INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[kwhites634]

One of my Leghorns and some other type have started!

My broody went back to the wrong nest. Hopefully not for very long.

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Mine just went back to the original nest, single chick in tow, and sitting on two new eggs.

 

[Pensmaster]

One of my Leghorns and some other type have started!

My broody went back to the wrong nest. Hopefully not for very long. .

Watch her. You may need to guide her back. Mine get
lost when this happens. Hi Dax

 

[Sally Sunshine]

May I join?

Welcome @Chickalete

Hello, This is my first post and I can't figure out where I should post. I see y'all are on now, I think?
I have 3 incubated pea chicks that are just over 3 days old. 1 is really struggle since yesterday but still alive and standing. Very lethargic and not eating or drinking that I can see. I have been helping her drink but. that is about all i have succeeded in doing.
1 of the other chicks is very aggressive towards this struggling chick. I am thinking of separating her until she is stronger but she does get upset when I do. So, there is still fight in her.
I really need help. Not sure what chat tomgo to or even how this all works?

Welcome @sseabass Hope everything goes well for your chick!

Hi everyone! Tomorrow is lockdown on my first hatch. Just a recap, I had large air cells at day 10 and I realized it thanks to Sally's links she offered to me. I increased humidity and just candled. Only one has had any growth of air cell, and its minimal. I was told they looked like day 18 air cells, so I think I'm good there.
My question is, these are shipped eggs and 2 had detatched air cells. They've been sitting up this whole time. One of them has liquid that flohoats around the air cell when I turn it to its side. I'm wondering how this will work when I place the eggs on their sides?

@Featherlyadvice

I have had that liquid too, but kept upright for hatching. Wondering how everything is going?

Congrats to all the awardees!
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@Miss Lydia




CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!!

-Kathy

WOW Congrats everyone!!! sweetness!!

I'm here! How are you? I have 12 eggs in my incubator and 24 more coming this week. Can't wait to see what happens. Just printed off a TON of hatching information from the files here. SO MUCH USEFUL INFORMATION!!!!!

Welcome @sunnyroller

let us know if you need help with anything! Good Luck! I would love to see your coops with the crates!

This weekend I built 2 coops from equipment crates. Every time I went in the house I would take off the soaking wet shirt and put on another one. I alternated 3 shirts each day. Chickening has really added to my laundry.

Quote: wow that is young for stroke!! sorry to hear this

Hi nothing important just joining the thread

Welcome @littlechick2000

Hi everyone. I live in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire where we have rolling green hills around us. We are 40 miles north of London, which takes an hour to get to by train. I've been reading the forum for ages and have found some really useful information on it. I've got 5 hens in my garden and 4 chicks hatched a week ago. It was my first chicks so I've been really excited about them.

Welcome @UKApril

looks like a very pretty place for those girls too!

This is my chicken area where they free range during the day.

Quote: @Grub Digger Welcome! I hope she gives you many chicks!! got an update?

Hey everyone... I'm new to hatching chicks.. Very first batch in incubator right now. My lovely pal that I work with have me them. No one around town had and baby chicks. Hope to lean a lot from you all and I'm reading previous pages to learn. Best of wishes to everyone

Welcome @MommaHen2Four

see if this helps you at all! I wish you the best
INCUBATION QUESTIONS w/answers post #85688

Hatching Eggs 101 CLICK HERE

@Sally Sunshine

AWWWWWW happy kiddyo!!!! little cutie!!!

Well, my night stunk. I came home to the welding guy wanting eighty more and my cat laying on the bathroom floor in his pee struggling to breath. I took him to the emergency clinic and paid seventy five dollars to have him die less then ten minutes into the visit.
Ash you will be missed

oh Dax I am so sorry, poor Ash

where oh where did you find that

Quote: LOL

I had a stethoscope, but gave it back to my nurse friend after hers was stolen. I haven't handled her in a few days, so I'll go do that in a minute. Maybe I'll try to candle her when it gets darks tonight.

lol let me know how it goes please

Incubating W/ Friends Hatcher list

Birthdays: attimus: 7\8 HAPPY BDAY! (as long as you aren't pulling a MC on us....)


