Incubators Anonymous

[gabrielle1976]

Has eveyrone here at IA meet Poof ??


Oh and I have my hatch cam back on line the link is in my sig

 

[Arielle]

Godd morning Poof, you're very cute! Love those cheeks!

 

[gabrielle1976]

Shoot I was gonna give these eggs more time in the bator the ones that havent hatched I just realized though my 3 Norwiegan eggs will be on day 18 tammrow so I have to get ready to put them on lock down. Then the 29th is day 18 for my coocku maran and swedish flower hen eggs. Now I have to figure out when the heck button eggs hatch as well . I think they are only like 15 days but I cant remmber that would make there lock down like the 3rd .. Multiple eggs at multiple dates so close but just far enough apart is a bad thing

I certainly didnt think it through when getting the eggs I have eggs on day 23 I think in the bator but have eggs to put on lock down tammrow the other eggs are sapose to go into lock down on the day this next batch is sapose to hatch

I could hatch the second group in the bator they are in now but then what do I do with my button eggs

If my dang brinsea hadnt been busted I could have the 3 eggs in it or something.

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On the bright side I got cute babies
Poof
Fluff
Toast (Ok not so cute but its not his fualt )
Smudge (again more stately then cute)
Bug is camra shy
These five came from the same person
Then we have
Fudge
Cookie
These are from Crazypetlady's eggs these are the larger chicks then we got some seramas from her eggs aswell.
I havent figured out any names for these guys yet.
Look how tiny they look in my sons hands and he is only 7 lol
these two comeing are almost identicle We also have 11 chukar that have hatched and 6 bobwhite quail so far Im leaveing the eggs in till I need to clean and sanatize for lock down tammrow.

 

[kraftyladies]

Has eveyrone here at IA meet Poof ??


Oh and I have my hatch cam back on line the link is in my sig

poof is awesome! and so are the others too cute!!

 

[ki4got]

if i remember, button quail are 18 days, like coturnix. so if they're 15 now, that's time to put em in.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Thank you eveyrone. The buttons are only on day 5 I just was afraid they would be needing stuff when other eggs did. Im glad I left the rest of the eggs in the bator I have 4 more bobwhites and 4 more chukar. My silkie egg looked really funky so I opend it and it was a full grown chick almost but there was black stuff inside and it was dead so I tossed it , One of my D eggs lookes like what paper looks like when it sits in the sun for a few days then gets wet in the rain. Im gonna guess shell change color is a bad thing I dont know if I even want to try to open that one. When I get rid of eggs after hatching I always open the air cell first to make shure there isnt a late bloomer in there but that one IM not shure IM brave enough for that egg. I think I have 9 chicken eggs left .
just cause they are so dang cute sorry. they are both sneezing some though can chicks catch colds ?

 

[DMRippy]

I found a new egg today! Yeah! It was a Lavender Split..... but she escaped to the Wheaten pen.

I guess she didn't want to share that with her own kind

Good thing I am not hatching for a couple of months. BUT she has lots of sisters the same age.... maybe they will all be laying when I start hatching in August!

My Lavender chicks should increase when they start laying. Odd though... I have 2 Lavenders that are older and they are not even thinking about layer

I may have to slip some eggs in the incubator soon.... I have the Wheatens that started to lay again and if I sell my Cuckoos, MAYBE I should hatch some more from them.... not many.... just what I collect in 2 weeks. AND I think I am going to get roped.... kicking and screaming into hatching some eggs for me and a friend.....dang... that is the hardest wagon to stay on I have ever seen! I can stick to a diet better than NOT HATCHING!

 

[DMRippy]

Thank you eveyrone. The buttons are only on day 5 I just was afraid they would be needing stuff when other eggs did. Im glad I left the rest of the eggs in the bator I have 4 more bobwhites and 4 more chukar. My silkie egg looked really funky so I opend it and it was a full grown chick almost but there was black stuff inside and it was dead so I tossed it , One of my D eggs lookes like what paper looks like when it sits in the sun for a few days then gets wet in the rain. Im gonna guess shell change color is a bad thing I dont know if I even want to try to open that one. When I get rid of eggs after hatching I always open the air cell first to make shure there isnt a late bloomer in there but that one IM not shure IM brave enough for that egg. I think I have 9 chicken eggs left .
just cause they are so dang cute sorry. they are both sneezing some though can chicks catch colds ?

Are you chicks still sneezing? You need to keep them isolated if they are. Chickens don't catch colds.... they have respiratory issues. Some respiratory issues can be transmitted through hatching eggs.

 

[Purely Prairie Polish]

I'm always saying that incubating gives me a bit of a God complex since all I do is add a bit of heat and moisture to an egg that if I had chosen to eat instead would have seemed empty of life.

Today is day 14 for the eggs in my bator and I candled them. Something happened today for the first time in the twelve or so years that I've incubated off and on. When I put an egg to the light, two little TINY feet pushed up against the shell. So perfectly formed already!!! It was no less than AWSOME!!! I didn't even realize they would have such perfectly formed feet already. It's things like that, that cause this to be an addiction!

 

[DMRippy]

I'm always saying that incubating gives me a bit of a God complex since all I do is add a bit of heat and moisture to an egg that if I had chosen to eat instead would have seemed empty of life.

Today is day 14 for the eggs in my bator and I candled them. Something happened today for the first time in the twelve or so years that I've incubated off and on. When I put an egg to the light, two little TINY feet pushed up against the shell. So perfectly formed already!!! It was no less than AWSOME!!! I didn't even realize they would have such perfectly formed feet already. It's things like that, that cause this to be an addiction!

too cool!

and IA.... you are going to fit in just fine.