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

[caeti21]

pretty eggies! How are you feeling and whats your bator.s doing? @Auroradream26 @Hawk12 Happy Valentines!! you have an update on your bator? how are your brahma littles? Thanks Benny!! looks awesome! very nice CH whats yer update? when they are at room temp after a few hours have you found this section yet? @chant

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Wow sounds like a good day to me! love getting work accomplished! 14 out of 15 good job Joey! lol that was freaking me out too

It was a great day lol , trash pick up wont be to happy lol but it will be ok

 

[ChickaLong]

I sold the 11 rooster chicks from NYD hatch. I kept 2 LF cochin girls and 1 black sex link.
From the 1 feb hatch I have 8 girl black sex link chicks.
From the hatchery I have 20 RIR girls and 5 astrolop girls hatched 1 feb.
I will keep a half dozen or so.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Turns out you really can drink coffee out of an incubator. You'll want to bleach the incubator first, though!

@Auroradream26

MC you have a bator update? final? set more eggs?

So found a great idea for a water tray in any homemade incubator. I wanted something that when you fill it from the outside it fills up 1 spot then over flows into the next increasing humidity if you needed to because of surface area. Ice cube trays! The one that worked for me is a stick type meant to make ice sticks for water bottles. The regular ice cube trays are too long I got both of these from dollar stores, blue one from dollar tree and white one from 99cent store.




Should work great for a cooler bator too!

I recycle these for under my cooler bator wire

It was a great day lol , trash pick up wont be to happy lol but it will be ok

those are the best days!!

I sold the 11 rooster chicks from NYD hatch. I kept 2 LF cochin girls and 1 black sex link.
From the 1 feb hatch I have 8 girl black sex link chicks.
From the hatchery I have 20 RIR girls and 5 astrolop girls hatched 1 feb.
I will keep a half dozen or so.

awesome!! did you give an bator update?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey guys!
My show went great. My 5 and a half month old Cockeral got 4th out of 15 prospect birds. All my birds beat there previous scores but unfortunately the hens froze on the table. I got a new pair though and the rooster made it to the second tier.
@Sally Sunshine

GREAT NEWS!!!! congrats!!! Shah!!!

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Coolerbator builders: can I put a viewing window right in front or only on top?

I keep mine on the floor, I like looking down on the pips from the top as I set them probable pip area upright

It may be one of the three I will have to cull anyway instead of selling as egg layers only to a closed flock. I can't trust that they will stay a closed flock do to the price of eggs and chicks.

I hope you get the worms taken care of soon dax yeee gads!

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@Sally Sunshine

I had a bunch of posts quoted and they are gone! fire where is your little egg weight again!!

kiddo put in cooler

 

[BantyChooks]

2/14/16 9 pm PLEASE HELP ME UPDATE THIS!! ANY BDAYS coming up???? IF YOUR NOT ON THE LIST TAG ME IN YOUR POST OR ASK SOMEONE TO TAG ME PLEASE! [COLOR=FF0000]MISC:[/COLOR] [COLOR=800080] whites bday Feb 19th, [COLOR=008000]DAX 3/5,[/COLOR] [COLOR=FF0000]S5apiotrowsk[/COLOR][COLOR=FF0000]i 3/8,[/COLOR] [COLOR=008080]karenerwin 3/14,[/COLOR] [COLOR=FF8C00]Shahtir101March 22nd,[/COLOR] [COLOR=008000]country lovin[/COLOR] [COLOR=008000]March 24th[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=FF0000]Making Bators~ I need updates to keep adding to our notes sections [/COLOR] canadachickens, fire 4th cabinet, silverhair, fresnofarmer, mrleeroy you need to start one! CliftonFarmer cooler, chickenlove cooler, lazyacre cooler, shahtir101 coolerbator [COLOR=FF0000]Coop expansions:[/COLOR] Silverhair, chaos18, hippiestink,Fire Ant Farm [COLOR=FF0000]HATCHING/INCUBATION[/COLOR] [COLOR=000000]NestingHillsSC[/COLOR] Just put 42 eggs in the hatcher for Mondays hatch.2/11 granny hatchet 2/10 I put 50 eggs in today and had room for 22 more. LOL I opened all of todays eggs as it was freezing out and didnt see any thing watery. no ice except for the fact I have an egg eater and found a frozen yolk. they will be due March 3rd. Fire Got all the breeders separated back into their pens. So we will be incubating heavy here in the next couple of weeks. Sally great hatch, waiting on serama //// eggs from sara and martha set 1/24 day 7 legbar, projects, marans, Lemon Cuckoo orphingtons, tolbunt polish, and some mix silkies, add hole bator of serama more CCL serama misc in cabinets and coolers, added mmore serama, legbar and duck eggs. J&TRanch 1/12/16 12 self blue Cochin bantams (shipped) day 3 (going to candle today to see how many are viable).... And 18 eggs arriving in the mail tomorrow @J&Tranch My shipped self blue bantam Cochins are doing good. I had to throw out a stinker and a seeper

