- Sep 24, 2010
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Hello, My name is Sumatra503, but you can call me Sumatra. I am a hatchaholic. I am not ashamed and have admitted I may need help.
I got my first chicken in 2002 for my 12th B' Day. She was just a little crossbred hen, her name was Cluck Cluck. A few weeks later was the science fair at school. Guess what I did as my project!! I went to a local chicken farm and she let me pick out my eggs. Then I went to my mom's boss's house where I got my Cluck Cluck and collected some eggs there. 20 eggs total. My Dad bought me the bator as a late B' Day present and I was set. I filled the water pans, set the thermostat, marked the eggs with an X and O for hand turning them. I was ready to go.
About half way through the hatch I checked the temp and it was 110!! I quickly set it back down. I ended up with only 4 out of 20 eggs hatching. All Hens!!
I now have a new bator. It sat empty for years, cause of my broody hen. this year i have realized a developing problem. I have hatched about 50 chicks, 20 ducklings, 8 goslings, and 10 quail this summer. At one point i had 100 eggs in my bator. I brought the batch of 100 to the fair to hatch and someone unplugged the bator to charge their phone.
Part of it may be my friend. She has a lot of connections to people with a lot of stuff. She's always finding eggs from some sort of poultry that she would like me to hatch for her. i get to keep all of the hatch that I want and give her the rest.
I now have a few buttons and get four eggs per day. I have this serious urge to put all of those eggs in the bator. I ate two yesterday to keep myself from hatching them.
I have 10 chicken eggs and 40 quail eggs due to hatch this month.
Well, that's my story. Hope you enjoyed and thanks for listening.
Does it count if you have a market for everything you hatch? All of mine sell.
I got my first chicken in 2002 for my 12th B' Day. She was just a little crossbred hen, her name was Cluck Cluck. A few weeks later was the science fair at school. Guess what I did as my project!! I went to a local chicken farm and she let me pick out my eggs. Then I went to my mom's boss's house where I got my Cluck Cluck and collected some eggs there. 20 eggs total. My Dad bought me the bator as a late B' Day present and I was set. I filled the water pans, set the thermostat, marked the eggs with an X and O for hand turning them. I was ready to go.
About half way through the hatch I checked the temp and it was 110!! I quickly set it back down. I ended up with only 4 out of 20 eggs hatching. All Hens!!
I now have a new bator. It sat empty for years, cause of my broody hen. this year i have realized a developing problem. I have hatched about 50 chicks, 20 ducklings, 8 goslings, and 10 quail this summer. At one point i had 100 eggs in my bator. I brought the batch of 100 to the fair to hatch and someone unplugged the bator to charge their phone.

Part of it may be my friend. She has a lot of connections to people with a lot of stuff. She's always finding eggs from some sort of poultry that she would like me to hatch for her. i get to keep all of the hatch that I want and give her the rest.
I now have a few buttons and get four eggs per day. I have this serious urge to put all of those eggs in the bator. I ate two yesterday to keep myself from hatching them.
I have 10 chicken eggs and 40 quail eggs due to hatch this month.
Well, that's my story. Hope you enjoyed and thanks for listening.
Does it count if you have a market for everything you hatch? All of mine sell.