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

[rossfam06]

Yep no Legbar yet.....

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yep no Legbar yet.....

CHOP CHOP!!! lets get this party started!!!

I need to get some party started for you then..... give me some time to drink some more java then me get the party started on tabletop!!

 

[WalnutHill]

These are two breeds I will probably be ordering eggs for

Don't do it.

As a fellow member of this community, I urge you not to do it.

Serama are one of the hardest breeds to hatch in an incubator. Read these forums and you will learn.

Quality Ayam Cemani cost much more than that, so these are from inferior quality birds, of inferior fertility, or are inferior quality eggs. And the chance of successfully hatching them is low as well.

Find local Craigslist listings like this: https://monroe.craigslist.org/grd/5328737139.html or https://lafayette.craigslist.org/grd/5318337427.html or https://shreveport.craigslist.org/grd/5268184817.html and contact the seller to see if they have roosters with the flock.

Search for hatching eggs, fertile eggs, or just eggs, and search nearby areas. Or just visit a local farmers market.

 

[WalnutHill]

Sally, as for extra lighting: My new hens will not lay. They were used to artificial lighting from 3 am to daybreak. I don't do that. Now that we have shorter days I turn the lights on in the barn (because it's dark/shaded) when I get out there- usually after daybreak anyway. I leave the lights on until I go to bed- usually after 9. My pullets are laying daily, but the hens don't seem to like this schedule. Walnut said the same thing I've heard before. About 15 hours of light helps laying.
That being said, I really don't know what is better. I don't want to mess with the natural cycle. But I'm not trying to profit from the eggs either.

I always did 14 hours over winter on the timer, but wasnt going to it this year, but now so many people are wanting our brahma and CCL not sure if it was the right choice.....

If you turn the lights on at 3 or 4 a.m., rate of lay will pick up in a few weeks. Any girls who are molting won't be negatively affected by the additional light.

 

[BYC910]

HarmonyAnn said luke messed with the green coolerbator....
SOMEHOW it had gotten too HOT! which means he was fiddlin with the wafer thermostat!!!! and spinnin it!!!!

so I candled the other eggs, looks like at least 3 of the CCL are dead, 5 serama are definitely dead

nice big black blobs.... looks like HEAT STROKE TO ME!!!!
@Bubbles12345


I need my CCL to lay I have people that want chickies!!!!

I dont want to use supplemental lighting do I?

morning all struggling with a cold this morning . That is what I'm debating right now . weather to light or not if so what to use . what kind of lights I know sidewing put lights on his early on .figured I would research large laying operations and see what they do . but someone on here knows so I don't need to do all that . ok guys give it up what is the answer to Sally's question . I gonna feel really stupid after I post this and read all the answers already posted . got a cold and fever so not all here at the moment . wait a minute that the norm for me right whatever

 

[chicken hawk 33]

awwwww well look at what ya did get!!!!  and all snug like a bug in a rug!!!!!!  

sleep is overrated!

what no LEGBAR!!!  yet!!!

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

what you mean whattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

 

[Sally Sunshine]

morning all struggling with a cold this morning . That is what I'm debating right now . weather to light or not if so what to use . what kind of lights I know sidewing put lights on his early on .figured I would research large laying operations and see what they do . but someone on here knows so I don't need to do all that . ok guys give it up what is the answer to Sally's question . I gonna feel really stupid after I post this and read all the answers already posted . got a cold and fever so not all here at the moment . wait a minute that the norm for me right whatever

I am sorry K,

I hope you feel better quickly. I am going to light just the CCL up. and let the other coops to hibernate.... I am gonna see if I can beg husband to click my timer on tonight when he goes out for me and make sure its set..... I turn on at 3am and it helps me as well because I am a very early riser and I can have light to feed when I go out as well. it was a pain so at least I can see in one coop without my headlamp.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

what you mean whattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

you cant spend that kinda money on shipped eggs to start, that is too much money ch

you need to practice more ok?

 

[scflock]

you cant spend that kinda money on shipped eggs to start, that is too much money ch

you need to practice more ok?

He couldn't afford to pay shipping for free eggs yesterday. I think that was just a conversation starter...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

He couldn't afford to pay shipping for free eggs yesterday. I think that was just a conversation starter...

actually it wasn't.my dad doesn't have a job no more so we are struggling.they cant get me eggs or anything like that.so I was sailing some of my stuff to make me some money.to be able to pay for them myself