Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Marty1876]

I have an external pip already.. You have GOT to be freakin' kidding me.

Ducky! Note to self: You are due on MONDAY.
I totally understand. The silkies that hatched I had on the calander as due Saturday, so either I wrote it down wrong, or my bators hot. I figured if that bator was hot, the pheasant would come quick also, but they are either still waiting or not hatching. I think I must have wrote it down wrong.
Quote:

They are all very cute.

Quote:

Wow, that is a list ! Hope they all get here well, with no more having to toss any more fails.

Quote:
Originally Posted by QuackerJackFarms

3 Pips this morning. Eager little boogers. They aren't talking to me though. Eager AND quiet.

Always nice to have babies on the way though!

 

[psue]

My first black copper maran chicks I hatched 12 of 16 eggs Shipped to me. there are 10 girls and 2 boys


the 4 infertile eggs with 1 Brown leghorn and 1 Rhode Island Red eggs

very pretty eggs and you have almost the perfect ratio straight from hatching WOW!

I order 24 Lemon Cuckoo Orpington Eggs well they hatched and I got 16 to hatch 2 had bad legs and didn't make it. there are 7 Males and 7 Females


Below is the only Fertile egg I got out of 12 shipped to me. He is getting so big

these little guys are REALY YELLOW!

Ditto! Which just backs up my urge to lock down duckies tomorrow instead of Sunday!

I did a mass candling earlier, which is why I'm up so late. Takes a while to candle 84 eggs.

I have:
2 questionable BEI's. Can't see well enough to assess.

4/11 hatch
3 BEI's with wonky air cells, but babies are moving energetically.

4/11 hatch
1 runner duck quitter.

4/11 hatch
2 rouens with wonky air cells, but babies are moving energetically.

4/17 hatch
3 Saxonies with really wonky air cells, but also moving energetically.

4/17 hatch
1 Welsh Harlquin blood ring

4/20 hatch
4 Penciled Runners with wonky air cells, moving well.

4/17 hatch

Now for the less worrisome news:
4 Silkie ducks with different hatch days, all alive and active.

4/11 (1) 4/17 (2) 4/20 (1)
4 Welsh Harlequins looking good.

4/20 hatch
5 Rouens looking good.

4/17 hatch
4 Penciled Runners looking good.

4/17 hatch
8 mixed Runners looking good.

4/17 hatch
4 Saxonies looking good.

4/17 hatch
18 mixed Runners looking good.

4/11 hatch
5 BEI's looking good.

4/11 hatch

And the best news of all...
2 surprise Goose eggs looking good!

4/11 hatch

and...

11 of 12 eggs from my flock.... FERTILE!!!

4/23 hatch

and

for you some help cleaning brooders

3 Pips this morning. Eager little boogers. They aren't talking to me though. Eager AND quiet.

 

[JulieNKC]

My 4 babies look good so far. Sitting in there absorbing, seem happy little bit of peeping, and not drying out.

Yay!

OH.. just opened an Ancona egg and it was NOT fertile.


And not to be weird.. but I was watching drakey boy do his "thing" and well... how do I say this... He's not hitting the mark .. so to speak. He's just like... missing the target.

My roo isn't getting near the mark. He's still all over the place, I think it takes practice. Is he doing it in the pool? Now I feel weird asking about ducks' sex lives.

Oh hey.. one more thing. I'm going to a chicken swap tmw so I'll be gone. (Lest you worry.. lol)

A guy down there is bringing cream legbar eggs. And I'm hoping to find a lav orp roo to go with my hen.. AND whatever else I find. Except for I don't have much room.. and my farm coop isn't done! AHHH. I must control myself tmw.

Have fun!

one of our refridgerator silkie eggs still is alive LOL

Lol, fridge eggs hatched good for me. Love the new avatar, cute puppy dog!

My first black copper maran chicks I hatched 12 of 16 eggs Shipped to me. there are 10 girls and 2 boys


the 4 infertile eggs with 1 Brown leghorn and 1 Rhode Island Red eggs

Cute? How do you know boys/girls? Can you vent sex?

Ditto! Which just backs up my urge to lock down duckies tomorrow instead of Sunday!

I did a mass candling earlier, which is why I'm up so late. Takes a while to candle 84 eggs.

I have:
2 questionable BEI's. Can't see well enough to assess.

4/11 hatch
3 BEI's with wonky air cells, but babies are moving energetically.

4/11 hatch
1 runner duck quitter.

4/11 hatch
2 rouens with wonky air cells, but babies are moving energetically.

4/17 hatch
3 Saxonies with really wonky air cells, but also moving energetically.

4/17 hatch
1 Welsh Harlquin blood ring

4/20 hatch
4 Penciled Runners with wonky air cells, moving well.

4/17 hatch

Now for the less worrisome news:
4 Silkie ducks with different hatch days, all alive and active.

4/11 (1) 4/17 (2) 4/20 (1)
4 Welsh Harlequins looking good.

4/20 hatch
5 Rouens looking good.

4/17 hatch
4 Penciled Runners looking good.

4/17 hatch
8 mixed Runners looking good.

4/17 hatch
4 Saxonies looking good.

4/17 hatch
18 mixed Runners looking good.

4/11 hatch
5 BEI's looking good.

4/11 hatch

And the best news of all...
2 surprise Goose eggs looking good!

4/11 hatch

and...

11 of 12 eggs from my flock.... FERTILE!!!

4/23 hatch

Wow, that's a bunch of eggs.

 

[Marty1876]

My roo isn't getting near the mark. He's still all over the place, I think it takes practice. Is he doing it in the pool? Now I feel weird asking about ducks' sex lives.

Sometimes mine are on the mark than others, but if its a problem too long, they get replaced. When I'm breeding hatching eggs, I increase the number of males for a few months, to be sure they are taking care of business.

 

[Iain Utah]

OMG, I'm outta control!! I just bought 4 more grey dewlap toulouse eggs from the seller I got my buff dewlaps from. So, now I have 9-10 goose eggs to set first thing next week!

Good thing I'm getting ready to toss all but 2-3 SA eggs from the bunch I set 8 days ago.

 

[Marty1876]

Go Iain! Now you'll have plenty of hatching eggs to sell me next year.

 

[JulieNKC]

Marty, chicks, anyone that has hatched turkeys I have a question. My eggs started internally pipping around this time yesterday. No one has external pipped. I've only opened the incubator once when my humidity dropped below 60% to add water, turn, candle, etc. Humidity is staying around 60-65%. Does it need to be higher? Anything I should do?

 

[Marty1876]

I think mine usually come along a bit faster. Is he still active inside? Do you hear him tapping at the shell?

 

[JulieNKC]

One pipped, either I didn't see it somehow or it just did it. They are still wobbling around when I shine a light at them.

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, it may be 2 years before I have toulouse or dewlap hatching eggs. I am told that they are usually still young as a 1yo to lay fertile eggs. I may be able to ship a breeding pair to you next winter... and I should have cayuga and ancona eggs to swap!!

FYI, I tossed all but 1 lonely SA egg. Let's see if I can nurse it to hatching and then hope it is the opposite sex from the SA I just hatched.