I have been rasing chicks for about a year now. I started at TSC with buying 6 cornish rock hens, 1 black cochin, 1 RIR, 1 siver bantam, 1 little feathery red bantam, and 3 red chicks of which im not sure what they are yet. We had a great time rasing them all and enjoyed eating our cornish rocks. Since i have gotten 10 more chicks including 6 Americanas, 1 RIR, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 more of those reds that i cant figure out yet. I will take some pics to post and maybe all my new friends here at BYC can help me identify them!!
Well in cleaning out my garage i found a bater from the previous home owner. Bater has a glass top and front, made out of wood and looks almost like this one:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876
The glass was broken so i made 2 trips to Lowe's because they didnt have anyone smart enough there to cut the glass square the first time! I put the bater back together and grabbed some eggs from the coop after getting the temp set to 99.5. I have not been so lucky with the humidity though. I can only get it to hover around 35%.
I put the eggs in 3 on Dec 4 and 3 on Dec 5. All brown eggs that candled great and seemed to be coming along.
My questions are:
After about day 14-15 i could no longer see anything in the eggs when candling but the air sack and a mass. Is this good or bad? (just like day 15 -16 pics on the about link)
Will the humidity only being around 35% hurt the hatch?
How can i get the humidity to come up and stay?
Last but not least, My only rooster is the Black Cochin and my only hens that are laying are 1 RIR, and 2 of the unidentified reds.
What kind of chicks should i expect?
Will they live? (I have heard alot of bad about mix breeding chickens)
Thanks to anyone and everyone who has any info to help the 'NEW EGG' here at BYC
Well in cleaning out my garage i found a bater from the previous home owner. Bater has a glass top and front, made out of wood and looks almost like this one:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876
The glass was broken so i made 2 trips to Lowe's because they didnt have anyone smart enough there to cut the glass square the first time! I put the bater back together and grabbed some eggs from the coop after getting the temp set to 99.5. I have not been so lucky with the humidity though. I can only get it to hover around 35%.
I put the eggs in 3 on Dec 4 and 3 on Dec 5. All brown eggs that candled great and seemed to be coming along.
My questions are:
After about day 14-15 i could no longer see anything in the eggs when candling but the air sack and a mass. Is this good or bad? (just like day 15 -16 pics on the about link)
Will the humidity only being around 35% hurt the hatch?
How can i get the humidity to come up and stay?
Last but not least, My only rooster is the Black Cochin and my only hens that are laying are 1 RIR, and 2 of the unidentified reds.
What kind of chicks should i expect?
Will they live? (I have heard alot of bad about mix breeding chickens)
Thanks to anyone and everyone who has any info to help the 'NEW EGG' here at BYC