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Originally Posted by mefordz 

 no problem carl,  i may be able to sneak off in a week or so, if she doesnt catch me!

I understand quite well.. I will have plenty to make the trip worthwhile, the bad part (for me) is that these are the better birds I am jsut getting even more serious about what stays in this round.

 The Good (for you) is the birds will be well worth raising, breeding, and even showing this fall / spring season. I will set asside a pair or trio of Blue Rosecomb for you as a "Thank You for understanding" peace offering.

Gotta brag for a minute.  I sent 20 hatching eggs to a BYCer in NY, they all arrived intact (my first time ever to send eggs, and never even recieved any), and she candled them today and 19 are developing, WOOO Hoooo   Oreo is covering 17 girls and all the eggs are fertile, go Oreo!  lol

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Originally Posted by MacGuyver 

The problem is that I have a stupid crappy LG styrofoam incubator that hates eggs. I don't think the problem is the eggs or the breeders. I just threw away a whole bunch of perfectly developed chicks that just died in the shells. :( I'm in Oklahoma City. 

I am working over by the aiport, daily.. long days normally too.

We live just west of shawnee I-40 and Harah rd exit then south 5 miles.. 

I would be willing to set some for you to get your numbers up if you would like, the offer stands.

Based on your description your temps are too low by about 1.5 degrees. You hatched a cockrell..

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Originally Posted by Kassaundra 

Gotta brag for a minute.  I sent 20 hatching eggs to a BYCer in NY, they all arrived intact (my first time ever to send eggs, and never even recieved any), and she candled them today and 19 are developing, WOOO Hoooo   Oreo is covering 17 girls and all the eggs are fertile, go Oreo!  lol

Great Job Kass, and Oreo.. Spread the Poultry Bug all you can I swear it's contageous..

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Originally Posted by MacGuyver 

Oh, L-rd, help my bleedin' heart. I went in to steel myself to throw away all the eggs and turn off my incubator. One had pipped. It's peeping its little head off like crazy in there. Day 25. What. The. Heck? I threw away the dead eggs and upped the humidity again for the little one and we'll see what happens.

 Sounds like the temperature was too low. Has the incubator got an electronic thermostat? Our old trailer is drafty and they just don't seem to do the job as well.

 Our LG started giving us good hatches after we trashed the thermostat and replaced it with the old wafer type out of an old Hovabator. I have a high/low reading digital thermometer that we got at WalMart, That way it can be checked for temp lows or spikes through the day when you are not around to watch it. 

 Another thing is that most people count the day they put in the eggs as day one but day one is the first full day of incubation. If I were to set eggs right now then tommorow would be day one.  

Hi Les!!!  Hey just wanted to say I just got off the phone with Teach and he and Guy are meeting me this Saturday at the Guy Rose Auction, anyone in the area that wants to have a meetup at GRA please give me a shout or PM me! i am not real hard to find for those that don't know me, I will be around the chickens somewhere, I am 6'3"tall somewhat ruggedly handsome even with the grey hair and beard!!! LOL Well anyways you can find me there!!! We could all get together for lunch somewhere in Stillwater say maybe Palameno's Mexican Foods!!!  Oh and on another note, wife and I just got through getting "five" grain seeds out of Heather's ear!!!  Yeah! She was under the pigeon cage messing with and egg on the wire cage floor and bumped a feeder and got Pigeon feed in her ear!!! Lord what kids won't get into!!! But thank God we got them out with a syringe and warm soapy water!!!!  Hey she is only seven but she can get into some weird stuff!!!  Also we are missing a feeder pig today, we went out to do chores and one of them is gone, no trace of him, it was the littler one but that is $35 down the drain, no telling where it is with the wind blowing so hard today all, it may show up but I'm not getting my hopes up!!!  So it goes on the farm!!! Yall have a great evening!!  Lynn 

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Originally Posted by Kassaundra 

Gotta brag for a minute.  I sent 20 hatching eggs to a BYCer in NY, they all arrived intact (my first time ever to send eggs, and never even recieved any), and she candled them today and 19 are developing, WOOO Hoooo   Oreo is covering 17 girls and all the eggs are fertile, go Oreo!  lol

Yippee! Congratulations!

