First Time Incubating. *Pics*

[Colourful]

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Well done Lacey, they are beautiful. I hope your third one hatches

Better luck this time round already, 11/15 is nothing to be sad about.

I'll be hatching with you! I have chicken eggs and quails due to hatch in batches all next week and Turkeys and quail the week after with you. Good luck all round!

 

[MissBroodyHen]

Hi, just wanted to introduce myself and would be rude not to post after I just sat here and read every post! Took me about 40 mins and obviously to go through all the pics too! I live in england and am just starting a new hobby I'm hatching my first batch of chicken eggs! ( have done reptiles before! That's totally different) I'm hoping this will be the first of many many many to come as I am absolutely obsessed. I'm currently on day 11. I started with 6 mixed silkies but I believe to only have one left possibly two from them some had blood ring and one infertile also had 6 leghorns one had also red ring and the other five infertile ( bought these from one place on eBay and planning on complaining!) Also placed 12 buff Orpingtons and have hoping 7 good as of yesterday and two unsure of. In total I have 11 left out of 24 that I placed. Not even sure if any of them are good. It's so difficult to see through those buffs. Except that on day 10 they feel a lot heavier a and it just look very dark inside with the exception of the air bubble and a bit of space at the bottom. I will add a pic Of them. So excited and nervous done a whole ton of research just so hard to do this as you all know the anticipation I don't think I will sleep during lockdown either!!

I have kept Chooks for years and a few ducks (but that's another story) anyways Hi all!

 

[MissBroodyHen]

These are the eggs left and probably will have more to come out still!! Thinking of buying a second bator maybe one of those mini auto ones!

 

[Colourful]

Welcome missbroodyhen! It's great to have you here!

I have two incubators and I'm glad of it. I use one as an incubator and one as a hatcher. So if you do get a new one, you can use your old one as a hatcher. I would suggest you getting something that hold more than a dozen eggs if you are going to do hatching on a more regular basis, but if your just doing a few than just the small ones sound good

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I have 2 pips in my incubator at the moment. Both are Araucana and one of them pipped below the air-cell line. The last hatch I had I lost the one egg that pipped down low so for this chick (today's one) I opened the pip about 2 millimetres with a pin. Just enough so I know it can breathe and I'll leave it to nature from here out. The humidity is high and the pip hole is small, so I don't think it'll dry out.

Any more hatches from others here?

 

[skookumchuck]

A quick update we are etting hatching yay. three of the eggs pipped this morning. I thought that I had heard chirps in the bator yesterday. they are going slow so hopefully sometime tonight we will have chicks. Makes me glad that they are still going after the power outage and cooling down to 50 deg. So after thinking we were going to get nothing it is good to be wrong. We bought 12 chicks to raise but if we get these to hatch we will have 18. Need to get a new coop built. I will post pics later.

 

[skookumchuck]

One out two more right behind and 1 more pipped. Pictures to follow

 

[Colourful]

Well done skook! It's great that your perseverance paid off

I look forward to those photos!

 

[skookumchuck]

#4 and #5 are on the way, no sign of #6 pipping. Out of 8 eggs set one was infertile, 1 I broke and so far 5 are hatching hope all 6 hatch. I am going to now order some quality eggs as the test run has gone great. A few tweeks to the incubator and it should be good to go on some Chantecler eggs. Thanks to everyone for the encouragement after the power outage. So with out any more adue here are pictures of the first three.

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#1 our black austrolop hen Olive the dad of course is Reggie the RIR roo


#2 out #3 on its way both out of the grey EE Sarah and Reggie the roo


#3 is also Sarah's Waiting for the now #5 for harriets (RIR) and #6 Pea's another RIR hen. #4 is another of Sarah's
Again thanks for the support. I didn't think we were going to have any hatch so I bought 12 day olds at the feed store last wednsday. Now I have 16-18 new chicks. Going to have to get the new coop built soon.

 

[MissBroodyHen]

That is so awesome hope the rest made it. That would be fab!