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As soon as mine are feathered they have free choice of inside or out. They do have a small area in the run that is covered but they seem to not mind the rain. If it's still cold at night, I have a light they can come in and get under if they need it.

I'm afraid I've lost all of mine too. Day 24 and I don't see any movement when candling. :hit Fortunately I have another incubator going with 27 EE in it and they are looking great. These are a week behind the others so that will help with the loss. Except for the fact that there were 7...

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Day 23 here and no sign of anything! Should I be worried? Would y'all recommend candling or floating at this point ? I hope I haven't murdered 38 chicks because candling at day 15 all looked well.

?Anyone else curious how many of us started on the 7th? Can we somehow get a quick count....everyone who set on the 7th send a quick note and tell how things are going? I have 7 Australorps and 31 Easter Eggers and there is no sign of anything happening. Candled on the 15th day and all was...

Torture for me too! No sign of anything!:barnie

ME TOO!

I'm with ya on being nervous! 38 eggs and no signs yet!:hu

Just now saw this about setting on the 7th. That's when I started! Now I'm anxiously waiting for 38 eggs to hatch! Temp and humidity have done really well this time ( not so great of a hatch last year). I have 31 EE eggs in there and 7 Australorps. I messed up my counting days and locked down...

Being patient is the hard part. Humidity was good for those days and now keeping it around 65%. No pipping yet but good to hear I didn't mess up too bad.:)

I read wrong about how to count my incubator days. I counted the first 24 hour period as day 1 so I have put this batch in lockdown on day 17 instead of day 18. Any thoughts? How bad did I mess up? Humidity and temp have been just right but it's now day 20 (2 1/2 days in lockdown) and the is no...

This is our second time incubating with a very UNsuccessful first attempt last year. Tell me please what you guys do when it's time to stop the egg turner. Do you take the turner out? Leave the eggs in? Put the eggs in cartons? Increase humidity and temp I know but how should the eggs be...

Joining in for March. We set 31 Easters Eggers and 7 Australorps on March 7th. We also have a broody Silkie who I gave some EE eggs to. Yesterday I noticed our Frizzle might be starting as well. Good lunch everyone. Happy hatching!

See "incubating and hatching" :)

Ok I went all the way back to post number 91. Here is the total.......2111 !!!

We have trimmed the wings of all our hens exactly as show on a page we found on BYC. Problem is, they are still flying out of their 4' fencing. I'm losing eggs because they are now laying wherever! :( We only cut one wing so I'm wondering if we should do the other as well? Even our huge...

Of course we have a favorite. I have 8 different breeds but the Buffs are by far the most friendly. One in particular, Gracie, comes to my feet and waits to be picked up. She likes to be carried around, fed and generally babied. :) we also have an EE, Sugar, who loves attention. Although we...

I'm in for July too! We have a black sex link who started stetting on ONE egg! Needless to say, since she stayed, I gave her six more miscellaneous eggs. Gold Comets, Silkies, Sizzle, Easter Eggers. Gonna be fun to see what we get. Also, she is in the highest possible nest box so not sure when...

Ok I saved 30 EE eggs over a weeks time. Kept them turned and the correct temp. Lockdown commenced on Friday and in the middle of the night we hatched 4 healthy and 4 not so much. It has now been over 16 hours since these hatched and there is NO sign of any others getting started. No...

He/She is about 9 weeks old and very docile. Any ideas what breed?