Recent content by BertandMary

We hatched 11 of 12 with 35 to 45% the first 18 and nearly 80% the last 3. We go in and out of the bator a lot so we keep it high at the end.

Our Jubilee at almost 9 weeks old. We have a roo and 4 others pullets at a friend's house.

Our daughter with her favorite EE.

We had them in MN while I was growing up. They didn't get a pond but had a large enough kiddie type pool they could climb in and out of. I don't remember the breed

Chick hatched today but has membrane dried ovet half of its body. It is dried hard. Helped it get out of the shell bit have no idea how we will be able to get that stuff off the chick

Got duped and now we have 7 EEs instead of Ameraucana. Nice birds anyway.

we came home after camping last weekend to find some issues. The temp was up to 103 and one of 2 peahen eggs was severely damaged. Of course, nobody, young adult children who stayed home, knows what happened. Stabilized temps back to 100 and used our daughters nail polish to repair the damaged...

ours a quite nice too. They aren't into being touched much but do come running and want to hang close.

this is our pullet at just over 5 weeks. She isn't even close to what a FBCM is supposed to look like from what we've been told on here. Mary likes her a lot so we are keeping her for dark eggs. We have 11 two week olds in the brooder.

her parent stock laid dark eggs but she just has a lot of copper in her so we aren't worried about egg color

Our loan hen we bought is off color too. We hatched 11 out of 12 eggs almost two weeks ago so hopefully they will look right.

4 of these hatched this morning. We are setting eggs again next weekend. Currently we are waiting on 4 late eggs to hatch. In the interim we are hand turning 2 peacock eggs which are nearing a week since set. With a little luck we'll have 3 hatches in May.

80 % hatch rate as day 21 officially comes to a close. 4 eggs remain unpipped. We candled them and they look alive without an internal pip. Veins are still able to be seen near the edge of the air sack. We are wondering if maybe their area of the bator was just a tad cooler? Will candle them...

I don't know all the models but I do believe the Sportsman is a cabinet bator. We have 11 out of 22 hatched today so far. Our worst case scenario is 50%.....yay! Surprisingly our FBCMs are hatching like crazy. I think there are only 3 left to hatch out of 11 that we had at lockdown. The Blue...

one of my buddies, and an experienced hatcher, said he noticed a lot more blood and veins at hatch time as well as more failures when he ran lower temps.