South Carolina

[Southern Bee Lady]

I tried Chrome for about 10 minutes and really liked it until everything crashed. I will try it again when I get time.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I tried Chrome for about 10 minutes and really liked it until everything crashed. I will try it again when I get time.

I use mozilla or chrome. I like both.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

I will have to read & catch up in a bit. But I just wanted to say... I have babies hatching!

Story:
One of DH's buddies at work has hens and a couple of roos. He found a nest of eggs & did not know if the hen had been sitting or not.
He robbed that nest & took those eggs to work in an egg carton. Some were upside down lol - some were pointy end down - and as far as I know left them in either his truck or DH's truck overnight while they were working. Dh doesn't get home til around 12 or 1 in the afternoon due to farm work after his regular job....

Sent them to me to see if they would hatch. I waited around 8 hours for the eggs to warm up in the house ---they were COLD!!!

Set them in the still air hovabator incubator. Cracked one last week and it was developed well & alive! Well...til I opened the egg & it died.


These eggs were very cold with no hen for over 24 hours, they were about 2 weeks through the incubation period..... Two of the 13 have hatched so far!!!


ETA: The buddy lives about a 45 minute drive from us I think....Maybe an hour.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Alright, what do people have in their incubator? I have to live vicariously through all of you since mine are empty. I am so fighting to hold off until February before I put more in it. I have so many silkie eggs right now but just do not want any chicks unless a hen is caring for them--but I can still hear what everyone else is hatching!

Also, do we have anyone on here that raise rose comb RIRs? Or have in the past? Just wondering what they are like in personality.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

I will have to read & catch up in a bit. But I just wanted to say... I have babies hatching!

Story:
One of DH's buddies at work has hens and a couple of roos. He found a nest of eggs & did not know if the hen had been sitting or not.
He robbed that nest & took those eggs to work in an egg carton. Some were upside down lol - some were pointy end down - and as far as I know left them in either his truck or DH's truck overnight while they were working. Dh doesn't get home til around 12 or 1 in the afternoon due to farm work after his regular job....

Sent them to me to see if they would hatch. I waited around 8 hours for the eggs to warm up in the house ---they were COLD!!!

Set them in the still air hovabator incubator. Cracked one last week and it was developed well & alive! Well...til I opened the egg & it died.


These eggs were very cold with no hen for over 24 hours, they were about 2 weeks through the incubation period..... Two of the 13 have hatched so far!!!

How fun! I love happy stories!!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

Alright, what do people have in their incubator? I have to live vicariously through all of you since mine are empty. I am so fighting to hold off until February before I put more in it. I have so many silkie eggs right now but just do not want any chicks unless a hen is caring for them--but I can still hear what everyone else is hatching!

Also, do we have anyone on here that raise rose comb RIRs? Or have in the past? Just wondering what they are like in personality.

Silkie eggs - my own ---and whatever it is I am hatching now - I have no clue what they are !

You have silkie eggs not in the incubator??

 

[RedBugPoultry]

I am so loving these Marans pullets! Yes, another egg this morning and I think they are getting darker~ The egg on top is a Cochin eggs but I am wondering if the first Marans egg and the last are from one girl and the middle one from the other. I can see a very different color to the middle from the other two. And that is one of the darkest of my cochin eggs. I know there are darker eggs but this is a start!!

 

[dixiebeast]

I like the shaving as far as upkeep...but the cocci hit that group 2 times...same set up but I switch bins(one in use and one cleaned and sterile to put them in fresh!) Everyone advised staying away from shavings until feathered out...so far so good! I have 3 small growout/biddie pens with lights outside for when they feather out this winter and have not lost any to cold so far...I am a hatchaholic and have a few hatch out EVERY weekend!

I have a friend down the road that does not like shavings. That is why I posted. We discussed the same subject yesterday, and it was on my mind. I promise you that she keeps her stuff squared away, and she had problems twice. I keep wondering if I will have my day, but I am reluctant to change when I haven't had any problems. I like the shavings for the compost piles. I guess I am trying to recover some of that expensive feed. I do move the birds out when they don't need the extra heat. I have hatched earlier than I normally do, so I wonder what my limits are. I can't move them out as fast as I would if this was April.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Silkie eggs - my own ---and whatever it is I am hatching now - I have no clue what they are !

You have silkie eggs not in the incubator??

Yes, I have a lot of silkie eggs not in the incubator. I just really needed a break and then the girls got with it. I put some under a silkie hen yesterday that acted like she was setting but to day she has decided she is not setting. That is a pullet for you! I also put some under a cochin hen that had been setting for a few weeks wanting some eggs and today she was not on them either--hoping she was just getting a bite to eat.

 

[dixiebeast]

Well in the last 48 hours I hatched 8 Amers,1 polish, and 9 assorted cochins!! I have 2 lonly Duccle eggs hatching friday and 2 olive eggers,1 bantam lav amer,1-2 silkies(need to candle) and 1 self blue OEGB due friday after.

Then I am setting eggs for valentines hatch which are 8 EE, 4 maybe 5 by tomorrow self blue OEGB and an unknow amount of quail eggs coming for that hatch game!! LOL

NOOOOOOO....I DONT HAVE A PROBLEM!!!

Alright, what do people have in their incubator? I have to live vicariously through all of you since mine are empty. I am so fighting to hold off until February before I put more in it. I have so many silkie eggs right now but just do not want any chicks unless a hen is caring for them--but I can still hear what everyone else is hatching!

Also, do we have anyone on here that raise rose comb RIRs? Or have in the past? Just wondering what they are like in personality.