Setting and hatching in December? Come join us! - Holiday Season hatch-along

[starlingsbaby]

i have a buff orph sitting on 12 eggs right now, hatch day is the 26th. and i am ordering my first bator on the 13th and i am so excited. and as soon as i get im going to fill it up. lol. I have 19 hens and 2 roosters right now.

 

[starlingsbaby]

This is one of my roosters on the bottem and a pic up top of some of my beautiful girls. enjoy!!!!!!!

 

[nanasbitties]

Yep I am right there with ya set 42 eggs yesterday we will have New Years babies....OOH-RAH

 

[bigbangrooster]

I have an egg that should hatch on the 15th (My birthday).

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Ive got the coolerbator coming up to temp now, going to move all the hatching eggs to there so i can work on the ultrabator tonight... so pretty much I'm purposely going to allow 60+ eggs to chill while I work.

 

[Little Wing]

OK. I've got the hatcher cleared out and cleaned so I can move eggs from the incubator into it to make room for the NYD hatch along. I will have to turn them by hand for a couple of days but that's OK. Tomorrow I'm setting 30 eggs in my cooler-bator at noon I did get one new chick from my broody splash marans today. She just keeps hatching and I keep taking them. I have gotten about ten from her so far and there always seems to be at least 12 eggs under her. Wonder how long she will keep this up? Should I just let her keep going or should I make her take a break?

 

[Little Wing]

Ive got the coolerbator coming up to temp now, going to move all the hatching eggs to there so i can work on the ultrabator tonight... so pretty much I'm purposely going to allow 60+ eggs to chill while I work.

Work fast! Good luck!!

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

waiting for my kids to go to bed before i dive into it. But I'm running laundry back there so the eggs wont have quite the temp shock.

 

[chicken pickin]

Night of day 7 and I candled again to check on the ones I marked as question marks. And tonight out of 21 eggs I have 16 good eggs with great veining and most with embryo movement and then I have 5 eggs that are clear/infertiles. Im happy so far, though I was wishing all 21 were fertile. I wont candle again til day 14(I even gave DH my flash light so I cant peek early lol). I will dispose of my 5 clears come day 14 since I am not comfortable declaring them clear just yet since its only my first time incubating.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Upgrades complete. had to adjust the plans on the fly. 2x 225w heating elements. heating indicator light. 3rd turning rack. check. Now I'm hungry and ready for sleep