Anybody setting today (3-25) or tomorrow (3-26)??

[mychookschick]

So good to know that others are in on this with me! I am pretty excited! I have my incubator up and running, it is all regulated. I am going to pick up a hydrometer today when we go out. So then I will be all ready to set! I will sadly, be putting the eggs in the incubator tomorrow instead of today. My supplier doesn't have them ready yet...

ETA: I will try to post a pic of Daisy tonight. She is the most mean broody that I have had yet. She puffs up, screeches, and bites! YIKES!! LOL

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

I'll join in, I set 30 Sunday morning

 

[Aumlet]

I am spending way too much time thinking about my hen and those eggs (a mix of breeds from a lovely BYC member). One was pushed far from the nest box this morning, and I was sad about it, but when I broke it open I could see that it hadn't been fertilized. Crazy how a chicken can tell these things!

I moved my broody hen and her chosen nest box into a wire dog crate that I put where her nest box had been originally. (It's an area of the run covered by a shade cloth but with no protection from rain, and I had to move her yesterday to a covered area near the feed as it rained). I put up a tarp over the crate, so now she can be in "her spot" but not so vulnerable to wind and rain. I've locked her in - and locked the other girls out. She has her own food and water. When she was near the main food and water, she was getting hassled a bit.

 

[mychookschick]

I'll join in, I set 30 Sunday morning

Yay!

I think that I forgot to say how many I am setting... I have 8 under my broody, I will add today's eggs to that number. And I hope to put 3 dozen in the incubator.

 

[kelly52862]

I am setting 42 tonight: Barred Rock, RI, Aracaunas and Brahmas. The eggs are coming from a friends neighbor, so I have no idea on the hatch rates. The last time I purchased hatching eggs, I was 0 out of 19 (young flock). I have great hatching rates on my own eggs.

Eggcited!

 

[mychookschick]

Nice! I love Barred rocks! I am actually going to be picking some up on Wednesday. So that means that my next hatch will have Barred chicks in it! YAY!!

And I just went out to the coop and found 5 more eggs to add to Daisy's clutch. So that brings her number up to 13!

 

[Timbertoes]

I'll be setting 24 tomorrow!

 

[mychookschick]

Wow! I didn't realize that so many people would be setting!!

 

[blueseal]

count me in my little easter egger decided she is golng to set. been broody for a week. i went down to collect eggs a half hour ago and she was sitting on 6 eggs. 3 white and 3 brown. so i decided to let her go for it. i marked them with a marker. i have 2 roosters in my flock a pure white rock and a pure white leghorn. my hens are 7 gold comets, 2 rhode island red, 9 white leghorn, 3 easter eggers, 1 black marans that hasnt layed since i bought her in october,

 

[DraigAthar]

oh sophie is ADORABLE!! and i must say, if there's ever a certain look to a yard monitor...THAT would be it!

Here she is on the nest. It's supposed to be very cold tonight, and she seems to be clamped down tight for it.