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[OneMountainAcres]

Silkies are amazing broodies. All mine are gone now however I still have too many broodies in season here. I’ve yet to try the frozen water bottle to get them stop but I think I will this coming year.

out here we use wire dog crates suspended so the air goes under them breaks them real fast

My most relentless broody (Silver penciled rock) will continue to sit on an ice pack until it is as hot as she is. It doesn't matter if you change it out for another one or not. The suspended cage takes at least 2 weeks to break her and she usualy is only broken for a few days to a week before she sits again. When she wants babies, she's serious lol. She's actualy been spending some extra time in the nest box lately when she goes in to lay her egg and has been growling and print up when I catch her. It's a whole 9° out at the moment but I have a feeling she'll be sitting again soon :/

 

[Altfrizzle]

One of mine went broody the day after I set eggs. My first broody! I think she’s got 7 eggs under her, but not sure.

I’ve got 25 in the bator.

 

[Altfrizzle]

I have gone completely over the edge.

For those of you who don't have a YUGE monitor... what this is, is a graphical representation of the set weights of my eggs, with the target weights at 1/3 of the way through incubation, 2/3 through, and at 18 days. (Target loss is 13.5% by day 18).

So far I can see that the Serama/Silkie eggs are losing too much weight (so I upped the humidity) with a few of the silkies borderline. I might end up setting up the old incy if the discrepancies are too large.

 

[amunk01]

I have gone completely over the edge.

For those of you who don't have a YUGE monitor... what this is, is a graphical representation of the set weights of my eggs, with the target weights at 1/3 of the way through incubation, 2/3 through, and at 18 days. (Target loss is 13.5% by day 18).

So far I can see that the Serama/Silkie eggs are losing too much weight (so I upped the humidity) with a few of the silkies borderline. I might end up setting up the old incy if the discrepancies are too large.

This is AWESOME

 

[Altfrizzle]

Awesomely deranged.

My 13-yr old son is hella impressed. LOL

 

[Rubysword]

Whoops, forgot to check on this thread and missed some stuff! @Farmer Connie, how's the cutest chickie baby doing?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

It's 10:34 a.m. . Have you turned your eggs today?

 

[KF0002]

Monday morning I set 15 eggs for the hatch along. I would've set more but I have to try to be picky considering my hatching season is pretty much continuous these days.

I set 9 F1 barred Olive Egger eggs, 3 Cream Legbar eggs, 2 BCM eggs and 1 Game egg since those hens only lay very sporadically during the Winter.

The Cream Legbar eggs are bluer than they appear in the pic. The lighting in my kitchen made them look washed out.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Whoops, forgot to check on this thread and missed some stuff! @Farmer Connie, how's the cutest chickie baby doing?

They're all doing fine this morning. Had a little bit of a technical problem last night. I could not keep the temperature up in the incubator! The temperature kept dropping and I kept setting the thermostat higher. Then I got a brainstorm! I took out at @BantyChooks egg & warmed it up with a hair dryer before placing it back in the incubator. Reset my thermostat to the proper temperature, and now everything is fine. Live and learn I suppose. I have never attempted to hatch an egg from the North Pole before. Always a new learning experience, and never a dull moment.

 

[ronott1]

My power came back on after 24 hours...the duckies are growing so no harm done it seems
I was over hugging them to my chest so we drove to my mums with incubator and just after it had heated up we got a text - the power was back on
We have a Plymouth Rock beauty sitting on 6 eggs - 3 days old
Do these guys qualify?

That is great news!