FEB HATCH-ALONG THREAD ...COME JOIN US.... EVERYONE!

[gapeach717]

I just ordered my first eggs from ebay too! They are shipping tomorrow. SIZZLES!

I also bought some from a member on here, and I have 2 different sets coming from friends locally, next Saturday my 'bator is gonna be STUFFED!! Now just hoping some hatch!

 

[chicksolot]

I need help I have a big white chicken that I think is a Rooster because its bigger than all the rest and makes more noise also has bigger crown I want to try leaving the eggs in if there is a rooster to let them hatch but this morning the white chicken was sitting on the egg (brown egg) Do roosters sit on the eggs or is it a hen?

 

[Brookhavens]

I need help I have a big white chicken that I think is a Rooster because its bigger than all the rest and makes more noise also has bigger crown I want to try leaving the eggs in if there is a rooster to let them hatch but this morning the white chicken was sitting on the egg (brown egg) Do roosters sit on the eggs or is it a hen?

Can you post a picture of the chicken?

 

[Brookhavens]

I had a pip when I got up this morning. It started ziping about an hour later, but then I had to leave to go to church.. I wonder what I will have waiting for me when I get home??

Hopefully a happy, healthy chick!!!

 

[Brookhavens]

I have coming chicks on craigs but didnt think of ebay for . eggs I gotta wait until my first hatch though ...Feb15th
.Candled last night and all of 12 looked good but 1 and one iffy Day 8.
Someone said you have to be NIP (or whatever it is) to ship eggs. Dont know if they know what they were talking about and i am sure most ppl arent since you cant get new chickens or eggs unless they are NIP or sell anything for 3 MONTHS until they are tested! or 3 months after.... something., But GOOD idea I might do.....

I just shipped out a box yesterday and am not NPIP tested yet. I have bought eggs off ebay ads that did not say they were NPIP certified. They could have been but it was not in the ad itself. If I were certified I think I would want to let others know I am by putting it in my ad.

 

[PaleoDan]

Good luck - I hope you have a fuzzy new friend waiting.

 

[Lorilyn Farms]

I just shipped out a box yesterday and am not NPIP tested yet. I have bought eggs off ebay ads that did not say they were NPIP certified. They could have been but it was not in the ad itself. If I were certified I think I would want to let others know I am by putting it in my ad.

From what I understand from the post office, each state is different. So if you are mailing from a state that doesn't require it, to a state that doesn't require it, you don't need certification. And this is only for LIVE birds. Not required for eggs.

However, do a background check on the mailer if you can. I ordered eggs from a pretty popular silkie person and my eggs all arrived safely, but with some type of illness. I say that because I hatch eggs all the time and never had a problem until I stuck her eggs in. Then, not only did her eggs hatch then die within days, but all my eggs did the same. I got rid of that incubator in case whatever it was became lodged in the styrofoam. I am sure it came in the eggs because another breeder in the area, whom I know, said she ordered from the same person, and the same thing happened to her, so it wasn't just a case of one in a million. Whatever that breeder had killed my chicks as well as hers.
So be careful. See if you can talk to someone that hatched their eggs.

 

[mbfarms]

So I got an empty toilet paper roll, cut it to the length so that she is in like a sitting position. I'll have to take a pic later so ya'll can see what I am talking about.

Must see pictures of this!

 

[mbfarms]

Mbfarms - I am using a D-Link DCS-942L. It is a security camera that has ir night vision, a mic, and motion detection. It was $149.99 at Staples but what I really like about it is that you can configure eMail notifications that include a picture or video every time motion is detected. I have only been using it since Friday but so far so good.

The one caution I would tell you is that I have not figured out how to stream the video to a website. Right now it is only sending the feed to a free website provided by D-Link. I am not saying it can't, I just have not figured it out yet.

Thanks for the info. I'll check that camera out but it seems spendy!

I know a teacher from another list who is using an iPevo camera attached to a laptop to stream to Ustream, which has a free streaming option. She's streaming her hatch right now at the high school where she works. Watching hers, I know it can be done but I just have to figure out if it can be done affordably!

 

[MommaSampson]

Just joining! I set 10 eggs from my hens on 1/20 and are expecting them to start hatching around the 10th. On Day 12 I had one quit. I took pictures and was told that is was a day 6/7 quitter. It's beak looked funny. Anyways, I anxiously awaiting the rest of them to hatch. When I candled them all of them had veining and I saw movement in 3.