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

[Brookhavens]

Ok I'll have to go over and look. The silkies thread or the other hatching thread?

What do you sell on eBay? I sell on eBay also.

I sell live probiotics: Water Kefir Grains and Kombucha scobies.

 

[chicks4fun]

Okay, I went to get a few Welsummer eggs and came home with 15 assorted eggs. Call it temporary insanity. I'm not sure how this happened. So my broody hen is sitting on 6 eggs and a friend loaned me her incubator for the other nine.
I am putting in the bator tonight:
3 Welsummer
2 Maran
2 Americana
1 Anacona
1 Delaware

I hope something hatches but at the same time I wish I had waited for spring. Something just takes away all reason when I think about hatching chicks. This is my second incubator hatch. My first was this spring. I've had broody hens hatch eggs but this incubator thing is new----so I hope you all don't mind newby questions.
I am still so confused about humidity. Yet here I go again.

 

[Fur N Feathers]

I sell live probiotics: Water Kefir Grains and Kombucha scobies.

I used to drink Kombucha tea. I shared cultures with a lot of my friends. I moved and lost my momma culture.

OK I just put two dozen eggs in my incubator. I will leave them still for at least another 24 hours before I start the egg turner.

 

[Brookhavens]

Okay, I went to get a few Welsummer eggs and came home with 15 assorted eggs. Call it temporary insanity. I'm not sure how this happened. So my broody hen is sitting on 6 eggs and a friend loaned me her incubator for the other nine.
I am putting in the bator tonight:
3 Welsummer
2 Maran
2 Americana
1 Anacona
1 Delaware

I hope something hatches but at the same time I wish I had waited for spring. Something just takes away all reason when I think about hatching chicks. This is my second incubator hatch. My first was this spring. I've had broody hens hatch eggs but this incubator thing is new----so I hope you all don't mind newby questions.
I am still so confused about humidity. Yet here I go again.

Thanks for joining us. There is no "reason" when it comes to hatching chicks.

Here is a very good thread on incubating & humidity: Incubation & Hatching Guide

 

[Brookhavens]

I used to drink Kombucha tea. I shared cultures with a lot of my friends. I moved and lost my momma culture.

OK I just put two dozen eggs in my incubator. I will leave them still for at least another 24 hours before I start the egg turner.

With shipped eggs I always wait 5 days before starting to turn. You want those air cells to really get a chance to settle. The cells are still multiplying and the veining process hasn't started in those first couple of days. I started waiting to turn after I read this: http://www.heavensentranch.com/incubationtechniques.htm

 

[ChickyBangBang]

The "problem" with the member has been remedied. All it took was a nice person explaining to me how to use the Block feature we have available to us here and how to use it.

 

[Kel35]

Don't let anyone make u leave just stay on this thread with us and pay no attention to others don't even read what they have put come on I can tell ur an strong person and rise above whatever is being said

 

[LakeBird]

Not sure what I was thinking when I ordered Golden Cuckoo Marans and Black Orpingtons! Hope to have them all by Saturday and in the incubator soon after that. Looks like I would be the last to hatch...may I join in?

 

[LakeBird]

With shipped eggs I always wait 5 days before starting to turn. You want those air cells to really get a chance to settle. The cells are still multiplying and the veining process hasn't started in those first couple of days. I started waiting to turn after I read this: http://www.heavensentranch.com/incubationtechniques.htm

Do you think you have a better hatch rate with shipped eggs when you wait before turning the eggs?

 

[Brookhavens]

Not sure what I was thinking when I ordered Golden Cuckoo Marans and Black Orpingtons! Hope to have them all by Saturday and in the incubator soon after that. Looks like I would be the last to hatch...may I join in?

Welcome aboard. Not many of us hatching this late in the year so the more the merrier. I just hatched 2 Copper Marans this morning.