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

[sumi]

Here are my shipped eggs! I'm picking up a dozen local ones tomorrow and will start incubation in 24 hours from now!

Best of luck!

 

[sumi]

31/33 is 94% with 2 barred rocks pipped

come on chickies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go chicks!

 

[ozexpat]

Go chicks!

both are alive and chirping so i have my fingers crossed for 100%. its still 1600 hrs on day 20 so they are in the zone.

it has been such a struggle up until 5 weeks ago when we cracked the humidity problem.

 

[sumi]

I'm keeping fingers crossed

100% hatches are awesome!

 

[DaveOmak]

Sally, so that hen we never got to tell the breed has been laying one day yes one no, for the past month or so she was an egg a day. Today she's been sitting in her nest all day. This is great but I have all her eggies in the bator and she has nothing under her. What should I do. Don't want to risk putting the eggs under her and that she is not really broody. How do I know?

Dolfi, morning..... I don't have any chickens yet, and have not raised any..... That is my disclaimer..... What I would do, being a dummy, is place a couple eggs under her from the bator... then you would have a "mama" hatch to compare to a "bator" hatch... That is if you can spare a couple eggs for mama to sit on... Seems like I stayed at a Holiday Inn with all the reading I been doin'....

Dave

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally, so that hen we never got to tell the breed has been laying one day yes one no, for the past month or so she was an egg a day. Today she's been sitting in her nest all day. This is great but I have all her eggies in the bator and she has nothing under her. What should I do. Don't want to risk putting the eggs under her and that she is not really broody. How do I know?

wait and see if she stays put, take her off several times a day, if she is always on the nest and finally you are positive she is broody you can put the eggs from the bator under her as long as they are the same timing. or find some local eggs for her for her ROOKIE hatch

 

[Sally Sunshine]

31/33 is 94% with 2 barred rocks pipped

come on chickies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I know who my votes are for this month!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Morning Dave!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a big brahma broody for four days now and I have to grow out some WFBS chicks for a month to basically do a quality control to make sure the feathering is coming in good. These chicks grow fairly fast and move around and cause tons of dust that I would love to have out in the shed instead of inside. trouble is its cold out there and we are again running into single digits in the eves.

The wfbs eggs in the bator on day 17 today, we are thinking that tonight we may move the big broody to her own location in our grow out shed and given all the WFBS eggs from the bator, quite a few so that she can raise them there and I dont have to do the work in the house for the first month. But what worries me about doing this tonight is this cold spell and I dont know if its smart idea, never let any go in the winter, fall yes but not winter. Will we need to add a heat lamp somehow? I havent a clue but I would think so, not thrilled with another lamp so I am not 100% sure what we will do in the end tonight. If she wasnt so big I could use the garage and dog crate but I dont think thats enough space for her and a zillion chickies