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

[Roxannemc]

My RIR are almost half way through the incubation, on wensday they will be. Can't wait till these hatch!! Only have 7 eggs in a 24 egg incubator cause my others were ruined . However I'm getting in more from members here hopefully by wensday or thursday and HOPEFULLY the mailing process won't be so harsh to them.

for all.

 

[Little Wing]

i'm envious... I have tried to get my girls interested but they are just too grown up (even though they both live at home), I showed one
the chick moving around while candling a couple of days ago and she said it was creepy!!!

to them it's just another one of
Mom's crazy projects. How cynical we become as we grow.

HAHA my grand daughtetr is the same....... my odd grandma and her dogs and chickens
She lives here,.
I found since i have gotten older never turn down an opportunity to learn a new thingI try and impart that when i can.
You never know when it may come in handy later in life as life takes you down paths you never expected in your wildest dreams. or mine has for sure.

Anyway My grand daughter likes to see if they star cracked but the novelty is wearng off for her....13 ....WAY too many important thing to do.
She does like to do the eggtopsys usuallly Shes into bones .
Would LOVE one of mine to be interested in just one hobby i have only becuase then they would become experienced in a new thing but hasnt happened so far
I am so thrilled to hear or see of a child who has an interested in some hobby like this. or any new experience
... With chickens there is the art of hatching, chicken caretaking and feeding, (feeding has incuded fodder and fementing.) and carpentry A LOT!!!
.I am learning myself every day

OK. I have to show off a little....This is Elvis helping me (PaPaw) feed chickens. He is only two so by the time he gets a little older he will probably grow tired of it. Especially when he realizes I was using him for free labor.

(His mom is going to shoot me for letting him go into the coop barefooted!)

 

[bellaboo1]

I have a small still-air Hovabator and have a dozen set, due Christmas eve. I just bought a large Sportsman cabinet incubator (will set 200 standard chicken eggs) and I need to clean and sanitize it. Planning on setting my next batch in it. Kinda new to the incubator thing, so any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Right now we have about 2 dozen chickens - RIR, barred rock, golden, silkie, OEBG, and mixed. Plus we have a pair of Cayuga ducks and a pair of Pekin ducks - both pairs producing a lot of eggs. Definitely going to try setting some duck eggs in the next batch.

 

[Roxannemc]

I got curious and decided to candle tonight at I guess what would be concidered day 5 and 1/2. I set 21 eggs last mon morn(the 3rd) and when I candled tonight 16 had very good veining, 2 seemed clear and 3 I cant really tell as the eggs are a little darker and a little porous. OOOOHHHHH Im so ecxited!!! Im barley into this hatch and Im already planning my next one. I love this

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SOOO addicting.....!Like cocaine..once you do it ...cant stop!! A rare person does. Hatch cocaine

 

[Runawaylobster]

Aww so cute!!

, ya know feet are easier to wash than shoes LOL!!!!
He sure was efficient, straight in and straight out!!

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

I have the same problem and ditto to all you said Momma
All the ppl on BYC and in swaps here but hard to find ppl anywhere close to me with breeds i want So Odd!!
Most are 2 states away....so order from BYC or Ebay
HAve to even if the hatch rate is low.
I idid also do what Marine did .....drove 3 1/2 hoiurs one way for some rather expensive eggs
Only way i would pay that better chance to hatch.
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Haha yeah, better to waste fuel then let the post office kick em around

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

I have a small still-air Hovabator and have a dozen set, due Christmas eve. I just bought a large Sportsman cabinet incubator (will set 200 standard chicken eggs) and I need to clean and sanitize it. Planning on setting my next batch in it. Kinda new to the incubator thing, so any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Right now we have about 2 dozen chickens - RIR, barred rock, golden, silkie, OEBG, and mixed. Plus we have a pair of Cayuga ducks and a pair of Pekin ducks - both pairs producing a lot of eggs. Definitely going to try setting some duck eggs in the next batch.

Sportsman holds about 280-290 large chicken eggs (depending on the trays)

 

[jafo]

That is too weird!! I am not an old soul on here but this is the first i have heard of 15 days
What kind are they?I have heard of 17 days I dont think the constant temp would do that to that extent as most ppl on here dont open the bators much and some not at all. but who knows.?
What else could it be?
Super fast growth harmones? HAHA
If it were set a little too high maybe day 17. His are a whole week early
though

I know, a hen naturally is like 21 days give er take one. The chicks are RIR's with a Golden Laced Wyandotte roo. ( he was bussier'n I thought! )

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

2 bantams have hatched 22 others i took to the brooder yesterday.

 

[mommaclucker]

Did you post on BYC on your states thread and mention your looking for hatching eggs? You might get some relplys that way. No better place to search for eggs than on a chicken website lol.

Yep I sure did lol I would just really love to try to hatch fresh eggs but I may just have to wait till my own girls get to laying there to young yet and im still holding on to my boys to see what ones Id like to be the chickie daddy