Recent content by Hucklekree

I vote cockerel/roo

I am going to add this here as I don't really wamt to start another thread. 2024 hatch season has already begun. So far: 3 Bielefelder 11 Salmon Faverolle 11 BYM In the incubators now are: 17 Bielefelder Eggs 5 Crevecoeur 17 Salmon Faverolle 5 BYM All are developing and have 13 more days...

Where are you located? I have 16 going into lockdown soon.

I am in my second year of trying to get my success rates up with duck hatches. Sorry for the losses.

I raise SF and have hoped that the brown will mean hen so many times 😅. It doesn't ever.

All birds pictured are male.

Depends on where the line gor hoovers came from. Greenfire imported stock with the BBS genes. There are other lines that only have black.

The weak one passed in its sleep. So two total chicks netted out of the three replacement eggs.

To my surprise, as of yesterday, all three remaining eggs have hatched. One is quite weak but with the turning issue I would notbhave thought any would hatch.

So between the heat of summer, older layers, user error with regards to turning, it looks like 10 chicks are what I am going to get from this go around. Waiting to see what the three  replacement eggs do. Not looking great for these though as the problem with the turner happened during a more...

So far, had one hatched yesterday. Five more have hatched today. Four have external pips. Tomorrow is the official hatch date. A quick picture included before I head to bed. Dry incubated and keeping humidity up in the high 50s/low 60s. Anything lower seems to be too dry for them.

Well, it isn't looking good for these eggs. Forgot to reset the incubator countdown and it stopped turning them sometime between the 8th and the 15th when I caught it. Not great. I have 11 eggs of the original 22 in lockdown with internal pips (or close to it), and one with an external. There...

3 clears from birds I was curious about for fertilization rates. Gues sthat answers my question. replaced with 3 more fresh eggs. Removed 3 early quitters from the first 22. Down to 19 eggs - 16 original set and 3 late additions.

Filled the incubator with 22 BYM to test hatch after cleaning and letting them rest for a bit.

My first batch of mixes this year. Appleyards, Harlequins, Cayugas, Campbells, Rouens and Golden Cascade potential parents. Three drakes and three hens in this batch. Got more growing out.