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

[BantyChooks]

Incubating W/ Friends Hatcher List
Birthdays:
Sally Sunshine AKA Sally
I set more eggs tonight mostly serama, I candled and pulled tons of infert serama, here we go again with the serama issues ugh!!! So I have three sets in, set due each week starting next lol

BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles or Chicken Little.... It depends who you ask.
Nothing till next year, sniffle sniffle, getting my chick fix from y'all!

Chaos18 AKA Trouble or Chaos
4 duck (Cayuga or Cayuga/Call crosses) under the broody
8 duck (Cayuga or Cayuga/Call crosses) in the bator
I added 7 (2 CCL, 5 Dom) more eggs to my broody(s)

I candled them whichamajiggers in the bator the other night and pitched one so down to 7.

MotorcycleChick AKA MC or Abi
I'm currently incubating a recliner with my duckling. We are practicing our sign language while we are waiting for it to hatch.

kwhites634 AKA Ken, whites, whitey, or Red Dog..... Just not late for supper

daxigait AKA Dax or Daxi

Jessimom AKA Kathy

mlm Mike AKA Mike
Broody Icelandic, have no idea how many eggs.

casportpony AKA Kathy or Kat

LittleLakePhil AKA Phil
Call eggs

sasafras4u2

attimus AKA Zach

megan805

Leave a LightOn AKA LaLo

danielkbrantley AKA Daniel

cabinchicky AKA Chicky

ChickenCanoe AKA CC

DwayneNLiz AKA Liz
Building a bator.... Very slowly.......

heatherfeather7 AKA Heather
broody

South OH Chicks
Im starting BCM eggs tomorrow

Watermelon123 AKA Melon
Barnyard mix eggs

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[BullChick]

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Sally Sunshine AKA Sally
ughhhh bator said 104!!!! I wonder if the wafer is crapping out after all these years!!!
All the eggs hatched but one serama I culled, had leg issue bad kitty!! good thing they cant do anything to mine excep play with the wiring and OMG turn the heat higher!!!!!! good grief I am dumb!!!!! DOH!!! I set more eggs tonight mostly serama, I candled and pulled tons of infert serama, here we go again with the serama issues ugh!!!! So I have three sets in, set due each week starting next lol

BantyChooks AKA Banti or Bubbles or Chicken Little.... Depends who you ask
Nothing..... Sniffle sniffle..... Getting my chick fix from here!

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
I added 7 (2 CCL, 5 Dom) more eggs to my broody(s)

candled them whichamajiggers in the bator the other night and pitched one so down to 7.

MotorcycleChick AKA MC or Abi
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. 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. [COLOR=333333] Broody #1, 1 chick was her total hatched.[/COLOR]

Surprised by a broody hen that was hiding somewhere, two yellow chicks and a chipmunk seen yesterday afternoon.

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.

South OH Chicks
Im starting 8 french black copper marans eggs tomorrow.

Watermelon123
Barnyard mix eggs

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I'm currently incubating a recliner with my duckling. We are practicing our sign language while we are waiting for it to hatch.

 

[biophiliac]

biophiliac, you need an avatar! Got any nice chicken pics to put there?

I'm thinking what to put. Lost a lot of pics when i dropped my prev tablet. I'm really drawn to a recent pic on this thread -Cat puppy and shotgun looking for 'human who abandoned you' lol. Would that be inappropriate???

 

[BullChick]

I currently have a duck in the oven. I have never eaten duck before, but I am certainly looking forward to this!

 

[BullChick]

Duckling wouldn't come to me for a diaper change. The dog did. She told me to put a diaper on the dog. I don't think she believed I would really do it.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm thinking what to put. Lost a lot of pics when i dropped my prev tablet. I'm really drawn to a recent pic on this thread -Cat puppy and shotgun looking for 'human who abandoned you' lol. Would that be inappropriate???

That's fine!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I don't think so. She can hold her head up and tries to stand. Seems very weak. Won't stay awake to drink. I took an eye dropper and put a few drops on lower beak but she doesn't open her mouth. When I set her down she tries to stand and then loses balance and falls over onto back. She was doing better at staying righted before I taped her foot. Should I take the tape off until she's stronger or leave the tape so the foot corrects?

A weak chick needs nutrition and rest.
Did you see my post about vitamins, energy boost in the water, probiotics, etc.?
Leave the foot taped. She couldn't stand without it so leave it on.

I currently have a duck in the oven. I have never eaten duck before, but I am certainly looking forward to this!

Have a good recipe?
Well prepared duck is great.

 

[Pensmaster]

Morning everyone.

 

[BantyChooks]

@Sally Sunshine Article has been updated.

 

[BullChick]

Have a good recipe?
Well prepared duck is great.

I have a recipe from Cabinchicky. Covered in bacon, and filled with apples and onion. It's wrapped in foil, and I'm cooking it @325* for three hours. I'm checking at two. The power went out last night when I initially put it in. It did not really get to cook much, but the time isn't an exact science anyway. I searched the Internet for recipes, and was not satisfied with most of the cooking times and temperatures. They were all over the place!