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Post by horses7 on Sept 25, 2008 6:50:42 GMT 8
As a few of us are getting fertile eggs through the post I thought this would be a good reference thread on how the hatch rates go. The 1st 2 doz I received 10 hatched, there were also a xouple of chicks that hatched werent what they were supposed to be and were quite weak, only ended up with 2 surviving and one of thosed drowned, so that one sole suriving chick has cost $96 2nd lot of 2 doz eggs received from a different person, in 1 carton 3 eggs were broken, they had a really rough trip, but would you believe of the 9 eggs left, 7 hatched lovely strong chickens and are going well. the other dozen, a different breed from the same person, not one hatched, I think there might have been a fertility problem as I phoned him back to let him know and he has sent a replacement doz, which I received yesterday, so hopefully this lot will be better.
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Post by fluffychook on Sept 25, 2008 7:53:35 GMT 8
I bought a dozen silkies, which took 6 days to arrive. 7 hatched with one dying shortly after. The other 6 are going strong. (My sister hatched them for me as I did not have my incubator then and my broody changed her mind). They cost me $50 including express (impressive if I was a snail) post So 50% success
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Post by farmchooks on Sept 25, 2008 8:09:01 GMT 8
I bought a doz Silkie eggs from QLD, came sanil mail, took 8 days however none broken and have 7 fertile. WIll let you know how many hatch in just over a week. Got a doz white leghorn eggs from NSW express post, 2 broken, of the remaining 10 none had anything when I candled and broke the eggs to reveal all had broken yolks. Have emailed the person some feedback and she is going to post another dozen snail mail this time as they are from a very old line of breeding so keen to get them. They should arrive next week so will let you know how they go.
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Post by genuinesqueak on Sept 25, 2008 9:35:59 GMT 8
I got 4 dozen this time. 2 dozen from perth sent to me (silky and pekin) and 1 doz indian game/araucana from over east (4 indian game and 8 araucana), and 1 doz from over east of silkies. I candled yesterday and there's about 50% so i'm very happy with that. 3 maybe 4 out of 12 for the silkies over east (was a bit worried about those because they had some of the eggs with pointy side up...). 10 maybe 11 of the pekins (awsome!) and 8 or 9 of the silkies (also awsome!) from perth. one or more indian games, the shells are too thick and dark so will have to wait for those. and maybe 7 out of 8 of the araucanas. I'll update when they hatch
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Post by fuzzy on Sept 25, 2008 20:26:37 GMT 8
I recently got 2 dozen red jungle fowl eggs delivered to me by courier over some pretty rough roads. the eggs were only put in egg cartons with no packaging of any sort. Out of the 24 eggs 17 were viable 5 more died early on in the incubation, 3 died at hatching time and 1 died the day after leaving me with 8 great little chicks now 2 weeks old. ;D Well worth the effort to get a new blood line of this rare little bird
Cheers Andrew
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Post by chooken on Oct 2, 2008 8:25:45 GMT 8
We have ordered eggs through the mail also. The first dozen took eight days to arrive and they didn't include the eggs we asked for. We had a 50% fertility rate and a 25% hatch rate. Some just didn't make it. We also ordered some eggs from Perth. Same fertility rate but only hatched two chicks. Of those chicks we now have two rather large Australorps. At six weeks they are much larger than other chicks of the same age. I guess some good has come out of it. I don't know if it has put me off ordering through the mail or not.
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