Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with! - Page 7

I got 8 turkey eggs today. My incubator is officially full. A couple of the duck eggs look like they may hatch early though, so I should be getting more room within a week. 

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Originally Posted by wholewheatchicken 

Isn't full a terrible feeling?  I hope to be bringing eggs home tomorrow with me and I'm not sure where I'm going to put them in the bator either, but I'm feeling certain I will figure something out!

 

 It's keeping me off ebay for the moment. I'll have room soon, but I don't want it full when my roo's hormones finally kick in. I really want some chukar or more quail though, and those are little eggs so they don't take up much space. So maybe...

I set 14 eggs under a broody on the 5th of March and set 46 eggs in an incubator on the 3rd of March. I had set 15 under the broody on the 28th of feb. But my 4 year old found them. She not sure what she was thinking. But she scattered them everywhere and broke some. I didn't find them for 3 hour. So by then even the whole ones where gone. The high for that day was 30. So a new start over. This is my first hatch year. The eggs I set where from. 

Hens:                                        Egg color:

5 Easter egger               3 green eggers, 1 brown, 1 olive

4 Ameraucana's             blue/green 

1 Black copper maran   number 8 on the chocolate scale

1 silver laced cochin      lite brown

covered by a Splash maran Roo

Offspring should be olive eggers from the EE's & ameraucanas

Blue copper from the black copper

and a fuzzy blue mutt from the cochin mix that lays dark brown eggs lol

Buffy the Buff Orphangton is sitting on everyone's eggs but her own.

Good luck with your hatch!

Buffy is a cutie!

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Originally Posted by wholewheatchicken 

What do you do with quail? 

I only have a few, and mostly make pickled eggs for hubby with their eggs. I haven't had them long, and they haven't been laying very often though I'm hoping spring will change that. Love hatching them, I'm impatient and they only take 17-18 days. 

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Originally Posted by Peach2u 

I set 14 eggs under a broody on the 5th of March and set 46 eggs in an incubator on the 3rd of March. I had set 15 under the broody on the 28th of feb. But my 4 year old found them. She not sure what she was thinking. But she scattered them everywhere and broke some. I didn't find them for 3 hour. So by then even the whole ones where gone. The high for that day was 30. So a new start over. This is my first hatch year. The eggs I set where from. 

Hens:                                        Egg color:

5 Easter egger               3 green eggers, 1 brown, 1 olive

4 Ameraucana's             blue/green 

1 Black copper maran   number 8 on the chocolate scale

1 silver laced cochin      lite brown

covered by a Splash maran Roo

 

Offspring should be olive eggers from the EE's & ameraucanas

Blue copper from the black copper

and a fuzzy blue mutt from the cochin mix that lays dark brown eggs lol

 

Buffy the Buff Orphangton is sitting on everyone's eggs but her own.

 

What a cute broody. I had a BO go broody last summer and shared a nest with a silkie. They hatched 10 chicks and took wonderful care of them.
 

I usually end up with staggered hatches. Just don't lockdown until you have internal pips on the first eggs in so you can keep turning the newer eggs until then. Luckily my hubby likes the chickens/ducks/turkeys as much as me. He really likes turkeys and wants a tom, so the last eggs I got were turkey eggs for him so he better not complain. Besides, you got bantam hatching eggs, it takes like 3 of those to make one regular sized chicken so I don't think you got enough,lol.

I candled my EE eggs and have at least 11 developing so far. A few are too dark to see candling, and some I think will be clears but I'm happy with 11. Nothing in my call duck eggs yet.  Another 8 days until I can tell on my turkeys. I should have ducklings from my oldest eggs very soon though, and they are looking great so far!

I want to candle the eggs so bad. But I don't think Buffy would like me digging around under her at night. At what point do I need give up on an egg hatching if I don't candle them? I stuck 3 under Buffy about 14 hours after the main batch. Also I am not incubating my own eggs. Maybe next year I will. But I found a local guy who hatches and puts it on a web cam. He hatches every weekend. Looks like this weekend is cochins. The kids love to watch them hatch and I don't have to worry about them opening the incubator.

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http://cmfarm.us/cam_2.html