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  1. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    oh no lol, sounds like he is in good hands though!
  2. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    congrats henney!!
  3. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    aww henney, good luck to you, fingers crossed they all pip very soon!
  4. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    naw they are so cute!!! here's all of my babies that hatched out of this lot
  5. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    good luck!!!!
  6. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    awesome! fingers crossed for that one, i will check later to see how its going
  7. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    if its still making noise i would leave it go, just keep an eye on it
  8. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    it varied a bit hun, around 4 hours though from memory. our hatch is now completed! we have 12 healthy chicks, and #13 hatched with a bit of help but is slowly on the decline, hubby is coming to help me 'put it to sleep' as it has curled legs.
  9. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    i had 24 eggs, i have now got 11 chicks in the brooder and 1 still pipping, i think thats all i will have, but for first attempt 50/50 i thought was good. for the humidity i didnt do anything extra apart from filling the water wells all the way up for lockdown, it is a great little machine...
  10. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    we have babies!!! this guy was the first to hatch yesterday at 11am (day 21) the little black one hatched at 9pm yesterday (day 21) i am now on day 22, i have JUST had 2 more hatch at 12pm, a black and a yellow, PLUS i have 6 cracking as we speak. Fingers crossed for the rest, i was...
  11. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    well for now out of the 24 i have 7 definite moving, about 10 are now too dark for me to see, so unsure whether they are dead eggs or the chicks are too big, THE OTHERS WELL I THINK THEY MAY HAVE DIED EARLY AS THEY HAVENT HAD ANY GROWTH FOR A WHILE? i am getting rather anxious now, but tomorrow...
  12. CluelessChick

    Egg Inside an Egg!

    that is the strangest thing i have ever seen, thanks for the pics, it would have been unbelievable without them!
  13. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    everything was going great up until this morning, im starting to panic a bit because when i got up this morning we had no power, i have no idea what time it went off and the temp in the bator was down to 27c. i didnt turn the eggs this morning because of that i didnt want to open it! so i just...
  14. CluelessChick

    Silkie confusion or maybe im right?

    ooops bad wording on my part, i meant to say the seller said her hen is a frizzled Cochin, roo is a silkie
  15. CluelessChick

    Silkie confusion or maybe im right?

    ok i had a talk to the breeder of the chicks, she said it is possible these guys are frizzle/silkie. silkie roo father, frizzle hen mother. i guess that makes them sizzles?
  16. CluelessChick

    It takes a village - oops, I mean a henhouse!

    Quote: HunniB if your able to upload pics you can put them into your posts, you go to your uploaded pics and copy the link under the picture, paste it back to here! i am a newby to this forum too and i was able to post pics after 5 posts, fingers crossed you can too
  17. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    Update day 5: everything is running smoothly, i candled a couple of eggs tonight and im so happy i am seeing growth! perfect little red dot with alot of little veins spidering through the egg, i take this as a good sign?
  18. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    no its a manual turn, for the first go i didnt want to go all out with the expensive ones!! we dont have a walmart here (australia) but i will be going into town today and may be able to pick one up
  19. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    its holding the temp perfectly, im using a digital thermometer to check the temp and its holding stable, after opening it to turn the eggs it comes back up to temp quite good and holds well. i dont have any way of checking the humidity at the moment, but the lady i bought the incubator off told...
  20. CluelessChick

    First attempt at incubating eggs!

    i was itching to use my candling light last night so i picked a random egg and had a go, that was day 3, i will periodically add my candling pics for everyone so i can see if the developments are normal!
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