Setting eggs 4/27! Who's with me!!!

[Habibs Hens]

Lol only in Alaska does life go on normally you put this much snow anywhere else in the US and the people will have pure pandemonium. Like the world ended. Really hilarious stuff to see on the news as we drive around on ice 90% of the year.

Holy smokes you have the whole set up! That's like 1000+$ worth of brinsea equipment! You must take this really seriously or have a really good job.
*looks at little 6 egg el cheepo dasp warily*
I'm saving the really good incubator my RCom mini for the turkey eggs I should be getting today.

This is my set up I'm ushering the incubator to slllloowly bring the eggs up to temp because the heat in my house fluctuates so much.

I take my chicken very serious and I love it

that's only half my setup

I also have a brinsea mini advance EX that was £250 and the Candler is the high intensity version and also have an over scope and another brinsea octagon 20 DX precision

all in all that's not $1000 but rather £1100 worth of stuff which is about $1700

next I will be buying a ecoglow 50 as the ecoglow 20 is too small and have to run 2 heatlamps one it out of the picture there

your setup looks cool too

its a nice setup less is more I say

 

[allsummedup]

* jaw drop*
I wish I had half your budget! that would be spectacular! Its most peoples dream set up and it looks so clean!

Lol well "less" is definitely what I would call my set up.

I've loved chickens since I was a kid. The neighbors bought meat birds one year and said i could play with them. One in particular I got super attached to and they gave her to me. i named her eggnog and she went everywhere with me. horse back riding biking walks you name it. with a good diet and tons of exercise she lived a long time and even managed to give me an egg on a regular basis. i even took her 2 years running to a pet tricks show and won first place twice in my age group. Once for hoop jumping and once for basic obedience (sit stay come). People were so surprised by a chicken being smarter than a rock I guess they felt they had to give me a ribbon. We really cleaned up in the costume contests though. man those werw the days. eventually we moved though and I had to give her up. She made some other little girl very happy for another two years before she got eaten by a fox.
Now that I'm 23 I've come back to the hobby might even start a farm in the next couple of years providing i can ever find a good bit of land and the start up money.

Sorry about the rambling. Do you do shows? Which breeds do you have?

 

[Habibs Hens]

* jaw drop*
I wish I had half your budget! that would be spectacular! Its most peoples dream set up and it looks so clean!

Lol well "less" is definitely what I would call my set up.

I've loved chickens since I was a kid. The neighbors bought meat birds one year and said i could play with them. One in particular I got super attached to and they gave her to me. i named her eggnog and she went everywhere with me. horse back riding biking walks you name it. with a good diet and tons of exercise she lived a long time and even managed to give me an egg on a regular basis. i even took her 2 years running to a pet tricks show and won first place twice in my age group. Once for hoop jumping and once for basic obedience (sit stay come). People were so surprised by a chicken being smarter than a rock I guess they felt they had to give me a ribbon. We really cleaned up in the costume contests though. man those werw the days. eventually we moved though and I had to give her up. She made some other little girl very happy for another two years before she got eaten by a fox.
Now that I'm 23 I've come back to the hobby might even start a farm in the next couple of years providing i can ever find a good bit of land and the start up money.

Sorry about the rambling. Do you do shows? Which breeds do you have?

my setup was a whole year of begging the wife to let me have a room in the house

that room is one of the bedrooms dedicated to chick hatching and yes keeping it clean is vey important as the smell can build up

its good as last year I had them in the shed but there was less interaction now in the house the kids can see them regularly

infact they go in there as look at them when ever they feel like ( a few times I have fallen asleep on the floor next to them watching them LOL)

your not rambling at all infact I enjoyed reading your story reminds me of my wife and her chick that she raised and grew attached to may years ago

I have kept chicken on and off for about 30 years (well my dad started 30 years ago and I enjoyed going to markets with him and raising them)

im currently on the hunt for a farm house cottage myself as I want to expand to livestock sheep and goats and cows

right now im in an unban city so im on thin ice with the chicken as it is.

Currently I keep and breed as hobby

when my kids are a bit older I may start showing and let my kids be in charge of that (its a good way to teach them responsibility)

I have a lot of Hybrids I like them for their hardiness and laying ability

then my Pures are Cream Legbars, Araucana, French Marans, recently got a Polish, Brahma, and Vowerk I did have Orpingtons and Asils but they passed away

London Hen is dropping off a Legbar to me today and he has Light Sussex (Columbians) and I asked him to reserve me one for when they are ready for sale.

all in all I have approx. 25 layers 25 chicks in pic above and 48 in incubator

also I tried Geese but they where not ideal for my location so I got rid of them and had ducks which my neighbours cat had fun with and decided not to replace them yet

 

[Habibs Hens]

Hows the hatch going

mines going pretty good

only got 1 infertile and 1 iffy so far

 

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I've got my little setup in my bedroom closet area. Two incubators and a brooder just chugging away. The humm of the machines is actually doing wonders for helping me fall asleep. Almost like rain on a tin roof.

Glad I've got someone who likes my stories. Sorry it took so long to reply I've had a busy few days in other thread and around the house preparing for a spring that it seems will never come :/
Snow on may first can you believe it? And it's supposed to snow some more later this week.

I'm in kinda a rural area Like I have to walk to get to my dry cabin so basically the middle of nowhere. No codes or neighbors for me to upset.

I never got to do actual poultry shows as a kid. So I hope to enter in the local fair this year if I do we'll enough I might make the trip to the state fair. Hoping I can get my little brothers involved but they have kind hit the "I'm a teen and everything is dumb stage."

Oh marans lay those beautiful deep brown eggs right? I thought about getting a couple if my other hatches work out well enough.

