January Egg Swap ~~~~ HOW WAS YOUR HATCH? ~ PLEASE REPORT!!!

[JAPJRGIRL21]

The ones from Orange Park, FL were from me. So glad they made it safely!! Yes, you are correct. They are New Hampshires. Please enjoy!!

 

[donnie]

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kool , i got a new breed to check out now woo hoo

 

[karaokechick]

I got Austrolorps from Donni & EE from Idealisticroo! THANK YOU both for SO MANY extras!!!

I apologize for the min. amount of eggs (6) I shipped, but we had another horrible front for Southwest Fl causing the girls to stop laying and I was also afraid to wait any longer to ship.

....my girls keep going on strike every time it gets chilly, hoping I'll spring for Central Heat & AC for their coop!!

If either one of you want more eggs let me know...They are laying again. Argh

I sent Donnie the White Leghorns
and Lisa I sent Delaware Hens/Marans Roo & Black Star Hens/Marans Roo

 

[IdealisticRoo]

I hope everybody else is as happy as I am with this egg swap! I think the fact that no one knows what they are getting means no one is disappointed as long as they get something.

I would like to share my incubating saga with you all, I apologize if I get long-winded, but I am lonely and trying to stay out of the room with the incubators because there is a chick in there that "NEEDS" my help and I am not going to mess with it! (anymore) I think it will be fine, but it has had a rough time of it. I think my humidity dropped too low when it was hatching (maybe because I opened the lid to turn the egg so the chick wouldn't drown).

I have ordered so many eggs on ebay in the last 3 months I have lost track. I know the total number of eggs set including ebay, my own, and BYC eggs is more than 200. I have had 4 hatch, 1 didn't make it, so I gave its sibling away with 26 hatchery chicks I sold, 1 is struggling as I type and 1 happy tiny little Lavender Ameraucana is doing well in an Isolation tank inside my brooder with my 2-week-olds.

The list of eggs I have bought on ebay. So far I have not hatched a single egg that has come from ebay. The 4 I hatched came from BYC-ers.

12 WCB Polish eggs
8 Bantam eggs
14 barred rock eggs
15 black cochin eggs
20 BBR Phoenix eggs
13 mixed bantam/ serama eggs
8 bantam Araucana eggs
8 FBC Maran eggs
4 RIR eggs
and here my memory gets a little rusty so the ones after this are from memory, because ebay will only go back 60 days.
14 White leghorns eggs.
9 Barred rock eggs.
18 Barnyard mix eggs
12 E.E. Mix eggs
8 E.E. eggs

and at least 60 of my own E.E. eggs, of which I have hatched 1, the one that is currently struggling. I have 2 more due tomorrow.

The BYC eggs - I have gotten 33 from Daisychick and 30-ish from Lanae Cash of Cash's Blue eggs in California. And the egg swaps from this thread!

I took my homemade incubator (the TVbator) apart today and put the wafer T-stat back into my second hovabator. The homemade unit was a combination egg dehydrator and egg cooker! Maybe with the hovabator with the turner running as my setter and the other one as a hatcher I can get my hatch ratio up, because I am at 1-2% rate right now. Colorado is SOOO dry in the winter, add a heating unit and you have DRY!

Well, goodnight all, I hope all your temps are stable, your humidity close and your eggs fertile!

 

[elieugene6]

well I really hope you get something to hatch this time. I can vouch for the fact that my eggs are extremely hard to kill. I have had temps all over really low humidity, turning issues and still get a few to hatch each time. I finally got the homemade Bator fixed and a new hygrometer. I set 10 of my own right after I sent yours and have 9 out of ten developing. As for chick vigor I have never had one die that has hatched out
I believe that everyone that has gotten eggs from me has gotten at least a couple to hatch.

 

[renegaderidgefarm]

I Have Opened The February Egg Swap!!! Sign Up Now!!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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What? No link?? You expect us to LOOK for it???

 

[IdealisticRoo]

Well, folks, I am out of the game on my January eggs.

If there is anyone with Turken mix eggs, I would love to buy some, I can't swap any more, because my old rooster got mean and got rehomed and his replacement is a wus lol. I don't know is wrong with him, He came from a Bachelor pen, maybe he did not get the memo about the "standing on the hens" part...

 

[math ace]

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LMAO - -

- - - Maybe there are just too many choices now and he doesn't know where to began . . ..

OR maybe he is afraid of living up to the previous roo's standard.

 

[renegaderidgefarm]

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What? No link?? You expect us to LOOK for it???

Come on Shelly - I'm a busy woman!! I make sure it stays bumped to the top and easy to find.