Incubators Anonymous

[the4heathernsmom]

Well we are at a count of 24 right now have four more late bloomers in there pipped and trying.

I think I am becoming a firm believer in waiting a couple extra days past due date!!! If I would have tossed I would have 8 less chicks plus the four still trying now.

 

[Arielle]

Great! 4 more!!! WHorray!!! I always wait just in case . . . . but have never been lucky enough to get extras. But I still wait anyway, hoping.

Post pics when you can.

 

[the4heathernsmom]

ok there is the video of the new chicks !!!!!

 

[DMRippy]

Hatcher seems to be working, spiked for a little bit to 102 so I lowered it some.

19 eggs going into lockdown Monday. I got 10 SLW eggs this morning and 24 RIR so it better work

I NEED MORE CHICKENS!!!!!! REALLY!

Congrats on the chicks!

 

[Arielle]

 

[Arielle]

DH and I have started building the breeding coops. Takes all day and then some to build one. Using pallets and scraps so it's a jigsaw puzzle!! Pulled the 5 black copper marans hens from the free ranging hens on Super Bowl Sunday and they seem to be comfortable in their new abode as 2 have laid 3 eggs already.

I'm soooo tempted to put these eggs in the LG!!!! Waiting 30 days is killing me already. WHen the girls are free of the current rooster juice, I'll pick 2 roosters to put in.

Not sure which birds will get the next pen. Probably the EE rooster, Granite, and 4 hens ( 2 EE/ blk sexlinks and 2 EE/ Ameruacana).

Third pen--maybe the BO. Big fluffy gold eye candy. Sweet birds.

 

[ki4got]

where is everyone?

Ok, well it's official. LF roos CAN breed bantams for successful hatches.

we have (I think) 3 different dorking cross chicks hatched out now. possible mommas are silver duckwing oegb

, bantam rir, bantam red cochin, quail d'anvers. i know 1 is definitely the cochin cross, with the feathered feet. the other 2 are ??s but i'm leaning harder to the rir and d'anvers than oegb, since 1 egg i knew for sure was hers was clear from the start. i think she's just too tiny for him to work with. and of the 3, only 1 has 4 toes, the other 2 have 5. and ALL have the classic 'low rider' dorking stance.

oh. and following the duckwing tradition, they're all marked just like dorking chicks, just different shades. the first to hatch is fluffed, and almost definitely a pullet (think possibly the rir momma). not sure about the other 2, they just popped out a few hours ago.

 

[LilyD]

Almost day 7 can't wait to candle and see who is growing I am keeping fingers crossed I know they are fertile but not sure if they froze or not outside before I got to them even though I collected the eggs as soon as possible.

 

[paramedic07]

WHen the girls are free of the current rooster juice, I'll pick 2 roosters to put in.

"rooster juice", thats a new one. sorry, paramedic's humor

 

[paramedic07]

have 28 EE eggs coming in the mail with 8 patridge cochin bantams. The EE's will look like Hank, well most of them should, (on the left of the screen) that recently passed due to a hawk that recently passed soon after that.