Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[wthchristi]

2 eggs have pipped, 1 EE and 1 cochin. Hearing and seeing lots of egg movement though. Hopefully I wake up to new babies in the morning.

On the bator front- I cannot stand styrofoam incubators. I quit incubating last year when my bator fried during lock down and I lost all of my babies that were pipping. It was horrible, I cried for 2 days. I could not keep the temperature stable, it would either drop way low or spike to 110.

A couple of months ago, my hubby gave in (he's so good to me) and we bought a used gqf 1266 for $300, like new with new eggturners included on Craigslist. We took a Saturday drive two hours south and bought it. I am in love with it!!! my hubby and I are not good at being hands off, and the bator gets back to temp within minutes of us opening it. I have had very good hatch rates with it. The BLRW batches are the first shipped eggs i have done this season, and ALL of the (15) from both Hoppy and I lovefrizzles have at least started to develop. This has NEVER happened with a styrofoam incubator. We will see how many make it to the end.

If you are going to hatch eggs, and it is your passion/ or hobby, save yourself the tears and frustration and buy a quality incubator. It is paying for itself in the babies that pop out of it every week.

Have a wonderful holiday weekend everyone. Happy hatching!

 

[Phage]

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Couldn't agree more about a decent incubator.
A good digital incubator hugly reduces the heartache and lost $$ from a crappy incubator.

Anyways...update on todays hatch (in digital incubator):
4/8 hoppys BLRW are out and the other 4 are pipped (watjdatellya) and hooray for Hoppy!!!!

4/7 Wheaten Marans out.
Not sure of the status of the others as they are so dark and I have not candled since day 7 and had doubts about some then. The other 7 (or maybe 9?) WM eggs candled totally clear at day 7. It is just my experience that if eggs are fertile this incubator will hatch them. I LOVE it

 

[seminolewind]

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I use a brinsea spot check , it has a probe so you can hang the probe in and have the reader outside, and it's real accurate, moreso than anything else.

I have tried those things where you put the temp thing inside and can read it from a reciever outside, and it was far from accurate. So far, bubblewrap has worked the best and the brinsea spot check.

Well I was right. DH came home this morning after working the night shift and did nothing but whine about no rugs. Not to mention I was awaken at six am , Baxter had a seizure, then crapped all over the house (no rugs, LOL). So in total, I worked outside around the coops for 3 hours, came in and removed the rugs and mopped the floor and cleaned some for 2 hours, and had to clean up crap this morning (no rugs, LOL), and deal with 2 seizures, and stripping my bed. The man came home and did nothing about whine about no rugs and the trash I placed outside. No word about all the things I did. I'm really getting tired about his negativity, and the pouting. Thank God I'm on happy pills because if not, I would do bodily harm to someone

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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I use a brinsea spot check , it has a probe so you can hang the probe in and have the reader outside, and it's real accurate, moreso than anything else.

I have tried those things where you put the temp thing inside and can read it from a reciever outside, and it was far from accurate. So far, bubblewrap has worked the best and the brinsea spot check.

Well I was right. DH came home this morning after working the night shift and did nothing but whine about no rugs. Not to mention I was awaken at six am , Baxter had a seizure, then crapped all over the house (no rugs, LOL). So in total, I worked outside around the coops for 3 hours, came in and removed the rugs and mopped the floor and cleaned some for 2 hours, and had to clean up crap this morning (no rugs, LOL), and deal with 2 seizures, and stripping my bed. The man came home and did nothing about whine about no rugs and the trash I placed outside. No word about all the things I did. I'm really getting tired about his negativity, and the pouting. Thank God I'm on happy pills because if not, I would do bodily harm to someone

I'm on happy pills, and I still would have bopped him one.

Seems like men just don't like change, no matter how much better it will be in the long run. My experience anyway.

 

[wthchristi]

Morning update, 2 out of 2 bbs cochin babies hatched, 1 EE out of 10, with a whole bunch more pipped. No activity in the buff brahma yet.

Off to do an Easter Egg hunt and extended family dinner today. Good luck to all of the currently hatching mammas to be.

 

[seminolewind]

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I got mine at Brinsea online. I'm sure other places have it, maybe Cutler's?
What eggs did you get from Wynette?

Blessedchickenmoma, I should have bopped him. No wonder I spend alot of time outside.
Funny, as time went by since we're together, he's become the nit-picky one that I used to be, and now I'm not

 

[seminolewind]

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That is awful! How well were they packed?

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

OMG Mary, both of our luck has stunk lately. Your poor eggs I'm so sorry. After having fully formed chicks dead in the eggs, I am convinced a better bator is in my future. I'll invest and have less torment. Anywho nothing from the BLRW eggs from ILOVE. Its day 19 so I'm starting to get paranoid. Think the shifts cooked them too. C'est la vie. AND to add a little insult to injury. I'm pretty sure that BOTH of my wyandottes from Gretchen turned out to be the 25% black laced HAHAHAHA I love chickens! Atleast the juvenille pen is almost done and the kids are outside... 3-7 weeks... with heat NO MORE DUST well atleast until the 12 in the smaller brooder get bigger

 

[chickenlittle32]

I am getting paranoid about having anything shipped as of late. First the BCM chicks...now the eggs...oh the eggs were horrible...I've never seen anything like that....They were packaged pretty well...in a styrofoam box inside a Priority Mail box...eggs were individually wrapped...I think the problem was that they still could shift. There were 4 that made it ok...I am letting them sit a whole 24 hrs...and then will put them in the bator...see how they do....I encouraged brindle to incubate some eggs that took about a week (if not longer) to get to her and she had a few to hatch....

 

[hoppy]

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I'm doing the happy dance!! congrats Phage. I know you'll love them (and you can sex them today as well)
and for anyone wanting blr eggs, I'll be posting another auction for next weekend.