NY chicken lover!!!!

[AmyJ]

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I have eggs ready this week! Lockdown is Tues, So hopefully we will have some chicks by the end of the week! My OEGB also is broody! So she started setting yesterday with 3 eggs, so they will hopefully hatch in March. I hope she follows through this time lol. She sat for 2 weeks last Nov. then gave up, so I had to take over.

Hope everyone else hatching has good luck!

 

[ancona91]

Hello There, AmyJ!!!!!
That's fantastic!!! Hoping you'll awaken to the peeps of fuzzy butts by week's end!!! I think your OEGB will follow through this time.....perhaps she was really young the first time?!? I wish some of my hens or Muscovies would go broody for me!!! Currently my bator if full......but I'll be moving some into a separate bator I use as a hatcher, so I'll soon have more room. I just counted and there are 20 eggs due to hatch this Tuesday. Most look really good...there's only a few I'm not sure about. Will just have to wait and see.
A question to anybody on this thread: Has anyone ever constructed a "chicken tractor"?? And, if so, any sources for decent plans on how to build one?!? I'm looking into it so I'll be able to separate the chickens to ensure purebreds. The ducks are easy. I just use exercise pens meant for dogs to separate them during breeding season.......they don't fly out of them. I use vari-kennels as temporary housing to keep them safe from predation at night......works very well. The chickens, on the other hand, are a different story..........
Thanks!!!!!
Kathy

 

[acire67]

Hi-
This is my first post here. I'm in Dutchess county and I've had my mixed flock of BR, RIR, Wyandotte, and Cochin chickens for about 3 months. We had our first hatch last week, and only one chick survived. S/he seems lonely, and we're looking for another chick or two to keep her/him company. I'm also hoping to get some more eggs to set along with our hens' and figure out this hatching thing. Thanks. Erica

 

[ancona91]

Hi There, Erica!!!
First, welcome!!!! I'm sorry to hear only one chick survived. It sometimes happens.....unfortunately. May I make a suggestion?!? A few years ago I had one very lonely gosling hatch. Another hatch wasn't expected for 2+ weeks.......so I put a small stuffed animal in with her. It made all the difference in the world!! She immediately snuggled up to that small stuffed dog and accepted it as either a hatchmate or a mother. A few weeks later she had all the company she could handle when my ducklings hatched.
There are people on this thread with chicks hatching soon.......I'd check into that for sure. For more suggestions please PM me. I hope I've been of some help.
Kathy

 

[Omani]

I have eggs due to hatch in a couple of weeks. I candled them last night and saw veins in six out of nine. Three were either too dark or too thick for the light to get through. My Husband is going to bring home his big flashlight for me to use. I hope that's enough.
What do you guys do when the eggs won't cooperate? Are there just some eggs that you kind of have to wait and see? I was also wondering if anybody else has a problem with the humidity after you candle. I just can't get it back up. I filled the resevoirs with warm water, since I had it open. This is my first forray into incubating eggs and I'm a nervous Nelly.
BTW..
I have 3 partridge rocks, 3 white leghorns and 3 comets in a little giant incubator.

Thanks,
Sandy

 

[Joyryder]

Hi my hatch date is March 2, only 10 more days, but it seems like forever. I have 6 EE egg, 6 black or blue copper maran eggs, 6 B/B/S Ameraucana eggs, and 6 Buff Orpingtons ( unless the EE roo fertilized them).

Part of my Feb 6th hatch

 

[AmyJ]

It does seem like forever doesn't it Joanne lol. I candled tonight and am down to 5 eggs. I really hope they hatch. I'm just not having any luck!

The pics are great

 

[happyhensny]

We also candled tonight - started with 57 down to 24! Hopefully, these will hatch into EE's and a couple barnyard mixes. Lockdown in Tuesday night.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

I have to candle this evening on the 12 BLRW eggs I have from Baregretchen. They had an extended ride through a snow storm compliments of the post office. Was supposed to be 2 day priority which turned into 5 days and a call from my buddy at the local PO frantic on the long weekend "come get your eggs!" So I am crossing my fingers and hoping...

But on a completely different note I got to drive over to Saranac Lake last night and have dinner with and meet Sonew123 for the first time!!! We figured we'd do dinner since we were planning to drive together to the NE Chickenstock

 

[Omani]

I candled last night and everything looks good. They all seem to have vein type structures in them. When I candled one of the leghorn eggs, I saw this dark, wormy kind of thing wiggling around. Scared the heck out of me.

That's a good sign, isn't it?
They're due to hatch March 6th, give or take. When do you start counting days? I put them in just before noon. Was that day 1 or day 0?
This stuff is harder than I thought.