Setting Eggs Today? I am, hatch with me?

[just2rosey]

Hi Lutz,
Good luck with this first hatch. Just a quick tip in case you didn't know. The livestock thermometers won't show a decrease in temps. Every time you want a reading you will have to shake them down and let them go back up. The indoor outdoor liquid type thermometers will go up and down with the temps. I have never had guineas, but I hear they are great at eating bugs, especially ticks. Those could be very cool to have!

 

[eggbuster]

I set 42 eggs today. A mix of white chantecler, buckeyes, buckeyeXchantecler, buckeyeX Cx. Not sure how many of each, but they are easy to tell apart when they hatch so I don't sweat it; I only set the best eggs regardless of type,. I am really hoping for the buckeyeXCx. Not supposed to be any pure chantecler in this lot, but I forgot to label the eggs one day, so it may be possible.

 

[lutz123]

I'm ridiculously excited - being a complete newb. Especially since I really feel like I haven't a clue what I'm doing. Thanks just2rosey - I'm not sure why I didn't remember that. I even shook them before putting them in!! I put a candy thermometer in (in another wiggler). I think I have more thermometers than eggs!! I do need to bring the humidity up. I know it's more important as we get further along, but I would really like it a little higher.

So if I put the eggs in Wednesday night, Thursday would be day 1, correct?

 

[just2rosey]

I get very excited, too Lutz!

I almost don't sleep at all from the time I go into lockdown until they hatch!

I candle almost obsessively, I just love watching them develop,

This hatch will be great for that, silkie and cochin eggs are so much easer to see through than blue eggs! I tend to have several thermometers also. I have and indoor outdoor one that reads humidity, so it gives me two temps ( which seldom match), plus a little window thermometer. I am going for a slightly higher temp this time around. My last two hatches have hatched late on day 21, and I have had trouble with having a large number of late quitters ( after lockdown) so I am thinking it might be that my temps are running a bit to low. If that isn't the problem, then its not me its been the eggs.

I am having trouble getting my humidity up. I have 2 small containers of water in there and it is still only 22%. I guess I need to put inn a sponge or something. Goo luck with your hatch, have fun!

 

[silversage03]

I set my two broodies up last night with 6 eggs apiece, so I'm pretty stoked about the potential outcome! Can't wait to watch their progress and what comes of it. My broodies are Golden Laced Wyandotts. My rooster is an Australorp, and I have an Australorp hen, 3 Silver-lace Wyandott hens, 2 Marans hens, and 2 Rhode Island Reds. It will be interesting to see what the chicks look like!!

 

[just2rosey]

I Love Broodies! Given the choice it is the only way I would hatch eggs! I have a silkie hen (my only mature hen right now), and I just put fake eggs in the hen house hoping she will go broody again. She recently started laying again, her eggs are in the bator. Her last batch of chicks are now 11 wks old, I expect her to go broody again soon. I love laced feather patterns in chickens, your chicks should be really pretty.

 

[lutz123]

This is potentially, and unfortunately for my DH, very addicting for me I think. I have 12 eggs incubating, and am already thinking of how many keets I should add in the event that this hatch isn't very successful. I have 8 new chicks, and since I learned to sex them after I bought them, I want to get more. I think 3 of the 4 BO's will be roo's, but it looks like 3 of the 4 BR's are pullets. I wanted more of the buffs.

There's a new shipment coming in to the feed store tomorrow! (I never should have picked up the schedule).

So...I've been into this not even one full week, and could potentially have 2 brooders and an incubator running in the dining room (which we know will become 3 as soon as the new keets hatch). Oh, and I need a coop and run - 2 really if I want to keep the guineas fairly separate.

 

[Luke13:34]

Quote:
OK. But just don't expect any of us to be the voice of reason. Chicken Math-enablers, all of us.



(here's a thread on Chicken Math, in case you don't know what that is. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=391345)

 

[mskittydjs]

Luke13:34 :

Quote:
OK. But just don't expect any of us to be the voice of reason. Chicken Math-enablers, all of us.



(here's a thread on Chicken Math, in case you don't know what that is. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=391345)

Luke 13:34...I just read the chicken math thread and absolutely LOVE it!!!!! Too funny!!!

I just asked DH if he has ever heard of chicken math and his reply was, "NO, should I have?" and my reply was, "of course not...just trust me!!!" He gave me an okay I will but what are you getting me into look!

I want to join this thread too! My BO just went broody Monday night and she now has 12 eggs under her! I have 7 different ladies and 4 different roos so it will be VERY interesting to see what comes out! Can't wait! My girls are BO/BA/RIR/PR/BR/SLW/Ameraucaunas. My Roos are BO/Dom/PR/Ameraucauna. My DH suggested we get an incubator and since this is the first time we are trying to have babies, I think I'll just stick with good ol' Mother Nature! The 1st week of May can't come quick enough for me!!! Good luck to everyone and I can't wait to see the photos of the babies!

 

[momsflock]

I too am a newbie! Started my homemade bator on Friday. I have 12 RLWyandottes that were shipped and received on Thursday. It is my VERY first time, and we are all exited! My temp is running between 95-100%. My humidity has been giving me a little trouble; at first it was running at 55-65% and now we are at 45-55%...am I doing okay? The person I purchased th eggs said that some of them were collected last Friday/Sat/Sun, so I am hoping it has not been too late and we have a successful hatch. It seems like the more I read, the more I learn, but I then have too many resources of contradiction...makes me nervous!

My hubby is very supportive, and my little boys woke up this morning asking if they hatched yet! My teenagers are even into it! LOL! We all keep going to the bator and checking it out! LOL! I am expecting 2 of my pullets to arrive at the feed store on Tuesday, and another 2 on may 7th. The eggs should be hatching by then too. Need to watch the chicken math!!! LOL!

Boys decided to name the coop Chicken Warts and the bator is name The Chamber of Chickens! The 2 chicks arriving on Tues are Dumbledoris and Harriet Potter, the next 2 are Hermine and Weasley! I am a huge Harry Potter fan, and it just tickled me with the idea! They are too funny!!!

Happy hatching!