Incubators Anonymous

[discoveregg]

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Yay!! We can all live vicariously through you

. Congratulations on your babies I want to see pictures

Me too, me too!!!

 

[Arielle]

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I am on my last hatches until spring.

I set eggs Monday night midnight. ANd have a broody hatching chicks now. Will move all to basement for the winter.

Spring and more hatching seems too far away.

 

[DMRippy]

Well my new year hatch plans have changed... collecting Marans eggs

going to set two batches. one will hatch earlier than the new year

so breaking that rule....

close enough

Enlisted my son to help with the breeding pens

got to get those babies outside... to make room for the new babies. Going to the show in Lawrenceburg on the 3rd... maybe we will be done with the pens and I can shop for more birds

Ok I have somebody else eggs in the bator. Lockdown is friday, Before the 2nd Thanksgiving Day dinner

Yes I will put up some pics so you can get your fixes.

Give me your opinions on SLW how good of layers are they, what size egg... anything else you want to tell me. I read someone said they laid better than NH and RIR. They are so pretty

 

[CapricornFarm]

I get an egg almost every day from my SLW. They are young yet, so egg size is about medium. They are good tempered birds, no problem from my rooster. Hey Donna, thanks for hatching those babies for me1

 

[LegginMF12]

Sigh...... The Big Guy told me today that "IT IS NOT NORMAL TO DROOL WHILE LOOKING AT INCUBATORS ON LINE". I am betting he is wrong!

 

[ki4got]

OOPS...

did a quick candle of the eggs to assess where they were at. had one i was SURE was a quitter... no movement at all, and way too much space under the blood vessels. some blood vessels looked like... well they looked like a quitter's does when it dies around 16-18 days. so i pulled it out and put a peephole on the large end, just to make sure. dabbed a bit of water on the membrane. no movement at all. gentle poke poke. no movement at all. openned the hole a bit larger and looked some more. poke poke... nope. so i start moving the membrane aside a bit to see why it quit, and danged if the little *&^%er didn't start bleeding a bit and MOVE!

so to prevent more damage from the one chick (think it's a lavender!

) running around, the chick is segregated from the other eggs, with a dud that was still in the incubator (aka, still warm) to lean on, and the 'broken' egg (black/lav) is in a plastic cup. again so any new hatches don't run him over.

guess that teaches me to meddle... so now i'm wondering if i don't have more viable chicks in there than i thought.

 

[CapricornFarm]

The quail are hatching already! Put them in the 6th, just stuck them in the hatcher yesterday and five of them were running around when i checked tonight! had four new baby chicks too!

 

[ki4got]

Well, i'm happy to report, the chick i thought i killed last night has hatched successfully! and all 4 of the silver laced have pipped, 2 of the calicos and another lavender is expected too! and a big ?? on the buff columbian. so that makes 9/24 once they're all out (of the ones that have pipped) and 2 of the dorkings too!

 

[Arielle]

Congrats to all and your new chicklets!!



Happy THanksgiving to all of you.


LG is running hot on one side and cooler on the other, and I'm supposed to go to MIL today. Ugh! And the broody had one egg hatch dinnertime yesterday, with more to go. I think I'm going to stay home !

PS. Love my MIL, hate the family get togethers.

 

[ki4got]

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i can sympathize... we're headed to mominlaw's for dinner after i'm done work. but i've got chickies hatching! well. maybe they'll all pop out before i leave. 8)