rookie with an incubator

[kathyinmo]

Kathy,
what kind of chickens do you have?

New Hampshires
Barred Rocks
Delawares
Icelandics
Silver Laced Wyandottes
Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
Ameraucanas (Wheaten, Black, Lavender)
Orpingtons (Imported from England)
Coronation Sussex
Jersey Giants (Blue, Black,White)
Brahmas (Buff Laced, Gold Laced)
Black and Blue Copper Marans
Easter Eggers
pair of Chocolate Orpington bantams (Imports)
projects (creating Delawares- F3s should be on the ground in the spring)

 

[chickaroo3]

Beautiful....just the person I need to talk to...lol... I am looking for a quiet calm breed that is friendly...do brahmas fit this description? Also what about speckled sussex

 

[kathyinmo]

My Brahmas are just growing out. I have no full grown ones. I have heard the same thing.

I don't know anything about the Speckled Sussex.

Friendly, calm, quiet breed..... that describes my New Hampshires. Well, alot of my birds, actually. I think alot of it is not so much the breed, but the strain you get.

 

[chickaroo3]

Are your brahmas bantam?....do you sell fertilized eggs or chicks...if. so what breeds

My wife and I have 3 10 week old silkies and it looks like 2 are gonna be roos. We agreed no roos...we live in town so quiet is good lol

 

[kathyinmo]

My Brahmas are not old enough to lay yet. They are large fowl, not bantam.
I don't generally sell hatching eggs. I hatch and ship chicks of some breeds.

 

[chickaroo3]

Wow they are beautiful.....yeah you had said they weren't old enough....what breeds do you hatch and ship that fit what I am looking for...

 

[kathyinmo]

I am on a recruiting mission (to win a prize) .

Please join the annual Mahonri Easter Hatch, and go to this thread and tell them I recruited you.

 

[chickaroo3]

I will join and say you recruited me ,but I don't have any eggs to hatch

 

[chickaroo3]

Alright Day 5 moving into day 6...Things have smoothed out...

but i have to say that is is one hell of a test of my patience!!!!

I want to candle....GRRRR I wanna see if there is anything in there....I know kathy...I am not gonna touch them...I am sittin on my hands and taking your advice... I am waiting til day 10 or at least as close to it as I can handle...LOL I guess I will spend the day working on the new coop... COOP-MA-HALL

 

[lavmom]

I just put 30 egg in my incubator for my first hatch. I'm excited and nervous. The temp is 99.5 and steady, but the humidity is at almost 70. Is that ok?