Setting up today 26 May 2012.... Anyone setting can join

Date sort Score sort
I love the last picture...the action shot of the one taking a dive over the other one....true baby chick action right there...."DOGPILE!!!"

gig.gif
 
POPPACABOT - I am a part of a hatch group that started this past Saturday. I have been reading through this groups hatch posts, and see that you started with 73% humidity like I did the first day. I got it figured out, so now it is between 35% - 45%. I was really worried that I messed things up already with that high humidity. This is my first hatch. It looks like your did GREAT though. Happy to see that.


xoxo Annmarie
 
MomsGoneMild said:
POPPACABOT - I am a part of a hatch group that started this past Saturday. I have been reading through this groups hatch posts, and see that you started with 73% humidity like I did the first day. I got it figured out, so now it is between 35% - 45%. I was really worried that I messed things up already with that high humidity. This is my first hatch. It looks like your did GREAT though. Happy to see that.


xoxo Annmarie
Click to expand...
My humidity started out really high, then in about a day it came down to around normal in about 2 days, and i was able to keep it there only having one of the troughs full of water. im waiting on some more eggs to get here then i will start a new batch. Im going to be setting 10 to 12 Silkie eggs. Hope that hatch is as good as the last I had. When i went to hatch i put a cut up sponge in a bowl with water and had the humidity up to around 80 then I realized I had a pip'd egg and that one hatched that night and was fine , it was the second one that hatched that i had problems with but its completely fine now.
 
well my chicks started hatching last night. this morning there were 4 out of 17 in the incubator. lots of pips at the moment. my wife is really hoping for some more to hatch. they are croxxed out of her rooster that was killed 5 weeks ago by a coon. she's a little down about the hatching even. she said this morning "they are cute but i am not getting attached to any of them. they are just chickens" yeah right just chickens to her?!?! i think she'd sit and watch them all day long if we didn't have actual children!!
 
Mixes are the coolest. I have some del x hamps that come out unpredictable like mixes. Some are barred, some white, some red, and even some with silver barring, and a few black ones with white or gold leakage. Every egg can be surprise. Great looking chicks! Thanks for sharing.
 
I just went into lock down, I am hoping for chicks on Friday/Sat. I am hoping that I was able to keep the timing the same as my hen, so that I can put the extra babies under her at night and she will just have lots of babies. I really appreciate everyone sharing their stories, it helps a newbie like me working on my first hatch. We lost one egg so far. And, I haven't been able to candle anything the eggs are just to dark. So, here I sit with my fingers firmly crossed.
fl.gif
 

Similar threads

FatherFalcon
Chaos Hatching Technique
Replies
4
Views
460
Ridgerunner
Ridgerunner
L
Nurtureright 360
Replies
4
Views
294
BoundlessLove
BoundlessLove
Jessgitalong
    • Love
    • Like
    • Sad
Hard Lesson About Wild Jungle Fowl Mamas
Replies
7
Views
379
McChooky
McChooky
B
First Timer Observations and Questions
Replies
3
Views
182
Susan Skylark
Susan Skylark
D
    • Love
    • Like
First time hatching from my own flock
4 5 6
Replies
54
Views
3K
Slothinc
Slothinc

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom