First time incubating: how do they look so far?

Good luck with your hatches!!
I've got 38 more on day 10 right now.. lol. All Cochin bantams and a couple mixed cochins.
I'm setting 42 more this weekend. I bought 22 hatching eggs locally, breeds include White Leghorns, Welsummers, Ameraucanas and F3 Olive Eggers. This will be my "Dream Team" as far as colorful eggs in the basket. I just have to see how the hatch goes and how many turn out to be hens :/ I have another lady setting BCM eggs the same days as me and I'm going to get a few chicks from her. I have some chicks i ordered online that are about 3 weeks old. Buff Orps, Black Australorps and EE's. My goal is to have 2 hens of each breed for next summer. That'd be 16 hens. I'll have to sell the extras.
Geesh...no wonder my husband just shakes his head at me.
 
Good luck with your hatches!!
I've got 38 more on day 10 right now.. lol. All Cochin bantams and a couple mixed cochins.
I'm setting 42 more this weekend. I bought 22 hatching eggs locally, breeds include White Leghorns, Welsummers, Ameraucanas and F3 Olive Eggers. This will be my "Dream Team" as far as colorful eggs in the basket. I just have to see how the hatch goes and how many turn out to be hens :/ I have another lady setting BCM eggs the same days as me and I'm going to get a few chicks from her. I have some chicks i ordered online that are about 3 weeks old. Buff Orps, Black Australorps and EE's. My goal is to have 2 hens of each breed for next summer. That'd be 16 hens. I'll have to sell the extras.
Geesh...no wonder my husband just shakes his head at me.


Holy moly, that's alot of chicks!! Lol Good luck and keep us posted.
 
I've also got 25 Cornish X's that are 4 1/2 weeks old. I don't typically count them as they won't be around much longer. I've been lucky with them so far, it's been a breeze raising them. Good luck with your meaties newbie!!
 
Good News!!! I was able to finally see in my dark eggs and guess what I saw? A Black shadow wiggling about so as of right now I have 6 viables in my bator. Yayyyy! I was so worried one of them was going to be a bomb.
 
how is your hatch going DuckChick?

Moving right along! Day 19, and no pips as of this morning when I left for work, but humidity and temps are staying stable. I took vacation for tomorrow and Friday so that I can monitor them! heehee... I also plan to build a new candling box for my next hatch, so that will give me something to stay busy with, while I wait. That is, unless I spend the day looking through the incubator window... lol Thanks for asking!
 
No Problem. Im getting antsy over here so I started getting their brooder ready lol, I still have 8 days until hatch and im going nuts. Cant wait to see how many hatch!!
 
No Problem. Im getting antsy over here so I started getting their brooder ready lol, I still have 8 days until hatch and im going nuts. Cant wait to see how many hatch!!

Its is an addiction, ain't it... Most people would think we are certifiable. But its good to have so many nutty people to share it with.
 
I don't want to know how much time I spent looking through the incubator window...lol. my husband was like "Is your back starting to hurt? You're hunched over that thing all the time."
Newbie I'm just couple days behind you! My 2nd batch is due to hatch May 2nd.
 

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