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

[TwistOfFate]

beginning of day 19 here, out of the 11 shipped light sussex eggs, only 3 made it to lockdown with definite promise, left another 3 that don't look as good but I'm hopeful, just 3 would make me happy, heck I'll take 1 and call it good, darn shipped eggs

here's hoping for lots of baby pics this week!

 

[Kel35]

Right guys/gals last hatch I used the cooling mode on my mini advance incubator which cools the incubator down for what ever time period u set it to in my manual it says that a mother hen leaves the nest for up to 2 hours a day to eat pooh and drink so I'm thinking I may leave the cooling mode off this hatch what are everyone's thoughts on this u don't start the cooling mode till after day 7 of incubation

 

[SunnySkies]

Set 5 Swedish Flowers this morning in lockdown. I'm totally anxious about those.

Candled the Cochins and Seramas, and only one Cochin and 2 Seramas have survived. Several quitters, but most were clears. Shipping stress. The lady I got those from has great hatches at home. Boo.

Then I swear I'm done until next year. Unless I have all boys or all girl SFH!

 

[picanins]

Okeeeeedokeeeeee!!!! What a couple of days ......

.......... and during this time we're thinking of getting more goats and becoming goat milk suppliers ...... sooooooooooo here's some pics :

Sorry about the iphone pics, but it's the best I could do tonight. Here is our only Black or Blue Copper Marans (somebody can let me know if they know what). I would say this is a pullet, but that may just be wishful thinking ... LOL




Onto the next two. There is one Olive Egger (BCM/Am) and one Super Blue Layer (Leghorn/Ameraucauna). Now to tell which one is which????? Am I really going to have to wait for them to lay eggs??? Any thoughts anyone??





Here is the fuzziest little butt you ever saw .... LOL ....This is a Super Blue (the yellow fluff ball) and a............ wait for it ........ Cuckoo Marans .... I'm telling you this chick came out of a HUGE big brown Cuckoo egg...... I have never seen a Cuckoo Marans chick before but it looks like the 'milk man came visiting' ... LOL




And then there's these three ......Two Super Blues and one Olive Egger (who I'm convinced is a Roo). The Olive Egger is the one with gunk still stuck to the back of his neck.

 

[mabhera]

6 out!!! Oh my WORD what a night??!!!
4 Super Blues (but 2 were born with a HUGE sac and are not doing very well at all this morning)

1 Marans (which needed help) doing well (it's got white on the wing!!!! Really needed a Marans without white )
1 1st gen olive egger
Oh and another little Super Blue is out
Welsh hick where are you??? Anyone else with Donna Rippy's chicks?

YESSS all of mine in this incubation are from her....I start lock down today. 8 made it to this day. I have black(5), split(2) and lavender (1)... Soon ,,,,

How many you have that made it to lock down?

 

[picanins]

YESSS all of mine in this incubation are from her....I start lock down today. 8 made it to this day. I have black(5), split(2) and lavender (1)... Soon ,,,, How many you have that made it to lock down?

Ohhhhhh I'm so excited for you!!!! The SBELs hatched really well for me. Only one wasn't viable and one doesn't look like its made it (it is only day 21 so we'll see). Out of 16 that made it to lockdown, 11 hatched (2 died after about 12 hours) but the remaining 9 are having a party right now!!! LOL!!! Keep us posted and show us pics when the time comes!!!

 

[adjduncan]

We officially locked down tonight. We have four Bantam Mottled Cochins. Candled one last time, and all four eggs looked really full, with decent sized air cells. Even saw some big movement in one. Got the humidity up to 74%, hope we are doing everything right...... I am so ready to see some babies.

 

[picanins]

We officially locked down tonight. We have four Bantam Mottled Cochins. Candled one last time, and all four eggs looked really full, with decent sized air cells. Even saw some big movement in one. Got the humidity up to 74%, hope we are doing everything right...... I am so ready to see some babies.

Very exciting!!!!! Keep us posted!!!

 

[Brookhavens]

We officially locked down tonight. We have four Bantam Mottled Cochins. Candled one last time, and all four eggs looked really full, with decent sized air cells. Even saw some big movement in one. Got the humidity up to 74%, hope we are doing everything right...... I am so ready to see some babies.

Get the humidity down into the low 60's. Here in Florida you do not need high humidity to hatch. I learned the hard way.

 

[cindersga]

thank you cinders , doing just fine now running around the brooder eating and drinking with 2 more YES 2 more hatches yesterday , BUT my poorly blue silkie passed away last night i am so surprised that it lasted that long bless it . i have 4 more eggs but i dont hold out much hope now as they are 2 and a half days late now but i had one hatch only hours ago so

. i must be mad but ive set my other batch 3 lavender silkie eggs , 12 mixed silkies and 6 sultans so doing it all again in 20 days

Kayyyyy again? Yes...let's just call you mad...madly in love with chicks! Yeah you got 2 more that's awesome and I'm sorry for the blue silkie passing...

Can't wait to hear if any of those 4 eggs hatch.

I have 3 mystery eggs that will hatch this weekend. I will have to post pictures so ya'll will be able to tell me what they are. I mean...I know they are some kind of bantam.