December Hatch:Who is going to have Christmas babies?

[Blubrd]

We have 7 Duck eggs to make it to lock down! Should be hatching Saturday.

 

[NoseyChickens]

We had our millie fleur cochins hatch out early! 6 out of 7 eggs that made it to lock down. I had set 9. One pipped and didnt make it. they are the cutest! Now it's time to clean the bator and set my sussex eggs!

 

[speckledhen]

Guess I'll have to be with you guys. My younger Buff Orp, Nugget, is broody again. Sigh. Told her that it was December, for cripes sake! She said, "grrr, cluck, cluck, cluck".

 

[debilorrah]

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Cute!!!

 

[Tanichca]

Aw i

the Mille Fleur! Its day 9, i can see the babies moving around inside the eggs when i look in! And i figured that lockdown will be on the day my older sister comes back from college for Christmas break yay!

 

[cmom]

The power went out early this morning. I don't know how long it was off. It was off for at least the two hrs. that I was up but not sure how long before that. When I went to check the incubator the temp was 80 degrees. I put a large folded beach towell over the incubator to help hold the heat that was in it in the incubator until I could put my battery backup on it. I put the battery backup on it and brought the temp back up as quickly as I could. I candled some of the eggs this morning and all that I candled were showing movement. I am going to wait a couple of days and candle all of the eggs.

 

[BHep]

Started up my homemade incubator this afternoon and put in 6 duck eggs. First time for ducks.

 

[CallyB57]

I have a new LG incubator. On Thanksgiving Day I put a Silkie egg - the last egg my white Silkie laid before one of my standard chickens killed her. I bawled uncontrollably when I buried her - I absolutely broke down. Then later the same afternoon I added 3 eggs from the refrigerator, but they hadn't been in there more than a couple of days or so. Then I added 2 Silkie eggs about an hour after my 2 remaining Silkie hens laid them. One was a buff Silkie and one was a black Silkie. The father is a buff Silkie and very beautiful. Then early the next morning I added a green EE egg and a very dark, reddish brown Welsummer egg...or maybe it came from my Cuckoo Maran, not sure. So, I have 8 eggs brewing and I hope most of them will hatch. I have had a couple of serious temperature fluctuations as the beginning, but not for long periods of time. Now they are at 100 degrees and actually fluctuate from 99 to about 100.5 or so depending on the temperature of the room. I try to keep the temp at exactly 99.5, but it ain't happening. The humidity ranges from 38 - 40% on the hygrometer I stuck down in the incubator. I very carefully hand-turn them after washing my hands with hot soapy water.
John Boy Walton carried an egg under his arm until it hatched. If my utilities go out, I'm going to figure out a way to keep them warm by building a fire in my Soapstone stove and putting the eggs near enough to keep them warm. If that doesn't work, I'll tape them to my stomach.

 

[Nekhebet]

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Sorry to hear about your bird....my daughter put my two serama in the run after the wind had knocked the top down...the hen flew up, and my dogs killed her.

My roo has been so lonely, crowing all the time without his woman!

Other than that, I've read on this forum that eggs hatch well in a sports bra. No need for tape that way.

 

[BooBear]