5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[Gardeningmama]

HaHa!!

Good Morning​

 

[fallenangel79]

Good morning everone

 

[tadpole98]

are there any egg swap threads going on for this?

 

[SilkieSensation]

I have rainbow eggs available if anyone needs any.

 

[ronott1]

are there any egg swap threads going on for this?

This thread has eggs!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/754060/the-new-crazy-24hr-auction-thread

 

[chickee]

Yeah! I was down 300+ messages in very short order. I just jumped to the end. Still don't know if I'll be hatching anything with y'all. The girls are NOT cooperating!

Too bad you aren't closer. My GCMs are laying and I did that test hatch I told you I might do and had 100% fertility. 11 out of twelve chicks hatched. 5 pullets and 6 roosters, so I will have that rooster you wanted

 

[silly4buttons]

OK. It looks like I will be joining you for the hatch-a-long. I am going to LA to see my daughter the first weekend in Dec and the man who sells the Ayem Cemani x Americanas and AC x Silkies on Ebay  lives in LA. I am going to see about hand carrying a dozen eggs (maybe 18) back with me on the plane. Can't afford the pure Ayem Cemani but a melanistic blue or green egglaying chicken is just too cool to pass up.

If that doesn't take everything I have (to spend) I may get some eggs from you Donna if you have anything left. I will try a few of my Olive Eggers too. They have been laying 3 weeks now so the fertility should be rising. It was only 25% the first two weeks. I would like to have done a test hatch with my homemade incubator first before putting the AC/Am eggs in but the time and chance to get the eggs while I was in LA didn't sync up.

So I have got to replace my humidity gage. I had an Accutemp and while I understand that everyone that I asked on here has not had a problem with them I have. Mid incubation last spring while doing a dry hatch (humidity was around 40%), the vapor got into the device and ruined the hydrometer portion of it. The temp gauge still works but the humidity readout is FUBAR. Does anyone have a recommendation for a better humidity gauge?

I bought eggs from that guy on ebay before the suppose to hatch on October 31. And they didn't so I open them up and they had no development at all just a egg II let him know and he blame it on my incubation skills I let know I had the brinsea mini advance and hatch many eggs with it and never had a problem and hatch after and still with out a problem I thought you should know

 

[mstricer]

I have a question re incubators.

Everyone suggests 70 degrees for the room the incubator is in. My poor old furnace is NOT gonna get this house reliably to 70 degrees no mater WHAT I do to it. I do have an inside (the most interior room in the house) closet that stays pretty stable at 60 degrees. Would this be sufficient or am I just out of luck? I'll take advice!

Holy cow if my house was that warm if melt, we stay at a balmy 62

 

[Myfourladies]

Does anyone else just keep looking at the calendar and counting.... then the next day count again? This may kill me yet, the waiting that is. Waiting.....Nope not time yet....

 

[Kalalyn21]

Anyone have silkie eggs they are selling, looking for some for this hatch