Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[Lotsapaints]

Well we still have wind windchill going to be 26 or less they're calling for snow flurries tomorrow AM I don't think so we haven't had snow in a long time 1989 I was looking at the pictures....my chickens can go skating in the morning I couldn't get all the water off the mats not deep enough to pump so it's going to rain again this weekend I'm sending it east Kathy enjoy

I candled my eggs this is what I have in lock down:

Incubator #1

4 Midget White turkeys I'm very excited about these they were wriggling (1 more was a quitter)

6 swap eggs RIR I think maybe Barred Rocks I can't remember (3 were not good)

6 Indian Rivers to even the incubator out.......

Incubator #2

4 Cuckoo Marans too dark for me to tell I think one is not good....

13 Indian Rivers (3 were quitters and 2 were clears)

So 33 total left

 

[kathyinmo]

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Yea, that's a REAL surprise now!

Those temps are fine. Why ya messin' with them? The HovaBator will recover. I always feel if you are within 1 degree (above or below) you are doin' fine. I don't mess with mine. As a matter of fact I haven't even checked it for dayssssss!

 

[Mahonri]

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I REALLY want all of those eggs in the hovabator to hatch.

I'm imagining less than 20 chicks now. I hope Laree does better than me. Happy New Year.

 

[GoneHomeGrown2]

Ok, got them locked down. 10 into lockdown with 2 that I doubt but are hopefuls. 4 quail eggs went in too, but I did not count them in my originals and added them a day or so after the other quail eggs that people did for the NY hatch, so they dont count for the contest, but hopefully some cute fuzzies.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I do NOT want it, thank you very much! NO, no, no!

I see Brandon had 5 pips before he went to bed (your Indian Rivers).

 

[Mahonri]

I'm imagining my first pip Friday afternoon at about 6 or 7PM

Positive thoughts......

 

[kathyinmo]

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Oh yes, and it WILL be an Icelandic! I just hatched 6 of 6 of them today!

 

[Mahonri]

Just had a violent shower go over. I've got to get some sleep!

 

[wolftracks]

just markin my territory so I can catch up later

 

[dsqard]

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Good luck with that since there are two and a half pages since I stopped checking last night.

Laree so sorry to hear about your rooster.

Steve you might be right, 8000 might be too low!
Kathy I DO NOT want to hear about it being in the 50's in MO!

I just can't belive the differenct 900 miles north makes. We are at about the same elevation that we were in AZ so it is not that. I have been walking in a mucky, muddy mess for weeks. My pens for both the horses and the chickens have been wet and muddy since the week of Thanksgiving. The only time the poor horses get a chance not to walk around in mud is when it freezes. UGH The chickens don't mind the mud but won't walk in the snow. I guess I will have to get out there later today and shovel their pen. I don't have any hopes that this place will dry out until March or April

SCG I am in the same boat as you. I am not seeing any rocking and rolling and my eggs are too dark for me to know for sure if they were viable at lockdown. I think I might have seen a couple wiggle when I was transferring them to the egg carton for lockdown but nothing since. I am just trying not to worry about it too much. All of the eggs in lockdown were very dark (hoping that means they were full with a chick) with good air cells. I haven't had temp spikes and humidity up to yesterday stayed at 40% and other than losing power for about an hour early yesterday morning, it has been a very quiet incubation. I just worry that I did something wrong and I won't have any chicks on New Years.
Well time to go stare at the bator for a bit. Just give me one wiggle please!