Setting Eggs Today? I am, hatch with me?

[just2rosey]

Lutz, how old are these pullets that you don't like? How did they challenge you? Could they be roos instead? I have been lucky, we have been enjoying all our chickens so far, but that may change once all the roos mature

. We have our special favorites, and I can't wait to see how they will look when they mature. We only have one thing to get rid of at this point, an ugly mistake of a roo.

Someone pulled a fast one (bait and switch) on my daughter at our first swap and sold her a very ugly silkie roo, and I didn't go make a scene and demand our money back like I should have, he was just to pathetic. It was a good lesson for her, "to let the buyer beware", but now we need to re-home the poor thing. I will try to off him at a swap, I guess. We went to a swap last weekend and our 4-h did a bake sale, while we were there my daughter found a much nicer roo (for less $), so we brought him home, plus two silkie chicks in a different color for my other daughter. ( yes I have sucker stamped on my forehead). Now I really need to move the ugly roo! Getting rid of the extras is my biggest concern about hatching eggs! It will only get harder as we go forward.

On the bright side the eggs under my hen are pipping, we may wake up to silkie babies tomorrow. Nothing in the incubator yet, but I have had more trouble keeping the temps up since I put the 22 new eggs in last week, so I am expecting them to be slower to pop than the last group.

 

[lutz123]

2-3 weeks or so. I thought about whether they could be roos, but I think it's just their personality. They are more curious and quick to approach in general. Of course, they are feed store "pullets" so who knows. Either way, I just don't care for them. Too many nightmares of my grandma's red hens chasing me as a kid. I would open the gate from the backyard and sprint as fast as I could with them all charging behind me...until I safely reached the barn.

We will only have very friendly chickens around here.

I'd love to see the new silkie babies! I unpacked my guinea eggs and they all arrived safe and sound - 18 of them! They were sort of local so hopefully I can get something out of it. Of course, it said in big red letters "Hold For Pickup!", and it wasn't held. But the eggs were very squarely and carefully placed on my doorstep so I think they knew they messed up. I think I'll put these in the LG and try again.

 

[just2rosey]

I will post pics of Butter and her babies once they all hatch, she has 3 hatched out already, and I have 2 pips in the incubator. Your chicks sound friendly to me, I would rather have them coming up to me than have them doing the squawk and scatter like some of mine do!

You would think I beat them daily. Our favorites rush the gate to their brooder cage when we approach, we pick them up on our hands like parrots.

Since my daughter plans to show them for 4H we are trying to get them comfortable with being handled.

 

[just2rosey]

Well, we are hatching right along. My silkie hen has 7 out of 9 hatched and one of those is zipped and ready to pop! She is so awsome!! I wish I had an army of silkie hens.

My first chick in the incubator hatched a few minutes ago, an EE x RIR, it is very cute, and surprisingly big! I have four more pipping and starting to zip, so I may wake up to a few peeps.

 

[lutz123]

I'd love to see pictures. I forgot to say that, though the RIR's are curious, they both have rushed me a couple of times. I'd rather the quiet complacent type right now.

I think I'm going to pull these last 4 eggs today and open them up. It's day 29 and I woke up to 106 degrees and 40% humidity...candled and no movement (wasn't movement last time). I think the water I added the last couple of times was way too hot and I cooked them.

I have 30 eggs waiting, and another batch likely coming today.

 

[just2rosey]

Sorry Lutz, I cooked my first batch, only one hatched, so I know how you feel.

Well 5 out of 5 mutts hatched in the incubator and one of the 3 ameraucanas. I hate shipped eggs! So here are the 6 from in the incubator. The white one is the Wheaton Am. and the red chipmunk is the EE x RIR. Good lord only know what crosses the others are.

Here's Buttercup and her batch of 6 silkie chicks and two Mille Fleur, hatched so far and one more silkie which hasn't hatched yet. It has a pip but no movement this morning, so I took it and put it in the incubator, that way she can get off the nest with the rest. Well, I am off, I have to get to school my youngest has field day at school today.

 

[lutz123]

I pulled those eggs out for a last candle and I think I saw a tiny bit of movement in 2 of them. Dang!! In the new Brinsea they all went! Not much hope though.

 

[just2rosey]

My silkie egg is peeping!! Its peeping at me!

It just might make it! I hope yours makes it, too, Lutz!! Well I hope I have better numbers with the ones due to hatch in two week, shipped eggs are so depressing!

 

[lutz123]

Those pics are so cute! I got my last batch of shipped eggs today - none cracked. A couple of them are monstrous!

I haven't figured out how to set these. I think the guineas & brahmas will go in the LG today to get started. I'll move all the chicken eggs into the brinsea, and the guineas will incubate in the LG. BUT, I have to get these last 4 guinea eggs to do something. I have 42 new eggs total to incubate so I will either have to stack or put a couple in the brinsea during the current lockdown.

 

[erica.godinez]

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awww they are so cute