Originally Posted by mefordz 

Originally Posted by Cjarvis 

Medfordz,

 I appologize but I have several pens I need to go through and have not had time, I will have to catch up with you another day.

Okieridge,

 I appreciate the offer to transport the birds to Jim but I need to sort through several pens the more I look I more I need to get rid of..

 no problem carl,  i may be able to sneak off in a week or so, if she doesnt catch me!

Or I can still come get as many as need be and bring them to NEOCS June 16th. Because I am NOT going to miss it now (thank you, Joe!)

 

 

Originally Posted by MacGuyver 

Oh, L-rd, help my bleedin' heart. I went in to steel myself to throw away all the eggs and turn off my incubator. One had pipped. It's peeping its little head off like crazy in there. Day 25. What. The. Heck? I threw away the dead eggs and upped the humidity again for the little one and we'll see what happens.

I was only getting 50% hatches with shipped eggs in my LG (2 tries) I didn't have a humidity meter and that was a big part of the problem I think. Come to find out 50% is pretty good for shipped eggs. I STILL haven't gotten a chance to try to hatch any of my own eggs. I'm just too scared of getting cockerels.

 

 

Originally Posted by Kassaundra 

Gotta brag for a minute.  I sent 20 hatching eggs to a BYCer in NY, they all arrived intact (my first time ever to send eggs, and never even recieved any), and she candled them today and 19 are developing, WOOO Hoooo   Oreo is covering 17 girls and all the eggs are fertile, go Oreo!  lol

You go, Oreo! I bet he sleeps soundly at night lol

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Originally Posted by nnbreeder 

 

 Sounds like the temperature was too low. Has the incubator got an electronic thermostat? Our old trailer is drafty and they just don't seem to do the job as well.

 

 Our LG started giving us good hatches after we trashed the thermostat and replaced it with the old wafer type out of an old Hovabator. I have a high/low reading digital thermometer that we got at WalMart, That way it can be checked for temp lows or spikes through the day when you are not around to watch it. 

 

 Another thing is that most people count the day they put in the eggs as day one but day one is the first full day of incubation. If I were to set eggs right now then tommorow would be day one.  

I am not sure what kind of thermostat it has. I have two glass lab thermometers in there. I was keeping the temp pretty steady at 38 degrees celcius dry bulb, and trying to keep humidity at about 34% which equates to 27 degrees celcius on the wet bulb thermometer. I knew about not counting day one until 24 hours had passed. I set on the last Sunday in April and expected to hatch this past Sunday, which would be 21 days. My temp was always the same until it rained, and then my humidity shot up to over 60% (31 degrees celcius wet bulb temp), temps were all over the place, and it was just awful. Finally turned on the AC to dry out the house (we live in an underground house), and then the temps dropped because it was 75 (farenheit) in the house not 78 like the stupid picky incubator wanted. Grrrr. Day 11 - day 16 on this hatch was where the temps and humidity couldn't get straightened out, leastways that's what my spreadsheet data says. I honestly don't know if I want to mess with getting another thermostat and installing it. I think I'd get more satisfaction out of hammering this thing to pieces and buying a good incubator next winter. 

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Originally Posted by NanaKat 

I took some pictures of Samson and Delilah's babies   And the Blues from Bo Garrett....

 

Samson and Delilah came from Carl.  He is the Lavendar roo and she is the blue hen  These hatched 4/18

 

This is Chick 1 and I think it will be a roo.  It has one black feather on its wing.

 

 

Chick 2  is smaller and has a very light lavendar hue all over and a few darker feathers...may be a splash pullet

 

 

And chick 3   is darker and while there are feathers on the middle toe, they aren't quite as full as the siblings..

 

 

And then these are the babies from Bo Garrett's Blue Cochins.  Bo, you'll have to tell me what you think.  They hatched 4/30  

 

 

Not sure the variety on this one....black with white feathers.... 2 pictures.  Could this one be mottled blue?

 

Then Red counting noses on the Garrett Cochins and a few older chicks.  Some of these are going to be almost navy blue...

 

Rebecca...there will definitely be some roos in this bunch....remember, I promised you one.

NanaKat you are killing me with all these Bues and Lavs!  I did get me a black Roo that came from Bo's stock so now maybe I can get me some.  If you ever want to get rid of some pm me.