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

[LadyCluck77]

That's so interesting! I would assume that between rough handling, refrigeration, and time the fertility would be destroyed in store bought eggs!

It is interesting. Especially the chilling. What I've seen from the post office with shipped eggs, I'm thinking a grocery store truck might actually be a safer, gentler ride though.
What kind of chicks hatched from them, Ron? I heard Trader Joes chicks are very good layers.

 

[ronott1]

It is interesting. Especially the chilling. What I've seen from the post office with shipped eggs, I'm thinking a grocery store truck might actually be a safer, gentler ride though.
What kind of chicks hatched from them, Ron? I heard Trader Joes chicks are very good layers.

They are a brown layer crossed with a white layer. They are Hy-line chickens.

Some of them that hatched:



9 week old cockerels. Notice the orange feathers!



9 week old pullets

 

[Cynthia12]

And, you say they are great layers, right ron?

 

[lilwildrabbit]

Got my eggs today so I'll have 20 EEs 5 DOMS and 5 RIRs already now with 18 more from my own eggs so it's officially 48 eggs setting tomorrow or Friday! I have to say that my shipment of eggs would have survived a hurricane!! Couldn't be any better packed only problem it takes a while to unpack them! But well worth the trouble! I have herd all the nightmares from shipped eggs but am confident I'll have a great hatch from this shipment I want to thank chickadee hatchery for the love you put into the eggs you ship out!

 

[Beer can]

Thank you
Whew! Im not alone. Did you just leave it? Or hand turn them to the other side every 2- 3 days or so? Im hoping, since most are shipped eggs this will be gentler on them and a good thing.

I just left it but did completely turn the eggs when I candled. It was turning them it was just hard to tell.
How are your air cells? That's what concerned me on that style turner, bad air cells on shipped eggs are best left upright. I figure if I ever get Shipped eggs I'll just put them in egg cartons and just tip the incubator back and forth.

 

[Beer can]

Bloom is not that easy to was off. I use a weak bleach solution at about 80F. The eggs I washed were from an egg farmer I used to hatch for. I hatched 80 or so eggs every two weeks for him. The eggs were often very dirty too.

I washed them and then set them right away because there is a hatch penalty for age of eggs.

Yes, last EHAL I hatched Trader Joes and Whole foods fertile eggs. They were very very clean too. I set 42 and hatched 37 of them.

I wash the dirty eggs only.

The hatch penalty I'll have to pay, decided to only set naked necks and only four laying and with our wonderful single digit and teens weather some have been froze before I got to them... I'd had five more eggs a day if I added the giant's but decided not to. I did number them daily and will be putting the freshest in first till the hova is full.

 

[ronott1]

And, you say they are great layers, right ron?

They are egg laying machines! One of them lays an egg that is very large too. 98G is the largest so far.

This one is 94G

 

[Welshchick]

I have just set 24 pekin chicken eggs and 6 call duck eggs. Another 12 pekin chicken eggs arriving tomorrow.

 

[Welshchick]

I think everyone can agree that we handle it to the best of our ability and situation. No one way is perfect. Anyone reading this has a fondness for chickens in some way or else we wouldn't be here talking chickens! Too many males are going to be a fact of life if your raising chickens. Hope everyone has a good week!

 

[casportpony]

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I was wrong, I think there were actually 4 in there. Two white chickens, one brown chicken, and the duck.

Yes, but you said how many hens are in there. Unless a duck is a hen, there are 3.

Lol, my bad!