs developing already!

I am doing pretty good here also!