Putting eggs in the bator on July 25, does anyone wanna hatch along???

[cluckitall]

They probably are. The coo is probably what wiped out my garden.

"Okay, you guys distract her while we raid the peppers.... Then we'll distract her while you eat the corn!"

Yeah, this could be bad....

 

[cluckitall]

Hmmm, I guess I do talk to my chickens.

Better make room under that chair, Dandydoodle... me too!

 

[Chicken Tamer]

9 days hopeing at least 8 out of 17 or 16 hatch!!!

 

[cluckitall]

9 days hopeing at least 8 out of 17 or 16 hatch!!!

You and me both, Chicken Tamer!!! We can walk on eggshells together

 

[Chicken Tamer]

LoL SCARED BUT EXCITED

 

[cluckitall]

Yeah, unlike four days ago I am now really nervous because I had that spike in temperature and I can no longer make out a **** thing in my eggs!

On the upside, there are plenty more eggs in the back yard...

 

[Chicken Tamer]

My hen is hatching the eggs and she is going to a great mother I know it!!!

 

[litljenarey]

next time, don't throw the digital out. Put in new batteries. That usually solves the problem

Sorry for not thinking to say that sooner!!!

I threw it out in the bathroom trash, so it was on top and there was nothing else but empty toilet paper rolls. lol. Changed the batteries and ****** if it doesn't work right again.

My one cochin egg thats going into lockdown this weekend is moving. The whole egg. Its the neatest thing I've ever seen. Obviously the temp issues didn't faze him because he's still there and rocking and rolling.

I've got the hatcher running and setting the temps and humidity.

 

[cluckitall]

Oh my gosh litljenary, that must be so cool!!! I wish mine would do that. I can't see a thing in them candling anymore and now I'm all paranoid!!! And yay on the thermometer! Glad you rescued it in time

Somebody please, please tell me I can't order any more chicks!!! I've already got more than I have room for, dang it -- and then I went and ordered a NH roo!!! WHAT was I thinking??? (Well, on that one I know what I was thinking -- I was thinking my cuckoo marans roo, while handsome and good with his girls, is a PITA with me -- I've started calling him "Soup".)

NO MORE NO MORE NO MORE!!!!

 

[cluckitall]

Why I read.... and read and read and read.... Okay, I've never incubated eggs before. Did *I* know you're supposed to candle them big (air sac) end down? No I did not. I was candling them pretty much laying on their side, big end slightly raised, which is how they're set in the incubator. (The idea being to jostle them around as little as possible...)

Well! Here I am reading and reading and on SilkieChicken's wonderful candling thread (which you really should check out if you haven't already) I run across a follow-up post by her (him?) stating to candle eggs air-cell down. So! I shut down my computer, run around and turn off all the lights, sit down next to the 'bator with my flashlight and... Voila! Little squirming all over the place very obvious little preemie chicks!

Well, all except for one egg -- I'm still a bit worried about that one. REALLY dark, air cell much smaller than the others (like half the size), and I was never quite sure if I was seeing movement or whether it was wishful thinking. So I've marked that one and will check it again in a few days. There's definitely stuff in there and it doesn't *look* dead -- maybe it's just developing slower than the others.

Anyway, YAY! Hopefully that will help keep me from deciding I really should get a pair of Rhode Island reds, I mean, they're supposedly *the* premiere brown egg layer short of sex-links, after all, and I don't have any, and I could breed them with my NH roo and get production reds....

NO NO NO NO NO! Sheesh!

And I still don't have any Delawares. I really want some Delawares... Oh, and a gold-laced Wyandotte to go with my silvers....