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

[Peggy-Sue]

I think mine are doing ok? The temperature in my incubator hasn't even varied a degree, which actually makes me nervous. I know I'm being rediculous. Hatching in the Little Giant is making me nervous as well. I have heard so many differing opinions on them. And lots of success and failures. Then today I was reading the Wyandotte thread and they were discussing how some wyandotte roosters have a hard time "getting the job done." Our main rooster that would have fertilized my eggs is a wyandotte. So I hope some of my eggs are fertilized. Excited and nervous to candle for the first time!

That would suck!!!! I'm sure your eggs are fine!

 

[Peggy-Sue]

Here"s our "chick tracker" we made!

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3L7xCahaZHyVGNlTW83NlI1MkE

 

[chicken pickin]

So I decided to start a project while waiting for our new little chickies to arrive. This is inspired by another BYC member whos tread I recently saw and loved. Brooders out of household furniture. Right now I have a plywood brooder in my guest bathroom off my kitchen and since oddly that bathroom has no electrical outlet the brooder lamp is wrapped over the pocket door so it cant slide closed. So once I saw the inspiring furniture transformation I thought Im gonna do that.

step 1- craigslist free section - CHECK
step 2- search free section for a usable piece of furniture(I decided to go with a wooden entertainment center)CHECK
step 3- email for the furniture CHECK
step4- Pick up furniture ALMOST CHECK ( I pick it up tomorrow)

I will post progress and start a thread on it

Yay im excited to have a regular piece of furniture to house all my new babies and babies to come. I will paint it do go with my livingroom decor. SOOOOOO ECXITED!

 

[Peggy-Sue]

good idea!

 

[nakanich]

Here"s our "chick tracker" we made!

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3L7xCahaZHyVGNlTW83NlI1MkE

Nice tracker Peggy-Sue!!

 

[Peggy-Sue]

Nice tracker Peggy-Sue!!

Lol thanks! Me and my fiancee had a competition on who could make the better chick tracker... I must say she did a better job! So I decided to share it with you guys! BTW dblea202 is my fiancee, she just doesn't post as much as me!

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Im soooooo tempted to candle an egg and see if I have signs of veining. I need to keep repeating I will not candle... I will not candle... I hope it works. So has anyone started turning yet? And who else has the candling itch?

Ok, I admit it. I'm at the end of day 4, and I broke down and candled one egg tonight...just one! Remember how earlier in the thread I said I always wait until day 10 to candle?

So anyway, I candled one egg, and there it was! A teeny, tiny little wiggling baby chicken, and veins!

I LOVE this part of hatching.

 

[chicken pickin]

Ok, I admit it. I'm at the end of day 4, and I broke down and candled one egg tonight...just one! Remember how earlier in the thread I said I always wait until day 10 to candle?

So anyway, I candled one egg, and there it was! A teeny, tiny little wiggling baby chicken, and veins!

I LOVE this part of hatching.

EEEEEEEEE YAY!!! The first tiny wiggly veiny egg of this hatch a long. Way to go now everyone is gonna cave LOL. Im just kidding congrats on your first signs of life.

 

[Sally8]

Here"s our "chick tracker" we made!

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3L7xCahaZHyVGNlTW83NlI1MkE

This is wonderful. Thanks for sharing! Sue

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

EEEEEEEEE YAY!!! The first tiny wiggly veiny egg of this hatch a long. Way to go now everyone is gonna cave LOL. Im just kidding congrats on your first signs of life.

Thanks!

It did occur to me I was setting a bad example for the group