So out of those 10 remaining, 7 are developing nicely

They're on day 7. I ended up receiving 16 shipped from GA, they looked good considering the single digit temps- only 3 saddles and none cracked. They're on day 3 today, will candle Wednesday maybe. Saris10 (+2) Bielefelder eggs. going to set 2/12! TJ I've started up the Mind reading Bator again! It has Guinea eggs and two silkied Serama eggs in it. Not sure yet if the Guinea eggs are fertile. My R-com is full of shipped Serama eggs from a couple different sources, all were shipped and almost all are messed up. Casportsponyday 34 for the Muscovy eggs and it looks like I have one external pip, two internals. One of the eggs have a huge "bruise" at the bottom of the shell, so I doubt it's still alive. LocalYokel 13 Dominicker 5 Leghorn, may be White or Brown, mostly Whites in that coop.(Not the cheery oldish dude Whites) Hope the Doms and Leghorns are fertile. 7 RIR 2 out of 3 eggs under broody bator are alive/developing, 1 RIR 1 Leghorn, tossed the other. 4 out of 5 Leghorn in bator showing veins! Some of the RIR look porous. Hard to tell on the Dom eggs because my flashlight batteries are low, But I can see some developing. Got a better cage for the broody! Canadachickens Just set 18 Auracana Four silkie eggs - 1 Malpoed DIS, 3 late quitters. 0 hatch. Venymae @venymae got an update? hope your ok! Salmon Favorelles and 11 shipped Cochin eggs on 1/15. On day 8, only 4 of the Favorelles looked good, but 8 of the Cochins did -- I left them all in the 'bator. I added 10 of my own silkies on 1/23. gotro17 Shellee lavender Orpington shipped egg issue,Papa's Poultry. Jeff- you rocked it! Not one crack! Thank you!!! We have Bielefelders, Crested CL, BBs Marans and Mottled Lavender Orpingtons, along with some surprises from the rainbow pen! Can't wait!!!5 Marans eggs were cracked

