The Fathers Day Hatch-A-Long!!! The Last Day To Set eggs Is June 3rd!!!!

[crazypetlady]

Ducks must be going around, my friend brought me 21 Muscovy eggs of course I set them.

 

[crazypetlady]

Ok I know these don't count but for anyone keeping track of my insanity.

I set the 21 duck eggs + today I'm adding

8 lav. Orph
6 B.O.
10 rainbow eggs from Arielle dark choc. Am OE very pretty
12 including bant coch miles and others

That's 26
I candled and removed 21

I'm at 331 most of my last hatch were not shipped so it was great hatch. Now the shipped egg hatching or non-hatching begins.

 

[java girl 2]

just a reminder, these contests will close on june 16th at 11:59pm ET time!!
# 1. A 500 to 1000 word story about a Dad and his kid/kids, can be about birds or animals. Prize is 24 eggs your pick of Breed/Breeds, to be shipped in the fall/spring from me # 2. Pics of a crowing rooster. prize is 6 + Ameracuna eggs from crazypetlady.

 

[Arielle]

Ok I know these don't count but for anyone keeping track of my insanity.

I set the 21 duck eggs + today I'm adding

8 lav. Orph
6 B.O.
10 rainbow eggs from Arielle dark choc. Am OE very pretty
12 including bant coch miles and others

That's 26
I candled and removed 21

I'm at 331 most of my last hatch were not shipped so it was great hatch. Now the shipped egg hatching or non-hatching begins.

Thanks for posting, I like keeping track of your insanity!!

Make my hatching seem puny in comparison! I'm at my last set for sure . . unless I put in more turkey or duck . . .

 

[Nsampsel]

OK...my entry for CROWING ROOSTER

This is Samuel, my head roo. He's tiny, but mighty! Even the LF boys stay outta his way

Now, as for egg insanity, try this...LOL

I set 91 my last hatch (the 1 for this), then turned around on the 8th & started another staggered hatch. I set 30 on 6/8, 16 more on 6/11, have 1 little Black East Indie pipped & zipping left from my last 91, got another 65 in the mail yesterday in 3 shipments, 24+ frizzles & sizzles mailed yesterday & due tomorrow, 24+ Silkies shipping Saturday, and 24+ turkeys, marans & orps shipping mid next week. 34 are ducks, 12+ will be poults, that's 106+ chicks, 12+ turkeys, & 34 ducks. I really need a couple more bators!!!! Anyone got one the wanna sell me or loan me????

 

[crazypetlady]

OK...my entry for CROWING ROOSTER

This is Samuel, my head roo. He's tiny, but mighty! Even the LF boys stay outta his way 




Now, as for egg insanity, try this...LOL

I set 91 my last hatch (the 1 for this), then turned around on the 8th & started another staggered hatch. I set 30 on 6/8, 16 more on 6/11, have 1 little Black East Indie pipped & zipping left from my last 91, got another 65 in the mail yesterday in 3 shipments, 24+ frizzles & sizzles mailed yesterday & due tomorrow, 24+ Silkies shipping Saturday, and 24+ turkeys, marans & orps shipping mid next week. 34 are ducks, 12+ will be poults, that's 106+ chicks, 12+ turkeys, & 34 ducks. I really need a couple more bators!!!! Anyone got one the wanna sell me or loan me???? 

Hee Hee, it's catchy. I still have room for 220 + eggs

You need a monster bator like my Leahay 624

 

[Arielle]

OK...my entry for CROWING ROOSTER

This is Samuel, my head roo. He's tiny, but mighty! Even the LF boys stay outta his way

Now, as for egg insanity, try this...LOL

I set 91 my last hatch (the 1 for this), then turned around on the 8th & started another staggered hatch. I set 30 on 6/8, 16 more on 6/11, have 1 little Black East Indie pipped & zipping left from my last 91, got another 65 in the mail yesterday in 3 shipments, 24+ frizzles & sizzles mailed yesterday & due tomorrow, 24+ Silkies shipping Saturday, and 24+ turkeys, marans & orps shipping mid next week. 34 are ducks, 12+ will be poults, that's 106+ chicks, 12+ turkeys, & 34 ducks. I really need a couple more bators!!!! Anyone got one the wanna sell me or loan me????

SOunds like you an intervention! Or join Incubators Anonymous! See you over there!!

