The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[gander007]

I got something nice in the mail today...

Your right that is nice

 

[cmom]

If anyone is interested in eggs, my girls are laying great. I put top males in with top females. I have had great hatches so far. I would like to hatch more but am running out of space. http://www.hilltop-farm.info/store
Here are some of my hatch.

More chicks I recently put out into the chick/grow-out coop.

This will be my last hatch for the year.

 

[cmom]

I got something nice in the mail today...

Congratulations!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Thanks, cmom and gander! NOW it's official... I AM a card-bearing member of RIRCA!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I'm looking forward to tomorrow evening, and a little anxious at the same time. Tomorrow is day 14 candling... yay! I haven't had any issues with my IncuView in the past, but I noticed this time I have some "slight" variations in temps on each end, depending on where the egg turner is located at the time. All four of my thermometers are calibrated, and they seem to read the same variations when I shuffle them around. I've been rotating the eggs daily by moving each line of eggs one row over, so hopefully there won't be any temp related issues with the hatch. Naturally, I'm hoping all of the remaining 20 are still going strong.

 

[cmom]

I'm looking forward to tomorrow evening, and a little anxious at the same time. Tomorrow is day 14 candling... yay! I haven't had any issues with my IncuView in the past, but I noticed this time I have some "slight" variations in temps on each end, depending on where the egg turner is located at the time. All four of my thermometers are calibrated, and they seem to read the same variations when I shuffle them around. I've been rotating the eggs daily by moving each line of eggs one row over, so hopefully there won't be any temp related issues with the hatch. Naturally, I'm hoping all of the remaining 20 are still going strong.

I hope they are all still developing.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I hope they are all still developing.

19 are still developing. This is what I posted last night @ https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-long-hosted-by-mike-sally/6220#post_16894508

Just finished my day 14 candling, and I found another blood ring. Hmm.. perhaps I missed it on day 7? I really hope the remaining eggs make it to lockdown. I started with 30, and I'm down to 19 eggs now. Not really liking USPS too much right now. I have a couple of eggs that have large saddles, but the embryos seem to be doing fine. Will have to hatch these 2 eggs upright...




The rest seem to be a lot closer to what air cells should look like...



And there was nice movement inside the eggs...




It's amazing when you think of how that jiggly little glob will almost completely fill the egg in the next 4 days...

 

[cmom]

Quote:
I just had another 92% hatch. I am very happy with that. My husband even made a remark about how good the hatches have been. In another 2 weeks the final hatch. I may put a few more of my Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs in one of the styrofoam incubators. I'm just an old fart. I don't worry about the development because for the most part it is out of my control. As long as I keep the temperature and humidity in check they will develop and yes there will be a quitter or two for whatever reason. I personally don't measure the air cells or weigh the eggs, I just let nature take its course.

Here are some of the chicks. They are temporarily in a melon box until I can empty and clean their part of their coop.

It won't be long before they will have to be moved to the outer grow-out coop. They grow so fast.

Last year. I have another grow-out coop when the chicks grow out of this one.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I just had another 92% hatch. I am very happy with that. My husband even made a remark about how good the hatches have been. In another 2 weeks the final hatch. I may put a few more of my Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs in one of the styrofoam incubators. I'm just an old fart. I don't worry about the development because for the most part it is out of my control. As long as I keep the temperature and humidity in check they will develop and yes there will be a quitter or two for whatever reason. I personally don't measure the air cells or weigh the eggs, I just let nature take its course. Here are some of the chicks. They are temporarily in a melon box until I can empty and clean their part of their coop. It won't be long before they will have to be moved to the outer grow-out coop. They grow so fast. Last year. I have another grow-out coop when the chicks grow out of this one.

Glad you had a good hatch. Once I start setting eggs from my own birds, I expect to have great hatches, too. I candle to remove duds, but especially to keep RH where it needs to be. If I had just incubated without candling, every one of these surviving chicks would have been shrink wrapped. I'm having to keep humidity much higher than normal in order to keep the air cells in the correct range. I normally run 30% - 40% RH, but this batch needs 40% - 50%. I have too much invested to leave anything to chance...

 

[cmom]

Quote: True.