Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

I just had a 100% hatch on shipped eggs from Wynette!

One is in intensive care because I made the mistake of wanting it to hatch on my time schedule and I made it bleed in the egg.

However, the auction I won was for 5 to 7 Isa Brown/Jersey Giant eggs. She sent 9 eggs...all from the same hen. This is what amazes me...some of those eggs were over a week old before they were shipped. They arrived on time a few days later and weren't set for another 2 days. They were set in a cheapo LG still air bator, then placed in a Brinsea 380 after a week or so. The humidity pump was bust, so I had to manually add water...the thing that amazes me, is the avg humidity level in the bator was 26% throughout the hatch! CRAZY!!!

Just wanted to share my success. This was awesome! And those eggs are COLOSSAL!!!

First 8 Beefcakes...they are in a brooder within a brooder!

Number 9 just making his way out...

 

[chicken stalker]

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Hello Fellow Addicted Peeps!!

Sunday, or Monday I'm driving to meet a friend of mine...and guess what I'm getting????

A GQF incubator, and perhaps a hatcher!!!

Look, you don't have to tell me I'm in big trouble, I already know!!

 

[daisychick]

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Ok they are way too cute and fluffy! I can't wait until my Wynette eggs get here, hopefully today but maybe tomorrow. Looks like some of them will look like the pretty pullet Wynette has.

 

[daisychick]

That is so neat about the classroom hatching! Amazing hatch rate for being in a school and with so many factors that could of totally messed it up! I know the kids loved it!

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

Finally got a picture of Midge's fluffy butt! As opposed to Aspen and Quinn's, in the background

Midge, Aspen, and Quinn are now an official mini-flock! Midge spent last night in the A-frame with them- and surprised me with her first egg when I opened the coop this morning!


Muggs, that's incredible! 100% is pretty uncommon I believe, especially for shipped eggs!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I know! The very last one is extremely weak, and probably not going to make it. She can't walk and has a swollen eye. Poor thing. I think I can still call it a 100% hatch though!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Ok they are way too cute and fluffy! I can't wait until my Wynette eggs get here, hopefully today but maybe tomorrow. Looks like some of them will look like the pretty pullet Wynette has.

Chandra, I think you will have a LOT more Splash chicks than me! Wynette said that the Blue JG had been removed from the equation a week before I got these...the hen still had some residual Blue semen floating about. I need to candle the other order...there were 7 in that one. I hope we get a few more Splash Isa/JG's in this next batch!

 

[featherz]

Ugh, I hate my hovabator! Came home to five fully fluffed out chicks in the brinsea and one shrinkwrap zipped chick in the hovabator. Had to break protocol and snatch it out. It is now drying off and seems fine. I am using the hovabator as a hatcher for the overflow on the brinsea, so I HOPE the ones that spend most of their time in the brinsea come out OK. But the chicks I have so far are all under the ecoglow and peeping happy noises.

 

[Wild Trapper]

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Nice chick!

I'm hoping

my hovabator comes through for me. I go in lock down tomorrow, so far humidity has stayed up (almost too far up) and I just kept water in the inner section of the trough as recommended in the instructions. Of course, the cheap humidity gage could be suspect, but the house stayed around 40% and if I let it go dry it would drop below 30% in the bator, which I figured was too low. I think I'll try to use cut down egg cartons for lock down as last time it made me too nervous watching the hatched chicks roll the unhatched eggs around. I pulled them out and spoiled my hatch by lowering the humidity too much, I did that hatch out in the barn and didn't watch the humidity at all. I still got around 60% or more hatch, learned some from that hatch, Like, "Read and follow the instructions"!

Featherz, I am interested to know if you use cut down egg cartons in both the Brinsea and the Hovabator when you hatch? I have a Brinsea on my wish list for a future purchase. Way too much expense to this hobby...