Hatch-a-long! ~ Anyone setting 8JAN-15JAN??

[pinky67]

Ceocka I just had some silkies and showgirl eggs shipped from cj's silkies. She sells them by the each. She is in the buy, sell, trade here on BYC. beautiful birds. All eggs arrived intact. They went in the bator on Friday morning! Btw this is my very first attempt at hatching!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Ceocka I just had some silkies and showgirl eggs shipped from cj's silkies. She sells them by the each. She is in the buy, sell, trade here on BYC. beautiful birds. All eggs arrived intact. They went in the bator on Friday morning! Btw this is my very first attempt at hatching!

Hi! A bunch of us on here are first timers. Me for one. Hope they do well! I have 4 of my eggs I am worried about now. 4 out of 22 isn't bad though.

Keep us posted on how things go.

 

[pinky67]

Hi! Just set my very first eggs On Friday the 18th! 14 Silkies. Shipped eggs. PA to CA! Packed well...arrived intact. I let them sit for 19 hours big end up. Of the 14 at least 5 had funky air cells. Now they are all in the bator.... big end up and I am NOT going to turn or touch them for 7 (maybe 5) days! So far so good?

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Hi! Just set my very first eggs On Friday the 18th! 14 Silkies. Shipped eggs. PA to CA! Packed well...arrived intact. I let them sit for 19 hours big end up. Of the 14 at least 5 had funky air cells. Now they are all in the bator.... big end up and I am NOT going to turn or touch them for 7 (maybe 5) days! So far so good?

Sounds perfect. Mine rested for 18ish hours and then went into the incubator with the turner off. I think I turned it on on day 7... Candle before you turn it on. That way you can be sure that everything is ok. That being said, some probably wont reattach 100% and there is no point keeping the turner off past a certain timeframe ( I think 10 days was what some one said not to let them set past).

 

[pinky67]

Those are beautiful parents! I am wanting some silkie eggs and some polish eggs and if I can find them show girls. My daughters birthday is coming up and she is my Mimi me farmer! Does anyone know whet I can get some

Ceocka I just had some silkies and showgirl eggs shipped from cj's silkies. She sells them by the each. She is in the buy, sell, trade here on BYC. beautiful birds. All eggs arrived intact. They went in the bator on Friday morning! Btw this is my very first attempt at hatching!

 

[pinky67]

Hi! A bunch of us on here are first timers. Me for one.

Hope they do well! I have 4 of my eggs I am worried about now. 4 out of 22 isn't bad though.

Keep us posted on how things go.

Good luck!

I can't wait to see all the chickies!

 

[pinky67]

Sounds perfect. Mine rested for 18ish hours and then went into the incubator with the turner off. I think I turned it on on day 7... Candle before you turn it on. That way you can be sure that everything is ok. That being said, some probably wont reattach 100% and there is no point keeping the turner off past a certain timeframe ( I think 10 days was what some one said not to let them set past).

I hope it works! I don't plan on going past day 7 with no turning. I will def be candling on day 5,6 or 7. Depends how long I can keep my hands off them!!

 

[ppimf]

well i had to toss a pekin egg today i have 7 left in bator with 20 days left

 

[Life is Good!]

As a first-time incubator, I have a question... So how do you all resist candling?

I candled on day 4 and saw 6 of 7 developing chicks (last egg was too thick to see clearly through).

I'm anxiously waiting until day 10 to peek again. I want to remove that last egg if it's not developing, so it doesn't go funky on me. Day 10 is 4 more days away!!!

ARGH!!! I so want to peek! Must - resist - temptation - to peek - MUST - resist. (background voice, 'resistance is futile'....!) ARGH!!!

So, please help me out here and tell about your candling results! I'll live vicariously through ya'll......must resist......

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I resist by remembering that the more I mess with them the likelier it is I will harm one. :/

I usually can't hold out the whole time but I do check the humidity and temp multiple times in the day. Multiple-multiple. I drive my DH nuts some nights.