"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[Sally Sunshine]

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awwwwwwww There she is!!!!

Sign me up. I'll be hatching every week lol

JESS!!!!! Welcome over!!!!

Quote: oh good luck!!! I pray air cells are looking good!!

I retired my incubator, have diligently collected every egg from my devious broody hens, and was planning to avoid the hatch-a-long thread altogether this year, but here I am. Three of my banty hens were pitifully setting on empty nests and I felt so sorry for them I had to give in. I bought 6 baby chicks with the intention of putting 2 under each of them, but one hen decided all the chicks belonged to her, so that plan was foiled. I gave the second and third hens back a few random barnyard eggs to incubate and figured we were done. Then, while perusing the local Craigslist farm-and-garden posts, I discovered BBS Orpington eggs for sale literally around the corner from me! So I bought 6 of those and put them under the second hen while transferring all the barnyard eggs to the third hen. Somehow I'm up 18 chickens from a week ago and obsessing over ebay hatching egg auctions! This is dangerous territory..

addiction like the rest of us!!!

I'd like to join this hatch along. I'm setting 18 serama eggs today!

YAYAYAYYAYA Welcome over!!

 

[BantyChooks]

Yayyyy lucky's navel is good now, no blood visible!

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[Chaos18]

Yayyyy lucky's navel is good now, no blood visible!

 

[billiejw89]

I set the eggs. Temp is 99.5 I had the humidity level at 55 before adding eggs, now that they are in there it's shot up to 68-70. What should I do?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I set the eggs. Temp is 99.5 I had the humidity level at 55 before adding eggs, now that they are in there it's shot up to 68-70. What should I do?

let it a little where is your hygro sitting? you have a fan model right?

 

[BantyChooks]

It is so hard not to snatchem out as soon as they are half dry!!

 

[Chaos18]

This is the first external piper, finally made his whole bigger............only took him about 40 hrs to do so.

 

[billiejw89]

let it a little where is your hygro sitting? you have a fan model right?

Yes fan model. Its an old Brinsea 20. Hygro is sitting on floor on bator.

 

[BantyChooks]

Jace's eggs are driving me insane.... They are the most important to me, and they are taking their sweet time!

Ya, it hasn't been 24 hours since pip yet, but there is nothing... Resting, probably, but I just want them out of their shells alive.
-Banti