Miscellaneous Meeps - Hatching my Dreams

[2ndTink]

Good morning, chickadees! Let's put some fuzz on those butts! (OK it's a little early for fuzz but let's be aspirational XD)

Yes! Let's at least get some veins going so I can start peaking

 

[fluffycrow]

The Brinsea Advance and the EX are now at exactly the same temperature!

Here is the day's trend for the Advance
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And the EX
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Do you have a link for this thermometer/hygrometer. The one I wanted to buy doesn't seem to be available within the EU

 

[fluffycrow]

Oh my gosh, where are my manners

! Apologies, been a long day. Thanks for the tag, Tink! Excited to see the next fluff balls hatch!

 

[2ndTink]

Do you have a link for this thermometer/hygrometer. The one I wanted to buy doesn't seem to be available within the EU

Yes! Here it is, this one is just Bluetooth, they have wifi ones too, but we don't have wifi sooooo.... lol.

Govee Indoor Hygrometer Thermometer 3 Pack, Bluetooth Humidity Temperature Gauge with Large LCD Display, Notification Alert with Max Min Records, 2 Years Data Storage Export for Room Greenhouse, Black https://a.co/d/gk5yMkI

This should be the Amazon link.

 

[2ndTink]

Oh my gosh, where are my mannersView attachment 3763938! Apologies, been a long day. Thanks for the tag, Tink! Excited to see the next fluff balls hatch!

No worries! Welcome, it's so nice to have you!

 

[fluffycrow]

Yes! Here it is, this one is just Bluetooth, they have wifi ones too, but we don't have wifi sooooo.... lol.

Govee Indoor Hygrometer Thermometer 3 Pack, Bluetooth Humidity Temperature Gauge with Large LCD Display, Notification Alert with Max Min Records, 2 Years Data Storage Export for Room Greenhouse, Black https://a.co/d/gk5yMkI

This should be the Amazon link.

Thanks for the link, I'll see if I can find it on amazon DE. Seems rather big, sooooo ummmm, dumb question of the day: how does it fit in the incubator?

 

[fluffycrow]

No worries! Welcome, it's so nice to have you!

Thank YOU for having me!

 

[Chive]

As I'm heading into my second hatch for the year, I wanted to begin a thread documenting this hatch, and hopefully future hatches, as well as follow my grow outs. I'm working to get a few pens set up to breed silkies to the SOP and also begin a journey with Swedish Flower Hens and Ermines. We will still have a mixed layer flock and likely a few totally adorable bantams, we currently have 2 little Ameraucana bantam chicks and may have a few more hatching out to join them soon!

I have 10 silkies growing out from two different breeders that are 8 and 14 weeks old give or take a week or two, 1 light blue, 4 splash, and 5 silver based black from paint breeding.

In January I hatched out 5 silkie chicks from a breeder, 1 chocolate, 1 chocolate paint (say what!?!!!!), 1 blue, 2 blacks, 1 splash, 3 Swedish Flower Hens, and the 2 Ameraucana bantams, a bunch of silkies from my flock and a couple layer cross chicks. The hatch % was very low, maybe half the eggs I set were viable, and I had more quitters than I was expecting. I have since changed the feed (at the start of winter I moved them to an organic feed, and found out that it didn't have much in the way of vitamins for my girls), and I'm not using the NR360 where most of the quitters happened which was were the bulk of the eggs from my flock were. I had the breeder's eggs in the Brinsea and only had 1 quitter per breeder's set of eggs.

I set the following eggs this morning:
13 Ermine / black
20 SFH
16 extra special silkies from @Debbie292d (there was 1 egg-trocity by USPS)
8 Fizzy the EE / Black Australorp
4 Fizzy the EE / Barred Rock
1 Dark Brahma
8 Chonkers / EE
4 Chonkers / Brown eggs (BR, BA, RIR)
11 Blue satin / chocolate
12 Blue satin / blue partridge
2 Ameraucana bantams
6 D'Uccles
3 D'Uccles / silkie

It is still early in the season so I'm not sure what % will start, we will know next Saturday!

My dream is to have breeder / show quality silkies in black, blue, splash, maybe a paint at some point, and for fun, chocolates. I also plan to hatch out these Ermines and SFH's and work on setting up, small, but high quality, breeding pens for them as well. The Fizzy / BA chicks should be great layers, the BA's are my oldest hens and still laying well as 4 year olds, and the EE hens Fizzy came with are also very consistent layers, so I'm hoping for very healthy and consistent layers that will lay some shade of pale blue or minty green.

How exciting!! I will definitely be watching.
Good luck!
Thanks for the tag!

 

[2ndTink]

Thank YOU for having me!

Any time! And feel free to share Cruella pictures

 

[fluffycrow]

You sure you want to give me that kind of power

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