FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

[ChickyChickens]

Hello everyone
I have 26 chicken eggs in the incubator right now, I am not expecting much. My boy is only seven months old and is in with twenty hens and pullets.This hatch is to work the kinks out of the incubator, which is a good thing considering three days in my bator decided to stop talking to the humidity pump. Okay so what is in the bator is 5 Gold Laced Orpingtons 23 GL ORP crosses and two buff orps fingers crossed.

Hope all goes well!

I've got mine in a closet, but it's the "safest" place in the house. I've got four kids (2, 4, 6, 8 years old) who would most definitely mess with the incubator! Even though it's not the warmest room, it is less drafty, and much safer! In fact, I'm hoping to keep the whole thing secret until the chicks pip...

Lucky!! I have no spcae for my 2 bators in the closet!!! I just leave them on the floor on the other side (the far side from the door...) of my bed whre my little sister (3) doesnt usually go!! And i told her if she touches it she will get shocked and she has never touched it...EVER...lol

 

[StephensonC]

Hope all goes well!

Lucky!! I have no spcae for my 2 bators in the closet!!! I just leave them on the floor on the other side (the far side from the door...) of my bed whre my little sister (3) doesnt usually go!! And i told her if she touches it she will get shocked and she has never touched it...EVER...lol

 

[scflock]

WOW...that is a LOT of eggs!! Hope all goes well with your ahtch! Cant wait to see little fluffy butts!

Here is the latest shot of last week's hatch

 

[Peep_Show]

I'm joining along as I've got eggs scheduled to hatch February 4th. They're the eggs sent by the egg vendor when the sole surviving purebred BLRW egg hatched out this:



Feathered feet and not a BLRW. Turns out the hen had been exposed several weeks earlier to a Light Brahma. "Oops" is a cutie, though, and a very able flyer.

Anyway, the replacement eggs arrived in the midst of a snowstorm and freeze and I picked up the eggs from the Post Office. They were very, very cold and one egg had frozen and burst. Two eggs had severely detached air cells that had the bubble that travels all over the egg. But -- happy to say -- of the 9 put in the incubator a quick candling yesterday revealed veining in several!

A couple of the eggs, though, are VERY porous and hard to see much of anything.

I really want these eggs to hatch so that I can pass some chicks along to a friend of mine. Her husband raises SLW. He also has severe Parkinsons and the chicken stuff is what really keeps him going and motivated. His flock are getting up in years and so replacements are required. He was very excited to learn that Wyandottes come in other colors than just black and white.

 

[ChickyChickens]

I'm joining along as I've got eggs scheduled to hatch February 4th. They're the eggs sent by the egg vendor when the sole surviving purebred BLRW egg hatched out this:



Feathered feet and not a BLRW. Turns out the hen had been exposed several weeks earlier to a Light Brahma. "Oops" is a cutie, though, and a very able flyer.

Anyway, the replacement eggs arrived in the midst of a snowstorm and freeze and I picked up the eggs from the Post Office. They were very, very cold and one egg had frozen and burst. Two eggs had severely detached air cells that had the bubble that travels all over the egg. But -- happy to say -- of the 9 put in the incubator a quick candling yesterday revealed veining in several!

A couple of the eggs, though, are VERY porous and hard to see much of anything.

I really want these eggs to hatch so that I can pass some chicks along to a friend of mine. Her husband raises SLW. He also has severe Parkinsons and the chicken stuff is what really keeps him going and motivated. His flock are getting up in years and so replacements are required. He was very excited to learn that Wyandottes come in other colors than just black and white.

Welcome...lol!

 

[Loc20chick]

I'm joining along as I've got eggs scheduled to hatch February 4th. They're the eggs sent by the egg vendor when the sole surviving purebred BLRW egg hatched out this: Feathered feet and not a BLRW. Turns out the hen had been exposed several weeks earlier to a Light Brahma. "Oops" is a cutie, though, and

Oops is very cute!!!!

 

[ChickyChickens]

Oops is very cute!!!!

 

[minihorse927]

I set 6 ohiki eggs just 2 nights ago and will be setting some more eggs this weekend. Hoping for some very special eggs for this weekend. I'll have more ohiki to go in too as I'm collecting 5 or 6 up and setting them.

 

[ChickyChickens]

I set 6 ohiki eggs just 2 nights ago and will be setting some more eggs this weekend. Hoping for some very special eggs for this weekend. I'll have more ohiki to go in too as I'm collecting 5 or 6 up and setting them.

hope you have a great

 

[TinyAssFarm]

So, my birthday's in Feb and all I asked for was eggs I found out I'll have a batch of lemon cuckoo orpingtons, indian runner ducks, and cuckoo marans to hatch this month! I'm so very very excited!