Setting my eggs tonight (April 10) Any tips?

[Bluemoon420]

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Same thing happened to us. I was keeping our silkie eggs aside while she was laying and rotating out her older eggs to check for fertility. When I finally decided to set them in the incubator she went broody for the first time.

Since it's her first time, and my first time dealing with a broody. I felt she will just keep practicing on the golf balls for now. I guess it's a good thing I did because she keeps switching nest boxes.

Later on this summer, if she is still determined to hatch golfballs, I'll give her a couple eggs. Plus, I have some youn g roosters currently in the area I'd let her use for hatching, so either way....She has to wait.


and welcome to you and 4chickns.

Morning Dak.

Bluemoon

 

[EastinChickens]

Hello Bluemoon, Dak, Raimnel, AND 4chickens!!!

How is everybody doing?

 

[Bluemoon420]

Doing good Eastin

I hope you are having as nice weather where you are in MI as we are in our part of MI. LOL

I candled eggs last night, and looks like only one blue egg is ?. Hopefully it will stay that way!

Bluemoon

 

[4chickns]

Okay, so I was going to wait until 8 or 9 days to candle, but after listening to everyone else, I needed to candle today. Just couldn't wait. Well, when I took my two silkies off their nest to take the eggs for a minute, I realized I was short one. It was stuck to the bottom of my clumsy white silkie. She had broken it and it stuck to her fur. I was so upset, I could tell it would have been fine.

There is another one that is cracked, too, so I'm not sure whether to take it out yet or wait.
So I'm down to 6 whole eggs, 3 of which I could tell for certain were good, and three I just saw the air sack but nothing else. This is my first time candling, so I'm not exactly sure what to look for, but I was happy to see at least a few were developing.
My black silkie is gentle, but the white one, sweet as she is, is just so rough getting in and out of the box!

I hope everyone is having good luck so far!

 

[PaintedMeadows]

Can I join in? I put 17 eggs under my buff orp hen on April 9th. 12 of them are supposed to be from marans but they are very light so I guess I can't call them that. Then there are 3 from our EE and 2 from our other BO. I thought there were 18 but I can't find it and it isn't stuck under our hen. I checked. She is a good mom and hatched out a nice little brood last year. I can't wait!! When you have eggs under a broody how do you candle? Do you pick them up, check them, mark them and then put them back in the exact same spot? What do you do with the hen while you are doing that? Never candled before. This is fun having a group to hatch with!!

 

[klf73]

candled a couple of days ago and one batch had 16 out of 18 growing, the other batch seemed to be a little behind and I am candling again tonight

as far as checking under a broody I have no idea, my only broodys were my bantams and I got rid of them last year...

 

[dak]

Hello to our growing group! I'm just a newbie so I can't you any advice, but wishing everybody luck.

4chickns sorry about your clumsy silkie, maybe its time for a bator?

PaintedMeadow I don't know about broodys. Will they quit setting if disturbed too much?

klf73 what kind of babies have you got going?

To those of us with bators,... what kinda of humidity %'s are you runnning at?

Happy Day 7!
dak

 

[EastinChickens]

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Sure you can join!!!

 

[klf73]

I've been lazy(more like busy, I have 7 kids) about posting but I mentioned earlier in the thread that I set Ameraucana

. Geez I just keep adding to the bator though. I ordered a brinsea eco 20 and was hoping it would be here by now but now it won't be here until Monday

was hoping to move most of the eggs out for me to use this bator as a hatcher as I have 3 eggs that are supposed to hatch tuesday... a couple of my own and a sumatra. I also added some more ameraucana 2 days ago and today I put in some lav araucana project eggs

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[Bluemoon420]

Morning guys, and welcome to the new joiners

Nothing much has changed on my end yet. I haven't candled yet besides on day 7. Ive had to watch the temp in the bator a little bit because of the weather. We went from a really warm day, to a really windy, and cold day. The temp would flucuate just a little.

I don't know too much about broody's either. Our silkie went broody, but she's been on golf balls, since we don't want her hatching yet. She's stubborn, I'll give her that.

Bluemoon