Setting eggs October 19 anyone else...?

[peeppeeppeep]

I am going to start some chicken eggs today. I have Blue Marans and Black Copper Marans that I bought on ebay, plus a dozen from my own chickens - EEs, BSL, and Welsummers. Here's a pic. The Marans eggs look pretty good to me!

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

Just set 11 cochin eggs and 10 orpington eggs today. Hopefully the orps will hatch as we decided to rehome our very aggressive orp rooster and these will be the last of his eggs.

 

[PippyChicken]

Good luck with everybody's hatch!!! We've are about to set then because the incubator started messing up.

 

[The Sheriff]

My daughter and granddaughters set mine on the 18th while I was out of town. I am counting the set date as the 19th because they didn't get them in the bator until late in the evening. They spent the weekend fussing and fighting with my Little Giant pain-in-the-a$$ incubator. They finally got the temp dialed in and I gave them permission to ignore the humidity until I got home (today) after they FILLED the bottom of the incubator with water which leaked out all over my desk. So they poured that out, let the temp settle in, and set the eggs. My 12 year old GD stewed and stewed over how to arrange the eggs in the auto-turner so the chicks would have the most room to hatch! I didn't have the heart to tell her that the turner comes out on day 18 and they get laid on the floor!
Anyway, I have in there:

2 eggs from my BB Red OEG bantam couple, Rocky and Adrienne.

From Wingshadows Hacienda (http://www.localharvest.org/store/M11467) I have:

3 Mille Fleur D'uccles
3 Red Bantam Cochins
3 Buff Bantam Cochins

This is where it really gets ugly. When I got home today I found a stash of 3 bantams eggs on the floor in a corner of the coop. I assume they are from Rocky and Adrienne but there is a little Silver Laced bantam OEG tart named Chima that flirts with him as well. She had not started laying before we left, so who knows whose eggs they are. I wrote the date on them and slipped them in with the others. I know, I know, but I just couldn't help myself. I may have to get myself a new bator before lockdown. DARN, silly me!

Oh, and I have five silkies coming from MPC that are due to be shipped on Monday. Call me crazy.

Mary

 

[SunnyChic]

Received my barred OEGB shipped eggs from pamperpoultry yesterday; great packaging and extras! Set them this morning, so I now have in the bator:

14 BBS bantam Cochin
10 RIR
8 Barred OEGB

Good luck with all your eggs, Mary, and congrats on getting Silkies!

 

[klondike24680]

On day 11 with my eggs. due to hatch on the 30th gonna give them halloween names. Any ideas?

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

On day 11 with my eggs. due to hatch on the 30th gonna give them halloween names. Any ideas?

This is an old thread from 3 yrs ago. Heres some new threads https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/715265/come-hatch-along-with-us-setting-oct12-oct-20th and https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...h-us-last-big-sets-of-the-year-10-18-to-10-31

 

[klondike24680]

wow lol thanks