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

[Cynthia12]

Awesome! I bet that was looooong 5 minutes... I imagine it was pretty scary when the power went out just when they start hatching. I have to find a good used car battery that I can use as a backup... if I'm lucky enough to be home if and when the power goes out. It would be nice if incubators had "automatic" battery backup in the event of a power outage. They put them in alarm clocks, so why not incubators???

Get some water bottles out! Fill them up with hot hot water if it stays on longer than 10 mins. Which is past by now.

 

[Cynthia12]

You folks with phones, that do everything, are lucky in that way. If the power goes out here, I'm without a computer. Mine is a desk top. The only time I miss having a fancy phone, is when the power is out.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I have a question about breeding. I know with many animals you shouldn't inbreed, is it the same with chickens? Just wondering if I can keep a rooster from the same hatch or if I should look for a different one?

Once you have a "strain", in order to keep the line pure, you have to breed relatives. Close "line breeding" uses the best chicks to breed back daughter to father, son to mother, then brother to sister, and so on. If all the chicks have desirable traits, you can expand the breeding pool among cousins. This works best with a pure, established line of chickens. If you're just mating your best rooster to a hen that isn't related, the results can be good... or bad. Many times the chicks will retain the desirable traits of both parents, but often times less desired genes will rear their ugly heads. It can take years of line breeding to bring out the desirable traits, diminish the undesirable traits, and retain the desirable traits in the majority of the offspring. That's just a condensed version, as there is a lot of fine details that need to be included to make it work right. Then again... there's only one way to find out. Go for it! LOL!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Get some water bottles out! Fill them up with hot hot water if it stays on longer than 10 mins. Which is past by now.

Good advice for those without a backup. If I have to, I can always yank the battery out of my truck to keep my incubator running. That's just another advantage to having an incubator that operates on 12V.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a video of my partial candling my eggs before locking down, and I realized the end of it is when I dropped that egg....

so I will refrain posting it. if he makes it, which he most likely wont I will post it.

anyways, I put more eggs in the other bator, I have a single CCL laying an egg a day so I have been saving her eggs. red is the next color, black was the previous. I will move the ccl over to the other cooler after the hatch of this current

 

[Hawk12]

Once you have a "strain", in order to keep the line pure, you have to breed relatives. Close "line breeding" uses the best chicks to breed back daughter to father, son to mother, then brother to sister, and so on. If all the chicks have desirable traits, you can expand the breeding pool among cousins. This works best with a pure, established line of chickens. If you're just mating your best rooster to a hen that isn't related, the results can be good... or bad. Many times the chicks will retain the desirable traits of both parents, but often times less desired genes will rear their ugly heads. It can take years of line breeding to bring out the desirable traits, diminish the undesirable traits, and retain the desirable traits in the majority of the offspring. That's just a condensed version, as there is a lot of fine details that need to be included to make it work right. Then again... there's only one way to find out. Go for it! LOL!!!  

Sounds good to me I suppose I shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch though, they're going into lockdown tonight Here's hoping for at least 1 hen and 1 rooster! I'll post pics later after I candle.

 

[ambe0487]

Good advice for those without a backup. If I have to, I can always yank the battery out of my truck to keep my incubator running. That's just another advantage to having an incubator that operates on 12V.     

genius!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Some one says "you know you own chickens when they all have names and come when you call." I say when they know you from before hatching.

Sometimes I will see eggs and get the desire to hatch, but is that really me or are the eggs mind controlling me and saying "Hatch me!"

 

[nuklee0]

I have 6/7. I waited until the last one hatched then checked on the zipped one and it was dead.

5 Silkies and 1 LF chick. 3 are still drying. Here's the first 3. The first to hatch was the only vaulted skull Silkie (top right).

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have one left out of 14 it is currently zipping. green egg- 3 more due on Sat. I have hatched alot, but I feel I learn more as I go. this hatch has been great as far as the staggered hatch.