California - Northern

[zooweemama]

Duckies and geese get camera time too. <3 Hope you are all well! My 4 kids are trying to get better from flu and croup. Been an awesome month over here!

 

[8machines]

I have some true Ameraucana chicks due to hatch in a little over a week. They will be either wheaten, blue wheaten or splash wheaten. I also have mixed colored (called Easter Eggers because they are not accepted colors for showing or breeding) Ameraucana chicks that are 4 weeks old that I should be able to sex in a couple of weeks if you want to be sure to get pullets. They will lay blue green eggs. 

Does Jason have many chickens?       I would say so!  As do the rest of us      Seriously, there are many chicken addicts, I mean lovers on here! Hahaha

Oh how wonderful that you have eggs soon! I do not know where you are located. I would need a hen for sure as I live in Sierra Springs, an association. I am not sure how many chickens I am allowed but I live on a private road so no one comes up here. I am certainly willing to wait for one or two.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Finally cleaned out the incubator. The one row that had no chicks hatch had eggs that never developed at all. I mentioned that I felt that those eggs were cooler feeling when I candled.

Could there be an issue w/incubator?

From the shipped eggs that didn't hatch (5 hatched) there was a fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned chick, the rest were in the row of no development along with one other that never developed in a row of hatched chicks. I felt it looked like this chick had pipped internally.

From the 10 eggs I set that I picked up from debs_flock, 6 hatched, 2 were fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned, no pip and 1 fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned and I did find a pip that was level with the carton. The last egg was started but a very early quit.

I turned the incubator off yesterday but am wondering if they would have been late hatchers. Next time I won't turn it off until I have the time to eggtopsy. Then I would have slowly opened the pipped one to see if it was alive.

Anyway, I'll clean the incubator up and set again and use the recommendations I got here and see if I get better luck. I'll be setting Polish and EE's so I should have better success just by breed! And then play with my dozen chicks!

Thanks for everyone's help!


My Springer Spaniel Puppy wants to know if they want to play! Or if she can eat them!

 

[ronott1]

Finally cleaned out the incubator. The one row that had no chicks hatch had eggs that never developed at all. I mentioned that I felt that those eggs were cooler feeling when I candled.

Could there be an issue w/incubator?

From the shipped eggs that didn't hatch (5 hatched) there was a fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned chick, the rest were in the row of no development along with one other that never developed in a row of hatched chicks. I felt it looked like this chick had pipped internally.

From the 10 eggs I set that I picked up from debs_flock, 6 hatched, 2 were fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned, no pip and 1 fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned and I did find a pip that was level with the carton. The last egg was started but a very early quit.

I turned the incubator off yesterday but am wondering if they would have been late hatchers. Next time I won't turn it off until I have the time to eggtopsy. Then I would have slowly opened the pipped one to see if it was alive.

Anyway, I'll clean the incubator up and set again and use the recommendations I got here and see if I get better luck. I'll be setting Polish and EE's so I should have better success just by breed! And then play with my dozen chicks!

Thanks for everyone's help!


My Springer Spaniel Puppy wants to know if they want to play! Or if she can eat them!

It probably was not the incubator if they did not develop. The temperature would not be that different from row to row in the Brinsea. Some move the eggs around in the incubator to different positions when they incubate but that is to even out incubation.

With Marans you should wit a full day after the last one hatches and then pip the eggs that have not pipped with a push pin. Listen for peeping and when you are sure they are done, very carefully open them. I did find one alive once and it did make it after I helped it out.

The chicks are beautiful!

 

[8machines]

One of the first chicks that I bought 3 years ago was an "Americana" from the feed store. At that time, I was brand new to chickens and had no idea what I was buying except that she was supposed to lay green/blue eggs. She is the sweetest little EE and lays beautiful green eggs! The next year, I bought a few real Ameraucanas from a couple of breeders. I will tell you that my EE outlays every one of them, is bigger than all except for my BW Am, and is friendlier by far! So, I didn't really get what I thought that I was getting but she has been a wonderful bird.

Thank you. I am looking forward to this!!

 

[zooweemama]

Finally cleaned out the incubator. The one row that had no chicks hatch had eggs that never developed at all. I mentioned that I felt that those eggs were cooler feeling when I candled.

Could there be an issue w/incubator?

From the shipped eggs that didn't hatch (5 hatched) there was a fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned chick, the rest were in the row of no development along with one other that never developed in a row of hatched chicks. I felt it looked like this chick had pipped internally.

From the 10 eggs I set that I picked up from debs_flock, 6 hatched, 2 were fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned, no pip and 1 fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned and I did find a pip that was level with the carton. The last egg was started but a very early quit.

