January Hatch Buddies?

[gavinandallison]

My 9 eggs went in to lockdown at 5am this morning!!

 

[chicken-owner-31]

Lifesong, I will keep my fingers crossed for your little one!

I have babies!!!!!!! I could hear loud peeping at 1:00AM, it woke me up! So I went in to see that my mystery egg had hatched! He was playing soccer with his brother's egg, but I didn't want to open the bator so I went back to bed. around 1:45AM I woke up to more loud peeping and Mystery Egg's brother had hatched!

I unplugged the bator for a few seconds and moved it into my bathroom in case the kitty got curious with it on the counter. When I woke up this morning, they were mostly dried and ready to go into the brooder. Cleanup was a piece of cake and now my bator is ready to go again! Hahaha!

PICS!

Let us out of here!

The aftermath:

Colorful babies!

Ready for a closeup?

Short video:

 

[rjs55555]

24 Jumbo Coturnix eggs will be going into lockdown on Saturday. I haven't hatched anything out since I was a kid. The person that I got the eggs off of said her hatch rate was only 30% because of the cold weather. I am hoping for 7 or 8. Incubator has been steady so I should be good.

 

[terrilhb]

they are so cute. I am trying patiently waiting on mine. Went into lockdown last night at 8pm

 

[terrilhb]

Here are 2 pics of my eggs in lockdown.

. Sorry there is a glare. Through the window. Just wanted to share.

 

[chicken-owner-31]

Thanks terr! Yours will be here before you know it!! What kind of incubator is that? It looks neat!

 

[terrilhb]

Thanks Tuper. It is a still air incubator 9200. It is stryofoam. We got it at TSC. How are yours doing?

 

[chicken-owner-31]

I will have to check that out next time I am there. There was a hovabator on craigslist here with the turner for $50, but I didn't call about it. Kicking myself now, of course....I want a bigger bator! Hahaha!

The boys are doing great! I want to cuddle them so bad, but I"m going to wait until they are al least 12 hours old out of courtesy.

 

[Lifesong Farm]

I have 2 chicks hatched, 1 2/3 hatched, 1 1/2 hatched and a 5th that just pipped 2 hrs ago.

 

[IdealisticRoo]

I set 85 eggs on January 1st, so today is day 18!

I candled last night WITHOUT lifting the eggs, I have never done that before, but in a dark room it worked great! I just put the candler on top of each egg and did not bother any that had veins showing. Several had no veins so they got a closer inspection, so 7 more got removed.

I am down to 16 eggs out of 85! I have bad luck, especially with shipped eggs! Not like I needed 85 chicks, but...

1 Mottled Houdan egg
1 Black Breasted Red Phoenix egg (I hope its a boy!)
2 Silkie/ serama mix eggs (Not sure why, oh, yeah, because they were only 99 cents [+$16 shipping lol])
9 Lavender Ameraucana over E.E./Silkie mixes (Local eggs, this is 9 out 15)
3 E.E. eggs from my own pen

I hope some hatch!

I think I am going to use wrapping ribbon to tie the hovabator closed with a large sign that says "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 23RD!".

I have 7 eggs (4 E.E. & 3 Barred Rock) that go into lockdown on the 23rd, I know that's cutting it kinda close, but my plan is to pull the 7 eggs out of the setting incubator and quickly put them in the hovabator whilst (hopefully) pulling out the hatchees that are ready to go!

I just set another 6 dozen eggs last night, I figure volume is the way to increase my hatches lol! I am learning lots and having fun, so I guess there could be worse things to be doing!