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

[sumi]

kicked the teenagers outside and moved the babies to the big brooder...seem to be doing better!


new brooder in the works for outside summer hatches...and they say women can't love power tools!!

thanks to my skil saw with a wormdrive (what the heck is a worm drive?)

Nice brooder! What is a worm drive??

 

[sumi]

13 hatched... 10 pips... 28 more to go!

Congrats!

 

[sumi]

Hello to everybody, I have a DIY incubator that had 10 duck eggs, only one was developing, now I don't even know if that one is good. Want to change around and redo my incubator and then try to hatch more ducks.

What does your incubator look like? Can you post pics and tell us more? I found ducklings and chicks are very similar, but ducklings take longer and they take forever to hatch! Talk to Sally about homemade incubators. She built one and it's great.

 

[sumi]

I have a pip! It's one of my silkie eggs. I expected the serama to hatch first. The pip is a little below the last air cell line I drew on day 18. This is day 20. Should I do anything? What if it didn't pip into the air cell?

If it pipped externally it's good. It can breathe and that's what it needs to do now. Now you sit on your hands and wait

 

[Crimsonchicken]

I have a serama egg pipped! The first pipped egg has done nothing else new. Humidity dropped to 65 and I can't get it above that for some reason. I don't want to open the incubator, so I've been adding water with a straw and syringe.

If it pipped externally it's good. It can breathe and that's what it needs to do now. Now you sit on your hands and wait 

Soooo very hard for me! I wanna know what's going on in every single egg. It's killing me!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Hello to everybody, I have a DIY incubator that had 10 duck eggs, only one was developing, now I don't even know if that one is good. Want to change around and redo my incubator and then try to hatch more ducks.

I had to do the same to mine. Have any pics of it?? First run with mine 20 eggs nothing. I tried 5 duck eggs but all were infertile. I was going to try a few more this 3rd run. But now I don't have to!!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I tell yea. Leghorns are the most fearless chickens. I think they have the little people syndrome.

This was there first time outside with the Light Brahma chicks.

 

[gracie02]

Nice brooder! What is a worm drive??

A worm drive is a saw that rotates the blade in the opposite direction of a regular skil saw. They're supposed to have more power.

 

[gracie02]

I tell yea. Leghorns are the most fearless chickens. I think they have the little people syndrome. This was there first time outside with the Light Brahma chicks.

Wow, they're so orderly!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Wow, they're so orderly!

I keep them in a tight line!!

NOT!!!

Took me 50 try's to get this one pic.

I will say though, the Light Brahmas are pretty smart. Scared of there own shadow but smart. There only 6 weeks old. Went outside around 4 weeks. Locked them up 1 day because of rain, and from that day on at night they go right in the hen house. No chasing them around at night. God I hate that!!

Chasing little chicks around at night that is.