First Time IncubatingTHEY ARE HATCHING!!! PST#47 Early Birds!!!!!!!!!!

[the_eagle69]

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yea me to my mom works in a feed store and was talking aobut selling all the bators i was haveing great luck with a new sportsman and very one wanted to add there eggs So there replacment order came in and i got one came home opend the box and was shocked but they work.

 

[cherub78]

My chicken eggs should be due to hatch the 19th also- I put them in at 8 am Thu morning. My duck eggs I figure about Mar 26, and the goose eggs around Mar 28 (both also started the same day & time/ diff incubator).

My chicken eggs are mixes, so not sure what I will end up with (if anything- its my first try incubating). I only have buff and white silkies, wcb polish, and w sultans, so its hard to say what I'll get. They (I guess) will be poofy bantam mutts- or not (mutts that is).

I wonder if I will be spending the entire 3 wks (4 for the others) staring at the thermometers instead of doing housework or anything productive. Seems like that is how it has been since Thu so far. Oh, and I hum the final jeopardy tune (maybe that will hurry them up???).

Keep us posted on how you make out.

Sharon

 

[bUg_Farm]

I'll be setting on Tuesday the 3rd - so, we'll be due around the 24th.

I'm using an LG still air with an egg turner. Setting about 20 eggs.

 

[pdsavage]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=137110
40 eggs from siz8003 due March 17.

 

[LocoPollo]

My current hatch is due on March 19. I have 27 light sussex eggs 3 buff sussex eggs, and eight speckled sussex eggs.

 

[thedreamers]

We just just got our LG this week, with the fan model. Going to try it this coming weekend. Our other incubator is a cabnet type and works great but is a bit of an over kill for a small hatches.

 

[bossynbella]

I am glad to hear that so many others will be hatching around the same time!and with the same incubator too! I had tried saving up money for the Hovabator Genisis but something would come up every time. So when my mother in law gave me a check for christmas I just went out and bought the Little giant and turner that had been at Thiesens for ever!
I hope it works, I don't even need these chicks and will probably sell most of them but I still want them all to hatch! I can't wait to see what I get. Sometimes mixes are more exciting then purebreeds, because you can get so many colors!

Last week a friend gave me her old incubator so now i have two. Hers is a Hovabator but its an older model it does have a fan and it has quail egg racks and some it says are universal for chickens,ducks and geese! Makes me want to try to hatch out quail and such!
Anyway I decided to stick with my new one because she said she never had good luck with hers but I will be trying it out later this summer when I have my birds seperated by breed.

Lets Keep chatting! We have to do something to keep occupied and I really don't want to clean my house!

Melissa

 

[bossynbella]

I am trying so hard to wait till Friday to candle the eggs. I really hope some of them are growing at least. Anyone else candling this weekend??
My temps have been varying alot from 101.7 when I get home at 6pm down to 98.5 at 6am in the morning. I hope this doesn't effect it to much!

 

[hobbychick]

I have eggs to on the 20th or 21st. BLRW, Speckled Sussex and some barnyard mixes. I have candled this week already and seen some veining but am having a really hard time figuring out what I am looking at. This is my first time candling.

I am using a homemade cabinet bator. The temp has been holding a wonderful 99.3 or so and the Humidity has been between 50-55 the entire time so far. This is my first time using it and I am pretty happy w/the way it is holding up.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!

 

[pinkchick]

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Me too! But this time I am trying someone else's eggs and lots more eggs. My test hatch with my LG still air was very sad. The bator works great, I think I made a bad choice on my eggs that I put in. We will see!
Have a mix of eggs....RIR, BR, Black Australorp (sp?), BO. Can't Wait till the 24th