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Kelly Gore:
Paul, Just wondering how your hatch came out? Were you able to salvage it?

Paul:
  I have been going to share this info.  Thanks for the encouragement to do it now.

  One hundred twenty-two healthy chicks managed to hatch from the two GQF incubators which had 288 in the 1602 and 128 eggs in the 1502.  We managed to fill 5 orders totaling 68 head.  Several varieties were a few short of filling an order, so we managed to keep 54 head from our 7th hatch.

  There were 200 eggs that did not hatch in the 1602.  Ninety two were fertile, the rest still had fertility issues.  There were 91 eggs that did not hatch in the 1502.  Thirteen were fertile, the rest still had fertility issues.  The majority of the 105 eggs that had dead chicks, showed about one week of development which would be the  time frame that we lost power.  I do know that if we had not run a generator, we would have lost everything, including the chicks from the previous hatch, # 6.   A few of the chick drown inside the eggs.  We now have the humidity issue solved.

  We just completed our 9th hatch with 249 chicks from the two GQF incubators which each had 288 eggs for a total of 576.  We sent out 201 head to fill 11 more orders.  We are totally caught up on some varieties and are fully booked on others.  I have not checked the remaining eggs for development at this time, but will before we set hatch # 11 of send out any hatching eggs.  We had 4 pens hatch 100%.

  We are now at full capacity with the two GQF incubators in one hatch then one GQF and 3 Styrofoam (41 eggs each) in the next hatch.  We are still accepting chick orders and now shipping hatching eggs from black, blue, splash and white from pens that had good fertility from our last hatch.

  Hope everyone is having good hatches!

Kelly Gore:
Wow! That is great news! Glad you salvaged that much!

Don:
Paul and Angela, That's good news that it sounds like you have a handle on the hatching progress for this year. And the pens that are having 100% percent hatch are pretty rare indeed.  Those incubators are tuned just like a great broody hen too.  Glad things are looking up. I hope that you have great luck with the chicks you are raising for your show string this fall. I hope you have some great grow out weather now that spring is here. 
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Did you all experience any of the earthquake in your area?  After hearing of some of the weather in the central part of the country, I checked the weather closer to you.  I see that you are having freezing temps with a high today of only 45. Then later in the week its supposed to be in the 80s again.  So I guess spring will be there soon anyway.  Hope it will stay! 

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