Setting Eggs...5/14/11 T-minus 21 days & counting!

[wowmanacat]

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I have to say the same thing about the 20 yrs ago, and I use spring water all the time for everything for that is what my house is on is a spring, we filter for drinking and cooking. I just wash the waters every other day or so.

 

[wowmanacat]

I candled all my eggs tonight and had to remove 5 more so that leaves me with 16 for hatch day. Lock down is Wed.

 

[ConnorMayasMom]

Happy Night Before Lockdown!!! Very excited!! Will take out egg turner and add extra water to trays and cross my fingers!!! Good Luck All!!! Happy Hatching!!!

 

[wowmanacat]

Well, we are now in lockdown and the wait is going to kill me. My days are so long with not a lot to do all day. I can have everything done by noon and then I keep looking in the window to see if anything is happen knowing that nothing is going to happen for a few days.
Let the chaos begin

 

[ConnorMayasMom]

I hear ya!! Thankfully my days are packed until Friday...but I did stare at them this morning after I took out the turner and added water...they felt very heavy and full, so that's good. Clean your closets and junk drawers and stay busy!!!

 

[gogoalie]

Hatcher Log, Stardate 6/1/11;

I must admit to sharin' the same nailbitin', waterpot boilin' watchin' impatience as wowmanacat & MayasMom...lockdown has commenced, I've filled both trays, in the Hovabator, & by Friday or Saturday, we'll have chicks...this may be the longest three days I've ever known, I've forgone candling...I've put in an order for 25lb bag of chick crumbles, & hopefully, they'll get here by they time they're ready for solid food. The rubbermaid brooder is ready, my feed tray & waterer is ready, all I hafta do is fill them, make some room for the brooder & add chicks...

Marv...

PS. secured more wood for the spruce coop that I'll build for the larger flock, am wonderin', should I finish the coop, should I keep the mamas in the tractor, & house the pullets in the newly finished coop, til' they're ready for integration? Decisions, decisions...

PSS, wife is pleasntly amused that I'll be kept awake, all night & all day long, by the chirping of the chicks...

 

[ConnorMayasMom]

Staying busy is the key. Although I must admit that everytime I go to the basement I am mysteriously pulled into the room with the bator and find myself shining my flashlight to get a super view of eggs and watching for the slightest jiggle or wiggle to tell me that they are getting ready. My husband is AMAZED at the time I spend staring..(I am too frankly!! ) but I just LOVE seeing them move in the eggs!!
Marv, I keep the pullets seperate until they are big enough to defend themselves before I intergrate. When we do intergrate I put up a wood lattace barrier and divide the coop so the pullets can be with the older girls but have some seperation and get to know each other...then slowly I take down the barrier and they figure out the new pecking order...so far it's worked well with little troubles.
Keep us posted on the progress!!!

 

[gogoalie]

Stayin' busy is right...perhaps I could bring some paddin' material from the beach..>

 

[wowmanacat]

Well I have been trying to stay busy but that is not to easy around here. I just looked in the incubator and one has pipped. I still have two days till hatch day and it might sit like that for all that time. I have to keep an eye on the temp to make sure that it don't go to high. My thermostat does not work so I just keep an eye on it. Ranges from 96 to 104 but I have good hatch rates.

 

[ConnorMayasMom]

2 of mine have pipped and are resting it bit...one may be soon as the pip is pretty good size!! LOVE IT!!!! Good luck!!