HALLOWEEN HATCH!!! Anyone

[evonne]

i hate to ask this on the tails of an i don't see anything post, but at day 8 is it safe to take out the blanks and the bloodrings?? the ones that are good are very definite good....so i htink anything that's not looking like that is not going anywhere.. and i want to pull them out...
someone tell me it's okay to pull them out.. lol..

 

[kathyinmo]

I did. I pulled out 4 Jerset Giants.

I think the others are at least starting. However, 1 more JG is questionable. (Out of 10 JG). The hardest ones for me to candle are the olive eggers. Can't see a darn thing. At least on the Marans I can see the air cell.

 

[evonne]

i'm still waiting on my colored eggs.... in my bator now are pretty little white ones.. nice and easy to see through.. lol...
i coulda sworn i was gonna get a colored yesterday... one of my girls was in the nest and re-arranged and sat for a while... and left... and came back.. and left.. and came back... i wasn't out there as much today so i didn't see if she was around the nest as much...

 

[kathyinmo]

evonne... Same here, still waiting on my EEers to start laying. How old are yours? Mine are 23 weeks old. I notice one is getting a little bit red in the face now, so maybe soon.

 

[VictoryChickens]

Hi we are new to the chicken world and are very ecxited because this is our first flock to hatch! My husband made a homemade incubator and so far it doing great! We started putting eggs in on October 1 thru 12. Only one major scare, light bulb burnt out sometime in the middle of the night.
Luckily we checked it first thing and saved the clutch. We are totally hooked on chickens. Not sure how to add images on here or we would!

 

[VictoryChickens]

Not sure if this is going to work, this is a pic of our incubator!!

 

[evonne]

rofl... weeks old?? BLAH!! i have no clue... i got them the weekend of mothers day... so between 5-6 months???

the one girls comb is almost glowing red.. and i've got another that looks like it's getting brighter... do their combs actually grow some more when they are ready to start laying?? i don't remeber any of my girls having bigger combs, but the one is quite a bit bigger than the others...
and dang it... there's some seabright eggs in the swap thread... too bad my girls aren't laying yet...

 

[k2chickens]

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that looks awesome!!! good job

 

[kathyinmo]

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I don't think they get bigger, BUT they get redder when they are ready to lay! Cherry red = ready to lay!

SO, it looks like you are about to get eggs, yes? Does she do the squat for ya? That's another good sign. A friend of mine has EE, and it seems it was forever before they finally started to lay also. Slow to bloom I guess.

Hi we are new to the chicken world and are very ecxited because this is our first flock to hatch! My husband made a homemade incubator and so far it doing great! We started putting eggs in on October 1 thru 12. Only one major scare, light bulb burnt out sometime in the middle of the night.
Luckily we checked it first thing and saved the clutch. We are totally hooked on chickens. Not sure how to add images on here or we would!

Welcome to BYC ! !

Question: You said you put eggs in Oct 1 - 12? So, you are planning a staggered hatch? Do you have another incubator, or how do you do that? Hey, nice bator you made there.​

 

[neferset]

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We got our Buff Orpington when she was atleast a couple of moths old. She was in the stage where she looks like a thin chicken, but still peeps. That was back in May. She just started laying around August/September. So, some of them take a while.

Red was about a month old at the same time, barely out of the brooder. BD and I are currently not agreeing on his gender. In the last couple of months, he's been getting pointed saddle feathers, long black tail feathers are coming in, and his comb is getting bigger. It's not a bad thing for him to be a rooster necessarily. The little Rhode Island Red x Buff Orpington chicks we are getting are pretty cute. (I guess Igor isn't fathering them. Maybe because he's molting?) *trying to keep a very straight face as I type* He's just not crowing yet.

So, yeah, some might just take a while.