Anyone else setting eggs this weekend? 8-3-12?

[aussie pete]

thanks for the reassurance,hope the chick makes out ok,have 15 eggs in hoping for 60%hatch .planning on sectioning off a section in outside room for brooder but am having trouble finding a heatlamp ,was considering a reptile heat emitting lamp(250 watt) any other suggestions,thanks pete

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

I use a Brinsea Ecoglow 50 heater. It is awesome. Not sure if you can get them there, but they are great...they use only 60 watts of power, and are much safer than the traditional high watt bulb.

The chicks just go under them, just like they would a broody hen. You can check them out at Brinsea.com

 

[aussie pete]

I use a Brinsea Ecoglow 50 heater. It is awesome. Not sure if you can get them there, but they are great...they use only 60 watts of power, and are much safer than the traditional high watt bulb.

The chicks just go under them, just like they would a broody hen. You can check them out at Brinsea.com

thanks for the info ,haven't found a supplier here ,one supplier the other side of the country to me ,has brinsea incubators but not brooders

 

[3 NH reds]

I have a new batch of eggs in the incubator. 14 Black Jersey Giant eggs 4 Blue Buffington and one Silver Silky. I get all my eggs mailed and the last batch sat in a Post Office sort facility for 3 days over a holiday weekend. That was a disaster so the lady i got them from sent me a batch to make up for this. The Buffington and Silky were a surprise she tossed in. The Post Office tossed the box marked fragile around hard, eggs wrapped in bubble wrap in a box full of packing peanuts in a box with more peanuts and one egg was cracked. My Broody refused to sit on eggs despite sitting on fake ones. May have been due to the lack of hatching chicks from her last go but I replaced the bad eggs with the fake and she sat on them. So now every egg is in the incubator and I am new to the incubator, thank goodness it has an egg turner and I got it in a basement for a stable air temp. Wait and see what I get.

 

[fiveladybugs]

I put 39 in last Wednesday evening...this is my first time, so crossing my fingers at least some of them hatch. Got a mix of BLRW, Silkies, Golden Sebrights, and Silver Sebrights.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

Looks like we are going to have some great hatches. Thanks everyone for joining in the hatch along. I think tonight I will put my turning cradle on my eggs. I have found that not turning shipped eggs right away does help with the detached air sacs. I only ended up with a few that are detached this time, so that is good.

As for the post office and the handling. I have decided that the word "fragile" on a box is nothing more than an invitation to play soccer with the package. One of the boxes I just had mailed was marked fragile all over it and I kid you not, one whole side of the box was smashed. Luckily, the eggs were in bubble wrap, with packing peanuts inside another box. So the smashed box was just that...a smashed box..not eggs. Still makes me wonder what they do to the packages that gets them in that shape. And I think as the post office continues to run in the red and become further in debt we are going to see slower and slower delivery times. The eggs I had shipped from Georgia to Wyoming took 5 days, and for some reason they say in the Denver sorting facility for 48 hours.

Well I hope everyone is having a fabulous Monday. I am off to go clean out a coop!

 

[3 NH reds]

That is why I was glad the eggs I got left Florida Tuesday and were in Ma Friday morning. May have a NH Red going broody on the fake eggs in the layer coop, fingers crossed.

 

[cubbysan]

Last night I tried to candle three of my eggs 18 eggs. Two looked clear and the other looked like I could see the yolk, but it was day 3 so maybe it was too early. I gave up on those and decided to wait until Wednesday, then I will do all of them.

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

I used to candle on day three...now I just save myself the torture and wait for day 7. Also I have decided that the less I handle the shipped eggs the better hatch rate I seem to get. So I try...it is hard, but I try to candle on day 7, 14 and 18.

 

[cubbysan]

I told myself I was going to wait longer, but the anticipation was getting to me - that is why I only candled three, and I tried to do it so fast that who knows what I was seeing.