February 2017 Hatch-a-long

[rebelINny]

I will join! I just set 22 eggs out of a mixed group I bought off craigslist from New Jersey. There are a couple of really dark maran colored eggs, several blue/green, a very tiny bantam (I know sh said she has mille fluer so maybe from tthat. Yay! It's been three years since I've hatched chickies

 

[MontainBourbons]

I'm here. 20 developing sulmtaller eggs in my gqf hatcher on day 14 and 36 ready to be put in today. I am planning to put eggs in every 2 weeks with a slight overlap. Want about 100 this year.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Yes, Ducks......Ooops is this only for Chickens?
I also have 10 Chicken eggs under my Broody Chicken Hen due on February 16th......Mix breeds........

Cheers!

Nope, it's for anything in an egg!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I'm here. 20 developing sulmtaller eggs in my gqf hatcher on day 14 and 36 ready to be put in today. I am planning to put eggs in every 2 weeks with a slight overlap. Want about 100 this year.

That is what I do in the spring-fall for guineas but I do use a separate hatcher to make it easier.

 

[MontainBourbons]

That is what I do in the spring-fall for guineas but I do use a separate hatcher to make it easier.

I've done it this way for a bit, you just need to turn down the humidity for a little to let the air sacks catch up.

 

[chickens really]

Yes, Ducks......Ooops is this only for Chickens?

I also have 10 Chicken eggs under my Broody Chicken Hen due on February 16th......Mix breeds........


Cheers!

Nope, it's for anything in an egg! 

Thanks, I thought I did something wrong?

Cheers!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Thanks, I thought I did something wrong?

Cheers!

Not at all, I just wasn't sure lol I don't know much about ducks.

 

[chickens really]

Thanks, I thought I did something wrong?


Cheers!

Not at all, I just wasn't sure lol I don't know much about ducks. 

Don't get any.....they are like chips or popcorn, highly addictive !!!!

Haha!!! I love Ducks!!!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I've done it this way for a bit, you just need to turn down the humidity for a little to let the air sacks catch up.

Taking them out gives me more room to set more eggs. Take 20 out, put 20 in. That sort of thing. Those things are my money makers and feed my flock, so the more I can set at a time, the better. Then I can just hold the humidity level. With my chickens I dry incubate, but with the guineas I really can't go lower than about 35%. Then in my hatcher I can have my humidity up to 70% and after a batch is done I can clean up goop and such. My neighbor staggers hatches all in his one incubator and that thing gets so nasty. I'm not a clean freak but it gets pretty gross by the end of the season.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Don't get any.....they are like chips or popcorn, highly addictive !!!!

Haha!!! I love Ducks!!!

I was just looking at some sort...apple something? They looked so cute and pretty! I hope when we buy our next home I can put in a small pond and have some. I'll have to figure out how to keep the dogs out of it though.