The Pita Pinta Asturiana

[Henthused]

Hi Debi,
I am going to weigh and candle each egg this afternoon after I pick up the local Easter Eggers. Then all into the incubator. Will let you know what I see.

 

[PetRock]

Hi Debi,
I am going to weigh and candle each egg this afternoon after I pick up the local Easter Eggers. Then all into the incubator. Will let you know what I see.

I'm looking forward to hearing what they weigh and how the air cells look! I hope that you have a good hatch!

 

[PetRock]

One of our favorite hens, Trinket the Cream Legbar mix, has hatched out 6 Pita Pinta chicks!

She is still sitting on 2 eggs and I'm giving her another day or so before pulling them. She is a great mama and hatched 3 clutches last year. I have a bunch of newbie broodies and I actually took eggs from one of them and added them to the eggs that Trinket was sitting on the day before the hatch. The group of new broodies are playing musical nest box and I need to come up with a solution for the problem. I took eggs out of the incubator and replaced the dud Poncho eggs. These are due to hatch next Fri so only less than a week of extra sitting for the two girls. Both of them are first timers but two of the most committed sitters out there. They also haven't been letting the other girls lay in the box with them. These broodies are driving me crazy!
Later today, I'll try to get a pic of Trinket and her babies.

 

[ronott1]

One of our favorite hens, Trinket the Cream Legbar mix, has hatched out 6 Pita Pinta chicks!

She is still sitting on 2 eggs and I'm giving her another day or so before pulling them. She is a great mama and hatched 3 clutches last year. I have a bunch of newbie broodies and I actually took eggs from one of them and added them to the eggs that Trinket was sitting on the day before the hatch. The group of new broodies are playing musical nest box and I need to come up with a solution for the problem. I took eggs out of the incubator and replaced the dud Poncho eggs. These are due to hatch next Fri so only less than a week of extra sitting for the two girls. Both of them are first timers but two of the most committed sitters out there. They also haven't been letting the other girls lay in the box with them. These broodies are driving me crazy!
Later today, I'll try to get a pic of Trinket and her babies.

Broody attack!

 

[Kaylish]

Hi all Pita Pinta and Spanish Breed Fanciers.,
I just received 18 shipped eggs from PetRock to my home in N. GA., my VERY first time for incubating, hatching.
All arrived intact, and are now resting on their pointy ends. I am picking up 6 local fertile eggs, and will put all in my incubator, Brinsea Octagon 20 Advanced w/ turner and auto humidifier., tomorrow.
This will be my first hatch of any kind, and I am so excited and apprehensive.. Debi has been so very helpful along the way, and I appreciate her advice very much.
PetRock absolutely packed her eggs as well as could be expected. Double Boxed, Each egg individually bubble wrapped with the up arrow on each wrap, then more bubble wrap and styrofoam .
insulation. USPS delivered the box to me with the correct side UP! Each egg was marked according to rooster fertilization.
I have one Marraduna Basque pullet, and am very interested in the EO's and Pita Pintas.
Please Wish Me and the Eggs lots of luck.

Congrats! and Welcome to the Addiction!

Hope they all hatch for you.

The fifth of six eggs hatched a chick while I was at work!

The sixth has a little head up in the air cell so hopefully one more soon!

Yea!

One of our favorite hens, Trinket the Cream Legbar mix, has hatched out 6 Pita Pinta chicks!

She is still sitting on 2 eggs and I'm giving her another day or so before pulling them. She is a great mama and hatched 3 clutches last year. I have a bunch of newbie broodies and I actually took eggs from one of them and added them to the eggs that Trinket was sitting on the day before the hatch. The group of new broodies are playing musical nest box and I need to come up with a solution for the problem. I took eggs out of the incubator and replaced the dud Poncho eggs. These are due to hatch next Fri so only less than a week of extra sitting for the two girls. Both of them are first timers but two of the most committed sitters out there. They also haven't been letting the other girls lay in the box with them. These broodies are driving me crazy!
Later today, I'll try to get a pic of Trinket and her babies.

