Jan. 21st hatch day! I have chicks! Pics Added pg 12!

[Madcap621]

May I join late? I am in MD - leaving for home in TN tomorrow with 6 [maybe more?] new hatchlings from a setting of 47 eggs on the 9th of Dec. Still have 17 in the bater. Candling showed 17 non-fertile, 2 early quitters and 17 apparently fully developed but non-hatching. Seven were rotters

Only 5 hatched yesterday. I was crushed with so few from nearly 4 dozen eggs!

No progress by the 17 this am, but I discovered that several had been added to the setting later in first week. We were gone all day, got home to still nothing. When we came in from caring for cousin's chickens I looked and found a pip! An hour later a new Salmon Faverolle!!

We were planning to open one of the "duds" to see what was going on!!

NOT!

I have been given 2 Hovabater still air bators & an egg turner & my cousin's husband is loaning me a converter so that I can take the remaining 16 home in a working bator plugged into the van! I will give them another week.

All of this to say that I am also taking 25 eggs - hopefully fertile - home and hope to get them into the second bator on Monday, the 4th. This will be my first try on my own so could use support

 

[erthymom2]

I set 16 mixed eggs 1/01, 14 GLW mixes on 12/31 .

 

[TK Poultry]

sounds like there will be all kinds of hatchin' goin' on right around the same time!!! this is my thrid time with the incubator so im pretty sure of myself now but anything can happen cross your fingers for me and hope we all have good hatches

i only set 4 eggs so i hope for a great hatch

GOOD LUCK

 

[gvntofly05]

Oh it's gonna gets busy!

There are going to be lots of babies born around the third week of Jan.

Well on to day 2! Temps are still perfect sitting at 101.5 at the top of the eggs and 99.5 on the mesh. Humidity is holding at 35%! Turning 3 times a day!

 

[LaSombra]

Well, I hatched out one lonely EE chick last weekend and mom is still broody so I put several more eggs under her on Tuesday (all from different hens, my own barnyard mix). The egg took an extra couple days to hatch the last time so my hatch date is probably the same as all yours

I candled this morning and they're all looking promising at this point. One of them, I could actually see the heart beating. It was so cool

I'm going to have some more eggs coming in the mail next week so I might have to invest in an incubator because I don't think momma can handle that many eggs

especially staggered. I haven't ever used an incubator before, though... Maybe my australorp will go broody in the meantime.....

 

[TK Poultry]

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thats funny ive never used a broody!! lol i dont have any breeds that go broody! EE's Bantam EE's and Bantam Ameraucanas aren't the most broody breeds in the world! so i might try to get one more breed that actually goes broody like an austrolorp or maybe a mallard

 

[LaSombra]

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thats funny ive never used a broody!! lol i dont have any breeds that go broody! EE's Bantam EE's and Bantam Ameraucanas aren't the most broody breeds in the world! so i might try to get one more breed that actually goes broody like an austrolorp or maybe a mallard

My broody is an orpington. She's only 6 months old and already brooding

I've read that sussex are great brooders, and silkies also. I'm planning on getting a couple speckled sussex girls this spring

 

[dovecanyon]

My eggs arrived today, so I'm joining one day late. Here they are:

Top two on the left are BLRW. I'm really excited about them. Hope I get one roo!

Possible parents:

Hens:
Jersy Giant
Buff Rock
Sliver Laced Wyndottes
Easter Eggers
Cuckoo Maran

Roosters:
Easter egger
Rose comb RIR
and Turken

Blue Laced Wyndotte hens are pullets and have just started to lay.
Hens are splash, blue laced and 1 golden laced
Rooster is a splash

 

[spikennipper]

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thats funny ive never used a broody!! lol i dont have any breeds that go broody! EE's Bantam EE's and Bantam Ameraucanas aren't the most broody breeds in the world! so i might try to get one more breed that actually goes broody like an austrolorp or maybe a mallard

My broody is an orpington. She's only 6 months old and already brooding

I've read that sussex are great brooders, and silkies also. I'm planning on getting a couple speckled sussex girls this spring

Pekin bantams are also excellent broodies

 

[TK Poultry]

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My broody is an orpington. She's only 6 months old and already brooding

I've read that sussex are great brooders, and silkies also. I'm planning on getting a couple speckled sussex girls this spring

Pekin bantams are also excellent broodies

thats what i hear and i didnt know that about sussex i would like one of my chickens to go broody once just to have to experience and to see a mother hen rear chicks by herself