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post #1241 of 1762
5/13/12 at 6:06am
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Lots of pets. Not enough chickens, a bad hatching addiction and a great DH. ;)I SWEAR I'm gonna unplug the incubator soon. I NOW sell hatching eggs/chicks/chickens!!. Serama 3 coat types, Hedemora, Tolbunts 2 frizzled pens,1 smooth. Cream-Crestedlegbar, Isbars, Oladnsk Dwarf, SQ Mille Fluer d'uccles, Cuckoo Silkies, Russian Orlaff, SFH, Rhodebars, Bielefelders, Partridge Barthuners, White...
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Lots of pets. Not enough chickens, a bad hatching addiction and a great DH. ;)I SWEAR I'm gonna unplug the incubator soon. I NOW sell hatching eggs/chicks/chickens!!. Serama 3 coat types, Hedemora, Tolbunts 2 frizzled pens,1 smooth. Cream-Crestedlegbar, Isbars, Oladnsk Dwarf, SQ Mille Fluer d'uccles, Cuckoo Silkies, Russian Orlaff, SFH, Rhodebars, Bielefelders, Partridge Barthuners, White...
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post #1242 of 1762
5/13/12 at 6:18am
I miscounted yesterday, I had 11 of 12 make it to lockdown. When I went to bed last night I had 7 pips I could see, and woke up to 3 little chickies this morning!! And another is zipping right now!

("\(^v^)/") DeAnna ("\(^v^)/")
Mama to 3 wonderful kids
1 chihuahua/1 peekapoo/2 naked necks/1 ancona/3 easter eggers/1 minorca/1 olive egger/1 Summer Sussex/8 silkies/1 mille fluer d'Uccle & chicks a'hatch'n about all the time!
www.sweetchicksfarm.com

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("\(^v^)/") DeAnna ("\(^v^)/")
Mama to 3 wonderful kids
1 chihuahua/1 peekapoo/2 naked necks/1 ancona/3 easter eggers/1 minorca/1 olive egger/1 Summer Sussex/8 silkies/1 mille fluer d'Uccle & chicks a'hatch'n about all the time!
www.sweetchicksfarm.com

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post #1243 of 1762
5/13/12 at 6:18am
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I don't use the plugs at all.  Even during incubation..just get the humidity and temps where I want them, then keep the plugs out.  I even made two more holes in the top of one of my bators to keep the air circulating more. 
I don't know why they include the plugs. A hen gives her babies lots of fresh air, by getting up, lifting up, puffing up her feathers. I haven't used them for a long time. Usually I just don't add water until around day 15 then I slowly increase it until day 18. Then add through vent holes.

 

 

  

 

 

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post #1244 of 1762
5/13/12 at 6:29am

Happy Mothers day !

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post #1245 of 1762
5/13/12 at 6:36am

Have never hatched in bator OR with broody until this morning(moms day) and have 3 ba out of 17 eggs so far. Broody is a  4yo salmon faverolles that showed me what broody meant a couple of years ago when she didn't come in and found her after 1 day(naughty chicken!) I decided to try her some day and she has succeeded. Good job Suzette and happy mothers day!!!!!!!!

mom to 1 man-child,43 VARIOUS chickens,1 mare,1 Welsh Harlequin duck 1 Call drake,1 dog,6 cats(all neuterable critters neutered) love em love em!

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mom to 1 man-child,43 VARIOUS chickens,1 mare,1 Welsh Harlequin duck 1 Call drake,1 dog,6 cats(all neuterable critters neutered) love em love em!

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post #1246 of 1762
5/13/12 at 7:18am
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Happy Mothers day !

wee.gifHappy Mothers Day everyone!

 

 

 

I wish I could have joined, my OEGB started laying some fertile eggs on the 2nd of May. So far I have collected 4, and I'm hoping to get to 6-12. 

 

Is there going to be a Father's Day Hatch-Along? cool.png

 

It's the shape that makes the breed, and the color that makes the variety.

 

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It's the shape that makes the breed, and the color that makes the variety.

 

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post #1247 of 1762
5/13/12 at 8:25am

I have seven babies! One egg stopped developing back in the second week and I have one zipped that looks like it died and one that pipped but with no movement. I have two eggs left that hopefully will hatch today.

Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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Jakk... Homeschooling mom of four kids, two dogs, three cats, 6 Buff Orpingtons hatched on Christmas Day, 16 Hatchery Choice Pullets, 6 TSC Red Pullets all hatched on 2/22, 8 babes hatched 3/21, 9 babies hatched on May 11th. Sixteen Easter Eggers hatched Sept 1, two White Ameraucana hatched Sept 5th...and trying to resist the urge to fill the incubator!

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post #1248 of 1762
5/13/12 at 8:36am

I don't remember how many eggs I set, but 18 went into lockdown and I have nine chicks and I think I'm finished.  I've left the eggs in the bator and will wait to see if anymore hatch.

I will enter Your gates with thanksgiving in my heart; I will enter Your courts with praise...Psalm 100:4

Chickens: W/BW Ameraucanas, Buckeyes and EEs

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I will enter Your gates with thanksgiving in my heart; I will enter Your courts with praise...Psalm 100:4

Chickens: W/BW Ameraucanas, Buckeyes and EEs

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post #1249 of 1762
5/13/12 at 8:44am
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I have seven babies! One egg stopped developing back in the second week and I have one zipped that looks like it died and one that pipped but with no movement. I have two eggs left that hopefully will hatch today.
Did you have the plugs in? If you did that is probably what happened, I'm sorry your babies didn't hatch. Have a HAPPY MOTHERS DAY anyways.
Michele

 

 

  

 

 

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post #1250 of 1762
5/13/12 at 8:49am
Hey where are all the chick pic's. Most should have hatched yesterday. I had only one hatched as of this morning, and no other pips, before I left for work this morning. Question....what is a sizzle?

 

 

  

 

 

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