. However, all frizzles and lavender Orpingtons were intact. Vital Farms eggs I got at Target, along with some silkies from our new friend from down the road, [@=https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/39565/Jessimom]@Jessimom[/@]... We are setting tomorrow for a Feb. 6th hatch day. 29 eggs go into lockdown tomorrow!!! Start honing your master Jedi skills of distraction and calm. I don't have a styrofoam carton to put the eggs, needing to be upright, in...but I do have plastic 2/3 ChickaLong Hatched 28, 16 boys and 10 girl black sex links. 2 RIR X BR. 1 girl lost today. Added 20 RIR and 5 astrolops from a hatchery Hawk12 have 7 blue/gold partridge brahma chicks in the incubator on day 15. Candled last night and things look pretty good. Air cells might be a little small. I lost 5 from this hatch due to a temp spike on day 3 I emailed the gal I bought them from to let her know my progress and she sent me a dozen more for the cost of shipping. That was very sweet of her to do knowing it wasn't her fault or even the PO but my faulty incubator. I'll be setting those eggs tomorrowDay 15, 7 eggs. deserteggs22Update on my eggs in the incubator on day 7: all 7 of the eggs have moving babies in them!!! YAY! I will do another update on day 14. @deserteggs22 when is lockdown date? Mirajane 10 white leghorn eggs, as I've said, my dad will only eat white eggs, so I bought some white eggs for him, so I can hatch them and raise them for him. They were shipped, 5 are good, 5 have detached air cells. Sat out for a full day before being put in incubator. Also put in 11 of our eggs from... @Mirajane when is lockdown date? Peachickie 4/4 silkies hatched 2/4 mutts hatched Hearing some chirps this mornin, fingers crossed Auroradream26 My bator still had 2 pipped turkey eggs in it. Hoping they hatch overnight. By Tuesday, it'll have the next set on lockdown macylee 1/19/second week of my first incubation attempt! I have 40 eggs, 3 Swedish Isbars and 5 Cream Legbars, 2 RIR/EE eggs, a few RIR/Golden Comet eggs and the rest are RIR/Black Sex Links. @macylee How is your bator and eggs doing? ambe0487 2/1 I put the eggs in lockdown this morning because I will be busy getting ready for the snow storm that is suppose to hit over night here, day 18 actually starts at 3 p.m. 29 eggs, which comprise of 6 Isa brown/Legbar mix, 9 EE/ Bresse mix, and 14 Buff Orp. Fire Ant Farm CL hatch was 14 out of 15 set, with one put down after assist. The one with splay leg had his widdle itty bitty brace come off today (today was day 4). Doing well (a bit of a wide stance, but getting around great), as are all the remaining 13, including three that I helped out. The NNs are on day 16 today. After Joey completely creeped me out with his clown gore, he made it up to me by advising me on the too big air cells. After 48 hours, no appreciable growth in them, so leaving it at 50% until lock down (then will push to 65%). He was forgiven. scottcaddy 2 different broodies on eggs at about day 10 1/20 slordaz barnyard mix, now RIR is matured too we are gonna play guess whose the daddy game as both roosters were on all of the hens, patiently trying to get spring here faster so can build the new coopsat 23 eggs at 2 am this morning 2/3 Lockdown is Wed Feb 10th (before bed) 6 are questionable 1 clear 19 looking good Math I set backyard mix chicken eggs on Wednesday, January 20th. @Math got an update o n your candles? what day is lockdown? shahtir101 Also I have been helping a chick for 2 days and it finally hatched! S5apiotrowski incubator warehouse incubator. I have 3 welsummer eggs, 18 BCM, 2 easter eggers, and 5 mixed breed (BCM and Cochin cross, father is ??) Putting my eggs on lock down. I have 23 eggs left in the incubator. 2/10 . I have 23 eggs left in the incubator. Air cells still look a bit small, but all have grown - some a lot more than others since day 14. ...Were at day 19. No Pips yet - not really expecting any until tomorrow.2/10 MotorcycleChick Of 24 eggs set; 2 clear, 1 early quitter. 21 went to lockdown. 18 born, 3 DIS. PHAGE 5 dozen eggs for a friend (tolbunt, mottled orps, Swedish flower hen, swedish black hen, BCM, Lav ameraucana, and a bunch of other newer breeds from GFF), 2 dozen gifted "eating eggs" from same friend (yea right like I am gona eat them) 1 dozen Costco "pasture raised" brown eggs 1dozen Vons "pasture raised" brown eggs 2 doz shipped eggs -jubilee orp and lemon cuckoo niederrheimers. Sadly have very low expectations here - one was broken and 10 have mobile air bubbles. They are in the bottom shelf but 99.99999% sure they have no chance of developing. The rest have saddle airsacs. Chicken Hawk33 CH set 40 41 set.10 infertal.one blood ring and thirty alive and going strong eggs set 1/23 37 going strong27 alive.went into lockdown 2/10 I,have six chicks one black serama,four ee,one blue,silver chick from one of your green eggs.eleven pips.and nine with