March Hatch-Along Thread- Come Hatch With Us!!!!!

[annabell254]

ok...so I have been waiting for weeks for my silkie girl to go broody so I could get some eggs.... I finnally broke down and bought an incubator so I did not have to relie on my girls.... it came yeasterday and I purchased enough eggs to fill it... they should be here this weekend..... .SOOOOOOOO guess what I found today... my old english hen and my cherry egger are both broody!

so now I have two hens sitting and 24 eggs on their way... Oyea... maybe DH wont notice.... hehe

 

[mjanderson437]

... maybe DH wont notice.... hehe

Good luck with that! Last night mine told me he was going to stage an intervention for me. I told him as long as he has more tattoos than I have chickens, no intervention is needed!

 

[mjanderson437]

Oh, and don't talk too much about cherry eggers...I'll get all interested and look it up and then want some!

 

[TarheelBirdy]

Oh, and don't talk too much about cherry eggers...I'll get all interested and look it up and then want some!

WAIT, WHAT?!

 

[Annemarie]

Yipeee I'm going into lockdown 13/12 (tomorrow).. Congrats on all your new babys they look so sweet

 

[Annemarie]

HELP PLEASE... Can anyone please give me info on incubating call ducks?

 

[mjanderson437]

WAIT, WHAT?!

I got all excited thinking it was a chicken that laid reddish eggs, but its a RIR cross. I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved!!

 

[Cynthia12]

So my bator looks like a popcorn popper. I have chicks pipping, zipping and hatching:

Is this what I will be seeing if mine hatch Brook? They are soo blue. ) What is GSBR? Congratulations!

 

[Brookhavens]

HI, Have to start 7 pages back to catch up...............
Need to do that later....................
Two things real quick
Of the three eggs.I have 2 beautiful English Orp. chicks.
Lost one and I know I could have saved it but over slept.
It had a nice pip,was chirping when I went to bed..........humidity drooped to 45 over night.
Pretty sure that is why it didn't finish.??????? or , maybe never know????
Having a horrible time with the humidity dumping in the middle of the night?????
Need to reevauluate to find the reason.

Also.changing servers to DSL so should be able to post pictures soon.........
Will catch up later.........

I have an extra sponge in mine just for night time. Before I go to bed I let the humidity drop to about 60% then add some hot water to the sponge until it gets to the the high sixties. As soon as I wake up I know it it going to be around 60% so I warm some water and get it a little higher. Once I started doing it this way I haven't had to worry about the humidity when I went to bed.

 

[Brookhavens]

First chick of March! It wasn't even the one that pipped first!