**ATTENTION** IF YOU INCUBATE IN COLORADO, share your secrets!

[dsquawker]

Hi Everyone. Thanks for your input Joe. Here's my update that I said I would post. None of my eggs hatched.

I am still disappointed. I know that the blue cochins I got locally stopped developing around day 13. I just don't know what I did wrong. Perhaps it is to early in the year to try to hatch them at this time. Also, the others that were shipped didn't hatch either. Another disappointment. Perhaps it was the humidity. I did a lot of reading about dry incubation and so I didn't pay too much attention to the humidity and let it dry out often for days. Maybe that was the problem. But at any rate, that's the results and hopefully next time I can try something different to see if it works. Perhaps I will concentrate more on the humidity and see if that helps. I know my friend sprays her eggs every day and she said her success rate was higher and she was hatching her own eggs, in Colorado. So maybe I'll try that. It just wasn't meant to be. But be sure I will get back on the horse and post again in the future for those of you who are incubating in Colorado! Angela

 

[dsquawker]

So. This is Angela (dsquawker). I hatched some eggs this year in my incubator. Just thought I'd update my experiementation. We moved to a lower elevation. I barely added water and just turned the incubator on and let it stablize. I didn't touch a thing and hatched four chicks. I was so excited. I kept the temperature around 98/99 degrees. Then also, my broody hens hatched about four chickens themselves out in the coop. I was thrilled. I'm guessing the method to the madness is that I didn't fiddle faddle too much with the temperature and the humidity, like I did when we lived in Woodland Park. Plus we have forced air natural gas, rather than a wood stove. This spring I am looking forward to hatching a ton more chicks, as I have these cool looking americana roosters that I've inherited and their colors are amazing.

 

[ghillie]

Congrats on the hatch Angela!