Setting up the bator and setting shipped eggs this week....anyone else wanna join?

[chickenlickin8]

Day 19......Iv'e got a pip

Iv'e got another one peeping.

Cindy

That's so exciting....zipping will be next! YAY! Keep us posted and share some pics please of the little cuties!

Haha! I changed out the shallow water dish for a small chicken waterer today - bright green base. The silkie babies ran into the corner and would not move. I guess a big green waterer is very scary when you are so little!

So glad to hear of more pips and hatches!!! I am ready to do it again! Just have to convince my husband.....this could be so ADDICTING!

Your babies are just soooo cute huddled together......the big green thing scared them good. Adorable!

I received my eggs from Scott this morning. I got 18 eggs, 16 Columbian rocks and 4 Wynd. I am letting them set until am . Then into the bater they goo , wheeeee. The col. eggs are really large and heavy. None broken or cracked, no separate air cells noted either. I am a happy camper.

YIPPEEEEEE! A hatching you will go again! Looking forward to your progress reports!

 

[wagoncab]

IV'E GOT A CHICKLET

ANOTHER ONE IS RIGHT BEHIND

THERE ARE 2 MORE PIPS FOR SURE

Hope I remember how to post pics here.

Cindy

 

[wagoncab]

Number 2 just hatched....

 

[noahsmom]

Haha! I changed out the shallow water dish for a small chicken waterer today - bright green base. The silkie babies ran into the corner and would not move. I guess a big green waterer is very scary when you are so little!

So glad to hear of more pips and hatches!!! I am ready to do it again! Just have to convince my husband.....this could be so ADDICTING!

OMGOSH! They are growing so quickly and getting so much more fluff!!! It's wonderful being able to see them grow and to cute they are scared of the scary mean green monster (waterer) lol!!

I received my eggs from Scott this morning. I got 18 eggs, 16 Columbian rocks and 4 Wynd. I am letting them set until am . Then into the bater they goo , wheeeee. The col. eggs are really large and heavy. None broken or cracked, no separate air cells noted either. I am a happy camper.

YAY!

 

[chickenlickin8]

Number 2 just hatched....

YAY!! How many more are pipped and hatched?

Melinda - how are your babies doing? Any others hatch?

Whose setting eggs today or this weekend? mlmills79 and Gloria Jean are getting ready to....the fun begins again!

My babies are a week old already and growing fast! I will post new pics!

 

[crazyhen]

Today is egg setting day, Happy day, Yippee!!!!! I hope everyones chicks hatch great today.

 

[Chook Chick]

Gloria Jean, question here.....

I see you didn't put your eggs you just got into the incubator until the following morning....how did you keep them and can that be done with any fertile hen

Today is egg setting day, Happy day, Yippee!!!!!    I hope everyones chicks hatch great today. 

eggs?

 

[Chook Chick]

Wow that post went awry....using my cellphone currently!

 

[mlmills79]

I just keep my eggs on the kitchen counter in cartons until I have about 30 to set. Usually take no more than two weeks to gather what I want, we eat and sell the rest.

 

[chickenlickin8]

Gloria Jean, question here.....

I see you didn't put your eggs you just got into the incubator until the following morning....how did you keep them and can that be done with any fertile hen
eggs?

When I receive shipped eggs, I allow them to rest/settle for 24 hours in a carton, small end down before place them in the bator.

If it's eggs from your own hens, do as mlmills79 suggests. Good luck and keep us posted!