Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

[ChickenGrit]

every chicken is different. My SS hens molted last fall they stopped laying in the end of Sept. Some of them just started laying again 3 weeks ago and they still are not laying regularly yet. I have read that it takes about a month. My EE started laying at 39week 2 days in that week she laid 5 eggs then she disappeared one evening after I let them all free range. That was almost 2 months ago.

39 weeks!!! Two of my Light Sussex are not yet laying at 26 weeks. I was getting worried, but I suppose I'm still in the normal wait period.

Sorry about your EE.

 

[Melabella]

How's the hatch going Brooster? Thinking about you, and wishing you good luck!

 

[Melabella]

Good Morning All!
Sun is out, and very little clouds in the sky
It's cold, but I'll take the sun any way we can get it!
MB
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[BroosterSpringsteen]

Beautiful!

MB, hatch is going great. Woke up this morning to a loud incubator. 9 EE chicks and several pips! I moved the dry chicks to the brooder. EE chicks are the cutest. I love those fluffy faces with their little beards!

 

[kdwag]

No sun here today, raining! YUK. Brooster, can't wait to see your babies after hatching, that is so neat. Would like to try it some day. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.!

 

[ChickenGrit]

Does anyone, who is hatching eggs, have a web camera they can put on live at hatching time? I would love to see a hatching.

 

[Melabella]

Beautiful!

MB, hatch is going great. Woke up this morning to a loud incubator. 9 EE chicks and several pips! I moved the dry chicks to the brooder. EE chicks are the cutest. I love those fluffy faces with their little beards!

Omgoodness, so stinkin cute to imagine! So, it's ok to open the incubator to get the all ready hatched peeps out, and it won't harm the chicks who are pipping? I would be so afraid to do anything! Oh can't wait for those pictures! I can't wait to have some EE's!

No sun here today, raining! YUK. Brooster, can't wait to see your babies after hatching, that is so neat. Would like to try it some day. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.!

Sorry for the rain kdawg, we had that that the other day,, it just wouldn't end. This winter is a stubborn one, it just won't warm up enough, and in the evenings it has to drop below freezing. I can't wait for consistant 50's in the day, and 35 at night. I will be one happy camper then. Water buckets for the horses keep freezing at night. I didn't want to keep paying for the heated buckets, so I took them down and put them in the hay loft till next winter. The electric bills are not pretty when I have to use them!

You have a great weekend as well!
MB

 

[Melabella]

Does anyone, who is hatching eggs, have a web camera they can put on live at hatching time? I would love to see a hatching.

ChickenGrit,

Post #7 has a video of a chick hatching out of an egg on this link https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/754473/my-barnevelder-chicks-are-hatching#post_10687422

You can also go to YouTube and just put in "chick hatching out of egg" in the search box, there are tons of them. Also a google search in videos will give you lots of results.

Enjoy!

MB

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Omgoodness, so stinkin cute to imagine! So, it's ok to open the incubator to get the all ready hatched peeps out, and it won't harm the chicks who are pipping? I would be so afraid to do anything! Oh can't wait for those pictures! I can't wait to have some EE's!

It's not recommended to open the bator until the hatch is totally finished. Letting out the humidity can dry out the membranes of the eggs that have pipped. But with the Brinsea, you kind of have to. It gets so crowded! The good thing is that the Brinsea gets the humidity and temps back up in a matter of seconds once the lid is closed. I always mist warm water inside after I pull out the chicks, and I've never had any problems. This morning there were 4 eggs pipped when I pulled out the dry chicks. An hour later 2 of those eggs hatched with no problem. I'll put up some pictures of the chicks later today. They're still getting their sea legs.

 

[nakstk]

Good morning/afternoon! cloudy and rainy here 48 degrees. What a day for a first track meet. Good thing we live close to the school. Today's meet is an away meet up in Longview so only 20 minutes away but I drop my son off at the school and I am not even down the hill from the school a 1/4 mile and I get a phone call that he doesn't have his keys to his locker so he can't get his track cleats out. So I race home and back to the school in under 8 minutes got back to the school and some of the kids were already on the bus. This is an invitational meet and my son is only doing one event High Jump so it would not have turned out well if he couldn't get to his cleats. I am not looking forward to sitting out in the rain today but a moms gotta do what a moms gotta do.