Setting Today (03-02-2012)

[MyNameIs86]

Hello!
I'm deciding to set my eggs today/tonight at 8:30pm. Since i'm doing it at night, I guess 03-03-2012 would be considered as Day 1... Correct?

Sooo that would mean March 20, 2012 would be day 18... Right?
Or do i have something wrong? i am trying to make a table to check my work.

 

[dreamer5577]

Sounds about right!

I set my eggs late last night/today! Even though we're a day apart, we can still be hatching buddies! Haha

How many have you set? And what kind?

 

[MyNameIs86]

i am setting a dozen. Not sure what kind. i got em from a farm and forgot to ask.

I just set them around 8:30pm. The thermometer dropped down to 80 degrees when i put it on top of the eggs which were room temperature. Eeek.

 

[dreamer5577]

I originally set a dozen, but added 3 more today. Mine are all mutts. I have leghorns but my rooster is a red star/bantam mix. And I have another hen that is a black star/bantam mix. Many, many mutts! Haha I did end up getting a silkie egg from my neighbor. I hope it's fertile and hatches! I;d love to have a little silkie running around!

What kind of incubator are you using?

 

[MyNameIs86]

I originally set a dozen, but added 3 more today. Mine are all mutts. I have leghorns but my rooster is a red star/bantam mix. And I have another hen that is a black star/bantam mix. Many, many mutts! Haha I did end up getting a silkie egg from my neighbor. I hope it's fertile and hatches! I;d love to have a little silkie running around!

What kind of incubator are you using?

Hova Bator (Still Air) Incubator.
I rented it for $200 (I get $150 back when I return it to the farm.)

 

[dreamer5577]

Cool. I'm also using a hova bator still air. the 1602N model.

how's your temperature? Got it back to 100??

For my first hatch, I used a 5gal. aquarium homemade incubator. I ended up with 1 out of 4. So, I'm hoping for better results this time.
So far, the temperature has been at a steady 100degrees.

Have you hatched before?

 

[MyNameIs86]

Cool. I'm also using a hova bator still air. the 1602N model.

how's your temperature? Got it back to 100??

For my first hatch, I used a 5gal. aquarium homemade incubator. I ended up with 1 out of 4. So, I'm hoping for better results this time.
So far, the temperature has been at a steady 100degrees.

Have you hatched before?

right now @ 10:29pm it is back in the 90's... But its still going... hopefully by tomorrow it will be back to normal.
i would say this is my official first hatch but I have tried a bout 10 years ago with 1 egg in a glass aquarium w/ nothing but hay for bedding and a light. lol.
I am pretty excited for this hatch. The eggs are from the farm, and seemed newly laid. so I'm crossing my fingers.
It was 100 degree's prior to putting the eggs in.

 

[dreamer5577]

I hope that temperature gets up there!

now, here's to successful hatches!

 

[skunknchatter]

I just set my first two eggs tonight as well. I was waiting to see if my lazy hens would lay anymore but no luck. So into the bator went my two lonely eggs. One is a leghorn x BO and the other is a Dominique or Sussex x BO. Here's to hoping at least one hatches in my home made incubator.

 

[MyNameIs86]

Awesome. We can be hatching buddies!

Just an update!
Checked on the temperature this morning.... Its a steady 100 degrees!! It's a smudge over 100 but it's really little... smidge. lol. The incubator light keeps turning on and off as to indicate the right amount of heat. I noticed that if it goes under the 100 degrees a smidge it turns on again. So i believe it's a steady temperature.

I am keeping a data base on a calender, so if nothing hatching, I can show the guy the temperature rates per day...since he said if nothing hatches, i can keep the incubator @ no extra charge for another hatching.

I am growing soo antsy. This is my first hatch.

Anybody interested in buying 1 month old chicks? (If they do hatch?) I can not keep chickens. I am located in N. NJ.
- not sure the breed yet....forgot to ask when I was @ the farm yesterday/