Setting eggs anyone want to join?

[Cynthia12]

Oh I want to join! I had a Buff Orphangton go broody so I stuffed 15 eggs under her from FEB 21st-24th. And Now I'm collecting them to set in an incubator. I started collecting Feb 25th and will stop MAR 3rd. I found a local guy who hatches for .50 a chick. The great thing is he has a web cam and post it. So if you want to see hatching chicks he hatches every week-end. http://cmfarm.us/cam_2.html Right now looks like he has Black copper marans. Also his pug has puppies soo cute. My eggs are green/blue ones from Ameraucana's and EE's, Black copper Maran, giant silver lace cochin and the one BO. I think she has 2 of hers under her. I will be setting at least 36 on the 3rd of march. All have a splash maran roo over them. The end result will be blue feathers and chocolate and olive eggers. And some fluffy mutts from the cochin/maran mix and BO/maran mix LOL . This is Buffy My BO you can't tell she has 15 large/exlarge eggs under her. I moved her to the chicken tractor so the others will leave her alone. I been using the tractor as a half way house for chick. I can clamp a heat lamp in the top if needed. This is the first time it's been used by a broody hen.

Our chicken tractor. It's big enough for 3 large chickens. Perfect for a mama and babies

Aww, she looks like my girl outside now. I just hatched some Buff O's. I think I posted pics a couple of pages back. They are not hers, I ordered them, and they are already as sweet as can be..great birds!

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm in

Set my eggs under a broody on Saturday 2/25/12 at noon!
Only 8 under her right now. She started out with more, but there was an accident, and she couldn't keep all of them warm.

So, we have some broody moms at work..they are so much fun to watch as moms.

 

[AZ Birds]

I see the pullets feathering out sooner, like most pullets, but, the Orpingtons really feather out sooner. The pullets wing feathers will go towards the back end, and eventually around to the bum area.. almost tuck kind of around. The cockerels will feather out more up and have a more square look to them..hard to describe, but hope it helps. I have found that size in babies doesn't always mean girl or boy. Because, you never know the size of egg it came from. If it's a cockerel though, it will eventually catch up in growth if it is small in the beginning..of course!
Are you able to take pictures? How old are they? Maybe I can get a picture of my babies again before they sell, had someone call on them...I know for sure I have a girl and some boys now. You could see the difference in them, even at this young age.

im unable to take pictures my camera broke but based on your description i think it might be a boy all the others cover there bum area and his go up plus the ends of his feathers are more squared while the others are rounded he is also darker then the rest (dont know if that is a hint). think they are around 5 weeks (i had them for at least 4 weeks) not sure though my brother surprised me and came to my house with them and said he bought them at the feed store. a picture from you would be great to compare a boy vs girl.

 

[AZ Birds]

candled one of my white eggs right now and already have veining

 

[Cynthia12]

im unable to take pictures my camera broke but based on your description i think it might be a boy all the others cover there bum area and his go up plus the ends of his feathers are more squared while the others are rounded he is also darker then the rest (dont know if that is a hint). think they are around 5 weeks (i had them for at least 4 weeks) not sure though my brother surprised me and came to my house with them and said he bought them at the feed store. a picture from you would be great to compare a boy vs girl.

white eggs..easy to see through! Hey, I thought I sent you a pic of my little girl? Will have to try that again. Maybe I didn't hit submit..lol..that would be me..here we go.
She is not quite a week old yet.

candled one of my white eggs right now and already have veining

 

[Cynthia12]

I was told to hold the humiditey between 55-70 %, is that wrong?

I go with 50 at the most, and below is better..around mid 40's during incubation. Lockdown, 62 to 67%.

 

[LilMissChz]

My humidity & temp has been stable. I'm in the high 50's for humidity and right around 100 for temp. Doing good so far? It's my first time.

 

[Cynthia12]

My humidity & temp has been stable. I'm in the high 50's for humidity and right around 100 for temp. Doing good so far? It's my first time.

I'm not one to get into the high 50's..a bit too humid..unless you are hatching ducks? Do you have a still air or forced fan? Still air can be 100 or 101, forced fan, 99 to 100. I would personally get the humidity down. I stay around the mid 40's, to 50.

 

[AZ Birds]

I'm not one to get into the high 50's..a bit too humid..unless you are hatching ducks? Do you have a still air or forced fan? Still air can be 100 or 101, forced fan, 99 to 100. I would personally get the humidity down. I stay around the mid 40's, to 50.

white eggs..easy to see through! Hey, I thought I sent you a pic of my little girl? Will have to try that again. Maybe I didn't hit submit..lol..that would be me..here we go.
She is not quite a week old yet.

never got the picture but thanks for posting it again. ill keep this for reference when i get new chicks. mine were about the same size of that when i first got them so if that is the case they are 4 weeks old. i guess have to wait to see if it is a boy.

yeah i only candle the white eggs mostly because i only have a crappy led but hopefully will get a better light soon.

 

[AZ Birds]

I'm not one to get into the high 50's..a bit too humid..unless you are hatching ducks? Do you have a still air or forced fan? Still air can be 100 or 101, forced fan, 99 to 100. I would personally get the humidity down. I stay around the mid 40's, to 50.

im also in the 40's and everything seems to be going good. will also bump it up around the 60's at lock down. i read alot on here that those numbers do good. so hopefully i will have my first hatch this time.