nothing from what I see. 2/12 Jessimom I had a zero hatch rate in my 6 silkie eggs. I float tested yesterday, they were viable, but no noticable movement. I candled and tapped the shells, no chirping, no visible movement. I pipped the shells and again, NO SIGNS OF LIFE. I have a full bator with staggered hatches in my other bator. I'm going to sterilize the Incuview. run it a few days and set it up with the egg turner. When it's time for the first hatch to lock down, I'll take out the egg turner in my LG, up the humidity and hatch in that. Use the Invuview for the earlier eggs. jwlpoultry Out of the 100 I had around 75 hatch. on 2/1 24 of 30 hatched, I have 5 Rhodebars and 6 barnyard mix that are 9 days in due to hatch 2/20 also sat 6 more Rhodebar and a barnyard mix today for a 2/29 hatch and 2 goose eggs for a 3/8 hatch I just sat 80 Barred Rock eggs also due 2/29 Friday Yet 5 Russian Orloff, 3 Orloff/EE and 5 Orloff/Cream Legbar.Hatch is due on 2/14 - Valentine's Day. Four were pulled from the fridge and will be a day later, if they are good. andled today and have 13/16 looking good with 3 clears. Will leave them in for 3 more days just in case, and pull them on day 10. DHetzle Currently have 200 eggs hatching (heard a lot of peeping this morning before I left for work) and 515 more in the incubators for the next 2 weeks. I will be loading another 300 or so tonight. HeatherMarieRordered a dozen Ancona duck eggs, and they went in the incubator today. I received 13 eggs, but one was cracked. I tried to fix it with candle wax, but I don't know if it will work or not since I've never tried it before. I've started misting my eggs with a 50/50 mix of water and Gold Listerine before I put them in the incubator to disinfect them. Hopefully that with increase my hatch rate. I'm hoping that these guys will be much easier to hatch than my Calls and Muscovies that I usually try to hatch. *fingers crossed* fresnofarmer I have officially set my 2 dozen grocery store eggs at 1/29/2016 8:45pm pst Yesterday was day 14 2/12 candled and 1 of the questionable was still developing the other definite early quitter thew it out still have 7 going strong out of the fertile dozen trader Joe eggs Benny aka Akrnaf2 4 rumples Aracaouna,and 4 Partridge Plymouth rocks, this is tge first time that I h@ave bilt a bator! 1/29 Newchics blue/golden phoenix eggs I bought. First time getting shipped eggs 1/30 NTBugtraq 1/30 50 eggs into each tray this time, achieving the Brinsea Ova Easy 100 suggested limit. These eggs come from my own layers, who are first generation offspring of pure Black Copper Marans Roosters mated with a dual purpose bird resembling a Red Sexlink. These birds are inbreeds, as they are mating with their own fathers. The oldest layer is ~34 weeks old, the youngest only 24 weeks. Bubbles1234 Set 15 (so much for 5 ) eggs, 7 EE and 8 BSL. Roos are silkie and sultan Set 5:10 PST on January 30th! @Bubbles12345 are your eggs moving yet LOL Did my candle, 2 blood rings (confirmed by cracking) and one with veins and another with a moving black dot. The rest were all pretty clear, no obvious veining, but nothing saying they were not alive. Down to 13, 8 BSL and 5 EE. country lovin aka Ty 14 go into lockdown tomorrow. 5 Barred Rock,5 BR/BSL, 1 BR/WLH, 1 ee, and 2 Blue Copper Marans/RIR. 9 Olive eggers and 2 marans are on day 5. I don't have a lot of hope for the olive eggers because the last time I checked only one of my americanas was fertile, so we will see! daxigait 1/31 Set 66 eggs last night. I have my fingers crossed for fertility after my roos were sick. Possible Lavenders I this time as my Lavender Orpington pullets started laying four weeks ago.down the 48 after candeling. howfunkyisurchicken I have 7 more eggs due to hatch tomorrow 2/2 silkies bauerdog It looks like 7 chicks will be the final count. The grocery store eggs are DIS probably. I did an exploratory opening on 2 and they had died. I apparently had a huge drop in humidity while at work. The last live chick was shrinkwrapped and had to be assisted. campinshaws 9! All honas! Due the 24th Sally all 9 of my honas looked good. We couldn't detect movement in two of them, might wind up being early quitters. Their veins looked a bit faded. billiejw8912 Buff orpington eggs set 2/3 Tao Chick 7 Brabanter, 5 Pavlovskaya, and three from my pullets due2/26 mrleeroyset more eggs. 8 due to hatch on 2/25. Hatching the blue ones this time Candled the 8 eggs last night and it looks like one of them will not be hatching for sure and another had a crack on the pointy end of the egg(not sure how I missed that...) but is still developing normally. Also set 33 more eggs 2/11...Just the usual barnyard mix. My EE rooster that I had decided to get too mean a couple weeks ago (he became dinner) so his DNA is slowly being phased out and now I just have the Cream Brabanter rooster on those hens. Hens are RIR, SLW, BA, and