I turned the incubator off yesterday but am wondering if they would have been late hatchers. Next time I won't turn it off until I have the time to eggtopsy. Then I would have slowly opened the pipped one to see if it was alive.

Anyway, I'll clean the incubator up and set again and use the recommendations I got here and see if I get better luck. I'll be setting Polish and EE's so I should have better success just by breed! And then play with my dozen chicks!

Thanks for everyone's help!


My Springer Spaniel Puppy wants to know if they want to play! Or if she can eat them!

AWWWW so cute. Chicks and dog.

 

[Ali707]

That is so funny!

I should have said Dickey's incubator:

http://dickeyincubators.com/

Our 2 x 2 Incubator/Hatcher

Holy Cow! What would I do with all that space?!?! How much electricity does that kind use?

Thank you Ali and everyone else who is sharing my excitement.

Ali I set 36...13 home grown, 12 from ChooksChick and 11 from BethBug

I put 17 into lockdown, 11 I was pretty sure had something going on and 6 questionable....of the 11, 5 were home grown, 5 were from Chooks Chick and 1 was from BethBug. So far the Bethbug egg has hatched...Baby #2, and Baby #1 out of a home grown egg. I have pips in a home grown and zips in two of the ChooksChick eggs...I think they are both Chocolate Rocks, one of her projects. All of the action is in the eggs I felt confident were viable.

The dorking mix baby is sitting on top of the two zipped eggs but she is such a pipsqueak it is unlikely to make a difference.

My hatchery birds look ginormous and mature by comparison. When will the incubabies get fluffy? I feel like giving them a comb out

Now I have to go clean my house so that I don't sit up here obsessing.

I wish I was home long enough to obsess.....! So happy. Where did you order your hatchery eggs from? I was supposed to get some this next week too from My Pet Chicken, but I scrapped that idea as I decided there are so many people around here that have eggs or babies I will just pick them up locally.

Duckies and geese get camera time too. <3 Hope you are all well! My 4 kids are trying to get better from flu and croup. Been an awesome month over here!

This is such a sweet picture.... I love black and white.

Finally cleaned out the incubator. The one row that had no chicks hatch had eggs that never developed at all. I mentioned that I felt that those eggs were cooler feeling when I candled.

Could there be an issue w/incubator?

From the shipped eggs that didn't hatch (5 hatched) there was a fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned chick, the rest were in the row of no development along with one other that never developed in a row of hatched chicks. I felt it looked like this chick had pipped internally.

From the 10 eggs I set that I picked up from debs_flock, 6 hatched, 2 were fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned, no pip and 1 fully developed, yolk absorbed, correctly positioned and I did find a pip that was level with the carton. The last egg was started but a very early quit.

I turned the incubator off yesterday but am wondering if they would have been late hatchers. Next time I won't turn it off until I have the time to eggtopsy. Then I would have slowly opened the pipped one to see if it was alive.

Anyway, I'll clean the incubator up and set again and use the recommendations I got here and see if I get better luck. I'll be setting Polish and EE's so I should have better success just by breed! And then play with my dozen chicks!

Thanks for everyone's help!


My Springer Spaniel Puppy wants to know if they want to play! Or if she can eat them!

Awwww look at the little chickies! You gave me an idea. I am going to mark what row and position in my incubator the eggs were when I take them out of the turner tonight. Just to see if there seems to be any difference in hatching. IF they hatch..... *sigh* I am still concerned they may have been cooking too hot for longer than I thought.

Darn things just sit there taunting me.....

 

[ronott1]

Holy Cow! What would I do with all that space?!?! How much electricity does that kind use?

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Awwww look at the little chickies! You gave me an idea. I am going to mark what row and position in my incubator the eggs were when I take them out of the turner tonight. Just to see if there seems to be any difference in hatching. IF they hatch..... *sigh* I am still concerned they may have been cooking too hot for longer than I thought.

Darn things just sit there taunting me.....

With an incubator like that, you would hatch a lot of chickens of course! Juststruttin might be able to tell us how much electricity one uses.

Can you hear any peeping? I hope you see some pips soon!

 

[chiqita]

With an incubator like that, you would hatch a lot of chickens of course! Juststruttin might be able to tell us how much electricity one uses.

Can you hear any peeping? I hope you see some pips soon!

we were just working it out. If my maths are correct mine is around 100 jouls a month. Since its putting us inot a differnt tier electronicall, it costs about 35 mth to run.

 

[MossyoakLane]

All these chicks are so dang cute.
i have even been looking at incubators on craigslist.. Thankfully there is no money for one, because I could see getting into tons of trouble with it.
My hubby is so tolerant. Building my coop,...not complaining when 4 chickens turned into 6 (7 temporarily). I am not sure what he would say if I bring an incubator home.