Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Goin Quackrrs]

I am so happy it's the weekend. I'd love to crawl into bed and sleep for 18 hours. Work has been super-busy, but somehow we're right on schedule even if I did have to run my butt off all week, work late one day, leave early one day to rescue my hatching eggs from the post office, worked my day off to make up for the crisis the day before, and then today the power went off at the house when I was on my way to work.

I could use some primal scream therapy right about now. Or a bubble bath. That might work.

Tomorrow I candle my eggs again and eliminate the non-starters from incubator 1. I already got rid of 4 that were from my ducks (drakes need a pep talk I guess). I'd better have a decent amount left. I think I've got a couple no-goes out of the BEI's, but I think I'm getting better results so far from shipped eggs than I had expected. We shall see...

And I'm still not sure if the small white egg I got from the farm was an accidental chicken. I sure hope not.

 

[Iain Utah]

The little cayuga did not make it.

Tomorrow is day 24 for my next set of duck eggs. hope I didnt screw up any of my remaining eggs as the bathroom spikes of temp and humidity were affecting goose bator conditions.

Sigh.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

The little cayuga did not make it.
Tomorrow is day 24 for my next set of duck eggs. hope I didnt screw up any of my remaining eggs as the bathroom spikes of temp and humidity were affecting goose bator conditions.
Sigh.

I'm sorry the cayuga didn't make it. I hope this crappy hatch disease that's going around stops soon!

Even the latest broody chicken at the farm had a catastrophe. She hatched one live chick that died. Three pipped and died and the rest of the eggs never did anything. That broody was pretty pi$$ed at me when I went to take away all the dead eggs.

I'm mentally preparing myself for another crazy assisted hatch when the time comes. I had no idea hatching was this much work!

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Goodnight, Iain! I'm going to hope tomorrow is less chaotic.

My only upside this week is that now 8 of my grown ducks are laying. The downside is that I can't seem to sell the darn eggs.

 

[70%cocoa]

The little cayuga did not make it.
Tomorrow is day 24 for my next set of duck eggs. hope I didnt screw up any of my remaining eggs as the bathroom spikes of temp and humidity were affecting goose bator conditions.
Sigh.

Ah, that's crappy. I'm really sorry

At this end, we have a newly hatched Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, the sole (as far as I know) progeny of a rooster bred by a friend of mine. The rooster died, and the eggs were collected and set afterwards. This little guy was the only fertile egg in the batch of 20 that I got to hatch (my friend was going on holidays and needed to outsource the incubation). I'm pretty glad that he made it to this stage. Since he is all alone, he has been named Han (Solo). Here he is, just hatched, and Millenium Falcon at the ready:



And a close-up. Lookin' kinda ugly but who doesn't right after birth:

 

[Marty1876]

Good Morning, and Happy Saturday.

Duck number one is mostly hatched, and stilll alive. I'd say it could go either way.

I worked on him last night, and the humidity dropped in that silly bator overnight, so he was kinda stuck this morning. I don't have a great humidity room, but I improvised with a sheet over my pedistal tub, and the hand held rinse hose thing back under the sheet, with hot water running. I ended up workin on him in a great mass of steam, which seemed to work great. After a minute his shrink wrap loosed up a lot, and got him loosed out more. He's still attached, and resting, but peeping gently now and then, and seems to twitch and move a bit while sleeping.

Ducks 2 and 3 died. no lother living eggs made it to hatch, but hopefully duck 1 will make it, and I'll at lleast have one breeder started.

If he lives, we'll name him lucky.

 

[Marty1876]

Han Solo - thats great! I'm so glad he's here, cocoa. At least one baby is safe and sound from an uncomplicated birth.

 

[psue]

The little cayuga did not make it.
Tomorrow is day 24 for my next set of duck eggs. hope I didnt screw up any of my remaining eggs as the bathroom spikes of temp and humidity were affecting goose bator conditions.
Sigh.

praying for an easy day for you today

Ah, that's crappy. I'm really sorry

At this end, we have a newly hatched Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, the sole (as far as I know) progeny of a rooster bred by a friend of mine. The rooster died, and the eggs were collected and set afterwards. This little guy was the only fertile egg in the batch of 20 that I got to hatch (my friend was going on holidays and needed to outsource the incubation). I'm pretty glad that he made it to this stage. Since he is all alone, he has been named Han (Solo). Here he is, just hatched, and Millenium Falcon at the ready:



And a close-up. Lookin' kinda ugly but who doesn't right after birth:

he's cute

Good Morning, and Happy Saturday.

Duck number one is mostly hatched, and stilll alive. I'd say it could go either way.

I worked on him last night, and the humidity dropped in that silly bator overnight, so he was kinda stuck this morning. I don't have a great humidity room, but I improvised with a sheet over my pedistal tub, and the hand held rinse hose thing back under the sheet, with hot water running. I ended up workin on him in a great mass of steam, which seemed to work great. After a minute his shrink wrap loosed up a lot, and got him loosed out more. He's still attached, and resting, but peeping gently now and then, and seems to twitch and move a bit while sleeping.

Ducks 2 and 3 died. no lother living eggs made it to hatch, but hopefully duck 1 will make it, and I'll at lleast have one breeder started.

If he lives, we'll name him lucky.

praying the little one makes it, sooo sorry about the rest

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, It totally makes my morning to see that duck #1 is still alive!! I wish Christine would surface with some good news about her anconas!!! I never really believed the ducky would make it to lockdown, much less hatch. I am sure it never would have internally pipped on its own, and it gave us the gift of practicing on helping assist hatchlings.... valuable skills for when my dewlaps get ready to hatch.

Fortunately, all eggs are still alive this morning in goose bator (12 ducks getting ready to hatch, 5 cayugas on day 10, and a total of 10 goose eggs on days 23, 10, and 7 (day 7 are my 3 dewlap babies). I moved over 8 of the next dozen eggs on day 24 to the hatching bator (which is at 50% humidity) as they have more pronounced dips and shadowing in aircell. Will monitor for internal pipping today.

Otherwise, I am planning to take it easy today and try to rest up for the next all-nighter in a couple of days.

 

[country_girl011]

iain and marty.
im sooo sorry .
lord this week has been bad on hatches.
there has got to be sumthin going on =/
hopefully next week brings another GOOD week.

my ducks did not lay a single egg yesterday . (julie wont affect what you get. altho they may be a day or 2 older than what i wanted to send. still grow good tho =) )

and the monsters are once again MAD at me.
it rained all day yesterday so they had to stay in all day.
today it is again raining. so i told them they had to stay in and i got a big lecture. i may just send them out in the rain lol they have shelter.

my lady for the rugrats wants to come today , but i have not herd back from her if she is. =/
boy if these guys stay here much longer they wont be able to leave. they melt my heart
2 more weeks till more babies (broodys get to do the work this time)