IA (incubators anonymous) September Hatches?

[Jules929]

I made it home from work and candled and weighed the new set. A few have some air cells that are just a bit slippery, but mostly look good. One egg has a dark, black floaty in it? I took Friday and Monday off, so I have a 4 day weekend to get my fencing up and hopefully get started on the coop. Once that is up I will add the runs.
2 EEs, 3 LBs, and 7 Blue Stars (hybrid that lays a lo large green eggs):

Here's to Shipped Eggs #3!

 

[ChickensAndYoga]

Haha, I feel like that several times a week. What with all the work that has been involved in building a coop, run, raising several batches of baby chicks and keets, and all for the first time. It started as a tick extermination project. It was a success, but I'm still going, lol. I also have two 20 week Border Pyrenees cross pups that take constant supervision right now. It has been a very busy summer with a lot of ups and downs, but very fun and exciting too. I only got 4 chicks out of 24 gamefowl eggs. I was disappointed and they were expensive but that's the risk with shipped eggs I guess. I already had too many birds, and at least there will be one game for each of us. Maybe some luck will hold out and I'll have one stag and three hens. I eventually recover from one disappointment or another; I'm sure you will too when that next egg pips!

Haha you sound like me. I just don’t learn. I have 7 kids and step kids total, teach Yoga part time, sell activewear and am starting up a YouTube channel plus I’m sure my husband would like me to remember he exists

I am a bit excited for these two and if they don’t make it I have hatches staggered and planned to keep me busy til end of November. I usually hatch from Feb/March - Nov and only breathe for holidays and our rare cold weather.

@Jules929 yay!!! I hope they hatch!!!

 

[Jules929]

Haha you sound like me. I just don’t learn. I have 7 kids and step kids total, teach Yoga part time, sell activewear and am starting up a YouTube channel plus I’m sure my husband would like me to remember he exists

I am a bit excited for these two and if they don’t make it I have hatches staggered and planned to keep me busy til end of November. I usually hatch from Feb/March - Nov and only breathe for holidays and our rare cold weather.

@Jules929 yay!!! I hope they hatch!!!

Wow, you are very busy!!

I'm on my own, now, so I work and come home. I have a very large, laid back dog, and a couple of nice neighbors that I go out to dinner with every now and then, but no one to feel slighted by my temporary (I hope) obsession with completing a successful hatch with shipped eggs, lol. Once mine are old enough to lay, I will just hatch their eggs, assuming I decide to keep a rooster with them. I have one more dozen ordered, but I don't know when they will ship, hopefully not until the 2nd week of October so the incubator is free. Otherwise I will have to juggle, lol. And to think, this all started with me deciding to get 4-6 chickens in July... Chicken math hit me like a herd of freight trains!

 

[TheTropix]

at Jules929 - "And to think, this all started with me deciding to get 4-6 chickens in July... "
ROFL!!!! I recently did a lot of hatching, too. I don't like shipped eggs if I can avoid it, also, so twice I drove 3 hrs (each way) to pick up a bunch of eggs that a man gave me a great deal on! I'm DONE for this year! (I hope, I hope) hahhahaaa
Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick chick!!!

 

[TheTropix]

The 2nd batch wasn't as successful. I think that because it was so darned hot when I got them, they were shooting lots of blanks.

 

[Jules929]

at Jules929 - "And to think, this all started with me deciding to get 4-6 chickens in July... "
ROFL!!!! I recently did a lot of hatching, too. I don't like shipped eggs if I can avoid it, also, so twice I drove 3 hrs (each way) to pick up a bunch of eggs that a man gave me a great deal on! I'm DONE for this year! (I hope, I hope) hahhahaaa
Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick chick!!!

 Lol!
My first batch in July was my first time attempting shipped eggs, and I was using a new incubator. Five days in shipping and the air cells were in bad shape. I only had one hatch, so I bought a few chicks to keep her company. Then I ordered 7 chicks. The second batch of eggs got to me a day sooner, but my AC went out and caused the temperature to spike. I got 2 out of that batch. I just set my third batch tonight. They arrived in two days and the air cells look better.

 

[TheTropix]

Ok, I'm sure we're all wishing you a "3's a charm" hatch from this batch! You've sure earned it. I hope the electricity cooperates with ya this time. gee whiz! A new incubator, huh? woo hoo Aside from the electricity going out (grrrrrr), are you happy with it? What kind is it? I recently 'inherited' a couple of incubators that I haven't been able to check out yet. One or two need a little work, but the new parts are there. My main incubator is sort of a home-made thing. It's a single door store coke cooler with those under floor heating things/flex watt type stuff with a good (old, but still good Helix) thermostat. Next year I'll try some of my own eggs in the other incubators and see how they do.

 

[Jules929]

Ok, I'm sure we're all wishing you a "3's a charm" hatch from this batch! You've sure earned it. I hope the electricity cooperates with ya this time. gee whiz! A new incubator, huh? woo hoo Aside from the electricity going out (grrrrrr), are you happy with it? What kind is it? I recently 'inherited' a couple of incubators that I haven't been able to check out yet. One or two need a little work, but the new parts are there. My main incubator is sort of a home-made thing. It's a single door store coke cooler with those under floor heating things/flex watt type stuff with a good (old, but still good Helix) thermostat. Next year I'll try some of my own eggs in the other incubators and see how they do.

Thank you!
About 6 years ago I used a Farm Innovators still air inaerator with an auto turner. I had good hatch rates, but I wasn't hatching shipped eggs. This time I bought a Farm Innovators with fan and auto turner, model 2450. So far I am happy with it. I can't blame the bad hatch rates on the incubator. Once I have fertile eggs from my flock to incubate I will see if my hatch rates go up significantly
Sorry, by AC I meant my air conditioner went out while I was at work, so the ambient temperature in the room went way up, and it took 4 days for the part to arrive and be replaced. I don't know how much the temperature fluctuated during those days while I was at work.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

These 3!!! I think they may be upset when the little quailie gets some actual quail friends this weekend...

 

[Jules929]

Oh, adorable!!!