Anyone HATCHING?!?!? Newbie's and addicts WELCOME!!!! Hatch Calendar page 1!!!!

[Melissa Rose]

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I didn't realize it and I was putting the eggs down on the bottom to hatch and they did not do well

haha yaa i almost did the same. but before adding any eggs i put two thermometers in it .top and bottom and adjusted the temp till i got the top and bottom at perfect temps. now it works great. do u have one simallar?

I have two and I always used them to hatch my tortoise eggs

 

[bikerchic]

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Love the pics! They are so cute! Giddy up little lamb!

 

[justbugged]

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My bator just shipped yesterday, says it could take 10 business days to get here so I'm thinking of ordering some eggs soon!!!

Can't wait to try it out!!!

Congratulations.

and thank you everyone for the kind words.

 

[justbugged]

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Awww...

they are so pretty, and look so happy to be outside!!! I am thinking about ordering from Bargain as well, this helps make up my mind,

Thanks for sharing the pics!!!

Your babies are beautiful.

How warm is it where you are in GA? I am not sure when it will warm enough again here. It could be months before it will warm enough for the babies to go out to the coop here. Nancy was very nice to work with, and the shipping was speedy, given that the eggs came all the way to the West Coast.

Thank you

I got my Silkie eggs from Bargain also. I got a total of 17 eggs, and by the end of the first week I had 5 clears. So I went with the 12 eggs left. I am not sure what happened, but only 5 hatched. The other seven died shortly before the hatch date. The 7 eggs all had large air pockets, when I candled them at the end of lock down. I think that it looked like there was a problem about the time I put them into lock down. I even borrowed my DSiL's new Brinsea bator. Now I am praying that nothing like this happens with the JG eggs that have just about a week and a half to go. I need to move the JGs back into the Brinsea. I moved them into the Hovabator, during the lock down. I was worried about the higher humidity on the eggs that had only been in the bator for a week. I won the JGs at a raffle that was held at a local chicken show. They are show quality Jersey Giants. I have no idea what I am going to do with the JGs, they are really to big for my sub-division back yard.

I don't know why I do this to myself.

Here is another picture of Tulay and one of the chicks that she is brooding for me. She now makes a lot more sense. I bought her at the chicken show, but it's not like I can show her. Tulay's color is not accepted yet. But she is so pretty, and DH didn't even argue.

He even figured out how to get the cash to buy Tulay.

But now I can tell him that she isn't a house chicken, but that she is an indoor brooder.

And 40.00 for an indoor brooder is a pretty good deal to me.

Some of this makes up for the fact that he has spent the last week and a half in Hawaii working, while I am sitting in the cold with it getting colder as I type this.

 

[stephanie1992]

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haha yaa i almost did the same. but before adding any eggs i put two thermometers in it .top and bottom and adjusted the temp till i got the top and bottom at perfect temps. now it works great. do u have one simallar?

I have two and I always used them to hatch my tortoise eggs

awww i bet thos r cute when they hatch!!

 

[dwegg]

Thanks...

it is very warm here today in the high 60's and almost 70F for the next few days...but it was cold here over the weekend...sorry about your silkie eggs but I hope the rest hatch...maybe your humidity was too high?

 

[JazminesZoo]

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Awww...

they are so pretty, and look so happy to be outside!!! I am thinking about ordering from Bargain as well, this helps make up my mind,

Thanks for sharing the pics!!!

Your babies are beautiful.

How warm is it where you are in GA? I am not sure when it will warm enough again here. It could be months before it will warm enough for the babies to go out to the coop here. Nancy was very nice to work with, and the shipping was speedy, given that the eggs came all the way to the West Coast.

Thank you

I got my Silkie eggs from Bargain also. I got a total of 17 eggs, and by the end of the first week I had 5 clears. So I went with the 12 eggs left. I am not sure what happened, but only 5 hatched. The other seven died shortly before the hatch date. The 7 eggs all had large air pockets, when I candled them at the end of lock down. I think that it looked like there was a problem about the time I put them into lock down. I even borrowed my DSiL's new Brinsea bator. Now I am praying that nothing like this happens with the JG eggs that have just about a week and a half to go. I need to move the JGs back into the Brinsea. I moved them into the Hovabator, during the lock down. I was worried about the higher humidity on the eggs that had only been in the bator for a week. I won the JGs at a raffle that was held at a local chicken show. They are show quality Jersey Giants. I have no idea what I am going to do with the JGs, they are really to big for my sub-division back yard.

I don't know why I do this to myself.

Here is another picture of Tulay and one of the chicks that she is brooding for me. She now makes a lot more sense. I bought her at the chicken show, but it's not like I can show her. Tulay's color is not accepted yet. But she is so pretty, and DH didn't even argue.

He even figured out how to get the cash to buy Tulay.

But now I can tell him that she isn't a house chicken, but that she is an indoor brooder.

And 40.00 for an indoor brooder is a pretty good deal to me.

Some of this makes up for the fact that he has spent the last week and a half in Hawaii working, while I am sitting in the cold with it getting colder as I type this. [URL]http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/freddo2.gif[/URL]

I am

I really wanted to hatch some JG ! But could not find any when I was filling my bator....

 

[JazminesZoo]

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Yes my quail are 7-8 ounces when full grown
& Chukars are 1-1/2 pounds & about 12" long

THANKS everyone for all the nice comments on the brooders!
Seeing all the silkies I can't wait to hatch my 24 eggs ! I got them from CJ's Silkies ~ I purposely asked NOT to have them labeled so they would be a surprise in every egg! YEAH ! They are what my 6 year daughter wanted for Christmas.... They should hatch DEC 16th THEN I will have silkie pics to.

I will need help telling what colors and stuff they are because I don't know anything about the all the showgirl/splash/paints etc

I like the love shack!

Hi,

Sorry that I did label a few.. its out of habit. lol
How are the eggies doing? I wish you great success in hatching. I am at work so I could not see the brooder pics but will look at them when I get home.
From what others say it really looks nice and the silkie will love it. Can't wait to see pics. And I am way older than 6 (shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

and I would like silkies for a Christmas present.

I actually thought they were labeled before I asked you not to

Thats okay at least you didn't label all of them ~ Well for my 1st hatchings ever ..... 90% Quail

, only 3 out 12 Marans

, 50% hatch on my Chukars

, 11 out of 14 in my Coronation Sussex

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AS OF now I CURRENTLY have 6 peaking out of there shells right now out of 16 Split Sussex. I also am waiting on my barnies, Buckeyes, & Marans to peek out ~ Hatch day tomorrow SO 6 are a day early !

Well out of my Silkies I am only planning a keeping 3 (

hoping I get a good hatch )

AGREED from Western WA

 

[bikerchic]

My last egg hatched yesterday, a teeny tiny paint. Its so cute. I will take pics tonight. I really, REALLY needed the incubator sanitized. I had eggs that had internally pipped that needed to go in last night. So I wrapped the little peep up in a papertowel and stuck it over in the other incubator while I did the fastest cleaning job ever!! Then I got it back up to temperture and put the peep back with the 8 eggs. I left it long enough to dry. I have a pip this morning!!!

 

[silkymom1986]

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YAY!!! Congrats on your final chick!!!

My little guy/gal silkie is still all alone!! )= I feel so bad everytime I leave the room she goes nuts!!! I know I need another chick to grow up with her, oh what to do what to do!?!?!?