HERE WE GO AGAIN Anyone SETTING Aug 30th - Sept 8th join me!!

[Lisa Pedro]

Also God Bless the 9-11 victims and their families and may we never forget the terrible loss

Amen and Amen.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Sounds like Silikies are the broodiest. What other breeds are very broody?

 

[dandydoodle]

OKay, I know its a little late but, can I join? Actually I put my eggs in the incubator Sunday September the 9th. Is it to late to join?

I have 6 Tolbunts over Birchen maran.

and 4 olive eggers tolbunt over Birchen Maran/ Black Ameraucana ( these little ones are mutts but, the egg color is cool

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[dandydoodle]

I am on the last weeks thread too but since my eggs will be last to hatch i think on it, feel like the last person late to a party thats almost over.... SOO i thought i might start a thread for ppl setting this week ..Anyone else setting now too? Come join me on this hatch journey and hope the Hatch Gods smile on us.

My Lavender Orp eggs havent arrived yet but should between Today and Sat.
I was going to wait on incubating more let the bator cool down... but hatch addiction couldnt be stopped...here i am again.

Hey good to hear from you again. I was suppose to be in that last hatch but, for some reason it seemed to take forever to get my eggs in the mail. Anyway I set my eggs last Sunday. Eggcited to be hatching with you again, if its not to late to join your hatch. I was gonna start my own hatch along but, then I saw you had got this one going.

 

[ChicksinPR]

I go into lock down Wed!! So excited. These are DMRippy eggs.

So far. DMRippy and Illia eggs have done the best... For shipped eggs. I think I am going to hatch out quite a few... fingers crossed. I did the dry method in my new genesis this time... So we shall see.

 

[Lisa Pedro]

I go into lock down Wed!! So excited. These are DMRippy eggs.

So far. DMRippy and Illia eggs have done the best... For shipped eggs. I think I am going to hatch out quite a few... fingers crossed. I did the dry method in my new genesis this time... So we shall see.

Good for you! Very exciting!

 

[picanins]

I go into lock down Wed!! So excited. These are DMRippy eggs.

So far. DMRippy and Illia eggs have done the best... For shipped eggs. I think I am going to hatch out quite a few... fingers crossed. I did the dry method in my new genesis this time... So we shall see.

NO WAY!!!!! I've got a whole bunch of brothers and sisters to yours ... ha ha ha ha. I've got 35 of Donna's eggs in my Bator right now!! Yay!! What are you hatching? I'm also use dry incubation method. Wow - yours should be here by the weekend

 

[picanins]

LOL. I am a 49 yr.old woman who has learned to do things myself because the ex-husband never did anything.

LOVE!!!

 

[picanins]

Is it to late to join in... I set 24 eggs of 8-30, they are on day 12 today. So far 20 are looking good. It's going to be like Christmas when they hatch, cause the lady I got the eggs from has about every breed of chicken there is, so who knows what I will get when they hatch out.

Yooohoooo - more hatching eggs!!! Yay!!! Yours look like they're one of the first in line.

 

[picanins]

So I decided to build myself an egg candler today. I went to our local cigar store and asked if they had any empty cigar boxes. The guy gave me 5 wooden boxes that are perfect for candlers. Next went to Walmart and bought an extension cord and light socket (less than $4.) Came home and drilled 2 holes in one of the boxes. One on the side for the socket and one on the top to cradle the egg. Took about an hour to complete and for the cost of the ext. cord and light socket I have a GREAT candler. I tested it out on my Araucana eggs and we have 3/10 good eggs on Day 9. I was a little bummed out at that number so I said what the heck let's try the Silkie eggs. I had just set them last Thursday and really wasn't expecting much. So I take out egg #1 place it on the candler and it is ALIVE!!! On to egg#2...ALIVE!!! and this goes on for the entire dozen. All 12 eggs have movement and veining!!! From what I have heard Maran eggs are very hard to candle because of their dark color. Well I decided to give it a shot and guess what... I can see through Maran eggs with my new candler and we have babies in those too. I am thinking from now on I will definitely go with local eggs. No more shipped ones.

I am SO going to do this. This is the first time I've even held a Marans egg in my life and when I candled them I could just see that there was growth but couldn't see any veining at all. The Cuckoo I could see slight veining, but not the BCM's. LOVE the cigar box thing