Incubators Anonymous

[Sustained]

So, an update on my shipped eggs thing:
I got 8 eggs. One of them was cracked, and I cracked it further a few days after I got them, so I had to toss that one.
I've been candling every few days to make sure I didn't have anything that looked like it might explode and to see what's going on with their development.
I candled last night. Two were alive and kicking!!! Three were obvious quitters and two were obvious clears. (I've never had zero questionable eggs before, weird.) Anyway, hopefully, these two go all the way and I get a blue egg layer and a green egg layer out of the hatch!!!

Good luck!! I accidentally dropped 2 eggs before setting last hatch. Very disappointing experience

I was looking at my subscription updates and saw this thread listed (I lurk) and as I was looking at the title "Incubators Anonymous" the saying 'there's an app for that' came to mind, I guess there's an Anonymous for almost everything too

Yup I'm weird but boy did that thought crack me up!

 

[TeaChick]

Good luck!! I accidentally dropped 2 eggs before setting last hatch. Very disappointing experience :/




I was looking at my subscription updates and saw this thread listed (I lurk) and as I was looking at the title "Incubators Anonymous" the saying 'there's an app for that' came to mind, I guess there's an Anonymous for almost everything too   Yup I'm weird but boy did that thought crack me up!

Thanks. I dropped one eggs on another in a previous hatch. Those are the only two I've damaged, thankfully!

Yeah, that's funny.

 

[Sustained]

Thanks. I dropped one eggs on another in a previous hatch. Those are the only two I've damaged, thankfully!

Yeah, that's funny.

Ha I've been handling eggs like they're unpinned grenades ever since. Hopefully I have your luck with very few breaks! I have 35 eggs at the moment and 11+ more on the way and I've been waiting so (im)patiently for them that I'd be pretty sad to lose any to my clutsy nature

 

[darkbluespace]

LOL! I just hatched out a beautiful bantam cochin that was a roo and boy was I tempted to keep him !!!

But I would be so sad if I kept him and then had to get rid of him

He was so sweet too!!!! We have them as pets with tiny eggs as bonus

I really need to move to a place with more land so I can go crazy hatching

I tried shipped under my broody and in the bator and neither were very successful

I always hatch with my classroom in the spring, I am planning on trying a bigger batch on bantam cochins at that time. I have no problem rehoming the chicks that I don't keep then through the lady that supplies fertile eggs to our local schools. Gotta figure out how to hatch out a quiet roo..LOL!!!!

Ahhh... he is adorable!

 

[calichicken]

Just bought some paint silkie eggs. Should not be hatching in Oct but couldn't say no lol

I like not saying no!!!

AGREED! there are just some things you should never say no to....and hatching eggs is ALWAYS one of them

 

[calichicken]

I feel ya. I hate having to get rid of my extra boys.

Ahhh... he is adorable!

Thanks! He went to a friend who wanted a bantam cochin roo s I was very happy he got a good home if it couldn't be mine

He is going to be a very handsome guy and hopefully popular with the ladies

 

[calichicken]

So, an update on my shipped eggs thing:
I got 8 eggs. One of them was cracked, and I cracked it further a few days after I got them, so I had to toss that one.
I've been candling every few days to make sure I didn't have anything that looked like it might explode and to see what's going on with their development.
I candled last night. Two were alive and kicking!!! Three were obvious quitters and two were obvious clears. (I've never had zero questionable eggs before, weird.) Anyway, hopefully, these two go all the way and I get a blue egg layer and a green egg layer out of the hatch!!!

Such a bummer when an egg cracks in the mail

Hopefully your two eggs will keep going strong so you can get some pretty eggs

 

[1zooman12]

Faraday 400 asked, at least I think it was him, if one can add incubator chicks to a clutch hatched by a silkie. I suppose that this might work for any dedicated mamma hen but I have used this technique with my silkies. One must synchronize the incubator hatch with the hen's hatch to at least within a 48 hour synchrony. Do leave the chicks in the incubator until darkness. And in the dark one removes the chicks and puts them under the sleeping hen. And when light comes they will bond (imprint) on her and voila(!) you have a super clutch. Part of the trick is to prevent the chicks from imprinting on you; that is why this piece of human skullduggery is performed in the dark! And don't give the hen a total that she cannot cover lest some die from exposure. My silkies have handled as many as a total of 18 chickies. She will treat them all the same - good mamas those silkies…
My best to all of my fellow chicken nuts!
Neal, the Zooman

 

[1zooman12]

Hello Sonderah,
About your using plastic eggs. Yours must be magic or at least more effective than mine. Every time, and I do mean every, the hen(s) kick them out of the nest and being hard headed (Want references on that?) I really try, several times. My plastic eggs are the sort that one gets in the 99 Cent store; hollow and in two haves which snap together. I'm not sure the lightness is what gives them away for I have tried those imitation feed store eggs which look and feel for all the world like a hen's egg. Same result. So this time I'm asking for any suggestions or ideas from you wonderful chicken nuts! Hey, it takes one to one, remember..?
Sincerely,
Neal, the Zooman

 

[sssharon]

I have those kind of eggs too. I had them doing the same thing so I went outside and got some small rocks and put one in each egg. They don't kick them out anymore. Only once and a great while.