Incubators Anonymous

[LilyD]

I just realized that I have 6 more days and my first hen starts hatching. Going to have to move her before then so the others don't mess with the babies. Wow it's going to be a busy week. The other two hatch out on the 20th so I will move them as well. Hoping I can put them all in the same place so that they can raise the babies together. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

[gabrielle1976]

5-6 days and my first 14 chucker eggs will hatch . I wonder why chuckers its 23/24 days and not just 23 or 24 days

 

[Just reebok]

I so totally would be a member of incubators anonymous IF I could just incubate, hatch, and give them right back to the "owner". I would be a surrogate bator as it were.. This has been a good thread!

 

[Arielle]

My latest batch is hatching. Two FBCM from the darkest eggs first, then many of the BO pipped. and now everyone is pipping.

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

 

[gabrielle1976]

Go go babies let go . GO go babies lets go

 

[DMRippy]

Tomorrow is lockdown for my first batch of BLRW, Marans, Cuckoo Marans, Super Blue Egg layers, Splits and Lavs, Wheatens, Barred Rocks, Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, .... I think that is it.

One more hatch in 2 weeks and I am DONE till the fall. This is going to be hard..... I can do it... I know I can

 

[farmgirljd09]

I've got my very first hatch due on June 7th also. How exciting!

super!

how neat, i think i was a lil off on the date as i went from memory for the first time-

stupid, i know and NEVER again!!!!! because i have two pipping already, a blackstar and a buff orpington....oops!

congrats on your hatch!

and good luck!

 

[ki4got]

ok well, i think broody is a contagion... my self blue went broody, then my blue partridge (cochins btw), then my 2 black/self blue girls kicked blue out of the nest and took it over! then i found one of my dorkings taking over the nests in the horse trailer, and one of my EE's is awol (seen twice today, but not in the coop for bedtime). the ONLY cochin egg i got today, was from my white pullet! her first. LOL

hatched out 3 of the blue partridge/mille's chicks today with 2 more from the black/self blue pen. the first one did a good stevie wonder impression, wobble wobble side to side then fall over backwards for a few hours, and was totally normal by the next morning. but the name 'stevie' stuck. so now stevie has 2 sibs, aka stevie nicks and stevie ray vaughn. LOL yeah i like music. 8)

just counted up what's cookin'...

8 coturnix 7-Jun 5 black/sb cochin 21-Jun
7 birchen cochin 15-Jun 7 EE/dorking 21-Jun
14 mille/partridge cochin 15-Jun 12 coturnix 20-Jun
4 black/sb cochin 15-Jun 5 silver grey dorking 26-Jun
1 colx dorking 15-Jun 7 ameraucana 26-Jun
2 auburn turkey 22-Jun 5 guinea 3-Jul
9 welsummer 21-Jun 5 royal palm turkey 3-Jul
9 mille/partridge cochin 21-Jun

then there's the eggs from swaps i haven't got yet. LOL about 20 cochins from one, and more cochins from another. yeah i like cochins. 8)
oh and my red dorking eggs that should ship out friday.
guess i need those broodies after all.

ETA: note to self... draw up a design for a broodie condo... what would you all do?

 

[jandrusrn]

My latest batch is hatching. Two FBCM from the darkest eggs first, then many of the BO pipped. and now everyone is pipping.

EEEEEEEEEEKkkk! I just loved that day..... We're only one week in and I just can't wait for the next batch to do their thing. I've gotta say, there's some eggs that I'm dying to bid on from the 24 hour thread. I think it's just to keep the pipping and hatching going. While I'm quoting you... I might as well ask, am I out of my mind to be hand feeding a little guy/girl and splinting/booting feet for him? I've been using baby parrot formula/weaning from that now to a mixture of plain yogurt and chick starter. Stanley (we were watching the Kings win at the time of his first feeding) seems to be perking up and we took the boots off today. She's getting around on her own, and starting to get her own water, but not interested in pecking for food yet. Am I mental?