Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[JazminesZoo]

I need Pekin Eggs !

 

[DutchChic]

Sounds like a good plan. That's why I'm cutting mine back from a week to 3 days. Being gone for a whole week was just stressing me out too much, which kind of defeats the point of even going on a vacation.
The white bird by the leghorn is my MW hen. She is my terrifying broody I am talking about. She's not very big, but she puffs up and hisses like a snake and tries to bite if you go near her on her nest. I don't know what I'm going to do when my geese go broody either though, they are a lot bigger than her.
Mine too, although I have crappy hatch rates with quail. Either I can't incubate them or my quail just don't lay very good eggs.

I haven't had issues with broody geese...but then again, I hand raised my breeding flock. When I have a goose setting eggs, I take her treats daily, and talk to her...and even pet her head. I move slowly, too. They learn to trust me and not see me as a threat. I just have one pair of Sebs now, and I kept my calmest goose and gander. This goose has brooded for me 3 yrs in a row, and I can pet her while she's on the nest, and pull eggs out and candle them. She'll let me pet her goslings, too. The ganders are the ones that I always had to watch out for when I had broody geese.

 

[DutchChic]

Oh no...

After moving the eggs off the turner last night the heat turner must have been bumped some how as this morning I woke up to the bator being 105 and drops on the inside. Adjusted it of course and opened it up. First pip duckling that had done well with the pip whole clearly through the window was getting shrink wrapped. Not the beak though. Waited till this afternoon and nothing new so I caved and snatched the egg and made the whole a bit bigger and spritzed it. Touched the beak and it did not move.... no movement all evening. Wonder if the others will make it or not.

Man...that doesn't sound good. I hope the rest are ok

 

[DutchChic]

Came home to a butterscotch out of it's egg, so moved it and the first blue fawn to the hair dryer. The other 2 are trying to get their eggs off, and almost have. #5 is about ready for me to ease it's head out...veins have shrunk tremendously and it's more active now. I'm going to wait a bit more, though, on that one. It's a butterscotch and I sooo don't want to screw that one up. I have 2 silkies almost out, and 3 more externally pipped. Lots of chirping coming from the hatcher

 

[jerryford]

12 quail out 2 zipping now its starting to go faster

 

[JulieNKC]

I have someone coming to pick up all my sizzle chicks in the morning.

Luckily for me I have 10 more cooking.

Will be keeping all non frizzle of these 10 coming to grow out and pick some new girls for my flock.

 

[JulieNKC]

Came home to a butterscotch out of it's egg, so moved it and the first blue fawn to the hair dryer. The other 2 are trying to get their eggs off, and almost have. #5 is about ready for me to ease it's head out...veins have shrunk tremendously and it's more active now. I'm going to wait a bit more, though, on that one. It's a butterscotch and I sooo don't want to screw that one up. I have 2 silkies almost out, and 3 more externally pipped. Lots of chirping coming from the hatcher

12 quail out 2 zipping now its starting to go faster

Congrats on the hatching guys!

 

[country_girl011]

Dutch thats great!
Jaz i will call the p.o. In the am and c what i can figure out.

all 6. Of my silkie eggs that i threw in the bator just for the heck of it are fertile.
So dutch im not sure if im going to be able to get eggs from u. I didnt expect these to b fertile

 

[psue]

Unless your eggs were stagger hatched or you have old eggs, they should ALL hatch within 24 hours.

all were 3 days old when we got them so they should all be great, thank you very much for all of your help

Sue, I'd love for my flock to take my random african, unsure if I am willing to let them have my toulouse, and thee is no way they can they have my dewlaps. Fortunately, they gave up after a while and went back over to the horse property.

You have only the one quail that hatched? Didn't you set a gazillion eggs?

had 79 go into lock down... they started hatching about 8 hours ago ... we just started with geese and these are WAAY different then Embdens

I candle. I think it's mostly my quail, because only about half develop. Then out of the ones that do hatch, a few pip and then die. I've tried helping before, but just had to cull those later on so I've quit and if they pip and don't make it they don't make it.
Yes, OUR turkeys, lol.

hehe I just had too

 

[Iain Utah]

Woo hoo!!! Congrats to both Dutch and Sue/Jerry on your hatching!!!!

I tried AGAIN to put the garage babies with the juvenile babies in the side yard. It ain't happenin'. Juvenile babies and my Erin Toulouse get along, but the juvenile toulouse are not tolerating the ducks being around. And the one time a juvenile toulouse even looked at Barley, Barley started screaming and running, shaking like a leaf. Barley wants NOTHING to do with the juveniles. So, I gave up and put the garage babies back into front yard to hang by themselves for a while.