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

[Sparkypatriot15]

Awe they're adorable!!!!!!!!! I can't wait for mine to hatch.. If they actually do

 

[chicksooner]

here are harmonys pics from the temp brooder bator

LF brahma not sure what kind yet though...
Day 18 hatch uggggg!

Over achievers! Cute babies.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: No clue!! Remember we had no electric for a weeks so in between the running of the generator we had the coolerbator close to the coal stove, HOWEVER I lived in the lower level and constantly checked temp!! if anything it got low a few times! Only thing I can think of is that he had a hen sitting on them so they were already stewing!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Thanks!! How are you?

Sorry for the rough time you have been having Sally!

Quote: and on top of it all, ............ the chickens in Harmonys bator have already started to hatch and its only day 18, Not what I needed to deal with at the moment. I did ok, with only three breakdowns today and Thank God for my older son and his girl coming to help with all the puppies bathing, nail clipping, and helping to run them for shots! noooo idea how much I needed them.... I still havent gotten the house vacummed and up to par as I have been having medical issues myself, but I will get there one thing at a time.... Thanks for all the well wishes....

why would the chickens start hatching already??????? uggggg I still have the eggs from my cheap bator in with Harmonys eggs!! we didnt get to weigh them or anything! No candling, I just threw water in and shut them down, one is already out of the shell!!!

to be honest I was really wondering if any would make it without the electric for a week!!! and in the new homemade bator no less!!!
I will update tomorrow, but we were trying to keep the temp a steady 100 degrees and I had four thermometers in there, so it wasnt too hot at any time either.... the humidity was running in the 30's almost the entire time as it was next to the coal stove. ANOTHER MAIN concern is that those eggs had rarely been turned all week since I was in the hospital with Lucas!!! I went to turn them and there where peeping and holes!!!!!! I almost screamed, I was like OMG no way, not on top of all this, hatching NOW, like RIGHT NOW and they will be shrink wrapped and I am so tired I cant stay up with them all night!!!!

GO FIGURE!!!! test me test me

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Awe they're adorable!!!!!!!!! I can't wait for mine to hatch.. If they actually do

She has 12 or 13 others hatching and laying around!!! I will take pics tomorrow, I need to find batteries and its been a rough day of cleaning up inside, blowing leaves, cleaning dog poo and puppy poo, cleaning out coops and rebedding, bleaching waterers and sooooooo on.... Hubby vacumed and mopped the house while I set up the brooder as we didnt have it ready yet!!! good thing I have the cheapo styro bator!!!! LOL only one of her polish is hatching the others are either infert or early death, but air cells were horrible because of shipping.....

Most the ones hatching are all LF Brahma lights darks buffs and partridge..... its a Braham hatch for sure! tough eggs I guess! About 10 were infertile, nothing when I checked them, nothing at all!! we pulled 5 others were about day 11 quitters. I will count how many are in yet!!! lol its chaos

so much for doing everything by the book with Harmony eh??? LOL no electric for a week and then not home for a week!! And then the stinkers deside to hatch early and no lockdown and VERY low humidity..... its up to about 72 now.....

Not bad for her homemade bator... I am impressed!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

here is ONE of our brooders lol this is actually a very large plastic tote, dont know why it looks small lol
SUGGEST that you get as big of one (floor) space as possible since you will be wintering them inside.
They grow fast and you will be surprised by the room you need so they arent pooping on each other!

I have a 75W bulb in mine as its in the lower level with a coal stove,

we just set it up and moved two chicks that are now dry over into it, we are trying to get a good 95-98 temp at the one end of it.
we made the top as much screen as we could for the kiddos to peek at them, a good idea is a pc of plexiglass along the front side of it for kiddos, but I am too cheap lol

With the wire like this on the top I can use a pc of hard board insulation to cover some of the wire to keep more or less heat in. you can kinda see it in the pic to the right.

I have a tiny bowl waterer so chicks dont drown but u can use a reg one just put clean marbles or stones in it to keep from drowning for a week. and I also started using save-a-chick

I also use papertowl over the pine shavings so I can pinch and powder a bit of the chick starter on it so they feed better the first two days or so.

but along with the chick feeder full of medicated chick starter. I like to keep pcs of plywood so they dont get shavings in water and food, as they get bigger and start to scratch around I will add a pc at a time to raise it as they will be bigger and can hop up higher too. A few weeks down the road I like to add a limb for them to roost, but just enough to get them off the ground/shavings.
These two partridge brahma chicks hatched out on day 18!! stinkers and there are 13 more laying around in the cooler bator!

ha

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Kiddo did a bang up job Sally. You should be one proud mommy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

The most gorgeous color egg I have EVER gotten!!! New layer!!
But NOW I must have more easter eggers because I only get one blue a day and kids fight over it!!! LOL
How cool!!!!! I have had speckled, brown white, you name it colors but will ya look at that blue!!!!!!
And I was at the hospital and didnt even get to make her oatmeal for such a nice egg!!!
Tomorrow morning treats!!!

 

[maryhysong]

that is such a cool egg color! I have Ameraucana eggs coming for my next hatch ;-) Yes I have OCD= Obsessive Chicken Disease ;=)

 

[Pentamom]

Hi Everyone! I am hatching my very first batch of babies (yesterday was the first day). I've been through a lot getting to this point~but I'm so happy I'm finally here!

LOL (love these smilies!)

Here are my babies!