Icelandic Chickens

[Happy Chooks]

Good luck Jake! For what it's worth, I keep mine at 65% for lockdown. I do pull 1 plug though for more oxygen. When my incubator gets down around 55%, I find I get sticky chicks. And they are fast zippers, so watch out!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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[Happy Chooks]

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I like that too, and you can't beat the variety of colors!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Birdguy.....thanks for the translation.

And Kathy, thanks for the link in English.

 

[Jake Levi]

Thanks for the good words Ladies,

I stopped the humidity at 62%, and will see what that does for this first set.

I feel like an expectant father in the waiting room!

Not hardly like its the first time either, the Hovabator has had a LOT of use.

I value these a lot more.

 

[NotAFarm]

Jake, I hatched my first ever chicks during Mahonri's Easter Hatch. The eggs were my own and I was so nervous that I would do something to lose them. Of the 9 Icelandics set, one was clear and pulled at lockdown (only candling I did). Of the 8 remaining, 7 hatched, one was developed fully but never pipped internally. I will be trying my first shipped eggs the third week of May and will know then just how you feel.........but I think I have a pretty good idea!! We will, of course, need lots of pictures!!!!

Anna, 11 month old broody Icelandic, is not budging from her nest of 10 eggs....she should be hatching by the weekend!!

 

[kathyinmo]

WOOO HOOO, Go Anna! Hope she has a great hatch!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yay for Anna!

 

[Jake Levi]

I am rooting for you too Anna !

Stay the course !!

Or rather the nest.

 

[NotAFarm]

Since everyone is cheering on Anna.......I thought I'd go out and get a picture for you.
Just so you can remember what she looks like, here is a pic I've posted before of the sweetie:

And here is the pic I just took of the "not so sweetie" broody:

Whoa.........she must have thought the camera was something trying to get her brood!! She hasn't reacted like that when I've checked her before.....might be something going on.........!!!