Well it only took me hours to catch up haha that's what I get for not checking the HAL forum for two days...two hundred seventy something postsI candled last night and all 29 are still going strong!
How weird would it be to get a 100% hatch rate for my first hatch??
LOL I started off this morning at 2:30 am with 586 unread posts! It's 8:24 am now. Finally! I'm caught up!!!
Ready for this Roan? If anyone wants me to do one, just ask, I have fun with them.
That is awesome!!! Thank you very much! I'll change it when I'm done replying!
Sweet!!! Name him after the very first rooster you ever named.
That is so great!!! I wish my daughter showed such interest but nooo, "chickens are not cool!" <sigh> My grandson loves when I incubate though!!!
lol! So, day 1 is actually a day after setting, not the day of setting? And Lockdown is not tomorrow, but the next day?
Actually, that's not necessarily true, if the day is halfway over, you would not count it as day one but I don't think one day would make that much of a difference.
Dec. 11th at noon day 0
Dec. 12th at noon day 1
Dec. 13th at noon day 2
" " " "
Dec. 29th at noon day 18------------ LOCK DOWN
Dec. 30th at noon day 19
Dec. 31st at noon day 20
Jan. 1st at noon day 21------------- HATCH DAY
I hate math....I got to see it
Oh, this is a very good chart indeed! If, of course, the eggs were set after noon on day 11.
Feed stores sometimes don't know what they are talking about. I went to a nearby one because I didn't want to drive one day, I asked the guy for some flock feed, and he gave me scratch grains.
The person I got some of my eggs for this HAL from said they feed their hens meat.
Both of the turkey carcasses from Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner went to the chickens first to be picked clean, then the bones given to the dogs.
Here's what you do, picture your wife with either a rolling pin or cast iron skillet standing right behind you and watching what you type, I'll bet your "auto correct" will work better then! lol
So close!So close! (I looked at the eggs, Bama, twice) Humidity is a tad high, 78%. But I'd have to take out all the eggs to drain the channels. I should have just used little dishes. Oh well. Note to self for DIY incubator design: make it easy to adjust humidity levels!
edit: made this to keep from hovering around the incubator:
Now all you need is a change machine next to the jar! lol
Biggest hatching dream to date last night.. I had one of those octagon bators on the counter.. Was telling y'all it was just one more day.. Went back and EVERYTHING had hatched. I was in disbelief! Some chicks were huge.. One egg had twins which were tiny, like pencil erasers lol.
Another four on the counter (which I had apparently pulled days ago) were hatching, along with one I had dissolved in vinegar. I kept trying to take pics for y'all but my phone wouldn't work!
Morning everyone.
The weirdest chicken dream I'd ever had was that they were actually rabbits and they laid rubber eggs that I kept dropping. The nightmare element was that I had to try to catch all of these bouncing eggs. It was horrible! lol
Okay, so I've noticed something. I got busy doing something the other day, then, three days later, I realized that I hadn't checked the HAL thread!!! Doh! 586 unread posts???
So my observation is this; time is like a wild bird. If you don't cage it and fasten the door very tight, it will fly away from you before you know it!
) and have already told hubby i want chocolate eggs for valentines day lol. Chocolate orps of coarse lol Id really like to try some turkey eggs this spring too!
Very Nice! 
(Temp and humidity look good, no pips)
