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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Sharondp on May 10, 2010, 04:24:37 pm

Title: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: Sharondp on May 10, 2010, 04:24:37 pm

Chicks 1 & 2 hatched just before 3pm today - Buff Orpingtons. I was almost late for the school run!

I'm sure there will be more pics soon!

Title: Re: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: jameslindsay on May 10, 2010, 05:07:19 pm

Well done, look forward to the  pics.

Title: Re: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: Sharondp on May 11, 2010, 02:32:14 pm

Pleased to report that 9 out of the 11 eggs hatched - 82% not bad for a beginner! There were almost 20 hours between the first and last eggs hatching, but fortunately my boys got to witness a couple  :)

We're going to move the chicks to the brooder later this afternoon.

I have had trouble resizing pics for here, so I'll pop them on the Facebook site  :)

Title: Re: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: little blue on May 11, 2010, 04:47:02 pm

wow, thats a great % hatch!
and pics ook good to me...

Title: Re: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: oink on May 13, 2010, 03:31:24 pm

Love the pictures.

Everyone seems to be doing better on the hatching rates than me but I'm still well pleased to have got 10 out of 20 on my eggs from ebay.

Title: Re: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: shetlandpaul on May 13, 2010, 04:42:23 pm

50% from ebay eggs is good. i get 30-60 % from them.

Title: Re: My first incubator hatch.....
Post by: oink on May 13, 2010, 08:28:10 pm

That's good to know shetlandpaul  .  My last batch I got 4 from 20 but, to be fair, i did have a power cut and I had to drive the incubator 10 minutes down the road to plug in for the day!