Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

[chicken pickin]

I have one batch hatching this friday, but started a second batch with a friend on the 5th of Jan, so we're in!

Jill has Lemon Cuckoo Orphingtons (I hope that's right) and I have the rest of her bator filled with Wheaton French Marans.

Welcome! Glad you guys joined us. Lots of great stuff going on here. So what do you have hatching this fri?

 

[Outrun Acres]

We just candled them when turning and today was the first day I saw the little dots jump around in there

How cool! I felt the same way. How can something so small be soooo exciting!

 

[Outrun Acres]

I have one batch hatching this friday, but started a second batch with a friend on the 5th of Jan, so we're in!

Jill has Lemon Cuckoo Orphingtons (I hope that's right) and I have the rest of her bator filled with Wheaton French Marans.

Yay! This is an awesome thread! A great variety of people with lots of experience using many different kinds of incubators and hatching many different breeds of chickens. I have never even heard of Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons. (But I am relatively new to chickens). What breeds are you hatching out this friday? This is my family's first time incubating and we are practicing on backyard mixes. What type of incubator are you using?

 

[Outrun Acres]

Good luck with the cream leg bars. My cream legbar hens just finally got old enough to lay! I plan to hatch eggs of their later this spring. I have three really nice roos and 8 darling hens. (The roos would like me to have more hens).
I hope the eggs will get a little bigger before then, as these pullet eggs are pretty tiny.

I know what you mean about the small egg size. I have a couple hens that have just started laying. I put some of their eggs in the incubator too. When I candled them, none of the smaller pullet eggs looked fertile . I guess I should have known better. Cream Legbars are such beautiful birds. I am hoping to get some legbar hatching eggs from my Aunt this spring.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Heading to go pick up more eggs in about an hour. I'll be setting some more Amish Rainbow layers & several from my own mixed layers & 1 from my EE Bantam pen, PLUS....MORE QUAIL!!! Oh, the agony of the hatching addict!!! Think I may have my hands on an old Sears & Roebuck FarmMaster Cabinet incubator by the beginning of February. Please pray it actually works. He THINKS it only needs a power cord, but it's a 6+ hour drive 1 way to go get it & he wants almost $200 for it.

 

[bastropcc]

I'm getting 12 eggs a day from my Buff Orpington's and am setting all of them. I'm getting 50% hatch rate. I have one rooster and 17 hens.

 

[chicken pickin]

Heading to go pick up more eggs in about an hour. I'll be setting some more Amish Rainbow layers & several from my own mixed layers & 1 from my EE Bantam pen, PLUS....MORE QUAIL!!! Oh, the agony of the hatching addict!!! Think I may have my hands on an old Sears & Roebuck FarmMaster Cabinet incubator by the beginning of February. Please pray it actually works. He THINKS it only needs a power cord, but it's a 6+ hour drive 1 way to go get it & he wants almost $200 for it.

Wow that is quite a drive. Very exciting about the new eggs. And a bantam EE sounds awesome do you have a pic of their eggs.

Oh I was curious why do people raise quail? I dont know anything about them but the pics of the babies are cute.

 

[chicken pickin]

I'm getting 12 eggs a day from my Buff Orpington's and am setting all of them. I'm getting 50% hatch rate. I have one rooster and 17 hens.

Wow 12eggs a day! Yesterday I got 3 eggs from my 12hen laying flock and I was excited about that.

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

One of my kids tried to turn an egg this morning and broke it

It looks like it didn't even start. I'm hoping the other 5 are good.

I'll see if my husband can bring his bright work LED home to candle again tonight. Brilliant a newbie as I am I picked brown and green eggs for my first attempt at hatching.

I can't wait to see if the dark brown one is still going and if I can see anything in the others this time.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Wow that is quite a drive. Very exciting about the new eggs. And a bantam EE sounds awesome do you have a pic of their eggs.

Oh I was curious why do people raise quail? I dont know anything about them but the pics of the babies are cute.

Quail are used for a lot of things. Some people eat the eggs (my kids like them scrambled or deviled, my friend likes hers pickled). Some eat the birds (my friend says they are delicious & very tender). Some people use them to train bird dogs (haven't tried this but have had several people contact me wanting birds for this). They make very nice little pets & are relatively quiet (Gabby has hers right in her apartment & her son plays with them all the time). I'm sure there are more uses for them that I can't think of off the top of my head.

I'll post a pic of the EE egg when I set them all tonight.