Setting Eggs Sept. 24th-Oct. 4th-Last Hatch of the Year. Anyone care to join me?

[lynn1961]

I will be setting 12+ Heritage RIR eggs either Wednesday or Thursday. This will more then likely be my last hatch for the year. Chicken math is starting to take over and I am reaching my limits. If you do decide to join please post what breed you are hatching, where you are from and set date and I will try to keep a running list on this first post. Let's have some FUN!!!


Brookhavens (Florida)- 15 Heritage Rhode Island Red- Set 9/26

Kel35 (Leicestershire) - Assorted Silkies - setting 9/26

Picanins (Florida) - September 20th-My own barnyard mutts all covered by a Production Red Roo
3 : EE/PRed
3 : PReds
1 : Australorp/PRed

21st September
1 : (my very first egg - yay) Heritage Delaware (suuuuper duuuuperr excited about this baby)
3 : EE/PRed

22nd September
17 - Super Blue Egg Layers (Leghorn/Ameraucauna)

Fur N Feathers - Silkies - Setting 9/ 26

Selah - Sex Link/BO mix- Set 9/23

Roxannemc- Missouri- **Support and Cheering Squad**

debchick- Missouri- 14 EE- Set 9/25 pm
4 Sizzle/Silkie -Set 9/15 (Broody Hen)
3 sizzle/silkie/cochin ? Set 9/27 (Broody Hen)
CluckyCharms - (Hicktown, USA)
Blue Silkies x3
White Silkies x3
Swedish Flower Hen x12
Isbar x3
Frizzle hopefuls (frizzle/smooth pairings, so what I'll get I don't know yet)

Sultan x1
Cochin x1
Wyandotte x1
Polish x1

Leaving Egypt - 3-4 Buff Orpingtons - Set 9/24 (Broody Hen)
5 Red Production/BO

Chicks4Fun - (Frederick County, MD) - Set 9/26

3 Welsummer
2 Maran
2 Americana
1 Anacona
1 Delaware
+ 6 eggs under Broody Hen

LakeBird - (Pierce County,WA) - Set 9/29
10 Golden Cuckoo Marans
7 Black Orpingtons
? Picanins eggs

Roxanneinla - (Leesville, LA) - Set 9/28-29
12 Silver Sussex

jeanniec - (SE Kansas) - Set 9/27
14 Silkie

suki'smom - (Central Wisconsin) - Set 9/26
8 duck eggs
5 Ancona
3 Blue Swedish

babffel - Set 9/27 (Broody Silkies)
24 Brown eggs

Big A Chicken - (Palmetto, Georgia) -
16 Olive Eggers - Set 9/13
24 Rhode Island Red - Set 9/22
24 California Whites - Set 9/5

Haloclimb - (Victoria, Australia) - Set 9/27 (Broody Hen)
Barnyard crosses

Novanod1966 - (North Carolina) - Set 9/29?
6 mixed goose eggs
22 call ducks
4 mille fleur d'uccle

Texasmja - (Iola, Texas) - Set 9/27
12 Silver Laced Wyandotte
2 control eggs

MonsterClucker - (Anderson, California) - Set 9/30
shipped eggs

2 Euskal Oiloa Basque
2 unknown Sussex
2 olive eggers
1 Lav Cochin
1 sizzle

and a dozen of my own eggs.

Heritage Rhode Island Red (Hen) x Euskal Oiloa Basque (Roo)
Golden Sex Link ( Hen ) x Euskal Oiloa Basque (roo)

Lynn1961 - ( southern Oklahoma ) - Set 09/27/12

33 of my own chicken eggs
Project hatch of the following :
Buff Orpington x Buff Orpington
Buff Orpington x Easter Egger
Buff Orpington x Welsummer
Buff Orpington x Production Red
Black Jersey Giant x Black Jersey Giant
Black Jersey Giant x Easter Egger
Black Jersey Giant x Welsummer
Black Jersey Giant x Production Red
Welsummer x Welsummer

 

[Brookhavens]

Lynn1961 - ( southern Oklahoma ) - Set 09/27/12

33 of my own chicken eggs
Project hatch of the following :
Buff Orpington x Buff Orpington
Buff Orpington x Easter Egger
Buff Orpington x Welsummer
Buff Orpington x Production Red
Black Jersey Giant x Black Jersey Giant
Black Jersey Giant x Easter Egger
Black Jersey Giant x Welsummer
Black Jersey Giant x Production Red
Welsummer x Welsummer

WOW!! We are up to 20 people for this hatch-a-long. This is going to be SO great!!!

 

[Kel35]

WOW!! We are up to 20 people for this hatch-a-long. This is going to be SO great!!!

Should have plenty pics

 

[Chicky Dee]

WOW I just saw this thread.. I just set 17 Standard Cochins on 9/29. They were shipped eggs so I am not expecting a large hatch.

 

[Kel35]

WOW I just saw this thread.. I just set 17 Standard Cochins on 9/29.  They were shipped eggs so I am not expecting a large hatch. 

 

Hi and welcome

 

[Tmmv1]

Hi just joined the forum and seen this thread

I set 24 classic brown hens eggs in the incubator on 22/9

 

[LakeBird]

WOW!! We are up to 20 people for this hatch-a-long. This is going to be SO great!!!

 

[CluckyCharms]

I used a wooden cigar box (free from the cigar store in town), an extension cord and a light socket to make it. Lined the inside with aluminum foil for reflection. Total cost was around $4. The wooden piece in the second picture is an insert so I can candle smaller sized eggs. I watched a video on Youtube that showed me how to wire a lamp and I was good to go. I did use this type of bulb because it doesn't get as hot as a regular light bulb.

VERY COOL! I'm not 'creative' like that (although I wish I were!) hehe

It's roughly a week since some of you started your eggers - just wondering if anyone has candled yet and how that's going? I'm tempted to candle *today* since I read that you don't have to wait til day 5 (can see as early as day 3). ?

Chicky blessings to everyone and welcome to those who have just joined. =]

 

[CluckyCharms]

I'm candling a day early...I can't stand the wait any longer. The hubs just left to get batteries for my LED


[Update] I candled three eggs (store is right down the street) and then I felt like I was freezing them so I stopped at three.

2/3 are definitely forming, because they look like pictures of other well developing eggs being candled. The third egg I couldn't tell because it was extremely porous and apparently those are not ideal for hatching...lots of white dots. So all in all...good results (so far).

 

[Selah]

Day 7 today, first time we have ever candled eggs. After checking and re-checking...one of eighteen looked very speckled, and having looked at all the pics on the internet we could, we were afraid it may be due to bacterial contamination. We decided to pull that egg. Upon open inspection, it looks as if it was just the nature of that particular shell...the air sac (which we could not identify in any of the candled eggs) was present and appeared to be of appropriate size, and the embryo appeared to have been developing adequately...we feel sad and sorry to have stopped that one, but are grateful for the knowledge it gave us *sigh* The first two pics are of eggs that looked "normal" (as far as we could determine), the third pic is the one with the speckled appearance, the fourth pic is that egg after opening.
Continuing on with the remaining 17 eggs, and hoping all is well with everyone's clutches