July Hatch-a-Long (including 4th of July hatch-a-long)

[SnapdragonQ]

You are not the first to fall, I started in this thread saying I wasn't hatching again until next month. There are 82 eggs in the incubator...

82??!! Wow.



Good thing mine doesn't hold that many!

 

[kelseyk]

You are not the first to fall, I started in this thread saying I wasn't hatching again until next month. There are 82 eggs in the incubator...

Haha! And I just ordered another hovabator....I can now hatch 84.....and with all the eggs I just bought, it looks like that is going to happen.

 

[FortCluck]

Haha! And I just ordered another hovabator....I can now hatch 84.....and with all the eggs I just bought, it looks like that is going to happen.

I can hatch the same amount and without the turner I can do even more

 

[Oldhallchicks]

Well, I guess I shouldn’t have gotten all excited about my 6 free BO eggs from the eBay seller that I had bad luck with the first 6.

he offered to send me 6 more free of charge so I was exctatic, as buff Orpingtons are the breed my 7 year old chose to hatch and none of the first 6 made it to day 10.

1 was broken, and 3 were filthy. 2 look like they might be scrambled (which I know is no fault of the seller). So I have 3 that look viable with slightly but not totally detached air cells.

If I’d paid for them or if they were rare etc, I would complain, but as it stands, I just spot cleaned with a little warm water, I’ll put all 5 in and check them at day 7 to see how they’re doing. I know usually you shouldn’t clean them etc, but as my July hatch is with 12 supermarket eggs and these freebies I’m just winging it and not overthinking it.

 

[chickiebaby1]

Looks like they are a pink tinted tan egg possibly. Reading about their temperament won me over. They sound like such fun chickens!

I love my salmon faverolles! Just got 6 more chicks last week to go with my 3 big girls! Hoping for at least one roo so I can hatch my own next year!

 

[TheBajan]

Haha! And I just ordered another hovabator....I can now hatch 84.....and with all the eggs I just bought, it looks like that is going to happen.

So, I'm getting a bit scared. I'm setting 42 eggs (hopefully) tomorrow that are being shipped. I have a DIY incubator that will hold 123 chicken eggs. Do you think it's in my future to hatch enough eggs to actually need a second bator someday? What exactly have I gotten myself into? This seems to be an addiction!

 

[Vantic]

So, I'm getting a bit scared. I'm setting 42 eggs (hopefully) tomorrow that are being shipped. I have a DIY incubator that will hold 123 chicken eggs. Do you think it's in my future to hatch enough eggs to actually need a second bator someday? What exactly have I gotten myself into? This seems to be an addiction!

Well, I think you have to decide that. Instead of filling the incubator all the time you can do incremental hatches, put some in each week. That way you have little puff balls every week and will not need a bigger incubator.

I'm glad to hear someone else has a DIY incubator, that makes three of us. After my comment above, I do have to admit I'm designing my next DIY incubator that will hold as many eggs as a Sportsman 1502..

 

[FortCluck]

Well, I think you have to decide that. Instead of filling the incubator all the time you can do incremental hatches, put some in each week. That way you have little puff balls every week and will not need a bigger incubator.

I'm glad to hear someone else has a DIY incubator, that makes three of us. After my comment above, I do have to admit I'm designing my next DIY incubator that will hold as many eggs as a Sportsman 1502..

I need to make my bator I haven’t even started on it yet. I have a mini fridge that’s perfectly good for it. I just haven’t figured out how I want to do it.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

**snappy sticks fingers in ears...**
La-la-la...not listening!!

 

[FortCluck]

**snappy sticks fingers in ears...**
La-la-la...not listening!!

What, you don’t want to play today? Oh the things you can do to make a chicken empire