Febuary hatch a long

[Marthab1953]

I'm 70............

.same message.I just love doing this..........and grateful that I have the time now to devote to this..........

How True! Raising Chickens is the love of my life!

How cool! Another old fogie!

 

[TherryChicken]

I will be setting chicken and quail in february

 

[Marthab1953]

I will be setting chicken and quail in february

Great! The more the Better. Hope you have a very successful hatch!

 

[Wunjo]

Here I go again! I just set 18 shipped eggs I ordered from @chick-among-us . I also added 3 of my own.

 

[TherryChicken]

 Great!  The more the Better.  Hope you have a very successful hatch!

thank you

 

[Marthab1953]

Great another hatchalong

 

[Drache]

Hope there is room in this party for a newbie. I'm 27, and this is my first hatch!

My friend gave me a redwood incubator cabinet and I fired it up a few days ago to make sure everything was working. It holds temp nice and steady and humidity is easy to adjust by opening/closing the vents in the back. I have three temp/hygro in different spots inside to compare. It also auto-turns about every 2 hours.

My friend gave me four eggs from her hens. There is one blue egg and three brown. Her flock is a barnyard mix. I think the Roo is a RIR and the hens are all different. Some EE, SLW, GLW, black sex-link something, and a few others. The eggs were laid yesterday morning and she brought them over this morning. I am letting them sit about 8 hours before putting them in the incubator.

They are difficult to candle. I think I can see the yolk in the blue egg but nothing in the brown. Technically these eggs were shipped because they were in a car for about an hour, but I don't see any bubbles inside.

Will let you all know how this goes. My friend has offered to keep giving me eggs until I get it figured out, because I eventually want to order some black or copper maran eggs online and don't want to waste my money. And in the future I am thinking about branching out into other birds such as partridge, mandarin ducks, and pheasants.

Wish me luck for my first round!

 

[Pyxis]

I set 17 eggs in the middle of the night last night, so hatch date is the 20th/21st. All silkies except three mystery eggs This is also my test run of my new brinsea. So far so good!

 

[schmockl]

Can I join? I set eggs yesterday morning.

 

[Marthab1953]

I see Krischick has not been on in a while, but I am very sure Krischick would love all of you to join!