Setting eggs on FEB 10

[bugglesmommy]

Okay, just have to show one of the "miracle" babies off... there are 7 of them, but this one is my absolute favorite. Buff Orpington roo over a Brown Leghorn. Of course, the way things go, it's probably a cockerel

Can't wait to see if more will hatch this next time around.

Such a cute thing. Hope the Easter bunny will lend us some of that rabbit foot good luck magic!

 

[CowgirlHC]

I set my eggs this morning!! The humidity hit 50% or so when I really really fudged with different water options. I took the water dishes out and put in the turner and now the humidity is raising again in the mid 40s w/o water, but initially when put water in it stays in the upper 30's. What is up!

 

[Bellurd]

Ahhh I love those little guys! Especially the little light one, what a surprise

Actually, that's really encouraging about the 100% hatch rate with a box that looked like that. Um... maybe you could give as all the details of your hatch so we can replicate?

I give all the credit to my brinsea. I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't even rest the eggs. I just took them out of that box and threw them in the incubator with the turner on. The brinsea turned the eggs every hour. There is also a "cooling option" on it which was recommended for a better hatch rate. After the first week of sustaining a regular temp of 99.5, I turned the cooling option on for an hour a day. Then changed it to two hours for the second week. I also tried my own little experiment of combining the dry incubation method with traditional. The humidity was always somewhere between 20 and 55. It jumped around a lot. Some days I would add water to a well, and on others I would add a little bottle cap of water. On certain days there was no water at all. I don't even know what I did right. I DO know that I wouldn't have had all seven if I didn't read that link about assisted hatching though. Thanks for posting, Victoria!

 

[Bellurd]

The breeder who I got the eggs from just wrote me back about why one of the blue marans is blond. I guess he/she is going to be a blue splash marans! So cool!

 

[bugglesmommy]

I would love to get that chick! So pretty! I went to the trade event and I'm at my mothers house now. I sold my blue cochin chicks and the two bard rock mixes from my first hatch. I got 4 silkie eggs, 22 quail eggs, a red splash silkie and a columbian pullet my daughter wanted. I'm going to set my eggs when we go home in a few hours. I'm going to have a crazy incubation this time! I have the 17 shipped polish eggs, 5 eggs from my silkie/polish coop that may or may not be fertile, 4 silkie eggs - thats 26 chicken eggs and then the 22 quail. I wanted to try with quail and It was only 3 dollars for those eggs. Thats without the order of serama eggs I have shipping Monday. Good thing I have another incubator coming next Tuesday. I'm going to need them both! Especially since I haven't been outbid on those frizzle polish yet.....

Yup..... Crazy Chicken Lady here. My husband has been so supportive.

 

[Bellurd]

I would love to get that chick! So pretty! I went to the trade event and I'm at my mothers house now. I sold my blue cochin chicks and the two bard rock mixes from my first hatch. I got 4 silkie eggs, 22 quail eggs, a red splash silkie and a columbian pullet my daughter wanted. I'm going to set my eggs when we go home in a few hours. I'm going to have a crazy incubation this time! I have the 17 shipped polish eggs, 5 eggs from my silkie/polish coop that may or may not be fertile, 4 silkie eggs - thats 26 chicken eggs and then the 22 quail. I wanted to try with quail and It was only 3 dollars for those eggs. Thats without the order of serama eggs I have shipping Monday. Good thing I have another incubator coming next Tuesday. I'm going to need them both! Especially since I haven't been outbid on those frizzle polish yet.....

Yup..... Crazy Chicken Lady here. My husband has been so supportive.

Oh my god, I'd be in heaven if I could be hatching so many chicks all the time! The poultry keeping community in the LA area is pretty small. I don't even think we have local swaps.

 

[bugglesmommy]

Just set the eggs in the incubator. I hope this isn't a complete disaster!! 18 days til quail hatch date!

 

[tlpounds]

Very sweet. Congrats on the hatch!

 

[bugglesmommy]

Agh! 104 temp. spike.... gotta stay calm. Apparently my eggs survived a 105 temp spike my hubby never told me about because he didn't want me to panic.

 

[my sunwolf]

Agh! 104 temp. spike.... gotta stay calm. Apparently my eggs survived a 105 temp spike my hubby never told me about because he didn't want me to panic.

Auug I'm sorry. Wow, can't believe that 105˚ spike. I am so with you about the complete disaster... I would say that mine couldn't be any worse than last time, but it really could.

And hey yall, I could use some advice... since the symptoms of my bad hatch pointed to the temp being too hot, I turned it down to 99.8˚ instead of 100˚F. Do you think it'll make a difference? Should I turn it back up? My incubator thermometer (which is correct) keeps staying stable at about 99.2˚F, which seems a little low to me. The eggs have been in for about 18 hours.

Bellurd, I bet you have some swaps, you might just have to drive a little ways to get to them. We have to go 45 minutes to get to our nearest swap

Of course, mostly I just sell my extra poultry on craigslist and Facebook groups.


I wanted to thank you guys for hatching with me again, because since the last time I'm really scared about hatching, and it's really nice to have people to talk to and hatch with!