Search results for query: *

I am very old school I have two GFQ Genesis Hovabator with the digital read out for humidity and temp as long as I keep it set up where there aren't a lot of windows or drafts the temps and humidity are pretty well spot on. It does get pretty dirty during a hatch so disinfecting it between...

Started saving eggs. Said I wouldn't but they are laying so well even though it's still cold out. Going to try for an end of February hatch. We'll see how we do. It's still pretty cold outside so may end up having to hold off if it gets too cold since it will effect viability but we'll see what...

Anything I were to incubate right now I would need to put into a brooder in the house. Since I don't have heat in the barn outside and we are getting temps below freezing. I try to time it so that temps are warming up a bit before they are ready to hatch so they can use the brooder in the barn...

Hatching is so much more fun though than buying chicks at TSC I always tell my husband they don't have the kind I want there lol. He was the one that told me that Mooch had to come inside because he thought she was getting cold and it was making it harder for her to heal lol. He's such a pushover.

Waiting for the eggs to get large enough so they aren't pullet eggs anymore for my younger girls and then we will try. I figure maybe the end of this month or middle of Feb. It's probably the longest I'll be able to wait to get started. Our first chicken swap up here is middle of April so...

Oooh I love those deep chocolate colored eggs. If only I had room for more breeds lol. My Chocolate Mottled hen is in the house in a crate due to injury so I only have two blues and a lavender hen out with my mottled boy. Not ideal but I do have 2 dozen creles from Carolina Rare Chicks coming in...

Not sure I'm going to make it until spring without setting up the incubator. I have 2 dozen Crele Orpington eggs coming from Carolina Rare Chicks. I also have a blue and blue splash hen and a lavender hen in with a Chocolate Mottled Rooster and I caught him doing his job the other day so now I...

So sorry you lost one of your babies, but glad for your little girl. Fingers crossed the others hatch well.

Sounds like in a little while you will be holding some new babies. <3

They can definitely fool us. I have had them go three or four days over too before they even start. I had an incubator full of ducks and was getting ready to empty them out that night. We came home from dinner and there was a duckling in the incubator and a few more pipped as well. Totally...

If they are moving I would leave them be for now. Your temp might have been lower than what was showing which would cause the eggs to go longer.

I have a ton of the 1 gal short sided buckets I fill up with water with ice in it and they will literally walk through it and soak their feet when they get too hot. I love the summer and the heat here but highest we tend to get is 100 degrees so not too bad. The cold is terrible and the snow...

Just because I am not hatching currently doesn't mean I am not looking. I ordered some eggs from Carolina Rare Chicks for my Crele project and am still considering getting some partridge as well lol.

Oh wow I made this thread years ago it's impressive that it's still circulating lol. Currently my incubator is very sad and lonely. The orpingtons are continuing to grow out and get bigger and my Fry Pan Bargain roo chicks are going to be processed tomorrow fingers crossed. Wrapping things up...

Okay I have a question for everyone here who uses a Hovabator 1588 with a turner in it. I am on my second batch of eggs for the year (slow start for me this year) and in both batches I have had eggs that were cracked. I also noticed this year that the eggs are Large to Xtra Large size. Has...

She just passed minutes ago. I didn't hold out much hope for her once I saw the other chick had popped it, but figured it was worth a try anyway. Poor thing. She was a natural hatching with no help so I was hoping it would be okay. :( So far there are 8 others out and another 8 to go so I am...

She is in a smaller separate box inside the larger bin the chicks are in so she can use the heat light. She is still wrapped in her washclothes (damp one inside dry one outside to keep her still) but I couldn't keep her still even in the wash clothes when she couldn't hear the others so I...

No I just have the one picture I didn't want to over stress her out. I have had them have it outside before but usually they will suck it in before the others bother them. This one was huge to begin with and then when she pulled on it she made it bigger. Hopefully she will be okay. I am afraid...

Right now she is sitting with me on the couch wrapped in a damp washcloth on a heating pad on low and it does seem to be getting a little smaller was a bit worried since the other chick knicked it when it jumped on her but I grabbed her up and cradled the yolk until I got her set up. Going to...

So got home to a mess today. My first hatch of the season and had 7 chicks out of the egg but one with the yolk not absorbed. Was trying to move some of the more energetic chicks out and one jumped on her and now her yolk sack is leaking and she moved forward and pulled more of it out of her...