Setting the week of August 22 (or so... ) Everyone join!! You know you want to!

[LuvinChickens]

I'm using a hova bator 1588 with an auto egg turner.

 

[Texasmja]

Okay I got everyone new and the new incubator information!

Thanks, Melissa

 

[Sahwithchicks]

IIIIIIIIEEEEE!! I am so excited!!

I am incubating for the first time, and am thrilled there is a hatchalong on here so I can take my anxieties out on you instead of my newly set eggs!

Here is what I am doing:
I bought a used hovabator genesis 1588. Set it on Wednesday and the thing went straight to temp and has not strayed. I went out to the coop the past three days and collected the following:
2 ea black americuana hen and birchen Cochin bantam roo eggs
2 ea silver laced Easter egger hen with birchen Cochin bantam roo
2 ea black silkie hen with paint silkie roo eggs
1 black bantam Cochin with birchen bantam Cochin too egg

I made myself up some log books and have done lots of research, but research doesn't replace experience so I am a little nervous. I set the eggs Thursday at noon. I am really anxious to see my first candling but don't really know what to look for so I am trying to hold out until day 7 so they will be more defined.

I am hand turning them (an auto egg turner is what I asked my husband for our anniversary present haha) and recording EVERYTHING.

Good luck everyone. I am very excited to learn from everyone's experiences!!

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Ohh,I'm Nicole and I'm in Florida. My hatch date should be September 12th. Seems to far away!!

 

[Texasmja]

AIIIIIIIIEEEEE!! I am so excited!!
I am incubating for the first time, and am thrilled there is a hatchalong on here so I can take my anxieties out on you instead of my newly set eggs!
Here is what I am doing:
I bought a used hovabator genesis 1588. Set it on Wednesday and the thing went straight to temp and has not strayed. I went out to the coop the past three days and collected the following:
2 ea black americuana hen and birchen Cochin bantam roo eggs
2 ea silver laced Easter egger hen with birchen Cochin bantam roo
2 ea black silkie hen with paint silkie roo eggs
1 black bantam Cochin with birchen bantam Cochin too egg
I made myself up some log books and have done lots of research, but research doesn't replace experience so I am a little nervous. I set the eggs Thursday at noon. I am really anxious to see my first candling but don't really know what to look for so I am trying to hold out until day 7 so they will be more defined.
I am hand turning them (an auto egg turner is what I asked my husband for our anniversary present haha) and recording EVERYTHING.
Good luck everyone. I am very excited to learn from everyone's experiences!!

I added you Nicole! There are a bunch of us that this is our first hatch.

 

[Texasmja]

User Name Date Set Incubator Eggs
1 Texasmja 8/20/2012 Brinsea Eco 20 set 6 eggs on 8-20-12 at 11:30 pm, my first hatch! WOOT!
2 Luvinchickens 8/21/2012 1588 Hova Bator set 4 Serama eggs 8-21-12 set 1 more 8-22-12.
3 yokohamamama 8/21/2012 unknown
set 4 B/B/S ameraucana eggs the 21st and have a few more to set the end of this week
4 Aschenfire 8/22/2012 Hovabator 1602N still air setting 15 Serama on 8-22-12
5 shwung79 8/22/2012 Brinsea mini & Hova Bator setting 12 Serama & 30 Button quail 8-22-12 p.m. Brinsea mini - serama and hovabator - buttons and serama. *First time with serama. ;Any advice?
6 Fiveladybugs 8/23/2012 Hova Bator 1588 12 Lavender Silkie eggs, set on 8-23-12
7 Chicksooner 8/23/2012 12+ Black Orpingtons, hopefully set 8-23-12
8 Noelg 8/23/2012 17 swedish flower hens,6 lav orpingtons, a dozen marans and some of my own backyard mixes, which will be BO/RIR crosses, set 8-23-12
9 chichichickapea 8/23/2012 Brinsea Mini Adv set 5 cream legbars and 2 isbars....this is my first time incubating, Brinsea Mini Adv, 8-23-12
10 barnyardmommy 8/23/2012 set 1 Ameraucana, 2 Cochins, & 5 Dominiques, 8-23-12
11 Wrightsx4 8/23/2012 Homemade 4 australorp, 3 speckled Sussex, 1 ameraucana, 3 salmon faverolle, a homemade incubator! Set 8-23-12
12 Sahwithchicks 8/23/2012 hovabator genesis 1588 2 ea black americuana hen and birchen Cochin bantam roo eggs, 2 ea silver laced Easter egger hen with birchen Cochin bantam roo, 2 ea black silkie hen with paint silkie roo eggs, 1 black bantam Cochin with birchen bantam Cochin too egg
13 wahmommy 8/24/2012 12 (shipped) wheaten ameraucana eggs on Friday, and I picked up 12 BCM eggs today from a local breeder. I'm going to put them all in the incubator either late 8-24 or 8-25-12.
14 Reedgirl20 8/24/2012 Brinsea Oct 20 setting 10-12 eggs, using Brinsea octagon 20. on the 8-24-12
15 wildriverswolf90 8/24/2012 setting 8/24/2012, 12 easter eggers, bantam black orpingtons, 12 buff orpingtions, and 6 barnyard mutts.
16 knightie 8/24/2012 Homemade 7 pekin/Cayuga cross eggs for my first hatch ever from my own ducks with a sorta homemade incubator (guts of an old still air hovabator in a homemade box) at 9:15 am. Wish me luck!
17 mstricer 8/24/2012 Using a broody hen setting 12 Blue Barred Rocks under a white EE.
18 JodiLynn 8/24/2012 havobater genesis 1500 series set 15 Salmon Faverolle's and 2 eggs from my orpington roo/columbian rock hen this morning (8/24/2012). This is my first time hatching and I am using a havobater genesis 1500 series with egg turner.
19 outdoorsii 8/25/2012 Brinsea & 1588 Hova Bator setting 8-25-12 in my Brinsea Hoverbater 1588 w/egg turner!! 21 total, 10 australorps, 3 jersey giants, 8 JG/BR & JG/PR
20 Chucklecluck 8/26/2012 quaileggs on Sunday or Monday (8-26-12 or 8-27-12)
21 mstricer 8/26/2012 setting 8-26-12
22 Dandydoodle unknown Dandydoodle
23 Drover unknown Brinsea Mini Eco 12 Buff orp eggs, Brinsea mini ECO
24 plowboybunny unknown Gqf sportsman 1500 24 Gabbard "surprise" purebreds, 24 Americanas, 8 of my own frizzle Bantams, 10 Speckled Sussex,12 Naked Necks,12 Black Copper Marans

 

[chicksooner]

I am using a farm innovators circulated air. I have my incubator in the laundry room and the warm and humid air I think is helping keep it so spot on with temp and humidity. They only thing I am worried about is any vibrations put out from the washer. I can't feel any in the tile floor but still wondering about that.

 

[chicksooner]

Finally my 20th post.

 

[knightie]

Texasmja I'm in east Texas, Carthage/Marshall area

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Is turning them five times a day too much? In my excessive research, I read most reccomend three, but also read as many times as you want, and that some egg tuners turn every two hours... But I an curious as to what you guys think.

I have my incubator set on a deep bookshelf away for the curious hands of my one and four year old. I would think a laundry room would be fine as long as it's ventilated?