Incubators Anonymous

[Tuhmu]

Day 10 tonight, when I candled on day 7 it looked like there would be 19 with activity in them, out of 32. I hope for a great hatch!

I'm actually in the rare position that I NEED

more hens, like around 10, just for my laying flock. (Doesn't include the projects/breeder pens I'm going to start). I'm constantly 5-6 dozen in the hole!

Muhahhahaha! Bring on the flufferbutts!

 

[chickensnbees]

what flavors are you looking to fill it with?  I have some sfh available as well as some eggs from my sg dorking flock but they were free ranging a week ago so no guarantees the're pure yet...

I'd like to get some SG Dorking eggs. Maybe 12-24. How much do you charge?

 

[JekkaLynn]

My mother and I have been on the wagon for a couple years since a mystery predator wiped out her entire flock.
When we were using(incubators) we could con anyone into enabling us.
When my father kept from going to auctions and made us sell our rooster he thought he had managed to get us rehabed....
He should have known.....should have realized as long as the incubator and pictures of past chicks were in the house the sweet siren call of peeping eggs would call us back to its 21 day gauntlet of suspense, sadness, elation, and broodiness!!!
My father tried but he couldn't be with us 24/7 soon I saw gorgeous mixed breed chickens are ranging beside a road on the way to school. I managed to tell my mother the address and a few weeks later she returned from grocery shopping with dozens of fertilized eggs! She had stopped at the house with the chickens and asked to buy 12 fertilized eggs for her incubator. The women who wanted chicks herself but couldn't get a hen to brood offered all the eggs we could want if we hatched 2 dozen for her too! We were back in the grips of incubator madness!

 

[Joplus]

Nothing like your first hatch being a success (30 out of 36!) to get me into full addiction. My husband saidnever again because I was too anxious and wrapped up but after seeing all these perfect fluffy babies, he's now saying he's keeping one of each kind. So now onto the next hatch. Of course now I'm feeling cocky and maybe ready to risk more cash. But not to the point of risking shipped eggs. So there's a place called the Rare bird farm 3 hours away. I can drive there or she comes to my city and delivers but how do you think delivered eggs are? Better than shipped? As perfect as the ones I picked up a mile from my house? And they are $4/egg about. Yikes! I included the link. rarebirdfarm.vpweb.com/

 

[CoMtnGal]

Day 20 ! I have 1 live of 12 started, GLW - it pipped mid- center externally. I heard it last night and there is an opening on the side. It has not used this air cell and doesn't seem to be moving. Ideas?

 

[Arielle]

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[Arielle]

My mother and I have been on the wagon for a couple years since a mystery predator wiped out her entire flock.
When we were using(incubators) we could con anyone into enabling us.
When my father kept from going to auctions and made us sell our rooster he thought he had managed to get us rehabed....
He should have known.....should have realized as long as the incubator and pictures of past chicks were in the house the sweet siren call of peeping eggs would call us back to its 21 day gauntlet of suspense, sadness, elation, and broodiness!!!
My father tried but he couldn't be with us 24/7 soon I saw gorgeous mixed breed chickens are ranging beside a road on the way to school. I managed to tell my mother the address and a few weeks later she returned from grocery shopping with dozens of fertilized eggs! She had stopped at the house with the chickens and asked to buy 12 fertilized eggs for her incubator. The women who wanted chicks herself but couldn't get a hen to brood offered all the eggs we could want if we hatched 2 dozen for her too! We were back in the grips of incubator madness!

 

[Arielle]

Nothing like your first hatch being a success (30 out of 36!) to get me into full addiction. My husband saidnever again because I was too anxious and wrapped up but after seeing all these perfect fluffy babies, he's now saying he's keeping one of each kind. So now onto the next hatch. Of course now I'm feeling cocky and maybe ready to risk more cash. But not to the point of risking shipped eggs. So there's a place called the Rare bird farm 3 hours away. I can drive there or she comes to my city and delivers but how do you think delivered eggs are? Better than shipped? As perfect as the ones I picked up a mile from my house? And they are $4/egg about. Yikes! I included the link. rarebirdfarm.vpweb.com/

SHipped eggs go thru tumblers and miles of belts-- a ride in a car should be just fine. THe usual should apply: keep them cool and turn 2 x a day. You will have to decide if the price is right. If you look at it based on cost per numbers hatched, it is a good value. WHen your hatching skills are perfected, then go for the exotics that can only be had via USPS.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Funny when the year began I was down to 6 lay hens and was so happy because I had all that room to fill my flock- "I am only going to breed blue hens". HA! so far I have hatched blue chickens but I still bought RIR,Buffs, EE, BR, GLW, SLW and naked necked- but I can justify them all, maybe but the RIR.

 

[misbhaven]

Speaking of eggs I have space in my incubator..swaped for some crested cream Legbar that should come Monday when I move some eggs to the hatche. I think I will have space for 20 eggs can't have that incubators are ment to be full if they are on...