Incubators Anonymous

[Jessimom]

You say you want me to mail you some eggs??

only almost?? hmmmm i think we need a flood of duckling pics.....

Yes, only almost. I'm not zoned for chickens, and I'm slowly going past 100 of them, adding ducks would DEFINITELY cause my family to have heart failure.

 

[oregonkat]

Call Dux a-hatchin!
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Adorable is correct!!!! Hey, who won the cutest chick contest anyway?

 

[RodNTN]

I have 20 eggs in the incubator! Day 5

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Adorable is correct!!!! Hey, who won the cutest chick contest anyway?

Cutest chick contest is still going on I believe and it takes a while to judge since there are SO many enteries lol

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I have 20 eggs in the incubator! Day 5

I honestly have no clue how many I have in right now I could always go check my notebook but that's too much work. I do know that eggs will be hatching every weekend for the foreseeable future lol

 

[Jessimom]

I have 20 eggs in the incubator! Day 5

My Frizzled Polish eggs are on day 17. I pulled 1 blood ring on day 12. That leaves 29 in the incubator!

 

[Faraday40]

I've got some eggs due on Fri. This was another test hatch.

Sadly my laced orps were having fertility issues. I only had one laced orp egg develop. I trimmed and today I set A LOT of their eggs in the local schools. Each school paid for a doz eggs but I doubled their numbers to put in all the laced orp eggs I could collect. If they don't hatch, nothing lost. Since I'll get the chicks back, if they do hatch = great news for me! Of course if I don't get fertile eggs from my laced orps again, then I'm going to really be stumped. There's only 3 hens in with that roo! (Two laced & the 3rd, a Buff Colombian Orp, just hung around outside the tractor all day as hawk bait. I had to let her join them.)


My lav orps' fertility seems to be just fine. I had a setback when we lost my beautiful lav roo in the fall so I have his half brother (only 3.5 mo old) and his great grandfather (mostly a semi-retired pet rooster) covering the rest of the flock - both are black/ lav splits. So one is too old & one is too young, but at least one of them is getting the job done.

 

[WVduckchick]

I honestly have no clue how many I have in right now I could always go check my notebook but that's too much work. I do know that eggs will be hatching every weekend for the foreseeable future lol

I keep a spreadsheet. I can't remember what is due when, if I don't. The bad part is when I see eggs, and wonder when they need locked down, and I've forgotten to add them to my list!

 

[aliciaplus3]

I took the advice of someone here and started writing the hatch date on the eggs..... I believe this is going to help me keep em straight as I have 3 different hatch dates going right now.... nothing hatching this week end but every week after for a while.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I keep a spreadsheet. I can't remember what is due when, if I don't. The bad part is when I see eggs, and wonder when they need locked down, and I've forgotten to add them to my list!

I took the advice of someone here and started writing the hatch date on the eggs..... I believe this is going to help me keep em straight as I have 3 different hatch dates going right now.... nothing hatching this week end but every week after for a while.

I used to use the hatch a batch app and while I liked it, it's just easier to write it down in a notebook. I write the date set, date due, what type of egg (chicken/turkey) and how many set. I leave spots to write in how many clears/blood rings, how many hatched, and how many didn't. I'll get a picture later. On the eggs themselves, I write the date due and what breed. There's easily and least 50 eggs in the Bator at any given time though usually more lol