Anyone setting eggs starting July 15 -July 22?

[calichickies]

Way to go Arwen!!!!!!ETA we have our second Partridge out! 5 and counting!

Congrats Sweety!

 

[calichickies]

Ok...who do I blame for the "Addiction"??

The Chickens??
The Eggs??
BYC??

& stand corrected!!....(fluffy now) my 6th one is brown elongated stripe down back, with black
trim & yellow...looks like a bumble bee with wider stripes & goin body length instead across!!

Gotta find out what breed Daddy is!!

Blame?! Blame?!

There is no blame here-- accept your addiction happily... as we all do.
But if I had to point the finger... I'd have to blame my friend who gave me my bator.
LOVE her!!

Ha!

That last chick sounds pretty! Congrats!

 

[calichickies]

Thanks!! I'm super excited for my first egg!!
I cracked it open, and it was fertile

Way to go Gladdy! (my roo)

I guess this means I might be starting up the bator AGAIN after this hatch is over

Whoot!

Oh yeah!

Boy... I talked them right up!

I've got 40 minutes left in my 20th day and I've got 2 pips!

Yippee for pips!!

Oh I'm luvin it!!...gives me sumthin else to do!
Luv readin & researching things I don't know r understand!!
Det. "Leela"-erlock Holmes on the case!!

Hope u do get GIRLS!!...Mite want to try the water bath!!....really just held the chick in my hand & squeezed a wet rag over their body & wiped!!...wether it works for ya r not...worth a try!

***Crossin Fingers & keepin the prayers Rollin for sum girls***

I love the research part of it too! And it's just amazing how much you learn from each hatch- what worked well, what not to do next time... all that good stuff! Thanks for passing along the girl vibe for me!

 

[calichickies]

come on babies!

Thanks Marty!! You've been a great resource in this thread!

 

[calichickies]

okay so after having lousy luck with the last two hatches, here is the only ( so far ) chick I have right now in the brooder,,,,,

Awww.... cute! Good luck on hatching a buddy for it soon!

 

[calichickies]

i did just that Marty hes in a brooder now with a light on him and its 95 degrees right now Then put the room light on to warm it up moreIalso have a big strong light if he needs it but dont tihink so.
The brooder is big so he can get away if he needs to.He looks dry now.Drank a lot of water. thirsty!!
Thanks!!!

Oh good glad you moved your baby, and it's drinking water- that's very good!

 

[UrbanMamaHen]

Good Luck UrbanMama!!

Thanks. I will be sitting on my hands with my fingers crossed.

 

[Major_in_MS]

I have not been very good at posting updates on my batch of eggs, but I have been trying to follow along with this thread. It has not been easy to keep up. A few times I skipped a day or two of reading the posts and It really took a long time to catch up.

I put my eggs on lock down tonight. Out of the 15 shipped Mille Fleur d'Uccle eggs only one made it to lock down. The other 14 did nothing at all. For the local "farm fresh eggs" that I bought off craigslist, 18 out of 21 made it to lock down. I believe the other three were infertile. I have locked mine down standing up in egg cartons.

I am planning on trying to find some more Mille Fleur d'Uccle eggs that are close enough for me to pick up in person. I really want to put a few hens in with my roo. I'm really discouraged

about trying anymore shipped eggs after only hatching 4 out of 15 duck eggs on my first hatch and now the bad luck with these.


It will be interesting to see what I get from these "farm fresh eggs" because I have no idea what kind of hens they came from except that they are all brown.

 

[calichickies]

I have not been very good at posting updates on my batch of eggs, but I have been trying to follow along with this thread. It has not been easy to keep up. A few times I skipped a day or two of reading the posts and It really took a long time to catch up.

I put my eggs on lock down tonight. Out of the 15 shipped Mille Fleur d'Uccle eggs only one made it to lock down. The other 14 did nothing at all. For the local "farm fresh eggs" that I bought off craigslist, 18 out of 21 made it to lock down. I believe the other three were infertile. I have locked mine down standing up in egg cartons.

I am planning on trying to find some more Mille Fleur d'Uccle eggs that are close enough for me to pick up in person. I really want to put a few hens in with my roo. I'm really discouraged

about trying anymore shipped eggs after only hatching 4 out of 15 duck eggs on my first hatch and now the bad luck with these.


It will be interesting to see what I get from these "farm fresh eggs" because I have no idea what kind of hens they came from except that they are all brown.

Keeping up with this thread has been a full time job-- for sure! Glad you're along for the ride.

Sorry about the bad luck with your shipped eggs-- sounds like that happens to a lot of people-- very unfortunate.

Craigslist rises to the occasion - Awesome! Glad you had those eggs to give you something to hatch!

Mystery eggs too-- how exciting! Good Luck!!

 

[sweety13]

okay so after having lousy luck with the last two hatches, here is the only ( so far ) chick I have right now in the brooder,,,,,

Cutie! Woke up to 9 total hatched, more pips!