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Day 8 for me. I candled yesterday, had 5 duds out of 36 so far. All my eggs are blue! I have blue, blue black, silver and blue mix ameraucanas! This is my first hatch ever! All shipped eggs, I am hoping for at least 6 out of the 36.

Well....what's the difference if he eats the eggs or hatches them then eats the chicken's? Either way the chicks are doomed. And it's not like you will never have any more eggs, you get 2 doz a day! I'd sell em!

I have barred rocks, light bramas, banty cochins, ameraucanas, RIR's, and one sex link. I get about an egg a day from all of them.

I've had 6 month old eggs! Looked & tasted fine. Just keep em refrigerated.

I got mine at walmart 24.99. It is a rayovac outdoorsman 80 lumens. There is a 45 and an 80 lumens they look the same, so be sure it says 80. I have all green & blue eggs, it works great!

And I would be very disappointed to have a date show up in jeans with holes in them all the time! On the farm I grew up on, they don't wear clothes that have all those loose threads hanging out, they could lose a leg or worse if that got caught in a piece of machinery. LOL! My husband only has...

I have bantam cochins in w/ my standards. The feather pulling goes on for a while. There was never any blood, and the feathers grew back. I just let them do what they do. The cochins didn't seem scared or depressed at all, so I wasn't too worried. They all get along fine now.

I have a still air too, I'm surprised how well the temp holds. It is in a room with no drafts and nobody else goes in there. I have a heater in that room that keeps the room around 70, so the bator temp will be more stabilized.

My neighbor uses a hovabator that is over 15 yrs old. So I don't think it is too old.

Last for what? eating or hatching? If they are refrigerated I have had eggs 6 months old taste just fine. My neighbor hatched some month old eggs I had in the fridge.

I live in the wilderness too. It took 3 days for the coyotes to learn I had chickens. No free ranging for my chickens anymore. Nothing has ever tried to get into my barn at night. It would be pretty easy to just dig under the doors, but that has never happened. The coyotes grabbed my...

I started off with 7 roos and 10 hens. I waited to see how the roos were going act. The mean loud ones went first. That left me with 4 roos that still get along great and my hens are not "overridden" at all. My roos really mellowed out after the first year. My husband jokes about how...

Cedar shavings are a totally different color (dark reddish/purple) than pine shavings and it would say on the bag "Cedar". Cedar has an oil in it that is a bug repellent and it has a really strong smell. I think it is just too intense for little chicks. I have used it in the coop with the...

Naa...they all look like hens to me.

Day 5 for me! 36 Ameraucanas!

oldtimegator - that 80 lumens light is more than enough. I have that same one because I have dark eggs (green, blue & dark brown), it works great.

yep....load it up:D

There are no dial readings because the adjustment is not that sensitive. You need to turn the dial about 1 whole turn just to get a 1 degree change.

The barred rocks are blk w/ white spot on top of the head, EE's have green legs RIR's are really light red/yellow, buff O's are yellow. I am not sure of the others.

Thanks for the quick responses! I think I will just lay them in there. I have 36 eggs going...not much room to roll around LOL!