Hatching 11-13-09..anyone else?

[OSUman]

Im hatching some mixes that i got from kathyinmo and some BO and my own mixes. I do have white leghorns but i lost both of my roos. Mine whites are bantams and are flighty but broody and i have standard blacks that are very very flight. but i bought all of them when they were older.

 

[Sissy]

Oh Friday the 13 better be a lucky day .
I have orps. in the bator and Iam excited to see
how they do.as i onoly have 1 orp roo and hes is very lonesome
these are hatchiing eggies I ordered and they are hugh eggs.

 

[gumpsgirl]

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So Friday is hatch day, huh?!?! I'm watching these eggies VERY closely too! Hope they hatch good for you.

 

[Sissy]

G.G. thanks Iam excited.

 

[mstricer]

I too am excited I cant wait for mine to hatch I love looking in and watching them move in their little eggie. Good Luck

 

[gumpsgirl]

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Good luck to you too!

 

[Lora C]

I have 5 Partridge Silkies and 10 Silver Laced Wyandottes going into LOCKDOWN tomorrow.

Looking forward to having babies this weekend. Good Luck Everyone

 

[Bookspryte]

Well, it's lockdown time here. Out of the 20 eggs I started with, 16 remain. I'm so candling challenged. But the four I took out were vastly different from the ones I left in. Those have a definite air cell area and then the rest of the egg is a dark blog. The rest had lighter areas on both ends of the egg.

I thought getting day old chicks was stressful. Then when they graduated to the outdoor coop, I didn't sleep all night and went out before daylight to check on them.

None of that could have prepared me for sleeping next to the incubator and charting temperatures and humidity levels like I'm still doing research.

My little ones are due Saturday, but it would really be cool if they come on the 13th. I've always loved Friday the 13th.

I've been doing the dry incubation method, and other than one spike to 102 about midway, temperature and humidity levels have been pretty good. I forced myself to "not touch that dial" and instead regulated things by changing the room temp and adding or removing the vent plugs.

The few black hairs I have left on my head will be completely white by Day 21.

Now the waiting begins. I almost have sympathy for what expectant fathers must have felt when they were delegated to the waiting room.

Denise

 

[mstricer]

Denise what are you hatching? and good luck

 

[Bookspryte]

I've got a mixed flock of EE, barred rock, rhode island red-cross, black-sex links and two I'm not sure what they. My roos are barred rock and EE. Only one of my green eggs made it. My three girls stopped laying about the same time I started collecting eggs. Figures, right?

I wasn't this nervous when I was pregnant.

Well, who needs sleep anyway.

Denise