Set my very first eggs today (due March 24th) - need a hatching buddy!

[easttxchick]

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I know, I was back and forth between the incubator and my chores all evening because I had a temperature spike of 101-very short lived, but enough to have me pulling my hair out!

You will LOVE the Australorps-they are wonderful. I also have 2 SLW hens that at first, were a bit standoffish, but now hang around me and follow me when I'm outside.
Much good luck on your hatch and get some rest or it's going to be a long 21 days for you!

 

[chickenlady81]

I think its going to be a long 21 days for all of us!! LOL

I check my bator every time im upstairs..lol

 

[fordmommy]

I've been popping in here every day reading the posts. You got quite a few poeple here too! Great!

chickenlady81 I got that same bator going too! Packed full too!

technodoll Your humidity I think is fine. If it was around 70% I would take out all the water. I had a problem with it in the beginning too. The instructions tell you fill the resevior at the bottom in the beginnning before adding the eggs and I did. Well- I had humidity in the 70s. I didn't like that for the beginning. Reading on here all the experiences with high humidity in the beginning, they had low hatch rates. You I dumped out ALL the water and now my humidity is right around 40% and a little higher. I like that much better. At day 18, I will see where my humidity is at. I probably will fill the water back up at that time to raise the humidity to 70s %, if it doesn't go up itself.


How's everyone else doing? I sooooo want to candle it's crazy. I can only candle one egg. That is the one that is under my broody hen. She had 2 eggs. One good, one bad. I tossed the bad and now the good has about 6 days left. When I candle it, it 'waves' at us. My 10yr thought that was really cool. He's never seen anything like that before.

 

[easttxchick]

I keep telling myself-NO MORE eggs in the incubator right now, darn it! Every time I pick up one of those Silver Lakenvelder eggs, I am going to want to stick it in the incubator. MUST NOT ADD ANY MORE EGGS!

 

[fordmommy]

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[kid-n-chickens]

Good Morning to all, hope everything is going well for everyone. I added 3 more eggs to the bator yesterday, so now we are up to 9 RIR/Aussie and Australorp eggs and 5 Annaconnas 2 OEG Bantams(will be added tomarrow. Total of 16 to hatch on the 24th. Did have to switch to hand turning these eggs d/t the turner is messed up. Oh well still should be a lot of fun. Good Luck to all.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Ok my eggies showed up today will be letting them rest a bit before putting them in the bator...

 

[technodoll]

My 30 seem to be doing well... got the humidity down to 52%, temps holding steady at 100F...

WHOOOOOO!

 

[Equine_Angel]

JUST GOT MY EGGS! GOing to let them sit for an hour or so and in the bator they go! Unfortunately, the Ameracauna's didn't produce very many...just two, but I got them anyways! How wonderful!!!

AND WE'RE OFF!!!!

 

[easttxchick]

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That's where I'm trying to keep mine is between 52-53%. Temp holding steady at 99

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3chickens and Equine-good luck!