Go Trinket! I just had the same issue with my Broody bunch. I ended up marking all the eggs with different color pencils so that I could keep the eggs under the right broody - it worked untill they started hatching and the mamas kept stealing eachothers chicks. I ended up putting the newest batch of eggs in the bator and left the mamas to co-brood those that had already hatched. I'll be making some modifications to that coop in the next few weeks. I'm thinking about making door inserts for the nesting boxes that can put in during lockdown to prevent egg/chick theft.

 

[Henthused]

I'm looking forward to hearing what they weigh and how the air cells look! I hope that you have a good hatch!

Hi Debi,

I candled 6 of the eggs. I could not see anything, yet. Also, did not weigh because my digital scale needs to be calibrated. I definitely will have all together by day 7. We were out today and tonight, so all eggs were put in later than I wanted . Set in the incubator, 9:00 P.M. EST, April 17, 2015.

 

[caychris]

You want to check the air cells at the big end they should be brighter than the rest of the interior

 

[ronott1]

The last egg was not hatched or pipped tonight so I pealed it open...and found a barely alive chick. It is in the incubator and I am waiting to see if it will recover. It looked normal but is weak.

 

[dldolan]

I had an interesting thing happen with my Pita Pinta eggs. I have 2 Pita Pinta breeding pens set up. 1 has Zorro with now 8 of his daughters and the other has 1 of Zorro's sons with the 7 mothers. The cockerel was Poncho until we processed him on 3/28. As he matured, it was noticeable that he was shorter in the back than he should have been.

I have hatched quite a few chicks from both pens with about equal fertility until the eggs laid 2 weeks before we switched cockerels. Dawn and I exchanged eggs on 3/21. Several of the eggs from Poncho did not show any development. (Correct, Dawn?) Then the next week, I sent 12 eggs to a FB friend in MO. Only 3 were from Poncho because I was concerned about his fertility. Not a 1 developed but 7 of Zorros are developing. Hatch day is 4/25. It will be interesting to see how many chicks hatch.

I have several broodies sitting on eggs and 2 clutches were due to hatch today. All of them were Poncho eggs and not a 1 of them developed. So I have 2 broodies sitting on dud eggs. I'm planning on taking some out of the incubator that are due to hatch 4/24 and slipping them under my girls tonight.

We have had some mite issues in that pen plus we ran out of King Feed and the kids filled the feeder with an all grain all animal feed. So, was it a health issue or a nutritional issue or ??? I know that Poncho was fertile and then he wasn't. Hopefully, Don Juan will be a good replacement for him and make beautiful babies!

Hi!
I think you gave me an even split of eggs, half from Zorro and half from Poncho. Of the ones that made it to lock down, 65% were Zorros. However, of the eight chicks that hatched, it was evenly split! 4 from Zorro and 4 from Poncho. Go figure! And 2 each in the incubator, 2 each for Penny the Broody, (although she has all 14 PP and Marans chicks now). Here are some photos:
Sweet baby


Penny hatched 8 total chicks and I gave her the other incubated six as well. 8 PP and ix Marans (Splash and Blue)


"Admittedly not great at math, Penny couldn't shake the feeling that she had several more children that Wednesday morning when she awoke..."

 

[ronott1]

Hi!
I think you gave me an even split of eggs, half from Zorro and half from Poncho. Of the ones that made it to lock down, 65% were Zorros. However, of the eight chicks that hatched, it was evenly split! 4 from Zorro and 4 from Poncho. Go figure! And 2 each in the incubator, 2 each for Penny the Broody, (although she has all 14 PP and Marans chicks now). Here are some photos:
Sweet baby


Penny hatched 8 total chicks and I gave her the other incubated six as well. 8 PP and ix Marans (Splash and Blue)


"Admittedly not great at math, Penny couldn't shake the feeling that she had several more children that Wednesday morning when she awoke..."

Nice hatch!