Recent content by LalaG

Hi PA friends! My name is Lauren and I'm in the philly suburbs (bucks co). My kids and I just worked on an incubation project and just had a successful hatch with some beautiful chicks. You all are way better with breed names but we have assorted silkies/porcelain D'Uccles/Belgian quail...

Happy hatching everyone!!! Love seeing these beautiful little chicks. Day 21 here and I woke up to no pips, wah :(. Hoping they are to come. Headed to the post office now to pick up the chicks I ordered after only 3/9 of mine were viable hahaha. I'll post pics of those and hopefully my pips!

Trying to read through since I hadn't signed in in awhile! So Exciting everyone. We started with 9 and ended up With 3 viable eggs today that just went into lockdown! Keep your fingers crossed for me :). Setting up my brooder now...the shavings were a mess last year, does anyone use paper...

Me too!!! That fun and funky assorted is always at the top of my wish list. Go to eBay right now and search fertile silkie eggs the farm I got mine from just relisted another bunch and I got mine (9) for $30shipped. I think the fun and funky ships free though right? But you need a big #?

They are gorgeous and on my want list too...which is getting really really long hahaha Good luck! Glad to have more company I caved.  I'm just an hour or so away from day 17 (counting down to hatch day) and I candled my eggs. I have made myself promise to not look again until much later...

My humidity is low and I'd like it around 35 and it keeps dropping 29 range. The heat is my main prob. When I have the incubator on a desktop service I feel like it needs additional vent holes because it gets hot, I've caught it 103 twice. I moved it to a round stoll and the bottom holes are...

Such a small happy world! :). We are also in warminster! I've read it's 10acres PER chicken which is ridiculous? I have the land for chickens and wouldn't torture anyone with a bunch of loud roos, even myself :). I'd love to see your set up! We currently have 9 silkies in the incubator (I do...

Hi Anne! I'm from Bucks Co too :). Maybe you can help me find a page on township restrictions? I'm looking for Warrington/Jamison/Buckingham/Doylestown/warminster West specifically :)

And they are BEAUTIFUL IMO. Our restrictions are tight and it drives me crazy as I have a big fenced backyard and the privacy and space to build a large coop. I wouldnt torture myself with a bunch of loud Roos let alone my neighbors. I found friends a bit farther north with no restrictions who...

Hahaha I love lawn ornaments too :). It's hard to eat eggs for me for a few weeks after cradling this eggs like they are my children I'm doing this with my kids so I feel extra pressure because they are already setting up the brooder for nine baby chicks, ignoring my hints that we may not get...

Ok I may bump it up a notch to 102. And probably buy three more therms haha. I loved the weeble trick (water filler toy) from Amazon with a meat therm inserted to mimic interior egg temp had you seen that one? How did your first hatch go?

Im interested in how everyone got their eggs also if not your backyard. I was able to find my silkie eggs on eBay from a farm not far from me but I was thinking about using mypetchicken next time and also using a few TJ eggs because why not :). Id love to find some locally but nothing listed on...

Thank you thank you thank you!!!' I don't know anyone who has done this so having your advice is awesome and makes my life a lot easier. Do you think the 105 blowing for a few mins was enough to cook my babies or is that not enough time for the internal egg temp to jump? Also if you were me...

Staying calm is not my strong suit in general so this should be great Glad to have people to talk to about my worries! Thank you I'm using (after tons of research and putting the Brinsea in my Amazon cart 59x and not being able to stomach the cost) the Farm Innovators 2150 still air. I've...