The Moonshiner's Chick Chat

[OneHappyDuckie]

Duckie, you gonna report what condition the eggs arrived in for @ColtHandorf ?

I'll share the pic of the box....
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It was in brand new condition when I handed it over to the PO here.

Oh I forgot! Sorry Colt, lol.
They got here a day late at like 7pm and yea the box was pretty rough, but inside everything was good.
He put a box inside of that one with a bunch of wood shavings and bubble wrap on everything, it took me, dad, and sister like 40 minutes to unwrap all the eggs! Not that I'm complaining, they were all in awesome shape. None were cracked and the air cells weren't bad at all, 13 weren't even jiggly and the rest were just slightly! I did find a cracked one when I candled again to check aircells, but I'm 99% sure I accidently cracked it because I didn't see any cracked ones the first time I candled.

 

[WallyG74]

15 so far. Hopeful that the other 10 hatch. Out of 35, 25 made it to lockdown. Kingpin may not be King of the Pen after all. That quad should be producing more than 25 out of 35 fertile eggs.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

15 so far. Hopeful that the other 10 hatch. Out of 35, 25 made it to lockdown. Kingpin may not be King of the Pen after all. That quad should be producing more than 25 out of 35 fertile eggs.
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Cute! Sex ratio so far?

 

[The Moonshiner]

15 so far. Hopeful that the other 10 hatch. Out of 35, 25 made it to lockdown. Kingpin may not be King of the Pen after all. That quad should be producing more than 25 out of 35 fertile eggs.
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Were the 10 that didn't make it all clears?

 

[WallyG74]

Were the 10 that didn't make it all clears?

1 of those 10 had some sketchy blood vessels. Very early quitter.

 

[WallyG74]

Cute! Sex ratio so far?

They’re not all good and fluffed yet, but best guess is real close to 50/50.

 

[The Moonshiner]

1 of those 10 had some sketchy blood vessels. Very early quitter.

I only candle when going into lockdown. I throw out clears, clearly early quitters and obvious blood rings.
10 out of 35 is at least 2Xs what I get on an average week.

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

Must be hatch day for everyone! I have 5/14 BCs hatched so far

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

I only candle when going into lockdown. I throw out clears, clearly early quitters and obvious blood rings.
10 out of 35 is at least 2Xs what I get on an average week.

I can usually start seeing development at day 2-3 ish so I candle to take out clears and add more eggs

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

I'm sure someone has asked this before, but how often do your leghorns go broody if at all Moony?