Setting eggs 1st day of spring..who's with me?

[chickenman17]

I'm putting 42 eggs in my Genesis 1588 tonight. 1st hatch of the year...hoping for a good one!!!

Good luck to everyone else!!!

 

[shellz131]

Got a grand total of 18 eggs in the bator today

what a mismatched bunch they will be but I hope they all hatch

 

[just2rosey]

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Midget, you are echoing some of my experiences. This is my 3rd hatch in my homemade incubator. I finally found a flashlight that will penetrate the blue eggs ( at five below, for $5). I finally have confidence in my incubator ( I no longer get up every 2 hrs at night to check the temps) , I feel like I have its little quirks figured out. I am hand turning, do you have a turner? Good luck, especially with your shipped eggs. Have you tried hatching them upright in an egg carton? I am trying that this time. Lord knows I can't do any worse on the shipped eggs, than the previous two hatches. LOL.

 

[dolly85]

I put 24 brahma eggs in yesterday! I can't wait for little chicks!!!

It seems like no matter what I use to candle the eggs I can never see anything for 6-7 days on my brown ones.

 

[midget_farms]

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Great! Glad we are learning together!

I have only used the egg carton method - I heard too many stories about the eggs getting kicked around. It works well - but don't use an 18 carton. The chicks in the middle row struggle to get out.

I have a turner. It's just a board that I twist from the outside - side to side tipping. It works great. Then for lock down I remove it all together.

I'm hoping for my shipped eggs. I am waiting until day 7 or 8 to candle for the first time. I probably wont see into them because they are so dark.

Heck - I'm having so much fun with this I just today built a grow out pen so I can keep the new chicks moving from the incubator to the small brooder to the large brooder to the grow out pen to the main coop! I've got a real production now!

I have my production stock - & the mixed breed birds and now I'll have 2 pure strains that can mengle with the rest, but when I'm ready for more hatching eggs I'll have to keep them seperate. May need another coop???

Chicken math strikes again!

 

[Mommysongbird]

Put ours in today, March 21 and some more go in tomorrow the 22nd!!

 

[minifarmerct]

Hi there I also set 18 eggs on Sun the 20th 7cream brabanters 4Amaraucanas 6 Marans and one from my own chickens just to see
if I get something. Good luck to all of you

 

[just2rosey]

Well I candled tonight, I know I am rushing things a bit, but I just love watching them grow!

I can't resist candling every few days.

I could see little toes in the batch of eggs due to hatch first, they are seven shipped Ameraucana eggs which I set 10 days earlier, they had some messed up air cells, I tossed two with blood rings, the other 5 are doing great and will go into lockdown Monday. My 13 locally purchased Ameraucana eggs are looking great

, 11 of the eggs are definitely showing a good web of veins

, I think one is clear, and I thought I might of seen something in the last one, so I am going to give it a few more days.

How about everyone else? Has anyone else candled yet? How's it going?

Can't wait to hear the news?

 

[midget_farms]

I was tempted to candle today - but - Im cooking BC Maran's. They are so dark that I really need to give a couple extra days to be sure I'm not just looking at my thumb.

 

[midget_farms]

OK - I couldn't stand it any longer. We are on day 7 right? I candled my shipped half way across the country BC maran eggs a minute ago. 1 was without a doubt scrambled. so 13 left. of those several had clear vein development & several had just all over darkness. 2 or 3 I just couldn't tell what they had.

So 13 still cookin' Here's hoping!