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

[chicksooner]

how are you going to make purple eggs?

sitting here eating watermelon for breakfast. Coffee isn't working right now as it is already 80 out. Think I will drink it iced down later.

I have an egg under the hen and an egg in the bator that should hatch today. I sold 9 of the chicks yesterday. I kept my little lavender to see how it grows out.

 

[kaybee123]

Going into lock down with some eggs in the bator tonight. I've got 1 salmon faverolle, 3 white leghorns, 2 BCMs and 6 OEs in there, but this is my temp spike hatch so not sure all are developing since I cant' see into the OE and BCM eggs. If I can get a few to hatch I'll be grateful as that spike should have killed them in the first place.

The other bator has Salmon Faverolles, BCMs, Lav Amerauanas, some cross breeds, with some silkies and searama (wink ).

I have SLW, Partridge Rocks, and bearded silver lace Polish eggs settling from shipping that will go into a bator tonight. Once I hatch these eggs, I'm going to wash both bators and put them away for the summer. Here in FL it's getting too hot to have eggs shipped (90 plus degrees) and I haven't found a local source for eggs.

I hope I can get a male and female minimum from each. These were all the breeds I want and my small backyard flock will be complete with extras going to my family.

Wish me luck! I already have a laying Buff Orpington and Barred Rock with an EE pullet and a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana roo. He hasn't crowed yet at 10 weeks old so I'm keeping him until he does, then he'll go to my mom's house.

 

[wescottwomen]

Hi all I loved hatching eggs 101!it really answered some questions I had my first 2 hatches fail completely lost a ton of eggs but then I found HE101 and feel I will have a great hatch! so this is where I'm at : I'm using an old galvinized steel round dry air incubator I live in New Hampshire where the humidity is high
I have 25 eggs in the bator started them on 6/12 at 7 AM these eggs are a mixed breed I have 2 Roos (a EE and a Silver lace) and 2 EE hens and 11 other girls all brown egg layers from murry mcmurry I raised from day old they are all around 8 mo old now and very healthy so I'm very excited and will keep you guys posted on my progress here's some pics

 

[kaybee123]

Humidity is 60 with no water in the chambers. It's been raining and very humid anyway in FL. Do I need to be concerned?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Humidity is 60 with no water in the chambers. It's been raining and very humid anyway in FL. Do I need to be concerned?

Good Luck, and as long as you feel you have time to lower it and adjust as needed you should be ok. Do you have a room dehumidifier?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi all I loved hatching eggs 101!it really answered some questions I had my first 2 hatches fail completely lost a ton of eggs but then I found HE101 and feel I will have a great hatch! so this is where I'm at : I'm using an old galvinized steel round dry air incubator I live in New Hampshire where the humidity is high
I have 25 eggs in the bator started them on 6/12 at 7 AM these eggs are a mixed breed I have 2 Roos (a EE and a Silver lace) and 2 EE hens and 11 other girls all brown egg layers from murry mcmurry I raised from day old they are all around 8 mo old now and very healthy so I'm very excited and will keep you guys posted on my progress here's some pics

wow that thing is old! I would love to see the outside of that thing! sorta looks like a pressure cooker lol! How are you turning? the entire bator tilt? and no fan? so 102 at top of eggs?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

oh and even though I said it in PM, WELCOME to BYC and to the thread! Now someone find this gal a ball and chain please!

 

[Doug Hodges]

Two chicks on the way to the state lab. I just ruined my clothes cleaning out the mid size chick pen.(got bleach all over them and of course it was a pair of my favorite new shorts) I wet everything down with bleach water at a rate of 3 parts bleach to 2 parts water. I swept and then shoveled everything up. I then scraped as best I could. I then wet everything down again with the bleach solution. I then scrubbed everything down with a push broom. I have the chicks in a wire cage with two seperate areas and have them off the ground. I gave them the meds at a rate of 1 oz sulmet to 1 gallon of water. The vet loaned me her book on chicken diseases from the class that she just went through. Im going to copy everything off so I can read when I need to. IM TIRED OF LOSING CHICKS>I wake up early each day and dread going out to the pen to remove the dead ones.

 

[Doug Hodges]

UPDATE: My vet wrinkled her nose at Corid. Says its not very good. Says the sulmet is about all she uses for everything.

 

[Doug Hodges]

By the way, I locked down eggs a couple days ago and noticed today that they are hatching. Ive been to busy with dying chicks to worry about them.