Sally Sunshine AKA Sally
Everything! Usually CCL, BB egg layers, Serama, OE, Sapphire layers, brahma, ducks, guineas, or.... Yeah. Like I said, everything.
(NOTE to self: 8/5 bday!!)

BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles
14 shipped EE eggs.

Chaos18 AKA Trouble or Chaos
6 eggs on day iforget. Update: 1 egg in lockdown 7/8

MotorcycleChick AKA MC or Abi
Two broodies on day 7 and day 13 (or 14) with at least 8 eggs. The first one is mean!
*Update*
No chicks, all the eggs were duds.

kwhites634 AKA Whites, Whitey, Ken, Red Dog..... Just not late for supper
Broody: 5 RSL x BCM eggs, and she'd pushed one of them out....I gave it back to her, but there's probably something wrong with it, or she wouldn't have pushed it out.
Incubator: 12 BCM x RSL due the 4th....don't look for many to hatch out, though...several clears...only movement in 1 when I checked 2 days ago. UPDATE! 4 hatched, 7 left!

daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi
Broody has eight eggs 6/24, but I don't know how many are fertile since my cockerels are young and only with the hens on the odd evening. Green egg layers CL over OE/BSL/BR/RIR.
*Update*
One more week for my broody, but it is supposed to be really hot (heat index today 107 for example). hatch 14/15

Jessimom AKA Kathy
I have 14 BCM that gotro17 had shipped, 4 legbars (I think were also shipped), along with I think 12 of my backyard chicken eggs - these are on day 10. And I set 28???? eggs 2 days ago. It's a mix of gotro17's backyard mix eggs, and mine. I'll do an accurate count if I ever candle them.

Mine are probably not all fertile, Since we pulled the roosters several weeks ago, and the baby roos were just starting to figure out how to play with the girls when they started to crow and got pulled.. I currently have a BEAUTIFUL Salmon Favorelle and 2 black silkie roos in my basement. Waiting until I figure out what we are going to do with them.

I also have 2 broodies sitting on eggs. Not sure how far along, or how many eggs. They both should be getting close though.

Pensmaster Known as Uncle Pen to some, Pensmaster to the rest
13 Altsterier eggs under broody. Started 6-24. Three candled yesterday when the hen got off for water all three growing beautifully. Surprised as they were abandoned a couple times and eggs were washed.

mlm Mike AKA Mike or Mikemikemikemikemike

Broody hen w/ icelandics

casportpony AKA Kathy or Kat
@casportpony more info please!!

LittleLakePhil AKA Phil
I just set 12 Khaki Campbell duck eggs in my Brinsea.....hopefully they will hatch while my grand daughter is here visiting.....

sasafras4u2
When I got home early am I had one lavender orpington hatched this morning when I got up at 730 there is another lavender and a chocolate cookcoo cross. Still waiting on the other few 4 of them are 3 days behind so I should be hatching all weekend. Lol. There was only 10 surviving eggs to start with.

attimus AKA Zach
8 hona
5 Hmong
6 cemani(possible Hmong crosses)
All on day 7, checked one egg last night, veining. Candling the rest tonight.

Egg update.
Incubator was unplugged for my entire shift at work last night. Returned to normal working conditions upon realization. Am not optimistic at this point but stranger things have happened.

megan805
Hi everyone have 16 eggs in bator, Olive egger and blue birchan maran should be fun due the 26th.

Please tag me w/ updates! Note: If you just quote me and not tag, I won't be able to find it later to add it when I'm on a PC.
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Quote: @attimus
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACH!!!

Quote: Hi Peep!! I have not a clue what they are yet? can I tell this small lol?

