Setting Thursday March 25.. Anyone want to join me??

[rhondaa]

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i am setting some sat. night yeah!! do i need to put them in an egg carton??

 

[newlyweds]

I am hoping to set my first batch either saturday or sunday!! So excited. Good luck everyone.

 

[GreenGoddess]

If you are collecting them each day until Sat then yes, put them in an egg carton, small end down... If you mean once you put them in bator, then that is entirely up to you.. Some us us do put them in a carton until lockdown (some even do it through lockdown) and others just lay them on their side and hand turn them.. Unless of course you have an egg turner, then it's done for you..

Goddess

 

[KDbeads]

Shouldn't those date be April? Cause.... well my batch is really late then

 

[GreenGoddess]

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WHOOPS!!!

It's all fixed.... I didn't even realize i did that...

Goddess

 

[KDbeads]

So I'm at first candling stage. This week we had a bit of a problem, my homemade water wiggler leaked on the silkie eggs and soaked the rest of the bator

So results of candling:
In the cooler bator, the one with the 30 silkie eggs, we removed 5 due to blood rings, these 5 were right where the wiggler leaked, a few of the surrounding eggs got labeled as questionable (6)

In the foam bator, 37 eggs to start, removed 6 of the mutts, Joe's eggs weren't fertile and there were blood rings on 2 of Ezzy's, in better news the 2 very first eggs from my EE in the silkie pen were developing!! Everything else is doing nicely.


With these hatches I'm trying something different. The cooler bator has all the eggs in a flat carton that I tilt for turning, like I normally do. In the foam bator I'm hand turning, so far I have cracked 2 eggs but taped them up really quick and they are still developing.

 

[paddock36]

Little bit of a late starter but would like to join the hatch. I just bought two dozen assorted eggs, but pure breeds at the auction last night so now I'm getting my incubator going. I got the eggs for $3.00 a dozen and they are RIR, White Rocks, BO, and what they said were Auracanas. I just happen to be sitting behind the people that were selling them.

 

[Ga Grain]

I set 2 doz this evening so count me in. This will be my first so hopefully all goes well. I should have probably read up a little more before trying, but I guess there is no better way to learn than by doing.

I just left the eggs set in the laying boxes to collect for the last 4-5 days. Then brought em all in tonight and then straight into the 'baitor. I had it running since yesterday at about 98.5-104.0 and roughly 40%. I didn't add no water but thats where the humidity went to. Is that alright? I think I got the temp dialed in right at about 100 now. Should I really try to mess with it to get it to 101 (it's still air). Surely a hen doesn't maintain a constant temp to the tenth of degree when she sits.

I guess we shall see how this adventure unfolds. My boys (3 and 6) are pretty excited. They haven't stopped asking if they are hatched yet every thirty minutes. This could get to be a long 3 weeks....

Good luck to all!!

 

[GreenGoddess]

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Sorry to hear about the wiggler.. I had actually made one out of a blown out egg filled with hair gel and sealed with hot glue (found plans on here of course!).. We had an indoor/outdoor thermometer and it seemed to work very well when i tested ice cold water.. The temp was dead on... But, when I put it in the bator (knoing the egg was cooler than the bator, the outdoor sensor that was inside the egg was showing 112 and then it finally said HHH, meaning it was too hot to read.. i know this was VERY inaccurate! So, I decided to do without it and just set an extra egg.. Glad to hear the remainder of your eggs are doing well though!

Goddess

 

[KDbeads]

The thing is I really should have made another one before this hatch started but I was waiting on a real water wiggler to arrive at the general store. Oh well, win some loose some. I now have 3 large and 3 small wigglers to play with.


I'll still have more than enough chicks to play with anyway!