Setting Eggs Tomorrow Morning 11/5 - Anyone Else??

[PamB]

Hi All!! I'm setting eggs for the very first time in my brand new incubator tomorrow morning. I only have 4 Red Silkie eggs, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. For those of you that haven't seen my other posts, I had a broody hen that I ordered the eggs for because I couldn't break her and she just decided she is no longer broody. So, the eggs came today and I ran out tonight and bought an incubator. Anyone else setting eggs tomorrow???

 

[sloallie10]

Im Setting eggs today or tomorrow!

 

[PamB]

Great!! I'd like some company during this. I'm a little nervous since it is the first time for me. What kind of eggs are you hatching?

 

[sloallie10]

Im a first timer too!
Well I actually set 12 eggs on the 31st and i have another incubator right now heating up.
Im setting 16 eggs that are all mixes..the roos are: white silkie, EE, game, black faced white spanish.
Hens: EEs, silkies, BO, RIR, a few mixes, and leghorns.

I am very excited!

 

[gryeyes]

I filled up two Octagon20 incubators late last night for an official "set date" of today. 18 eggs in one, 19 in the other. I've already got one Octagon20 "cooking" with 9 eggs due to hatch 11/12. (And 3 MiniAdvances with 7 eggs apiece, but they're "old" shipped eggs I miscalculated on the arrival date and didn't have incubator space for a while.... I don't expect any of those 21 eggs to hatch, but I couldn't just throw them away! Gotta give 'em a chance...)

Plus 7 duck eggs due to hatch on 11/18.

So that's 37 assorted, shipped eggs on the same schedule as yours. We can do this together!

 

[PamB]

I'm so happy to have people to do this with!

Linda, you KNOW I'll have lots of questions.

 

[sheila3935]

I put 13 eggs in the incubator yesterday too. They are rir br crosses from my chickens. Hope they are all fertile. I know I have caught our roo mating with some of them. Did it just to see what they would look like and because they are from our own.

 

[PamB]

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Good luck!!!

 

[Engteacher]

I set three eggs under my clearly determined broody. I'm not sure if she'll be able to see it through; she only started laying in September. But since she won't get out of the nest box, it seemed like the best thing to do.

 

[sloallie10]

Ok, so i set my eggs today! Im very excited and I have a automatic egg turner so im very happy with that! Also Im going to candle my eggs that I set last sunday on the 31st. Im kinda nervous...