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

[speney]

Hi I've been following this thread for a while well actually I found it and read the entire thing lol. I'm a chickaholic and I was hoping to just get my fix and leave but now I want to fire up the Bator and start again. Let me tell you a little about myself I'm 25 female and I've only recently built my own incubator I hatched once but need to do it again. But I'm working all the bugs out with it. The hatch that I did was out of necessity I had a broody that quite as I just got it put together it was a message from god to fire up that incubator. Everything that could go wrong did. Power outages staggered hatch because I was a newbie and figure if a through a few extra that were laid that day in it wouldn't hurt. And a list of a hole lot of problems but I loved it I got the hole family involved everyone was coming over for candling nights and I had a full house come hatching day. All in all it was amazing process i ended up with a 74 percent hatch rate and I can't wait to do it again and this thread is making that itch worse. I will be following along.

 

[Flockmama87]

Well, my first try at shipped eggs was a total bust....0 hatched, I cracked the remaining 5 that were in the bator early yesterday morning....1 was a questionable that I left in just in case...was long gone, 1 quit around lockdown, had a lot of yolk left to absorb, 3 were fully formed, a sliver of yolk left to absorb, 2 were malpositioned with their heads under their leg instead of wings, 1 of them had an air bubble attached to his back...never seen that before but looked like the air cell attached to him instead of the egg....I should have gotten pictures but was trying to get everything done before the kids woke up.....I'm bummed

 

[scflock]

Hi I've been following this thread for a while well actually I found it and read the entire thing lol. I'm a chickaholic and I was hoping to just get my fix and leave but now I want to fire up the Bator and start again. Let me tell you a little about myself I'm 25 female and I've only recently built my own incubator I hatched once but need to do it again. But I'm working all the bugs out with it. The hatch that I did was out of necessity I had a broody that quite as I just got it put together it was a message from god to fire up that incubator. Everything that could go wrong did. Power outages staggered hatch because I was a newbie and figure if a through a few extra that were laid that day in it wouldn't hurt. And a list of a hole lot of problems but I loved it I got the hole family involved everyone was coming over for candling nights and I had a full house come hatching day. All in all it was amazing process i ended up with a 74 percent hatch rate and I can't wait to do it again and this thread is making that itch worse. I will be following along.

If you had a 74% hatch in a hastily built home-made incubator while working your way through a whole host of problems, I think we will be learning from you

 

[kwhites634]

Yeah, you gotta build that bator before you can test it! (this coming from the procrastinator who's been planning a new build for more than a year!) Hubby tried to haul my fridge to the dump when he last cleaned the shop. Disagreement ensued!!!

I just thought about the two upright freezers we have.......
DANG you guys, anyway....I don't need a cabinet incubator for one, maybe two hatches per year,....do I?
My 20+ yr old Hova-A-Bator won't crap out on me....will it?

Nah....not a chance.....is there?

 

[Cynthia12]

Congratulations chicken hawk. They are so cute. Going to have some nice eggs come late spring.

 

[venymae]

HEY VENYMAE hows your bator lookin?

Looking good! Ugly is sitting at 60% and serama at 80% my hydros are not calibrated though, so who knows

Well one of the four died so my mom said give me the other three and we will help them we are putting a bandaid to help there legs and triple antibiotic ointment om the bad spots the first one is drinking

Woot Woot looking good!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi I've been following this thread for a while well actually I found it and read the entire thing lol. I'm a chickaholic and I was hoping to just get my fix and leave but now I want to fire up the Bator and start again. Let me tell you a little about myself I'm 25 female and I've only recently built my own incubator I hatched once but need to do it again. But I'm working all the bugs out with it. The hatch that I did was out of necessity I had a broody that quite as I just got it put together it was a message from god to fire up that incubator. Everything that could go wrong did. Power outages staggered hatch because I was a newbie and figure if a through a few extra that were laid that day in it wouldn't hurt. And a list of a hole lot of problems but I loved it I got the hole family involved everyone was coming over for candling nights and I had a full house come hatching day. All in all it was amazing process i ended up with a 74 percent hatch rate and I can't wait to do it again and this thread is making that itch worse. I will be following along.

Hi @speney I pray you wont just follow along! I hope you join the fun with us! I would love to see your creation too! Did you get the bugs worked out? Did you seriously read this entire thread? OMGEREDDDD who does this?

makes me feel guilty for posting so much

what kind of chickens do you all have? I think a lot of us are still hatching and are even going to set more for the new years day hatch a long.... which someone needs to keep track of and tell us when to head over and set for

although I best keep my seat over there and behave. It will be hard. still pondering how that will work not being a part of it though

Anyways, if you get time snap some pics and show us some chickens or bator and stuff! we love pictures !! the thread is useless without them!!!

 

[scflock]

Did you seriously read this entire thread? OMGEREDDDD who does this?

makes me feel guilty for posting so much

I couldn't make it through post #2

I just jumped in

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well, my first try at shipped eggs was a total bust....0 hatched, I cracked the remaining 5 that were in the bator early yesterday morning....1 was a questionable that I left in just in case...was long gone, 1 quit around lockdown, had a lot of yolk left to absorb, 3 were fully formed, a sliver of yolk left to absorb, 2 were malpositioned with their heads under their leg instead of wings, 1 of them had an air bubble attached to his back...never seen that before but looked like the air cell attached to him instead of the egg....I should have gotten pictures but was trying to get everything done before the kids woke up.....I'm bummed

ahhhh man Flockmamma shipped eggs are tough so dang tough,,,,,,,

what are your thoughts going forward?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I couldn't make it through post #2

I just jumped in

whodathunk