Incubators Anonymous

[TeaChick]

Good ive had three broodies since last time i saw ya.


And i have two currently.

Sounds great!!!
I'm working on a Cochin flock. I have three Bantam females (two pullets and one hen). I also have a buff Orpington pullet; hopefully she goes broody for me eventually. =D

 

[Pennychickens]

How soon when you hear peeping do they hatch?

 

[ladycat]

How soon when you hear peeping do they hatch?

I never timed it, but I think generally within 24 hours.

 

[calichicken]

How soon when you hear peeping do they hatch?

I never timed it, but I think generally within 24 hours.

X2

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Every month I go through that >>>>>>

Every month. How fun. If I did that, my family would disown me.

I hear chirping in my incubator today.

Hi, my name is Tea Chick, and I'm a hatch-a-holic....

I currently have five eggs in a box-ubator.
DH is going to get me a Brinsea in a couple of months, but I couldn't wait.
I have one egg from each of my laying hens in there; I set them on the 20th, and I expect them to hatch Aug 9th. =)

Does anyone mind if I join in???

You can jump in with me, Alaskan and Calichik too. We have a hatch a long thread for those due around Aug 8th!

 

[calichicken]

Every month. How fun. If I did that, my family would disown me.

You can jump in with me, Alaskan and Calichik too. We have a hatch a long thread for those due around Aug 8th!

Welcome to the hatch TeaChick! Plenty of "hatch-a-holics" to keep you company here!!!!!

 

[gander007]

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Well Puddin Fluff, she stomped and thru a fit back in 2004 saying something like that and gave some kink of demand and something about leaving and I gave her money for a bus and we have not spoken sense,,, but it is nice and quiet now and I use her room to store poultry supplies and the boys help he take care of the chickens, ducks, geese, guinea so it really worked out fine

 

[Sylviaanne]

I used regular apple cider vinegar. The lovely thing is that it is already at a 5% solution straight out of the bottle. Says so right on the label. The easiest source of Vitamin C is Fruit Fresh. Unless they have changed their ingredients it is powdered Vitamin C aka ascorbic acid. In that case it would take some calculation to make the solution the proper 5%. That was another reason that I ran with the vinegar I already had instead of buying the Fruit Fresh. I haven't made a proper measured solution from a powdered chemical and water since I had Organic Chemistry over 30 years ago.

If I ever decide to do it, it will probably take a week of research to find the instructions for making a 5% solution. Well Ask.com can probably spit out the answer for me in about 2 minutes. It will be a week of poking at an unused part of my brain to understand the directions again.

One thing that the vinegar does help with on the super dark eggs: Because it takes off the brown the eggs are easier to candle!

Sorry, that your chicks didn't make it but did you dip and incubate or did you dip, rinse and incubate? Also, did you dry before incubating or put them damp into the incubator? Oh, and did you heat the acv or just room temp? Are you going to try again?

 

[Pennychickens]

Egg is cracking

 

[TherryChicken]

No eggs for me to hat h for a while