INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!
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X2Good luck on getting the truss built if that's what you end up doing. We found it easier to put blocks in place to hold the rafters straight while nailing them with their support webbing. I'm sure your lumber will be just as straight as ours was.
If you're working outside it'll make ya wet through your shirt in about 3 minutes.
Incubating W/ Friends Hatcher list
Birthdays: Sally Sunshine 8/5
Sally Sunshine AKA Sally
I have a bator full of ummm eggs yeah stick with eggs just eggs
others hatched and sold GONE GONE GONE
BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles or Chicken Little.... Depends who you ask
21 eggs, EE and sultan mixes..... Oops!! Last batch fer the year, honest injun!
Chaos18 AKA Trouble or Chaos
4 duck (Cayuga or Cayuga/Call cross) eggs under the broody
8 duck (Cayuga or Cayuga/Call cross) eggs in the bator
MotorcycleChick AKA MC or Abi
22 total Silver Pencil Rock eggs set 7/8
Nine SPR running around with the moms since Sunday.
One was trampled (I ticked off the moms) and one was crushed by the moms in the box. Three just didn't have the strength to live. The rest were quitters.
kwhites634 AKA Whites, Whitey, Ken, Red Dog..... Just not late for supper
Not much to update since the 5 7/2 chicks hatched. Put them outside a couple days ago & they're loving life. No further incubation planned for a while; 17 birds is plenty. <NOTE> What do you mean 17 is plenty?? 40 birds is a minimum!
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.
mlm Mike AKA Mike or Mikemikemikemikemike
Broody hen w/ icelandics.
I have another broody, Icelandic, have no idea how many eggs at this time. Discovered her last evening so she started Sat. or Sun. Problem is she is on hay that I need so I will have to try to move her soon. Broody #1, 1 chick was her total hatched.
Hatch update, I'm not at the house, but have been told broody number one hatched at least one chick! Broody number two is still going. I never had to move her off the hay as I had more hay delivered yesterday.
casportpony AKA Kathy or Kat
Set a gazzilion pea eggs last night, so should see some chicks in 26-29 days from now. Also have another 12 or so due this month, I think, but I don't remember when I set them.
LittleLakePhil AKA Phil
Call eggs from the one and only Lady Grey! Good luck Phil!!!!
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. @megan805 update plz?
Leave a LightOn
Six LF Wheaten Ameraucana under bantam D'uccle since 6/27. Broody holding tight day 11. No leakers or stinkers. One poopy and cleaned today.
Update: One of six hatched yesterday, Day 20. Other five eggs rotten!
I will let the broody raise her so she won't be lonely. Mama raised a pair last year for 8 weeks. They were bigger than her!
danielkbrantley
got a dozen mutt eggs and 11 of 12 hatched out. The first hatched Thursday evening around 11:30 p.m. Three more hatched overnight. Another hatched in the morning while I let the big girls outta the coop, and the other six hatched throughout the day. They're now in the brooder and are painfully cute. My girls (human daughters) have been oohing and aahhhing all day.
I used a borrowed LG still air and bought an egg turner to make life easier. Kept it at 99-100 on my digital thermo and 101-102 on the (non-digital). Humidity first couple weeks was 45 or so, then let it drift down to 35 until late on day 18, when I amped up the humidity to 63-65%.
And I am still in shock that it worked so well and so...easily...
Thanks all for your help! If you scan through this thread long enough, you'll see how uninformed I was prior to this. Your help has been irreplaceable!
Thanks a million,
Daniel
cabinchicky
Little Giant Bator
Currently hatching Coturnix Quail
8-16 Jersey Giant due 12 in the incubator and 4 under a broody.
ChickenCanoe
Of the 18 due July 30, 17 hatched, 15 still viable. One drown, one had leg problems and had to be put down.
Of the 15 due Aug 10, 11 are still cooking.
Set 18 yesterday due to hatch Aug 25.
All Black Penedesencas.
DwayneNLiz
Waiting patiently for you to finish yer bator, you need to set some eggies!!
heatherfeather7
I have my first broody, she's sitting on 12 Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs. Due on August 27 or 28.
