Need A Hatch Buddy.. Anyone Setting Today 2/26?

[calgal98]

My broodie.......goat......hatched quads today...does that count???

 

[theberlinfam]

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No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80356_photo.jpg

Good luck on your hatch!!!

Awesome pic!! What kind of light are you using?

Thanks!! It's a small LED flashlight that I received from Incubator Warehouse. Works well on the Silkies, but not too great on my Silver Laced Wyandottes.

 

[milakegrl]

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Abosolutly!! Congratulations!

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

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Good Luck!

Wow.. 48

chickiemamma,
I also set eggs on the 26th, I set 30 eggs. Been saying its 50 but have NO clue on how I got that number. Must have really been tired the night I got them

6- barred rockXwelsummer
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6-RIR,
2 unknowns
12- Eater Eggers, Think they will lay blue and green eggs.

and thinking of adding 2 my other bator to see how well it wrks. Its an Old bator. They do not make them anymore. Its a Leahy Favorite Incubator. nice redwood cabinet with windows on side and front, Turn knob for the temp control. Have it at 100 for the past several days and 20% humidity. So think I will place them in there and see how they do. I will do it Friday so hopefully they will start hatching then. Day off that day.

Good luck on your hatch.

deana

 

[jlgoinggreen]

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[paddock36]

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and no pictures?

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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I will be hatching in a different bator. eggs are transfered when they go into lockdown. I also have 30 silkie hens so if anyone goes broody they will get eggs from the bator. I start them and the girls finish them whenever possible. I set eggs in the bator and under a hen at the same time. that way if the hen has any duds I can replace it with good eggs that are at the same point of development. I figure if a girl is going to sit still for 3 solid weeks, she should get all the kids she wants. If I get a bad first time mom I take the babies and put them with mine.

Sounds like you have the perfect system going there; good for you!

Silkies are my absolute favorites. In fact, I have one that sleeps in the laundry room every night in a crate, and then goes out to free-range during the day. The other hen was coming in with her, but she's since taken up residence in a small coop/run we have and is sitting on 4 eggs. I was beginning to wonder if she was going to actually stay broody, but she's been at it longer this time than any other (going on day 5 now), so I have high hopes for her. She's young, but I think she's finally got this broody thing figured out

I'll be pulling my eggs from the incubator and putting them in the new hatcher that DH made for me this past weekend. It's a small wine refrigerator that I found on Freecycle, and will be the perfect place to hatch the eggs, since it has a big glass door on the front where we can watch all the action. He's going to add a shelf inside tomorrow night to hold my water tray, and run some tubing to it from the outside, and then we'll be all set when it comes time to move these eggs over

I love my silkies too. hubby bought me these 2 as a birthday present last october. can't wait to see their chicks.

I always make my broody girls sit on wooden eggs for a week to prove to me that they are serious. 5 days sounds good though

I would love to see a picture of the hatcher. it sounds great.

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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what color are the showgirls going to be?

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

I'm frustrated with the temperatures in my incubator. They are so drastically different from top to bottom on all 3 thermometers. Four if you count the one on my digital hygrometer, but I don't count that one because it was lower than the others when I set the incubator up and equalized it. I'll definitely be adding a fan to my incubator when I buy one of my own... I just want to know the temp in there!!!! Some still might hatch, it's only been 24 hours after all. I think it's about 100-F in the center, so I'll keep hoping.

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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it is to early! what color are your eggs? some colors are more difficult to see.

EE - lt blue, olive-brown, pale bluegreen, half are quite porus. I can see most of the air sacs, and the yolk but nothing like viens. I also think the incubator may have been too low for the first, like 3 days (I'd love to hear feedback on how serious this is- temp around 97 prob).....I'll wait it out. Thanks for the encouragement tho!

I usually candle before I set. If the eggs are porus, they go in the fridge. the darker colors are more difficult to see veins. maybe at 97 they did not start to develop or started slow. on a hot summer day eggs don't start to develop in the nest box. I hope they are just a little slow.