How did the chickens you were getting from London hen work out? Did they integrate into the rest of the flock well?

I thought about a goose but the people I've been talking to on here turned me onto a breed of ducks called Muscovy's instead. i guess they are spectacular for eating Bugs and weeding gardens. So I have 6 lavender and 6 French white eggs coming in may

The BLRW eggs day to candle is Friday so we shall see if its going well or not In less than 24 hours

*fingers crossed for growth!*

Also on the 30th I put some turkey eggs in my other incubator. Pretty excited about those as they are a mixed heritage breed. Royal palm and . . . I forget the other golden something.

2 out of 48 sounds like really good odds to me. Congratulations.

 

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Okay so I couldn't wait and candled tonight 1 out of six of my eggs has obvious progress the others don't seem to have developed at all.
Now do all the eggs if put in the incubator at the same time generally progress at the same rate or will this be the only development I see?

 

[Habibs Hens]

Okay so I couldn't wait and candled tonight 1 out of six of my eggs has obvious progress the others don't seem to have developed at all.
Now do all the eggs if put in the incubator at the same time generally progress at the same rate or will this be the only development I see?

WoW your stories are so cool

im like that I have my computer on all the time and with 15 120MM fans its like a lullaby

I once turn't it off and couldn't sleep it was just way too quite for me

some people are the opposite and find that noise keeps them awake

I used to have 15 geese and 7 Ducks up until last month

the geese where just too loud and I like in an urban town so they had to go

and the Ducks where killed by my neighbours cat. Ruddy thing managed to get into the Duck House which now lays empty

Muscovys was one I was considering but decided against it as they are yes quitter then geese but at around the same size and perchers they need larger houses to keep them and I don't have that space right now



eggs will all develop at the same time but they will look different when candled, some will be clearer then others

marans eggs and green eggs can be hard to candle at the best of times so don't worry just yet

day 14 is the day when you will pretty much be sure what s what


yes Marans lay a Chocolate Eggs

planning on breeding some chocolate Hybrids. I have a theory it should work as I tried it with Blue egg layers and that worked perfect


Right now i'm going to be specialising in Cream Legbars. Got some eggs from Emily De Gray Line of Birds and asked Jill Reese for some eggs

The Emily line will be set on Saturday (tomorrow)

eventually if all goes well with LondonHens I will also start breeding Light Sussex and eventually try my hand at the RARE Coronation Sussex

So far my Eggs are doing well 23 of them due to go into Lockdown this sunday

 

[RachaelS]

I did have Orpingtons and Asils but they passed away

Hi Silverfox! I am so sorry the Asils did not make it, I know they mean a lot to you

How funny, I seem to meet up with you each hatching season! This year I was NOT going to hatch any eggs. Then I sold 2 hens to this really neat family up the road from me. I know they can teach me so much, when I left I felt guilty for taking their money. However, they did have Seramas, which I could add since they are so small. So I offered to buy a dozen for the amount I sold the two hens for. He gave me 16, I put them in on April 28th. Then silly me looked up more info on Seramas.....AND there was an auction on Ebay.....AND I ended up putting 7 more Seramas and 7 Silkes (a bird I swore I would never own

) on May 3rd.

The problem, Texas weather is doing odd things and I can't keep the bator warm. Pretty sure most of the original 16 are not going to make it, my fault not the eggs. We will see.

Yes, if we have snow in Austin the whole town shuts down. However, when it gets to 110, it is just another day. So look at the three of us on this thread, 1 Alaska, 1 UK and 1 Texas, don't think we could get farther apart if we tried.

 

[Iluvmallards]

Hello everyone I am originally from Wyoming, I now live in North Carolina, I think it is funny that if there is even a mention of snow flurries here everything shuts down and all the milk and bread is gone from the stores, I haven't figured out the bread and milk thing yet! I have RIR setting on eggs now due on the 7 th of may, a silkie hen that started setting on her eggs may 3rd and I just put 8 pilgrim goose eggs in the incubator today, this is my fist time trying to hatch goose eggs, I just love the pilgrim geese I hope they due well, I hatched around 2 dozen mallard ducks last year, someday I would like to visit Alaska and the UK and australia, I prefer cold weather, I like hot weather as well without the humidity, any suggestions would be very appreciated on the goose hatch, it's been interesting reading everyone's posts here

 

[Habibs Hens]

Hi Silverfox! I am so sorry the Asils did not make it, I know they mean a lot to you

How funny, I seem to meet up with you each hatching season! This year I was NOT going to hatch any eggs. Then I sold 2 hens to this really neat family up the road from me. I know they can teach me so much, when I left I felt guilty for taking their money. However, they did have Seramas, which I could add since they are so small. So I offered to buy a dozen for the amount I sold the two hens for. He gave me 16, I put them in on April 28th. Then silly me looked up more info on Seramas.....AND there was an auction on Ebay.....AND I ended up putting 7 more Seramas and 7 Silkes (a bird I swore I would never own

) on May 3rd.

The problem, Texas weather is doing odd things and I can't keep the bator warm. Pretty sure most of the original 16 are not going to make it, my fault not the eggs. We will see.

Yes, if we have snow in Austin the whole town shuts down. However, when it gets to 110, it is just another day. So look at the three of us on this thread, 1 Alaska, 1 UK and 1 Texas, don't think we could get farther apart if we tried.

Hi Racheal nice to talk to you again

yes I miss my Asils will get more in future right now I got other breeds im having fun with

I just set another 6 eggs CLBs on 4th may

incubation and chicken keeping in infectious, they need to give this illness a name LOL

cant wait to see your hatch results

I just went into lockdown 23 eggs out of 24 one bad