APRIL HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[Woods_Woman]

Ok Im in. Eggs due to pip/hatch the 7th for silkies & the 16th for Ameraucana.

 

[Kismet]

Hi, All. I'm in , too. Put into incubators last night 84 eggs. They are due on April 16.

This morning one of my bators was high - 101.2. So I turned it down. Next time I looked it was 98.8. So I turned it up a smidge. Then I noticed that my thermostat light was not going on. I have been watching carefully. Now it's just perfect, but with no light to tell me when the bator is heating and when it has stopped, I am constantly watching, until I hope I can even it out. It's fine for the weekend, because I am around. I hope I can get it stabilized by Monday when I have to go back to work.

 

[Bec]

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I am due on the 10th!!!!

 

[chickenmeadow]

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Well, you certainly will not be bored; there are a lot of fun varieties of eggs to hatch there. It's neat that you have such a group of family & friends enjoying your hatches too. There's lots of fun to have with the hens, even without roos. I'm looking forward to hearing about your hatches as you go, so many interesting breeds.

Every weekend on my days off, my new xtra raised bed planters have been getting most of my attention by filling them with the lovely compost that my chickens have been curning for me since last year. It's full of dirt, sand, droppings, & pine shavings; then I top that with a fresh bag of organic planting mix to plant in (just in case the compost is too hot). There are a lot of pine shavings mixed in, because that's what gets tossed down on the ground to keep away the mud for better walking areas for the chickens. It's very difficult harvesting the compost from the chicken yard, because everywhere my shovel goes into the ground is where the chickens dart to, in search of fresh worms. So, I have to trick them with every shovel full, by faking them out about which dirrection I'm going to scoop. A very comical game! Everything is always a good laugh when every chickens are involved.

 

[GlitterKitty]

I just candeled the egg yesterday...I only saw this dark blob at one end of it...my flashlights not strong though! Maybe theres some veins in there!

Here's Mommy Primrose!

 

[australorp_breeder]

Update on my eggs! Haha, I skipped a week when I counted so my eggs are due to hatch around the 14th instead of the 8th. It's day 3 for me today. I candled some of them and can't see any veins yet, just a black blob, so I'm praying that's something.

 

[Heather08]

Im in, Buff rocks, porcelain OEGB, blue orp, and maybe black orp or who knows lol ...they were set 3/20 and a stray on 3/24.

 

[krstms]

Awww! Primrose is so cute!!! I love broodys.

 

[chickenmeadow]

australorp_breeder & Coretta: Blobs are what we look for when the flashlight used are not super strong. Blobs are good!

Coretta: That's a determined looking broody in her nice sized nest for her & the upcoming hatch. A pretty name for a pretty gal.

 

[PrinceSandwich]

I just put 2 doz in today

This will be my very first hatch! Hope I don't mess it up!

I have white silkies, a few cochin eggs from my friend a black silkie to a partridge silkie eggs and some cross breds

now I just have to get ready for the longest three weeks of my life!