Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: good like I said I would leave it and a lot of times I run 100 in the front of the cooler bator and 99.5 in the back! and I always keep eggs as far front as I can too!

 

[kaybee123]

Sally do you think the dark brown all over chipmunk one is a roo too? It's the rumpless one growing a bright orange crown.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

good like I said I would leave it and a lot of times I run 100 in the front of the cooler bator and 99.5 in the back! and I always keep eggs as far front as I can too!

This last time I had the eggs right in the middle. In a 30 carton for esy turning. But the therm was in the front. Seemed to work. So I guess why mess with it if it worked. LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally do you think the dark brown all over chipmunk one is a roo too? It's the rumpless one growing a bright orange crown.

I think pullet! that's my guess and I am sticking to it! lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

So last egg in the hatcher was running around this am, sure don't look like a brahma!
Must have had a pen writing issue on the egg! LOL Cute nonetheless!

Mich are you sure you don't want to run up for cochin babies?

 

[silver1313]

Hi everyone, I started a thread but got invited over. I think it was Sumi?! Thanks
I'm new to hatching and on my 2nd batch. My first being a complete failure.
Well I've been totally and utterly sad over my incubator experiences as the last three days have been hard to try and keep the temp down on the blasted thing! I think the thermostats is not working properly I'm having to literally have the lid off and at an angle so that there is excess heat escaping. The thermostat I have set to 35 c and its reading 37.5-38. But if the lid is on the edge of it reads 39 and the middle 36-38. So readings as high as 102.2 It has doing my head in!
Have been thinking that maybe they have all been cooked so just at day 3 I decided to check my four bantam Cochin Eggs. As they are pinky white So one looks unfertile. Another. I say the classic spiderish! But it was hard to see through all the speckles. Just can kinda make it out! A third sorta similar but the last one oh wow. It was awesome. A perfect spider with veins and a clear red circle within the yolk and on very still inspection. I saw THE HEART BEATING!!! Omg. I'm so happy and so worried at the same time! I now have to come up with a plan for lockdown as humidity will be hard to achieve with a half open tank! Thinking lots of sponges and loads of warm water consistently! Can't believe this has happened to me. I don't have the money for a new one, especially when I've just bought this one. So any ideas? Was thinking maybe setting one up with cardboard boxes. I've got a heat lamp and heat mats that I use for reptiles. Maybe as a hatcher.

Update to this is now working into day three. I've candeled again and found two heart beats on two banties and one on a mixed eggs I got shipped. So in Total I have 34 eggs set.
11 from the shipped 12 went in. One was so badly damaged between a large air sac and bubbles. Not to mention it was very porous! Not impressed at all!
Ok so then there are four from my banties Cochins and and the further 19 are a mix between my banties and my xNeros. So excited to see what they will turn out like!

Basically I am not new to raising chicks but I am to incubating and hatching. I have also kept ducks and chickens for years. And I am an Aga owner, raising 6 kids and live out in the Fens of England with my amazing Hubby.

Just hope I don't bombard you all with updates and questions. I absolutely love chickens and the small farm life! I would not trade it in for anything! But hope you all well on your babies and now I'm going to read some more of this thread! But here is a pic of one of my bantie eggs

i have had several bad hatches myself !!! but i did have a hatch where the temps stayed high a few times and some of them actually made it so dont give up hope !!!

welcome to our forum lol come on in ..the people here are pretty awesome and will help as much as they a !!!

 

[silver1313]

oh well if they are LF and npt bantam I will love them just the same lol
they are the cutest little fluff balls and they have feefer feet as me and my sister say lol i didnt mind the JGs while we had them so I am sure it will be ok in the end....
i looked at pictures last night and they are pretty chickens at least lol

 

[silver1313]

cochin

hope your rooster turns out ok ... if ya need any help researching let me know !!!

 

[silver1313]

these are the 12 new ones they all ran into the corner when i stuck the camera in lol 8 dark 4 light

 

[cochins1088]

Sally, how do your brahmas compare to your cochins as far as size goes?

You keep saying how big your brahmas are, but I don't think that Alexander is any bigger than my LF cochins. I'm just curious. I LOVE my big chickens, and little, haha.