EE. Barnyard mutts with hairdos it is caeti21 4 ftp ameraucanas mix in the bator ( one doesn't seem to be fertile but im keeping an eye on it) 16 ftps silver laced wydottes mix one looks non fertile again keeping an eye on it 4 la floure mixes idk if my serama roo is the daddy or the ftp is so it will be a surprise i guess 13 eggs will be going into lockdown on Wednesday 8 will be the following week 5 after that 3 then 3 following that [COLOR=000000]chicknlove 2/9[/COLOR] DAY 18 +17/21 going into lock down in the Coolerbator and +15/24 in the Styro.. [COLOR=FF0000]Locked them in nice and tight 2/9[/COLOR]https://www.backyardchickens.com/u/149449/chicknloveWoke up to 10 babes in the Cooler and 10 babes in the Styro..2/12 DAY 21 here. In the Styro corner we have 8/8 local eggs hatched and 4/7 shipped eggs hatched and 3 pips! In the Coolerbater we have 7/9 shipped and 6/8 local eggs hatched. I don't see any pips in the cooler but my visibility is not great. yay for hatch day! [COLOR=000000]studio chick [/COLOR] . I candled tonight (day 10) I have eight going great and 10 clear, the air cells are still a little small for my liking. 2/10 Sassy Hens1 Day 18 lock down on the marans here. 16 out and dry. 14 more to go. No pips in the last hour. 2/12 2/13 No pips overnight on the last 10+ to go. [COLOR=000000]butterfliesdoku[/COLOR] have 46 eggs in the incubator right now, they are barnyard mixes and Easter Eggers with a due date of February 24th. Today is day 6 and so far I've candled 27 and of those candled 19 have active little embryos!vI was going to pull clears and quitters tomorrow but decided to go ahead today. Today is day 9. I had 12 infertiles and 1 quitter. There's 4 I'm not too sure about but I'll check those again around day 16 2/12 sarah25bear So last night I started 41 eggs in my incubator this is my first time doing this so hopefully things go well they are just farm chicks my hens are Rhode Island Red and barred rocks and my rooster is a partridge Cochin ... So here goes!!! CyndiD I have10 WH duck eggs being shipped to me next week. Is there a site I can read that will help me prepare the eggs for incubating? kissofcrimson my first little baby chick hatched!! Now I'm anxious to make sure he/she doesn't burn to death under the heat lamp or die for some unknown reason. I've only got two eggs ready right now (started with 6 and they were my test eggs) but it doesn't hatch for the next 2 days. [COLOR=000000]S5apiotrowski[/COLOR] Anastasia aka AC Hatch is still going on... took these 12 out of the incubator. Blondie just looks huge - 48gm. Several of the chicks are 45-48gm. My hygrometer came way too late. My humidity is too high... I have a few that are dead after pipping - rolled around by the chicks to pipped side down - very sad to see them lost. On a positive note - this hatch is much better than the last one - and still learning. Looking forward to EHAL. JUST A QUICK FYI about BYC RULES: I am told there was an issue on another thread so I want to be sure everyone understands when posting that its in the best interest to ALL of us, BYC being a site for anyone ranging from 13+ NEVER ask the age of a youngster, gender or other personal information. And for those that are young, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE RULES AS WELL: Do not post overly personal information like your phone number, address, age, or any other overly personal info. Minors especially should not post information that will identify them or their age. THE COMPLETE RULES aka TERMS OF SERVICE FOR BYC CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/terms-of-service

My update: Candled 13, (8 BSL, 5 EE) 3 possible blood rings left in because they could be veins, I'm not sure. All the brown are clear looking, but left them in anyway as I might be wrong. 2 had a yellowish tinge and looked scrambled. I cracked them, and it looked like my breakfast! HOWEVER------ ONE lone EE egg, the same one I saw veins in last candle, has what appears to be a HEAD near the air cell! Looks very alive! The brown one I thought I saw movement in still has the same brown spot, my conclusion is it is a spot in the yolk and I accidentally shook it so it moved.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I am caught up enough.... night all going to pass out

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[FridayYet]

Have a good night, Sally

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I am caught up enough.... night all going to pass out

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Good night, M'Lady. Feel better soon!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

gottcha in it Banti sweets

go babies go!!

 

[ChickaLong]

awesome!! did you give an bator update?

Nothing in the incubator. I just sold the hova bator that I hatch in 3 times in since October.
I still have 2 hova bators with factory fans and large window that I haven't used.