INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

hatch, hatch,hatch!

perchie.girl said:

Back to writing... scribble scribble scribble.

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I see on the other thread that you are coming along quite nicely. Good luck in writing today Deb!

So sorry all that I've been MIA been quite the weekend around here not to mention last week. Well firstly @Cynthia I am so sorry for your loss and sending hugs and prayers your way.

Secondly @Sally Sunshine thank you for asking about my little ones that had cocci. I do believe the three are out of the woods although they're main diet still consists of moistened crumbles I don't care because they're alive and eating and they need to regain the weight they lost. I'll deal with switching them back later.

And thirdly also @Sally Sunshine you don't know it as I hadn't joined BYC yet and was just a lurker but I too owe you a thank you. For your hatching 101 article and more importantly your assisted hatch article. My first hatch was silkies and three bonus bantam eggs. Well your article saved one of those bonus bantam eggs. I had quite a few problems with sticky chick as I hadn't calibrated and I was following the manual. Well I'm happy to say that of three eggs that needed help(one was already gone when I realized it) I managed to save one of them. The third died for unknown causes half way through the assist it was ready to hatch and there was no blood.

Little Crocket spent her first 36 hours in a padded country crock dish BC the other chicks were a little too curious. She is a self blue oegb and positively a puppy dog. She also layed her first egg last week.



So thank you thank you thank you a million times over. I couldn't have done it without that article. Thank you for all you do.

Also a few pages back I forget who posted it but the beautiful gray egg ohmigosh! I'm in love and I want it. Please post pics of the hen that layed it.

ambe0487 said:

I set the eggs last night but left the turner off until this morning. Only 20 1/2 more days! LOL!!!

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I did this for two days before I noticed the turner had turned. They are all doing fine .. going into lock down tonight/tomorrow.

Adorable!

It is snowing..hard! Went to bed with it raining, we knew we would wake up to snow. We need it. We know that our mountains are accumulating the white stuff..that's what counts for us to help us get out of this drought. Now, if we could only have around 10 more good snow days like this. Worried about our apple tree out front that we didn't prune because we love the shape, it still has leaves on it. Have lost a branch or two in the past when it snowed like this before. Will have to take photos when we head out in a bit. It's so pretty out there. Have a great day everyone. Sounds like there are some babies here, and some real close to getting here. Good luck!

Well I decided to upgrade to a Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance EX the humidity pump seems to be a necessary upgrade and I have to much invested in eggs to struggle with the Genesis at least with shipped eggs. I hope I did the right thing... It should be here before my replacement eggs for the 0-12 BCM eggs and will come in handy for the Sky Blue Egg Araucana eggs I have coming in the spring.

My son is in Montana, snow their too.

Yikes! Winter drop off sounds awful what are the best breeds for laying through winter?

I had a leghorn that laid all winter when nobody else did, and we are about 20 degrees all winter.