Did anyone set chicken eggs on April 11th?

[Steve Jahnsen]

My incubater is a black sex link hen that went broody about a week before i got the eggs I don't have a rooster so I found some eggs on craigs list about 5 miles from my place and bought a dozen they are barred rocks, brahmas, and breda I hope they all hatch this is my first time hatching. I never had a broody hen before but its working.

 

[song of joy]

My incubater is a black sex link hen that went broody about a week before i got the eggs I don't have a rooster so I found some eggs on craigs list about 5 miles from my place and bought a dozen they are barred rocks, brahmas, and breda I hope they all hatch this is my first time hatching. I never had a broody hen before but its working.

That sounds really exciting. I had a hen go broody the same day the eggs in my incubator hatched.

I'm trying to get some local eggs to put under her to see if she's a good mother.

Best of luck to you!

 

[sailingleaf]

10 egg free so far with three more who have pipped.


The eggs I gave to my father have not hatched yet and he doesn't seem to think they're going to hatch. We aren't the most patient people though. I gave him the "easier to use" Brinsea mini advanced, so you'd think his would do something.

 

[UniqueChickens]

So I'm so eggcited

I got 5 Happy chicks running around. Got two pippin and 6 more to go one died during pippin.

 

[bromflock]

Set mine on the 11th and had 35 hatch.

 

[Chickentera]

Set mine on the 11th and had 35 hatch.

Nice! How many did you set?

 

[Flammen223]

Walnut hill, how are your turkeys coming along?

 

[sailingleaf]

In total 19 eggs hatched from my incubator and 5 hatched (finally!) from my father's incubator. 7 eggs didn't hatch, although they seemed to have grown to full term. The only one I fully eggtopsied looked as though there were some growth issues going on although it had seemed to be the most active right before hatch.

Unfortunately, one of my 19 died a couple of days ago. It was the last to hatch and did have issues, so I'm not surprised. Since the rooster for my birds was a Dorking, the five toe gene seemed to have passed down to most of the clutch although a lot of the mixed breed chicks had slightly deformed toes, including a couple who had five toes on the right foot and four toes on the left, oddly enough. I won't be mixing the Dorkings again.

The ones I got from a nice woman in NH hatched well. No idea if what I have are roosters or hens, but of the three full Dorkings that seemed to have hatched, two look to be pullets (yay! at least 2!).

I hope everyone else's hatches went well!

 

[Sarafena1982]

Out of the 22 I have 16 so far. One came on the 7th 12 came on the 8th and 3 yesterday!!!! I have one left in the bator and still alive in its shell

3 past earlier on and 2 pasted at day 18&20.

 

[WalnutHill]

Walnut hill, how are your turkeys coming along?

The second hatch of Bourbon Reds went poorly with only five out. Midget Whites are hatching now, one out, two pipped, looks like the rest quit after day 20.