Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

[JulieNKC]

I got 8 turkey eggs today. My incubator is officially full. A couple of the duck eggs look like they may hatch early though, so I should be getting more room within a week.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

I got 8 turkey eggs today. My incubator is officially full. A couple of the duck eggs look like they may hatch early though, so I should be getting more room within a week.

Isn't full a terrible feeling? I hope to be bringing eggs home tomorrow with me and I'm not sure where I'm going to put them in the bator either, but I'm feeling certain I will figure something out!

 

[JulieNKC]

Isn't full a terrible feeling? I hope to be bringing eggs home tomorrow with me and I'm not sure where I'm going to put them in the bator either, but I'm feeling certain I will figure something out!

It's keeping me off ebay for the moment. I'll have room soon, but I don't want it full when my roo's hormones finally kick in. I really want some chukar or more quail though, and those are little eggs so they don't take up much space. So maybe...

 

[wholewheatchicken]

What do you do with quail?

 

[Peach2u]

I set 14 eggs under a broody on the 5th of March and set 46 eggs in an incubator on the 3rd of March. I had set 15 under the broody on the 28th of feb. But my 4 year old found them. She not sure what she was thinking. But she scattered them everywhere and broke some. I didn't find them for 3 hour. So by then even the whole ones where gone. The high for that day was 30. So a new start over. This is my first hatch year. The eggs I set where from.
Hens: Egg color:
5 Easter egger 3 green eggers, 1 brown, 1 olive
4 Ameraucana's blue/green
1 Black copper maran number 8 on the chocolate scale
1 silver laced cochin lite brown
covered by a Splash maran Roo

Offspring should be olive eggers from the EE's & ameraucanas
Blue copper from the black copper
and a fuzzy blue mutt from the cochin mix that lays dark brown eggs lol

Buffy the Buff Orphangton is sitting on everyone's eggs but her own.

 

[davony's chicks]

Good luck with your hatch!
Buffy is a cutie!

 

[JulieNKC]

What do you do with quail?

I only have a few, and mostly make pickled eggs for hubby with their eggs. I haven't had them long, and they haven't been laying very often though I'm hoping spring will change that. Love hatching them, I'm impatient and they only take 17-18 days.

I set 14 eggs under a broody on the 5th of March and set 46 eggs in an incubator on the 3rd of March. I had set 15 under the broody on the 28th of feb. But my 4 year old found them. She not sure what she was thinking. But she scattered them everywhere and broke some. I didn't find them for 3 hour. So by then even the whole ones where gone. The high for that day was 30. So a new start over. This is my first hatch year. The eggs I set where from.
Hens: Egg color:
5 Easter egger 3 green eggers, 1 brown, 1 olive
4 Ameraucana's blue/green
1 Black copper maran number 8 on the chocolate scale
1 silver laced cochin lite brown
covered by a Splash maran Roo

Offspring should be olive eggers from the EE's & ameraucanas
Blue copper from the black copper
and a fuzzy blue mutt from the cochin mix that lays dark brown eggs lol

Buffy the Buff Orphangton is sitting on everyone's eggs but her own.

What a cute broody. I had a BO go broody last summer and shared a nest with a silkie. They hatched 10 chicks and took wonderful care of them.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

I only have a few, and mostly make pickled eggs for hubby with their eggs. I haven't had them long, and they haven't been laying very often though I'm hoping spring will change that. Love hatching them, I'm impatient and they only take 17-18 days.

What a cute broody. I had a BO go broody last summer and shared a nest with a silkie. They hatched 10 chicks and took wonderful care of them.

Pickles eggs!!! I thought you were eating these little quail

And lucky you, only 17 - 18 days. I am only on day six and I'm absolutely dying over here. I think hatching eggs could take years off your life as you lose a whole three weeks every time just watching the inside of the incubator.
That is a cute broody and what a good momma. I love a momma hen....she does all the hard work. My mommas are treated like royalty.
So I posted all my good news on the wrong thread. That's why I shouldn't stay up past my bedtime on DLS day. I got 10!!!!!!! brand new chickens today and of course they are all adorable. I am only able to tell my family which chicken is my least favorite as the other nine are all my favorite

And I brought home ten hatching eggs: five bantam buff Brahmas and five bantam lavendar Ameracaunas!!!!
****** How do I put these new guys in with my old eggs that are in the bator???? I am willing to go purchase a bator, if I must, but I'm afraid I would mess that one up too as now all I could afford is an LG from TSC because I spent ALL my money on chickens today.
BTW, I think I really stressed my honey out. He left the chicken place with a huge headache...after being there for several hours with me while I talked chickens, even though I was there three weeks ago and said I would be in and out LOL - then needed to go to McD's where he ate like a PIG and got back in the car and promptly fell asleep for the two hour drive home. Woke up when we got here and looked at me like he married an insane alien and said where are we going to put these chickens. I'm like, don't worry, I've got this. Actually, I just wanted to remove him from the situation before he had total meltdown. He helped me make one pen for one chicken. I got the other nine situated on my own. While we were making it I was like, I feel like you're a little upset here...........and he didn't say a word

I kind of took that like I shouldn't be getting another chicken for a week or so, huh?
You can't let a little thing like chicken housing prevent you from buying the most beautiful chickens in the world, can you? I certainly cannot!!!!!!!
So now you can see why it is extremely important I hatch my eggs. Not only would they also be the most beautiful chickens in the world, I don't think I'm allowed to bring another one home

Thanks for your help. I will have to post some pics of my cute little fuzzies soon.

 

[JulieNKC]

I usually end up with staggered hatches. Just don't lockdown until you have internal pips on the first eggs in so you can keep turning the newer eggs until then. Luckily my hubby likes the chickens/ducks/turkeys as much as me. He really likes turkeys and wants a tom, so the last eggs I got were turkey eggs for him so he better not complain. Besides, you got bantam hatching eggs, it takes like 3 of those to make one regular sized chicken so I don't think you got enough,lol.
I candled my EE eggs and have at least 11 developing so far. A few are too dark to see candling, and some I think will be clears but I'm happy with 11. Nothing in my call duck eggs yet.

Another 8 days until I can tell on my turkeys. I should have ducklings from my oldest eggs very soon though, and they are looking great so far!

 

[Peach2u]

I want to candle the eggs so bad. But I don't think Buffy would like me digging around under her at night. At what point do I need give up on an egg hatching if I don't candle them? I stuck 3 under Buffy about 14 hours after the main batch. Also I am not incubating my own eggs. Maybe next year I will. But I found a local guy who hatches and puts it on a web cam. He hatches every weekend. Looks like this weekend is cochins. The kids love to watch them hatch and I don't have to worry about them opening the incubator.
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http://cmfarm.us/cam_2.html