I have a bunch of chicks! Pics on post 155

[Buster]

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I really would recommend working with your own eggs first if you have a rooster and fertile eggs. It will save you a ton of money in the long run and your own eggs will almost always have a higher fertility than shipped eggs and better chances to hatch. I would keep tweaking things with your own eggs until you get it right, then drop money on shipped eggs and give it a go with the ones you want. In the mean time, you can sell day-old chicks or started pullets once you raise them. That's what I did anyway.

 

[Bammony]

Um, any action with the eggs?

 

[Buster]

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You know my eggs don't hatch until day 22 Laura. They like to keep me waiting!

 

[DouglasPeeps]

Congratulations! I am on day 19 today as well. I can't believe that you have peeping! Are you talking to your eggs?

 

[Buster]

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I whistle at them a bit but don't talk to them. I do have a brooder about 2 feet from the incubator and I'm thinking that the peeping from the chicks makes the eggs in the incubator peep back.

 

[DouglasPeeps]

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I whistle at them a bit but don't talk to them. I do have a brooder about 2 feet from the incubator and I'm thinking that the peeping from the chicks makes the eggs in the incubator peep back.

I bet your right! How cute is that! I have a toy chick that peeps that my kids got in their Easter baskets a couple of years ago.... I should put it by my incubator.

 

[Buster]

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I whistle at them a bit but don't talk to them. I do have a brooder about 2 feet from the incubator and I'm thinking that the peeping from the chicks makes the eggs in the incubator peep back.

I bet your right! How cute is that! I have a toy chick that peeps that my kids got in their Easter baskets a couple of years ago.... I should put it by my incubator.

 

[Buster]

They are pipping! Right on time on day 21. I woke up this morning to three pips.

This is the first time that I am incubating in the Sportsman and hatching in the HB 1588 with both of them on the increased humidity, so I'm anxious to see how it turns out.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Woot!! PIPS!!

Hopefully you'll have a chick or three soon!!

 

[Buster]

5 pips now!