 

[BantyChooks]

Sally!!


How are you & kiddo?

 

[casportpony]

Hi @Sally Sunshine , how you're having a wonderful vacation!

-Kathy

 

[TJChickens]

Eggs just fall in the bator by themselves?

Eggs just follow me around like stray cats or something... Then I go to bed and there they are, all comfy in the bator when I get up in the morning.

 

[Chaos18]

Maybe a munchkin did it?

It's possible.

One of my Leghorns and some other type have started!

My broody went back to the wrong nest. Hopefully not for very long. .

Congrats on the new layers.

where oh where did you find that

A person can find just about anything on the internet. How are you?

 

[Chaos18]

Eggs just follow me around like stray cats or something... Then I go to bed and there they are, all comfy in the bator when I get up in the morning.

Just like Santa Clause.

 

[DuckGirl77]

Just popping in for a minute...

I said I would get a few pictures....

Here is a somewhat odd hatch from a few weeks ago. I had traded some Serama eggs with somebody at a show, so my incubator was turned off for only about two days. So...out of those 10 eggs, three very cute black mottled chicks hatched. The others were not fertile. And of course, two eggs from some very small silkied seramas of mine somehow found their way into the bator. Those two hatched and are very tiny. And...a few days before these chicks hatched, I had a mother call duck hatch some babies but there were still two viable eggs in her nest. So...I put them in the incubator. One of these was obviously not a duck egg. A Silkie hen snuck one into the nest. The other looked like a duck egg. Same shape, size and greenish color. Well these two babies hatched the same day as the Serama chicks, but were both chickens! No duckling. The only possibility is an old Ameraucana hen that hardly ever lays an egg, and her mate who is a white d'Uccle roo.
Here is a picture of the silkie chick, the Am/Uccle and the two tiny silkied Serama chicks. All the same age and still in the same pen together.

Nice!

I was worried about my "little lonely" chick. Boy did he shock me! I thought he'd get pecked at and pushed around. Turns out he is quite the fighter! He went up to the slightly older chicks, looked then in the eye, and pecked at them till they backed off! Ohmygosh it was so funny! They have accepted him now it looks like...no fuss. I will say that you could tell how happy he was when I set him in the brooder box. If a chick could smile, he was doing it!

Awwwwe, that's great!

So I got my incubator turned off again for another day, went to a Serama show and brought back some eggs! I didn't mean to. I have around 100 Seramas. I was admiring somebody's trio that they had for sale. I didn't really want them and they were more than I would have spent....but I found a buyer for them and in return was offered a dozen eggs from that trio. Into the bator!
Only two eggs were good. The rest looked a bit old and never developed. Then our electricity went off two different times. We have a generator, but it still gives the incubator a fit when this happens. Both hatched, but both were upside down and I had to assist. They were more than ready when I helped, but one just layed there for 24 hours before he decided he was born now. He then took 4 days before starting to eat, so I gave him baby bird formula to keep him going. His eating behavior finally kicked in and now he's catching up to the other one.

So cute!

Funny how eggs just turn up in the bator like that.

Eggs just follow me around like stray cats or something... Then I go to bed and there they are, all comfy in the bator when I get up in the morning.

So that's where all my eggs have been going! I thought it was strange that I only had a few! jk

Just like Santa Clause.

I got it! Santa Claus goes and finds some eggs, turns invisible, and carries them to TJ's bator! Sound good?
Next time I find eggs in my bator, I'll blame Santa Claus!

 

[TJChickens]

Nice!

Awwwwe, that's great!

So cute!

Funny how eggs just turn up in the bator like that.

So that's where all my eggs have been going! I thought it was strange that I only had a few! jk

I got it! Santa Claus goes and finds some eggs, turns invisible, and carries them to TJ's bator! Sound good?
Next time I find eggs in my bator, I'll blame Santa Claus!

If anybody's missing eggs, just let me know and I'll send them back.....