HALLOWEEN HATCH!!! Anyone

[Fluffy-Butt-Farms]

ok, then i'm ok. i always set at 8 am when i get up. except last night when i remembered i had JGs in the closet, so then today is day 1 for them. I think i'm getting this. lol.
mine went into lockdown today anyway instead of yesterday cause i had one egg that was wiggling.
just a thought...what does that do to the other eggs that wern't suppose to lockdown til tomorrow? does stopping turning a day early hurt them?

 

[neferset]

It might. It might not. You have to take the chance because it isn't safe to open the lockdown bator. Trust me on that. With staggered hatches, it's best to have at least 2 bators.

If I'm allowed to back up an bit...Reaper is a decent name for the Halloween harvest.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Okay, on the Halloween name game .... naming your chicks ...
We are on the letter X

Xray

 

[k2chickens]

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I said this a while back..maby it will help.


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What day to you constitute as Day 1? If you put them in tomorrow (Thursday) would Friday be day 1 or would Thursday? I hope this isn't too confusing

I am going to try to get my ready to hatch on Halloween!!! I didn't realize that they could until I read this post!

this is a VERY good question. My first hatch i basicly flew by the seat of my pant's. The second i put my eggs in the bator i went to my calander and put a check mark on that day before i went to bed.."when actually it had only been a few hours and not a full 24" From there on out i put a check mark each day in the new box before i went to bed to signal a full day of incubateing. When i told everyone how i had started counting in the hatch thread i was in here on BYC, alot of people told me i was counting wrong and was basicly one day "off". So when i was put in my place about the day counting it all seemed very clear to me once i thought about it.

You put the eggs in the bator at say 7pm when you get home from work. Not untill 24 hours has passed and your back home at 7pm do you need to count anything. Once that full 24 hours has passed...congrat's!!! you have just completed your first day of your current new hatch! This is basicly the way i am now thinking when it comes to figureing out what and when day one should be logged onto your calender. I could be completely wrong...but it makes alot of since to me at least.

 

[evonne]

i posted this in the egglaying topic too,

but since we've all been encouraging each other, i thought u'd share with you too... my first green egg came today.. and my 6 yr old found it by the water bowl... we were so excited

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[neferset]

Yay! Congratulations. When Mada laid her first blue eggs I was excited too. (Evonne: She asked if she could have a hen named after her.) The blue and green ones just seem so special.

 

[evonne]

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rofl.. i read Mada and was wondering if she knew you named a chicken after her.. lol.. she's awsome.....

i just wish i knew for sure which of my girls laid it.. i have an idea... but i want to be sure... there's one that's coloring is different from the rest, and her earlobes are kinda whitish but a little hint of teal... with these darn muffs it's hard to see earlobe color.. lol.. and i have no idea if it's even possible to have blueish earlobes??


is it bad if i want to go on lockdown today just cause i'm being lazy and don't want to turn anymore.... ???

 

[kathyinmo]

I'm still waiting for my first green egg. However, the past 2 days I did see one of my EE's looking around in the nests! Very pretty bowl of eggs you have there!

 

[kathyinmo]

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Now you can wait one more day! WOW... JUST ONE MORE DAY! YAY ! ! !

 

[neferset]

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Now you can wait one more day! WOW... JUST ONE MORE DAY! YAY ! ! !

Why? In a way, tomorrow starts tonight, especially if you are hand turning. When you turn your last turn, up the humidity to where it needs to be and consider the incubator locked down. I just pulled mine out of turners and set them in the hatching carton and did the same thing.