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

[campingshaws]

Morning y'all. Did I show you our staff pics? At the coop. People tell me it looks small in pics.

Nice! Which one is you?

Aw, that's sweet! Edit: I'm the only one old/fat enough to have had two kids. I'm on the right behind Bubba. But I was flattered you asked!

News flash! Assuming Bubba is the little guy & you're the one behind him holding the chicken, you have a totally different definition of old than I do! You ain't even in the ballpark, lady. I have boots older than you! If you wanna see old, check out the guy on the left with the pipe-smoking rooster!!!

I just mean I've got 10-12 years on every lady in that pic, except the one holding eggs. She's older than I am. I'm third oldest in that pic!

 

[BantyChooks]

https://www.pinterest.com/ssunshiner/

Danke

 

[Chaos18]

I just mean I've got 10-12 years on every lady in that pic, except the one holding eggs. She's older than I am. I'm third oldest in that pic!

That doesn't count when they are a bunch of kids still in high school.

 

[campingshaws]

I just mean I've got 10-12 years on every lady in that pic, except the one holding eggs. She's older than I am. I'm third oldest in that pic!

That doesn't count when they are a bunch of kids still in high school.

Sure. That's what they are.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Some pics of my pullets that just started to lay!

 

[BullChick]

Nice!

 

[BantyChooks]

Who knew there were so many ways to use pallets?? I never really looked before....

 

[Akrnaf2]

Who knew there were so many ways to use pallets?? I never really looked before....

You can build with them almost anything! As is or as sources to reclaimed wood.

 

[kajira]

I guess I'll post here - I'm using an incubator that my mother in law sent for my daughter. It's got "okay" reviews on amazon - meaning, people have had an okay hatch success rate with it, (more good than bad reviews, we'll put it that way.)
It's a small 10 egg incubator. We are going to try 4-5 eggs - we have 2/5 collected. (We only have 4 laying hens, and atm, only our RIR really lays daily. It's hit or miss on who usually lays a second or third egg, and we've never had 4 in one day. LOL)

Our cochin rooster will be the daddy.

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One of the eggs is significantly larger than our 3 small hens, so i'm 100% sure it's from our RIR hen.
So we for sure have a "tiny" egg. (her name is tiny.) Then, my daughter's pretty sure our Cochin white hen, is one of our regular layers too, compared to white freckles (as seen in the above picture - thats white freckles) and little gray.

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White fluff ^^



No idea what we are going to get from white/gray hens mixed with our cochin rooster. He's pretty though.

Anyways This is the incubator :

https://www.amazon.com/Yosoo-Chicke...d=1471366912&sr=8-2&keywords=10+egg+incubator

We will be giving the eggs a try. I know it's roughly a 21 day incubation period. The eggs will be put in with in 2-3 days of collection. I'm turning it on tonight to mess with the temps, so I have a couple days to play with it, before putting the eggs in there. I'm keeping the eggs collected in my bathroom in a plastic bowl until we have all the ones we want collected. We have tested the eggs we eat to make sure they are fertile (i.e. checking for the bullseye, and our rooster has more than done his job. LOL)

After that, I'll be writing an X and an O on them - and turning 3x a day to alternate sides at night.

I know day 18-19 we do a lock down and raise the humidity??? (theoretically? Not sure if it's possible with this incubator. If anyone has used it, any tips on it would be appreciated for better success.) and I've never candled an egg, or looked for air sacs before, so this, too will be a new project for us.

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Our eggs are light colored, light pink to light brown - so we shouldn't have too many troubles "seeing" through them at least.

Anyways - any tips on the incubator we are using to have the best success chance? My daughter wanted to participate in the egg bingo type threads to see if she could hatch other types of chickens down the road, but I won't try to win eggs for her, if we haven't' figured out how to successfully hatch an egg yet.

 

[Jessimom]

Some pics of my pullets that just started to lay!

Nice birds Benny!!! What is the breed of the one on the right?

I guess I'll post here - I'm using an incubator that my mother in law sent for my daughter. It's got "okay" reviews on amazon - meaning, people have had an okay hatch success rate with it, (more good than bad reviews, we'll put it that way.)
It's a small 10 egg incubator. We are going to try 4-5 eggs - we have 2/5 collected. (We only have 4 laying hens, and atm, only our RIR really lays daily. It's hit or miss on who usually lays a second or third egg, and we've never had 4 in one day. LOL)

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Our eggs are light colored, light pink to light brown - so we shouldn't have too many troubles "seeing" through them at least.

Anyways - any tips on the incubator we are using to have the best success chance? My daughter wanted to participate in the egg bingo type threads to see if she could hatch other types of chickens down the road, but I won't try to win eggs for her, if we haven't' figured out how to successfully hatch an egg yet.

She is ADORABLE!!!!