Second time around - Ameraucana eggs !

[littledirtlane]

Lol - Yep, I turned them once tonight and will be turning them 3 times a day I guess...they feel nice and warm and slightly moist, I think there may be some hope - haha. I just really don't know what kind of chicks they are going to be...I saw the neighbors chickens and he showed me the hen that the eggs came from and there are 2 roos - he says they are leghorns...but they are red? Are there red leghorns? The roo was gorgeous and multicolored, the female was shaped like a RIR but was a lighter red color...they are heavy layers and produce brown eggs...I thought that Leghorns produced white eggs...I don't know...I could have misunderstood him - I am always doing that...this is my VERY FIRST hatching experience...I am stoked! Happy to have some nice company!

 

[Kansaseq]

Leghorns do come in brown, but lay white eggs. The birds you saw may have been New Hampshires. Sounds like your eggs are a mix of good egg-layers, so should be productive and have a good chance of going broody. Hybrid vigor can be a very good thing.

 

[littledirtlane]

Oh - they are not my only chicks...I have a silkie (hopefully she will be my babysitter), an Australorp, 2 Standard Cochins, 1 Bantam Cochin, 1 EE, and my little girl begged me for the sweet little Cornish X. So I am going to have quite a little flock!

 

[Kiwibird]

littledirtlane I am fascinated with the way you are incubating. If it is in a room that keep stable temperature it should work. You know the way many people use a cardboard box with a light over it as a brooder? I heard from someone who also incubated with that set up, successfully! They turned the eggs, only once a day, with wet hands. Wet hands were the only concession to any need for humidity! I didn't dare ask their hatching rate, but they did have some hatches - enough to do it year after year for about 10 years I gather. Your own set up sounds much more promising!

All the best

 

[littledirtlane]

I hope it will work! I have the eggs in the same room as my brooder. I should not even be allowed to call what I have a brooder, but it is working lovely. I have my eggs and babies in my walk-in closet. It is the size of an average bathroom. I have a 100watt bulb in the ceiling and I have a 125 Watt heat lamp hanging down...The room stays at 90 degrees. With the lamp over the eggs I have gotten them temp at 99.5 - it is fluctuating slightly, but not too bad. I am hoping that I get at least one or two hatches...I have 5 eggs, so I can't be too picky...lol...Thanks for the story...now I am at least a little mor hopeful...

 

[momma's chickens]

momma's chickens :

I set the 12 Ameraucana eggs I won from Dipsy Doodle Doo guessing game contest, plus I purchased 5 black and blue barred rock eggs from her. I also set a buff / rhode island red for a friend and four of my BBS Orpingtons eggs. I have two buffs in that pen also though. 20 eggs are in there cooking.

Today is day 2.

Littledirtlane, I am wishing you the best with your hatching method!​

 

[littledirtlane]

Yay! Good Luck to you too - I just put a thermometer in my little basket and it is amazing! The temp was exactly 99.5 degrees....I am so excited I don't know what to do with myself!!

 

[Spinster_Sister]

My hovabator is working well adn my eggs are little buns beginning to rise ( i hope ) how is everybody elses's little gems? I tried to add a countdown ticker to the thread but it doesn't work so here goes a manual one.....

18 DAYS

 

[littledirtlane]

My temperature keeps fluctuating...so I don't know if I am going to have any little ones hatch...I could have cooked them

The temp was 101 for 30 minutes at least yesterday before I got to it...I broke down and ordered an incubator, hopefully it will be here by Wednesday and I can try it the real way, lol...I am so cheap.

 

[Spinster_Sister]

only 101 at 30 minutes...they will be ok.....my temp use to jump around from 96 - 103 and i still hatched.....it can be maddening though!