(abcdefg)
Birthdays: Sally Sunshine 8/5
Sally Sunshine AKA Sally
I have a bator full of ummm eggs yeah stick with eggs just eggs
others hatched and sold GONE GONE GONE
BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles or Chicken Little.... Depends who you ask
21 eggs, EE and sultan mixes..... Oops!! Last batch fer the year, honest injun!
Chaos18 AKA Trouble or Chaos
4 duck (Cayuga or Cayuga/Call cross) eggs under the broody
8 duck (Cayuga or Cayuga/Call cross) eggs in the bator
MotorcycleChick AKA MC or Abi
22 total Silver Pencil Rock eggs set 7/8
Nine SPR running around with the moms since Sunday.
One was trampled (I ticked off the moms) and one was crushed by the moms in the box. Three just didn't have the strength to live. The rest were quitters.
kwhites634 AKA Whites, Whitey, Ken, Red Dog..... Just not late for supper
Not much to update since the 5 7/2 chicks hatched. Put them outside a couple days ago & they're loving life. No further incubation planned for a while; 17 birds is plenty. <NOTE> What do you mean 17 is plenty?? 40 birds is a minimum!
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.
mlm Mike AKA Mike or Mikemikemikemikemike
Broody hen w/ icelandics.
I have another broody, Icelandic, have no idea how many eggs at this time. Discovered her last evening so she started Sat. or Sun. Problem is she is on hay that I need so I will have to try to move her soon. Broody #1, 1 chick was her total hatched.
Hatch update, I'm not at the house, but have been told broody number one hatched at least one chick! Broody number two is still going. I never had to move her off the hay as I had more hay delivered yesterday.
casportpony AKA Kathy or Kat
Set a gazzilion pea eggs last night, so should see some chicks in 26-29 days from now. Also have another 12 or so due this month, I think, but I don't remember when I set them.
LittleLakePhil AKA Phil
Call eggs from the one and only Lady Grey! Good luck Phil!!!!
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. @megan805 update plz?
Leave a LightOn
Six LF Wheaten Ameraucana under bantam D'uccle since 6/27. Broody holding tight day 11. No leakers or stinkers. One poopy and cleaned today.
Update: One of six hatched yesterday, Day 20. Other five eggs rotten!
I will let the broody raise her so she won't be lonely. Mama raised a pair last year for 8 weeks. They were bigger than her!
danielkbrantley
got a dozen mutt eggs and 11 of 12 hatched out. The first hatched Thursday evening around 11:30 p.m. Three more hatched overnight. Another hatched in the morning while I let the big girls outta the coop, and the other six hatched throughout the day. They're now in the brooder and are painfully cute. My girls (human daughters) have been oohing and aahhhing all day.
I used a borrowed LG still air and bought an egg turner to make life easier. Kept it at 99-100 on my digital thermo and 101-102 on the (non-digital). Humidity first couple weeks was 45 or so, then let it drift down to 35 until late on day 18, when I amped up the humidity to 63-65%.
And I am still in shock that it worked so well and so...easily...
Thanks all for your help! If you scan through this thread long enough, you'll see how uninformed I was prior to this. Your help has been irreplaceable!
Thanks a million,
Daniel
cabinchicky
Little Giant Bator
Currently hatching Coturnix Quail
8-16 Jersey Giant due 12 in the incubator and 4 under a broody.
ChickenCanoe
Of the 18 due July 30, 17 hatched, 15 still viable. One drown, one had leg problems and had to be put down.
Of the 15 due Aug 10, 11 are still cooking.
Set 18 yesterday due to hatch Aug 25.
All Black Penedesencas.
DwayneNLiz
Waiting patiently for you to finish yer bator, you need to set some eggies!!
heatherfeather7
I have my first broody, she's sitting on 12 Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs. Due on August 27 or 28.
(abcdefg)
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Lucky does! He used one when hatching, four when he decided my chicken killing dog was good shade against the hot sun & walked right UNDER her not once but FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES, and two more when he stayed out at night twice.
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