Hi everyone!
I received a new incubator for Christmas, and I was itching to use it, so... I started it up.
It holds 22 eggs. So far, it has done well holding temperature at 99.5 (I have a second thermometer in there to be sure). Humidity was a bit difficult to figure out, and seemed to fluctuate a lot before I set my eggs, so I moved it to a different location, and it's been better.
I have a few really funky mixes to hatch:
I have a Rhode Island Red/Polish mix hen from last summer, in a pen with silkies and a silkie/frizzle cochin mix.... I checked a few of her eggs to see if they were fertilized, and they were, so I put three of her eggs in the incubator.
In another area, I have a blue laced red wyandotte roo, and I have a black copper maran hen and a blue copper maran who both lay dark brown eggs. I put 3 of their eggs in the incubator.
The rest are silkies, and frizzled cochin/silkie mixes. I had a red frizzled cochin roo in a pen with a white silkie last summer. I hatched 3 of their eggs. I have a mostly black with a gold neck hen, looks very silkie-like, but smooth feathers, an all white smooth feathered hen that looks like the silkie, and the male, who is very silkie-like, but red smooth yet some are slightly silkied looking feathers. There are also white, blue, splash, black and blue partridge full-blooded show quality silkies. I'll be separating them all soon for the spring, just easier to care for them in our cold winter in one large pen.
Let's see what we get! 18 days left
I received a new incubator for Christmas, and I was itching to use it, so... I started it up.
It holds 22 eggs. So far, it has done well holding temperature at 99.5 (I have a second thermometer in there to be sure). Humidity was a bit difficult to figure out, and seemed to fluctuate a lot before I set my eggs, so I moved it to a different location, and it's been better.
I have a few really funky mixes to hatch:
I have a Rhode Island Red/Polish mix hen from last summer, in a pen with silkies and a silkie/frizzle cochin mix.... I checked a few of her eggs to see if they were fertilized, and they were, so I put three of her eggs in the incubator.
In another area, I have a blue laced red wyandotte roo, and I have a black copper maran hen and a blue copper maran who both lay dark brown eggs. I put 3 of their eggs in the incubator.
The rest are silkies, and frizzled cochin/silkie mixes. I had a red frizzled cochin roo in a pen with a white silkie last summer. I hatched 3 of their eggs. I have a mostly black with a gold neck hen, looks very silkie-like, but smooth feathers, an all white smooth feathered hen that looks like the silkie, and the male, who is very silkie-like, but red smooth yet some are slightly silkied looking feathers. There are also white, blue, splash, black and blue partridge full-blooded show quality silkies. I'll be separating them all soon for the spring, just easier to care for them in our cold winter in one large pen.
Let's see what we get! 18 days left
Best of luck hatching!
