Setting eggs, anyone want to join me? Hatch-Along

[Texasmja]

Lol all I use is a Matrix flashlight that you get off the register at tractor supply! Its awesome! It fits in your hand good and is super bright! And my eggs are tinted too!! I seriously recomend this flashlight only cost me a little over $2!!

I use that one too. Good thing I bought a couple of them because one the bulb burnt out.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

I have one batch of eggs going on lock down on Tuesday! Next batch locks down on Saturday. The first batch are my own silke eggs and some olive egger eggs. So can't wait!!!

 

[DURR]

Day 20 - no internal pips yet, still movement in the shell. Air sack growing good and they are loosing weight good. UGH HATCH ALREADYYYY!!!! Lol!!

 

[Mumsy]

My eggs are on day two.

Gonna be a loooooooooooooong wait.

I set fourteen eggs yesterday afternoon. We can be hatch partners. My Silkies aren't old enough to lay yet. Maybe this summer.


Ph = Phoebe and E = Edith. They are new Orpington/cross layers and I'm conducting a progeny test on them. The roo that covered them is a two year old rescue Production RIR.

 

[Roxannemc]

Well iwasnt going to hatch any more for a while (famous last words)...until my Lavender Orpington girls started to lay ...but now they have last week or week before so i am going to set some if i get enough next Thursday or Friday so the bator stays on.
Think just 2 are laying right now out of 4. Wonder if i can keep some for a week before setting.?
I know 1-3 days is way better.
Is next thursday Jan 24th too late for this thread?.
I am not new to shipped egg incubating but ....brand new to my OWN eggs incubating .....Pretty exciting ,.

 

[farmer boy]

can someone help me please my broody hen doesn't have her broody spot as they call it the bare spot on her anymore and she keeps trying to leave her area and leave the eggs there but when she got out she was attacked by all the young roos and everything went nuts it was a war down there but she acted like she had chicks with her outside but the eggs still have a couple of days to go

 

[Roxannemc]

can someone help me please my broody hen doesn't have her broody spot as they call it the bare spot on her anymore and she keeps trying to leave her area and leave the eggs there but when she got out she was attacked by all the young roos and everything went nuts it was a war down there but she acted like she had chicks with her outside but the eggs still have a couple of days to go

I dont know much about broody hens but fro m what ihave read if I were you i would get out the incubator and put them in there .You have some hours before they will die to get it set up and temp stablized
I dont know about broody spots. i havent had a broody hen but you might try putting her alone in a dog carrier or a big box in a quiet room someplace with the eggs a place she cant get out but has water and food in too .Maybe she will sit some more then with no distractions.
.I think thats what others do when theirs stop being broody. or get off. the eggs.. But if you have one crank up that bator in case you need it !
GOOD LUCK!!.

 

[Mumsy]

Well iwasnt going to hatch any more for a while (famous last words)...until my Lavender Orpington girls started to lay ...but now they have last week or week before so i am going to set some if i get enough next Thursday or Friday so the bator stays on.
Think just 2 are laying right now out of 4. Wonder if i can keep some for a week before setting.?
I know 1-3 days is way better.
Is next thursday Jan 24th too late for this thread?.
I am not new to shipped egg incubating but ....brand new to my OWN eggs incubating .....Pretty exciting ,.

I held my eggs for seven days. I've held them for over ten in the past and they still hatched. Temp under 60 degrees and turning them every day until they go in the incubator is key where I live.

 

[Roxannemc]

I set fourteen eggs yesterday afternoon. We can be hatch partners. My Silkies aren't old enough to lay yet. Maybe this summer.


Ph = Phoebe and E = Edith. They are new Orpington/cross layers and I'm conducting a progeny test on them. The roo that covered them is a two year old rescue Production RIR

Thats cute E= Edith and P= Phoebe Are they in different pens ? How do you tell the diff if not? .

 

[Mumsy]

Just the two hens are laying and they use the same nest. I'm retired and can see who is in the box. One finishes laying and the other waits her turn. The two eggs are slightly different in size. I mark them with a crayon as soon as I take them out of the nest. When it is time for lock down, I will put all of Ediths eggs in a cage I made to fit into the bator. Phoebe's eggs will be on the outside. I plan on marking the chicks with a different color of food coloring on their tummies when they go into the brooder.