On another note--love the pic of your rooster--so hard to get those crowing pics!! My tiny silver s[angled hamburg ruled the barn yard, until the marans grew up. THey are all good boys and easy to have around!

 

[yinepu]

Yinepu---

I stuck a couple duck eggs in the incubator. How much do I spray the eggs, and how do I avaoid hitting the chicken eggs?

Does the spray increase the moisture loss of the duck eggs, or decrease the loss. I know I read this somewhere, just can't find it.

Last q--as these are my own eggs, I have been incubating on their sides X and O style. I assume this is ok as I don't have a turner.

Need to go set 9 turkey eggs, and final turn for the day.

just don't worry about misting the chicken eggs too.. if you notice there are 2 chicks in with the ducklings (little silkie and d'uccle mixes).. they were cooled and misted right along with the pekins.. and had 100% hatch rate on those little chicken eggs
the spraying helps with evaporative cooling.. so it helps cool the eggs to help the embryo be stronger and it supposedly helps with moisture loss.. however the moisture loss is minimal.. so I don't really consider it to be as important as the cooling. As an embryo grows it begins to generate it's own heat.. as time goes by the embryos can generate enough heat that they will become overheated and can die in the shell if there are too many eggs in the incubator.. however by cooling them for a few minutes each day it helps lower that .. sort of gives them a break from excess heating. I found an article on it once.. will have to check and see if I can find it again.

here's the cooling & misting schedule I go by:
COOLING WATERFOWL
I start cooling incubating eggs on day 7.of incubation for 5 to 10 minutes
on day 14: I raise the time to 15 minutes and also start misting the eggs at the beginning of the cooling period
on day 21 and til external pipping: it goes to 20 minutes of cooling with the misting at the beginning of the cooling period per day

Ducks must be going around, my friend brought me 21 Muscovy eggs of course I set them.

I love muscovys!.. have hatched out bunches of them recently.. all from shipped eggs and in an incubator

Ok, I'm missing out on something here...girls..with duck faces???!

EWWWW! Just googled it..and saw some mighty ugly duck faces..why? Why? And I saw some other things I didn't want to see. Why? Why?

I'll stick to looking up the real ducks and chicken pictures..that's just wrong.

lol.. is this better?

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I think I really lucked out on the BR turkeys.

They sound great! I'll have to remember those should I ever get into turkeys. Very cool.

OKay...I can't believe we are so close to the weekend already...let the final countdown begin...these few weeks went by fast for me. I will candle again one more time tonight, but as of today I have 7/8 still in the 'bator. One is very iffy and more than likely was a quitter at about day 10. I will know for sure tonight and will pitch or keep it. So that will leave me with 6/8 going to lock down. These are shipped Cream Legbar eggs.

for a good hatch for everyone!!!!

Good luck!!! Those are some awesome chickies.

They are absolutely adorable!

I need ducks, yes, need.

Day 18 began for me at about 6 pm yesterday. I readied for lockdown in the evening, but by the time I went to move them, I already had one pip! I have never had a day-18 pipper before. It was one of the two SS eggs I had stuck in at the last minute from my flock, so I am betting that someone was sitting on it for a few hours at some point. Anyhow, I kept it covered with a moist paper towel as I switched them over out of the turner, but I'll keep an eye on him because he's probably stuck. But, everyone else is looking good. I have 4 Australorp, 2 mixes, 2 SS, and 18 Basque Hen (Euskal Oiloa) eggs in the incubator and 4 Basque Hen eggs under my broody Welsummer.

My broody is in a dog crate in the main coop, and I plan on moving her and her brood a day after hatch to a place where they will not be harassed. I've been picking her up and putting her outside every day, but I am figuring I should not do that now that she is in "confinement." Any advice for locking down with a broody? I only had one girl get this far before, and I just had her sitting in a nest box, so this is new. Thanks, and good luck to all!

 

[Noncentzter]

here's the cooling & misting schedule I go by:
COOLING WATERFOWL
I start cooling incubating eggs on day 7.of incubation for 5 to 10 minutes
on day 14: I raise the time to 15 minutes and also start misting the eggs at the beginning of the cooling period
on day 21 and til external pipping: it goes to 20 minutes of cooling with the misting at the beginning of the cooling period per day

Do you follow a similar schedule for chicken eggs? If so, you still mist and cool the eggs after lockdown?