How long have YOU been hatching eggs?

[Chicklette 1]

I've got my Silkie sitting on 3 of her eggs now and this will be my first hatch (if they hatch). I have candled them a couple of times and they sure aren't empty so I'm hoping in the next few days something will happen. How long past the hatch date should I let them go?

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I've been hatching about 15 years now, but just 2 years ago, I got a Sportsman 1502.

Oops,...... I hatched over 900 chicks last year, & going strong this year.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Quote:
Bird, if you had three of those and a seperate hatcher just think how many you could hatch!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Quote:
Bird, if you had three of those and a seperate hatcher just think how many you could hatch!

It's just too hard to name ALL of them!

 

[pax12]

6 years

 

[jaimie44]

Last year I bought chicks..this week I hatched eggs from those chicks! Im addicted.

I have a question for those that have been doing it for years and are doing such large amounts...what are you doing with all those chicks???

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Getting totally over-run with chickens...



We sell eggs, chicks, and started pullets. Plus we fill the freezer and sell the extra roos to people to eat.

 

[duckking]

This is my first time and I am more nervous than a......well a mother hen! Lock down Monday.....

 

[FarmGirl01]

Good luck for you first timers. Ask lots of questions.

I hatched my first clutch of eggs in 1998. Dang I'm getting old.

 

[luvanimals2]

I should have known better than to go and figure it out. Now I feel old. I started hatching and fell in love after our elementary school class hatched chicks in the classroom. I asked my father to buy me a incubator and he drove me to the next town where there is a store that sold them. I live in Los Angeles and we drove to Orange County where Marsh Farms was located. I actually still have that incubator and it still works.

So to answer the question, 35 years. I took breaks here and there due to life but I brought the incubators out of storage and I am now overrun by chickens.

Good luck to the newbies. It is a slippery slope from here in out.
Nancy