Recent content by john in wa

kvmommy, Yes i raise my own, all eggs i am setting today are from my birds. I only buy eggs now when i am looking to freshen the blood lines and improve my birds.. I don't like to do the line breeding thing so i try to change my roosters every year with better stock.. The 11 silies i have i...

The 7 chicks i hatched are doing great. I got the incubator all cleaned out and my next batch of eggs set today. The weather has turned cold again so the silkies are not laying as good as they were so i went ahead and filled the incubator with 13 BCM eggs and 8 silkie eggs. OK lets see if i...

Your chicks will be fine in the incubator. I leave my chicks in the incubator for the first 24 hours or so. it gives them good time to dry and fluff up and i also think the hatched chicks help to stimulate the other chicks to get busy and hatch. Ok out of the 19 eggs i have a total of 7...

Im up to 5 chicks total. still got another pip or 2. I hate the waiting game. I really wish chicken chicks hatched like my quail do.

Well i lost the first egg that pipped a couple days ago. he did manage to get about 3/4 zipped but was gone when i got up today. I think the zipping was just to much for him. so i still have 2 of my eggs 1 of them has a pip so i hope it will go ahead and hatch. I also woke to a chick from my...

3 chicks out 7 to go. I still do not see any pips on the 4 bought eggs but am holding out hope. Haha i got a pip on one of my bought eggs. come on chickie

I now have 1 chick out. 3 others are trying to zip. out of the four bought eggs i know some of them are still alive as a seen a egg roll and another one wiggle. I still dont see any pips but i know as of know they still have live chicks so chances are i will get atleast one or 2 chicks out of them.

Black Copper Marans, they came from Mississippi. But that's the way it goes. some times you win some some times you loose some. But its not over yet. so i will give them till Friday then i will crack them and see what went wrong. I know the 4 i saved was fertile and did develop. I think the...

Well still nothing from the shipped eggs, One of them was rocking yesterday but has no movement or pips today. 1 of my hens eggs is zipping and i think the first chick will make his big appearance in a hour or so. He is a little loud mouth i can hear him right now peep peep. If none of my...

I have my second pip from my eggs. the bought eggs still have no pips that i can see but 1 of them is rocking and rolling:D .

Not much action yet. I have one pipped but no real action. I was not expecting them to pip till tomorrow so it was kind of a surprise to see a pip today. I don't really like early pips it usually ends bad for the chick. That's about all i got to report today. Kvmommy. I don't think the...

I hate the final candling by then its obvious which eggs are bad. Its kind of like i knew they were bad last time i candled but was holding hope they would catch up to the other eggs, but at day 18 its set in stone and you know you have to toss them. with the shipped eggs i know every time i...

Tonight is the second time i have candled the eggs. Out of the 10 bought eggs i am down to 4 eggs left in the incubator. Out of those 4 only one looks like it has a good air cell but all 4 have chicks growing in them. Out of my original 9 eggs from my hens i am down to 6 eggs, all six have nice...

Well we are almost to lock down. I will lock my incubator down Sunday night. I will fill both trays with warm water then sit on my hands for the next few days. I cant wait for this hatch to be over. I am going to set a batch of silkie eggs next. I have had them separated from the Cochin's and...

OK so i started with a total of 19 eggs. I candled them using a 1,000,000 candle power spot light. I had 6 eggs from the 10 bought eggs that showed dark mass in them and 1 was kind of a question. so i saved a total of 7 of the bought eggs. Then out of the 9 eggs from my hens i saved 7 eggs. I...