Setting Eggs 4/17! Who's With Me?

[texasgal]

gives me hope .. lol. I'm just on day 21 though, and have 3 chicks and one pip.

 

[Starryneedsmorebators]

on day 18 here locked the bator down and filled the other up LOL. I have 45 chicks in brooder boxs i need to list for sale. I have my sons building breeder cages. So i will be happy when that is done and all my rares are paired off.




Good luck all keep us posted


Starry

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Yeah!!! So happy to see the baby pics!!!!

Today is day 21. No pip or peeps as of yet.....

I'm getting antsy!!!!!

Someone asked if they can add newborns to 3 wk olds. I would put the newborns in a brooder by themselves for a few days until you are sure they are eating and drinking ok. Then try and put them in with the older ones. There may be some pecking the first day, but just keep an eye on them to make sure no one is being too aggressive. If there are one or two older birds being really mean, remove them (the older mean birds) and keep them by themselves (not together) for a day, a time out basically. Then put them back in with the group. If they are still agressive, remove them for 2 days and then try again. Good luck!!!

 

[EggSpudition]

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Nothing here either- not a pip, not a peep. Starting to get very nervous..

 

[beckymom3]

I'm day 20 with a batch of Exchequer Leghorns, Mottled Houdans and some local barnyard eggs (very productive mixed flock) to fill the incubator. I woke up to 1 cutie freshly hatched, one of the local eggs, of course, not the expensive shipped eggs! Went out for a feed store and breakfast taco run, came home to a second barnyard egg hatched! 2 mutt chicks cheeping away. I refuse to open the incubator, keeping humidity super high to prevent the problems I had last hatch, fingers crossed. I really, really want those Leggerns and Houdinis to hatch, having several quitters from both and an entire batch of Buckeyes not develop (all the purebreeds were shipped eggs). Of course, hard lesson to learn, those local eggs do so much better. Those barnyard eggs were collected, put in an egg basket, packed in a carton and sold to me for eating and I just put them in the incubator just for the heck of it (trying to test my methods) and, lo and behold, 11 of the dozen made it to lockdown. Son of a gun.

 

[Mrs. Feathers]

The baby photos are so cute!!! Thanks for posting. I am sitting with 3 pips....the first one 12 hours ago and the other two when I was at work so unsure of time. I am always going to plan weekend hatches. So exciting to be able to be home to watch the action (or lack of at this point).

 

[Freebie]

I had one hatch today!!! not expecting that at all. I have 2 more pips. I am soooo excited.
pics coming soon.

one more hatched and two pips. so now I have two millie fluer and another one pip. then one barnyard mix has pipped as well. ohhh, hope I can get some sleep tonight.

 

[sgtmck1]

third day of lock down and nothing

 

[outback hatcher]

Its day 21 and so far 8 of 11 RIR and 1 of 5 Welsummers with 2 pips.

 

[sgtmck1]

I got a pip