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So you have WLR and Whites coming?

I would hatch in and incubator with shipped eggs anyway, especially Cornish eggs. They are very susceptible to shipping damage. Ask Fairview01 about how he would incubate shipped eggs. I think I only hatched 2 out of the 17 eggs he sent me because I had an accident with my turner and flipped the eggs.
 
Redhead Rae said:
So you have WLR and Whites coming?

I would hatch in and incubator with shipped eggs anyway, especially Cornish eggs. They are very susceptible to shipping damage. Ask Fairview01 about how he would incubate shipped eggs. I think I only hatched 2 out of the 17 eggs he sent me because I had an accident with my turner and flipped the eggs.
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The wlr are here ( yesterday) going in with the turkey eggs today. They should hatch the same time.
The whites should be here next week. They will get their own incubator
I would like a broody to raise them. Or at least some
 
Molpet said:
The wlr are here ( yesterday) going in with the turkey eggs today. They should hatch the same time.
The whites should be here next week. They will get their own incubator
I would like a broody to raise them. Or at least some
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I've had good success getting broodies to take incubator chicks, with one exception. Hopefully you have someone go broody in the next 2 weeks. I have a Chocolate Orp who is broody right now along with a few others who are flirting with it.
 
Redhead Rae said:
I've had good success getting broodies to take incubator chicks, with one exception. Hopefully you have someone go broody in the next 2 weeks. I have a Chocolate Orp who is broody right now along with a few others who are flirting with it.
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I had one broody last year that hatched some turkeys and left the pipped chickens. Another broody,set at the same time, abandoned her nest. I put those in the incubator... So I put the pipped in the incubator with the hatching turkey and chickens. A day later I gave her a turkey and a chick... next morning she said this one is different and tried to keep it from the food and made it bleed..
But I played music chicks last year because I had a bunch of broodies in the heat and only a few had any hatch.. one hen hatched 12 and everyone got a chick. LOL
 
Redhead Rae said:
So, our experiment was successful. We woke Thing 1 after he'd been asleep for about an hour and 45 min instead of waiting until he woke on his own or until 2.5 hours. He was asleep by 10pm instead of 11. I was asleep shortly after 11pm. It was lovely!
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Gotta love sleep!
 
Redhead Rae said:
So you have WLR and Whites coming?

I would hatch in and incubator with shipped eggs anyway, especially Cornish eggs. They are very susceptible to shipping damage. Ask Fairview01 about how he would incubate shipped eggs. I think I only hatched 2 out of the 17 eggs he sent me because I had an accident with my turner and flipped the eggs.
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Most folks wait 24 to 48 hours to let the air cells settle and then incubate.
 

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