Incubators Anonymous

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: HA see oz your nuts too!! proof in the words!

 

[Runawaylobster]

Hi. My name is Vaughn. I am a hatchoholic. Been setting a dozen eggs a week since February. Also been building pens and coops to handle all my chicks. Here are some of my chicks.

I so LOVE those baby polish.... I had some white crested black polish, and they were awesome. my daughters called them Pollys because they said they looked like PollyD with a blowout... I had to give mine away because the other birds would not leave their crest alone and at that time i had only one pen.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

I want to hatch again but I can't because I have no room!!!

(Maybe I'll put an ad on Craigslist soon)

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I have to know what the breed is of that beautiful cheeky chick in your avatar?

That would be a McMurray chick --Mottled Houdans, I got two of them named "Dunder" and "Mifflin" i need to get a roo named Dwight

Here she is at a few weeks older--I don't have a current pic, I need to get one, her head feathers are about twice as tall now and they stand straight up, so cute She was hatched on 03/01

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Here are the current pics

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I want to hatch again but I can't because I have no room!!!

(Maybe I'll put an ad on Craigslist soon)

You could fit a brooder on the foot of your bed, you just have to scrunch up when you sleep...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I want to hatch again but I can't because I have no room!!!

(Maybe I'll put an ad on Craigslist soon)

WHAT?
YOUR BATOR IS EMPTY!!!!!!!
oh Heavens NO!
you people ARE NOT doing your JOB!
911
MKK has empty bator syndrome!

 

[insanity]

You could fit a brooder on the foot of your bed, you just have to scrunch up when you sleep...

Or inside the oven,just eat take-out for three weeks. Plus most spouses will never look there.

 

[foxflower]

I've been following along. I'm a chicken addict/hatching addict in withdrawal because of the killer dog. I have 18 eggs in the bator...lavender ameraucanas, blue cochins, and welsummers. I ordered these because the lavs by request of my daughter. She's a chick addict to. I had trouble hatching last year but am trying again. I have another 22 eggs on order so this better go good! I like hatching because I can get rare breeds but am also frustrated by the losses from shipping and difficulty hatching said chicks. But it doesn't stop me either. Now that's self-destructive, addictive behavior. I back up my hatching by hatchery purchases because I insist on having at least some live chicks when I'm done. Brooding is a bigger challenge for me lately because I have a rabbit living in the brooder we built. Has anybody seen this? look at post #727 https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/6233/brooder-thread-post-pics-of-your-brooders/720 It's my next step until I can build another brooder and find a safe place for it outside. I actually saw this on pinterest first, but not surpirsed it comes from good-ole BYC.

 

[dmboyett]

I am not an Incubator Addict so much as I am a hatching addict. All my roosters are silkies and I am crossing them with Easter Eggers, Speckled Sussex, Partridge Rocks, Favrolles, Delewares, Dominques, and Buckeyes. I got hooked last year when I had some amazing crosses. You can check them out. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.308201755968117.73688.307987789322847&type=3