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

[RachaelS]

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

What not Texas???

Yep, bread and milk goes quick. Not sure why either, I guess I can see the bread, but milk? If the electricity goes out the last thing you want is spoiled milk! Wow you have a lot going on. Sorry can't help with the geese, I have only hatched chickens. I really want some ducks and quail.

 

[RachaelS]

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

I have 2 CLB hens, they lay GREAT!!!!! Thinking of getting some more. WOW 23 out of 24 is GREAT!

 

[Habibs Hens]

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

Wow you have quite a lot going on

I have kept geese but never hatched them but there is a post in stickies by Pete55 that explains it all

you know what they say its harder to cool down then it is to warm up

o prefer the cold as I can put on extra layers to warm up

but in the warm once all the layers are off

what more can you take off

What not Texas???

Yep, bread and milk goes quick. Not sure why either, I guess I can see the bread, but milk? If the electricity goes out the last thing you want is spoiled milk! Wow you have a lot going on. Sorry can't help with the geese, I have only hatched chickens. I really want some ducks and quail.

Bread for ya toast and milk for your tea

and eggs in ya backyard

its the staple diet

 

[Habibs Hens]

I have 2 CLB hens, they lay GREAT!!!!! Thinking of getting some more. WOW 23 out of 24 is GREAT!

I have 2 pullets and 2 cock birds they have parented 8 that hatched on 19th April and another 12 in lockdown today and another 6 going into lockdown on 8th May

and then another 6 just set yesterday

all CLB the 6 that I set yesterday are Show quality from a recognised breeder


im pretty good with hatching now I get 99 % hatch basically every 24 eggs I set I loose 1 egg but once in lockdown they all hatch pretty much

last hatch I got 23 lockdown and had 22 hatch one was shrinked

I have other 24 lockdown on 8th may and again 23 will go into lockdown

come end of this month I will have about 100 chicken

 

[RachaelS]

Bread for ya toast and milk for your tea

and eggs in ya backyard

its the staple diet

LOL!!!!

 

[TaraMichelle]

I am late on this bc I just joined the site today, but I started nine RIR eggs in the incubator on the 28th. I am obsessed with them and have to make myself leave them alone. I did candle all of them on day four and saw the veins in all nine. I looked at three today and comparing to pics on the Internet they are looking good. Your set up looks so nice! We are new to hatching chicks so we just borrowed an incubator. It's just the styrofoam kind where you have to hand turn the eggs (which makes it harder not to constantly candle since I have to handle them three times a day already anyway). How are your eggs coming along?

 

[Iluvmallards]

Rachels sorry I have been to Texas, maybe it was the wrong time of the year, but when I got out of the car the area I was at everything was covered with millions of Japanese beetles omg they were everywhere, my chickens would love it there

 

[chickeneer45]

My hen started being broody on Tuesday (April 30th), so they should be hatching between May 20th and the 25th most likely. Its my first hatching ever so hopefully everything goes well. I really don't know much about any of this so it should be interesting. She is sitting on ten eggs right now and I am going to candle them at seven days (this Tuesday) and I might post pics!

 

[Habibs Hens]

My hen started being broody on Tuesday (April 30th), so they should be hatching between May 20th and the 25th most likely. Its my first hatching ever so hopefully everything goes well. I really don't know much about any of this so it should be interesting. She is sitting on ten eggs right now and I am going to candle them at seven days (this Tuesday) and I might post pics!

Might????


I insist that you do

 

[RachaelS]

I am late on this bc I just joined the site today, but I started nine RIR eggs in the incubator on the 28th. I am obsessed with them and have to make myself leave them alone. I did candle all of them on day four and saw the veins in all nine. I looked at three today and comparing to pics on the Internet they are looking good. Your set up looks so nice! We are new to hatching chicks so we just borrowed an incubator. It's just the styrofoam kind where you have to hand turn the eggs (which makes it harder not to constantly candle since I have to handle them three times a day already anyway). How are your eggs coming along?

Yep it is addictive

Welcome!