Setting my eggs tonight (April 10) Any tips?

[dak]

Raimnel, I really want to see a pic of your ferocious silkie. Any peeping yet?

What about you Eastin? Did you get any sleep? You might consider stocking up on antacids

My second bator is running stead. Humidity is 67% with both resevoirs filled. (? little too much?).

dak

 

[Jennmom2three]

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Yeah!!! Sounds like so much fun!!! I really need to get my heat lamp and set up done for when these guys get here!!

 

[EastinChickens]

Well,
Have my humidity at 53... seems determined to stay there even with water in there.

Got SOME sleep last night... kept coming down staris to see if the temp was still okay.

[Edited for typo]

 

[PaintedMeadows]

Hey all. Our eggs are 18 days today and they are under a broody. Can we move her and her nest down lower tonight? She is in a raised nest and I lost track of time. Will it rattle the eggs? Will she abandon them? We have a little enclosure made for her that she can see out of but the chicks can't escape and the other 2 hens and rooster can't bug her or the chicks. I'll be watching for an answer. Getting excited now!!

 

[raimnel]

Painted, will SHE beable to get out? if yes then she may just go back to her other nest, leaving the eggs

My humidity is at 64 ISH

no peeping yet, cept from my 3 week olds

, I gotta go check on her again and I take pictures
BRB (BeRightBack)

 

[raimnel]

ok here ya go, a picture of my broody silkie when she seen one of my 3 week olds! Maybe her name should be Texas, get it?, don't mess with Texas! ??

I hope she likes her new babies, the 2 she has + I was planning on giving her the chicks as they come out of the 'bator

and here is our set up in the basement, the 3 week olds are now in the big brooder and the hen with eggs is in the top brooder!

and just because, here is Rusty, she is from an egg that I bought from our local store. Her fellow eggs mates are all white/yellow, shes the only redish. cept for Gretta she has a brown spot on her head.

 

[dak]

Oh wait it hurtsssssssssssssss to laugh sooooooo hard.

That's one PO'd broody

 

[raimnel]

you should of seen her a second before the picture snapped, I thought she was going to rip ME a new one. She came charging off the nest right up the door. I ran my poor son over getting my hand hell outta there.

(he's ok)

 

[Jennmom2three]

That is too stinkin funny!!

 

[Bluemoon420]

Oooh she is mad.

I had to bathe a broody silkie yesterday.

I now know what the term madder then a wet hen means.

Still nothing yet with the eggs in the incubator, but it's day 20 today. I'm not worried yet. Last hatch, nothing started until day 21. So, I'll just try to keep myself busy, and hopefully I won't have to bathe a broody silkie today. That was quite a project yesterday.

Bluemoon