Setting Exciting eggs April 22nd, Anybody with me?

[chickee]

Thanks for the welcome!

FINALLY I have other chicken loving people to talk to!

Sounds like things are going great!!

What kind of incubator are you using? Humidity?
Go chickies/goslings!!!!

 

[kelseygirl707]

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I actually made both of mine, you can see my main one on my BYC page, and my humidity is at 45%, then I up it to 65% the last 3 days. Where are you located, I am also in th Sierra Foothills.

 

[debilorrah]

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YAY! I get to hatch with my BYC momma!

I am candling tomorrow

 

[kelseygirl707]

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I actually made both of mine, you can see my main one on my BYC page, and my humidity is at 45%, then I up it to 65% the last 3 days. Where are you located, I am also in th Sierra Foothills.

Oh, wait, you already told me, LOL Grass Valley.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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YAY! I get to hatch with my BYC momma!

I am candling tomorrow

Good luck Deb, what are you hatching?

 

[chickee]

I am in Grass Valley. Just above Sacramento. Too bad we don't live closer to each other! That is so neat that you made your own incubators! I'll check out your thread. I kept my last hatch at 45% humidy with 65% at lockdown, but the chicks that died after lockdown had overly large air sacs. The eggs were shipped packed in shavings and looked dried out to me! I couldn't get the air sacs to develope at the same rate in all the eggs

And one of the chicks pipped so low (I was sure it was a goner!) that it took over 24 hrs for it to zip, and when it finally popped off the top of the shell, it was upside down with it's feet sticking straight up in the air!!! I have a picture of it. It still makes me laugh

I came home and found another chick had started to shrink wrap and the membrane had dried around its wing and back and it was dragging around the shell. But all the chicks are frisky and healthy and growing fast now

What kinds of chickens do you have? and how many hatches have you done? I have Blue Wyandottes, the BLRW chicks, and soon I will be getting Blue Wheaten Ameraucana eggs from a breeder here in California, and BLRW eggs from Bill Braden in Oklahoma because I will need an un-related bloodline to breed to the chicks I already have.

 

[kelseygirl707]

I think Debiraymond has Wheaten Ameraucana's. She posted right above you, if you need more eggs, you should talk with her.

I have done more hatches than I can count, but never kept chickens until now. I couldn't have chickens where I lived before, so I would hatch and sell chicks. Now that I am finally building a coop, I will be keeping 3 BLRW hens and 1 BLRW roo, 1 Polish hen, and 1 Cuckoo Maran Hen. I currently have the Cuckoo Maran, she is 6 weeks old, and I have 3 Silver laced week old Polish chicks, but I will only bee keeping 1 polish.

 

[chickee]

Sorry, wanted to keep chatting with you last night but it got late. Thanks for the heads up on Debirraymonds Ameraucanas. I'm sure I'll need new blood to mix with the line of Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas I'm getting. You are so lucky to have had the fun of all those hatches, but it must have been so hard not to have been able to keep the chicks! I'll bet your so excited to finally be able to build up your flock!! I can't remember, what lines are the BLRW's that you are incubating? I might be interested in purchasing some of your extra chicks. I'm limited on coop space also. I'm trying to get my hubby to build me a barn! But he is busy re-modeling our house right now. I'm not sure where I'm going to put all these chickens I'm getting. Besides the BLRW's, and Ameraucanas, I'm waiting for a Silver Laced Blue rooster chick I hatched out from my Blue Wyandotte rooster x Silver Laced Wyandotte hen to be of breeding age (he is almost 4 mos. old) so I can breed him to my Blue Wyandottes hens and start working my Lavendar Laced Wyandotte project.

 

[kelseygirl707]

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Ooooh Keep me updated on the Lavender laced Wyandotte project, that sounds beautiful! As for my chicks lines, Here is a quote from Katy (Who I got the eggs from)

"I started out with birds from several different breeders three years ago....Bill Braden, Sue Ozio, and Foleys Waterfowl are the main ones."

. After they are sexed I will be deciding who I keep, and selling the rest, so I will definitely let you know.​

 

[kelseygirl707]

So I barely slept last night. DH was sick, so I was going to sleep in the living room, because I definitely didn't want what he had, but as soon as I layed down on the floor (darn dog was hogging the couch)

I started thinking about those carpet cleaning commercials about the dust mites, so I wasn't going to be able to sleep on the floor, so I joined hubby. That was at like 12:45 am. Then at 3:30 DH wakes me up because the power is out, so I run to my incubators already at 83 degrees and 90 degrees, so I get my metal mixing bowls out and fill them with hot water, hoping that will heat the room, I stick 1 under the styrofoam cooler bator with the goose eggs, and immediately the temp starts coming up, and my wood bator is still holing heat somewhat, so I cover both windows with sweatshirts, toss a hand warmer in with the polish chicks, and go back to bed, I have done all I can. When I wake up at 5am the power is back on, so I just hope everything lived, I think they will be fine, I have had power outages before, and still had good hatches. I'm just glad they got it back on fast, I was figuring at least 10 hours without electricity.

How's everybody else doing this fine day (Or soggy day here in Northern Cali.)