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

[chicken pickin]

I am a frist times with a homemade incubator and three silkie eggs on there 11th day. This is what happens when your pregnant and bored lol So far every thing is coming along great, yesterday I saw movement in all three eggs and good looking air cells! My only problem is my eggs are do Christmas Eve. Think my boyfriend would understand skipping my first Christmas with his family to stay with hatching eggs?

LOL I would hope so... Mine are due Christmas eve also but thank goodness Its at my house this year so I can keep an eye on my eggs. CHristmas Day is with My husbands family and if I have a few stragglers I may just have to skip his families this year

. We will see, he may get upset he already thinks Im obsessed with my chickens as it is. I know Im chicken crazy I dont hide it

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

15 of 16 that made it to lockdown hatched

including my very first maran egg. had one mutt pip and die. It happens. Soon as they are dry i need to wipe down the hatcher add more water and move over the next set lol fun never ends

 

[chicken pickin]

15 of 16 that made it to lockdown hatched

including my very first maran egg. had one mutt pip and die. It happens. Soon as they are dry i need to wipe down the hatcher add more water and move over the next set lol fun never ends

15 out of 16!!! that is so great. I hope im that lucky

 

[Little Wing]

Out of 13 that were supposed to hatch tomorrow, 3 hatched yesterday, 4 hatched today so far and 6 are left with no pips.

 

[Little Wing]

Thanks since everything im hatching is coming from my flock, and other npip clean farms they can be banded without direct testing. They gave me registered bands to finish banding the rest myself. Now if i aquire other birds I will have them tested at a seperate location before they are allowed into the flock. Most of what Im hatching now is freezerbound anyways but Ill have pure breeds hatching out for the nyd hatch

Thats going to be a full freezer! Thanks for the info

 

[Runawaylobster]

I hear tweets but no pips eggs don't rock yet...... i read somewhere that the hatch temperature
was supposed to be lower, but this info didn't appear everywhere, what do you guys think?


one just pipped while i was typing...!!

 

[TherryChicken]

I can't WAIT till it's time to check my bantam eggs, I'm crossing my fingers that atleast some are ok from the ship

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Thats going to be a full freezer! Thanks for the info

No prob

I hear tweets but no pips eggs don't rock yet...... i read somewhere that the hatch temperature
was supposed to be lower, but this info didn't appear everywhere, what do you guys think?

my hatcher runs at max a degree cooler then my incubator. give them time to do their thing and make sure your humidity is high enough

 

[Runawaylobster]

Humidity is a bit over 85%.

I just bought a roasting chicken for dinner, I have to make sure they don't think
it came from outside LOL!!!!

i will get meat chickens one day but i'm not quite ready to go there yet.!

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

try to bring it down a bit. I dont like mine to go over 70%