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I've got five in a plastic drawer sitting in the sunshine. Number 6 is drying out. 3 more pipped, and one that I can hear tapping. Looking like a pretty good outcome here. I'll get some pictures this evening.

Came in to double check everything in the bator tonight (day 20) and I've got 2 pipped and one rocking. The two that are pipped are all sorts of loud :) This is the first time I've even had a pip, so I moved the bator from the floor in the closet to a table so it was easier to sit and watch. I...

Yep, the reds are sex links that came in the mail this morning. Do you know what the yellow one with the darker colors are by chance?

I made the mistake of looking at chicks at Big R today when I went in to get a waterer and some silicone. And there were chicks, and I knew there would be, but I still looked and I bought 8. 6 austrolorps and two of these. Light buff colored bodies, yellow on the head, and the silverish stripes...

Our chicks came first thing this morning about 20 minutes after the PO called to see if we wanted to pick them up. They said they would be the first package delivered, so we didn't make the trip. All arrived alive, but we have lost three over the course of the day. All three were very slow and...

We had some pretty bad weather in west central/ central Indiana today, but southern IN got some horrible storms. I spent the day in Indy picking up some birds from a fellow BYCer and came home to tornado reports just miles from where my family and my in-laws live. All have reported some damage...

While I can't imagine it being great for eggs, I can only imagine that it was a slow decline from 100 to 55 and just because the incubator was 55 degrees inside doesn't necessarily mean that the eggs ever got that cold internally. I wouldn't give up yet and candle for progress here in the next...

I have only ordered chicks once before, and that was from Estes Hatchery last spring. Also a great experience for anyone looking at different hatcheries. I ordered from them again this year for a later shipment and Hoovers. My shipment was supposed to go out yesterday, but the order is still...

I'm only on my second go. I tried about a year ago with 6 eggs from a friend. 5 never started and one made it to the end, but never pipped. I think my humidity was way too high. Right now my humidity is running around 35% with no water in the bator. Seems that's as low as the current humidity...

I spent the last 3 1/2 weeks of my 42 1/2 week pregnancy at 3cm. I was 7 when I got to the hospital, and only because the hospital was an hour away.

My new incubator came today! So I thought I should probably go ahead and test it out before the hatch-a-long. I figure I will use the LG as the hatcher, because I'll have to take the eggs that went in today out for the new eggs. Does it matter that I'm going to a still-air for hatching or would...

I was going to wait for the hatch a long, but decided since it's been warm and my hens have been laying well, I would go ahead and throw a dozen or so in the new incubator and see what happened. Plus, I really want to see how well the new bator performed so I would know ahead of time what I need...

I got to peaking at my order, and yes, they were almost $5. $4.66 to be exact.

Yeah, I wasn't sure how dark of an egg that hatchery birds would lay, and they were more expensive if I recall correctly. We sell eggs cheap, so spending more money upfront on a bird isn't exactly what I want to do.

If I'm not too late. I would like to do this. New incubator coming this week sometime and still have an old LG that I might use if I can get a fan rigged up in time. It will only be my second hatch attempt ever

I'm not sure I can answer all of your questions and know that I'm giving you the best advice, but I will do my best. From my one attempt at cornish X's, I can tell you that you probably aren't going to want them in your garage for long. They tend to be a little, um, messy and stinky. I believe...

We went from 6 to 18 to 45 to 91 to 57 to 30. That is what I call chicken math. Next week we will go from 30 to 55 to 61 to who knows when we go to Rural King and they have some kind of breed that I just have to have in my layer coop to make it "prettier". By next month the 61 will increase...

One of my golden comet pullets was very slow to feather. I think she was about 6 weeks old before she finally caught up to the others. She is now my best layer and my friendliest bird.