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

[Sally Sunshine]

Cereal box cardboard and electrical tape?

I just added the links to the most common issues

Like bandaids or vet wrap? Or are those in the links?

see above answer thank you!?!!

...maybe alcohol or something to sterilize the tweezers. I like the poly vi sol (NO iron) too. Pipe cleaners or small rubber bands for splinting...Sometimes a magnifying glass or strong flashlight...cup of coffee! COFFEEE

COFFFFFEEEEEEEE

I just put 17 eggs in my LG styrofoam bator tonight.I might add a few more tomorrow just to increase my odds and the FUN. This is my first attempt this year. I did one incubation last spring with the same bator. Hoping to hatch out Black Australorps mostly but a couple of buff orps. Last year I started my flock with eggs from our local hatchery. I am trying our own eggs this time. Grandsons ages 6, 3, and 2 are excited.

I have three incubators, stuffed full. Over 100 eggs! Yay!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[Sally Sunshine]

Hi All

My internet is so slow and I dont know why!!!

Kiddo feeding the cleft beak duck, we have 6 out so far a few more eggs to go.
GEESE are drawn down ! And two bators of eggs are locked down too!
All chicks are gone so plenty of room for the next batch!


cleft beak Duck

 

[Sally Sunshine]

This one got its beak stuck in my wire bator separators!!
6 out but the wire sucks for DUCKS BEAKS!

 

[shahtir101]

Gonna set eggs as soon as I come back from vacation!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Hi All My internet is so slow and I dont know why!!! Kiddo feeding the cleft beak duck, we have 6 out so far a few more eggs to go. GEESE are drawn down ! And two bators of eggs are locked down too! All chicks are gone so plenty of room for the next batch! cleft beak Duck

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VE cleft beak duck!! How much do u want for him?? Send him on over/Up??

 

[weegarden]

I am hatching out Saipans today. They are a very interesting bird.

Cool! I looked the up online. Very interesting! Chickens are so much fun! My number 4 just hatched!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I had a postal worker swear she heard chirping in a box of eggs I had shipped to me so she started stabbing the box with a knife. I tried explaining that these were hatching eggs and not chicks. She shut the door in my face while I was explaining it was impossible for my hatching eggs to hatch during shipment and had to go home with a gooey, leaky box. Luckily I had her voicemail admitting to what she did. I did get reimbursed by USPS.

I have had a box get completely smashed like that. Araucana eggs that I paid over $100 for. I got $50 back and one egg hatched.

It amazes me how some people treat hatching eggs in transit.

HA HA HA not funny but too funny too!! LOL

Yeah, she stabbed quite a few Cream Legbar eggs for me. Definitely ruined my day. Took a pocket knife and went to town on the box all over. I am still amazed somebody like her is employed. Chirping? Really?

LOL

Quote: cant stop laughing

Just put in 24 eggs. Also testing out my coolerbator with a lockdown for my turkey egg. So, I have 11 duck eggs and 3 NN eggs with a couple weeks to go, a turkey egg w 2 days to go, and 24 just added. Got 12 crested cream legbar eggs, 4 aloha eggs, 4 golden laced Wyandotte, and 4 buff Orpington eggs, though those may not hatch-using the buff Orpington eggs to test a new broody. (BTW others nothing to ruin a Friday like getting a call that your dogs are out of the yard and you are 2 hours away. Had to call a friend to go chase the twerps back to the yard. Must've left the gate unlatched. Least they're OK)

thank goodness they are ok!!

Just got my new incubator...whoop whoop! Now I just need the eggs

PRETTY

PRETTY TOOOOOO!!!!

I got another one but it wasn't rumpless. I sold it a few days ago. Not quite the same but close. A lady swooped in and bought my whole hatch. Lol

awwwwwwwww what a cute chick!!

Quote: ditto no room and I AM NOT DRAGGIN OUT A STYRO OR ANother CABINET that would mean TROUBLE cause I am not shipping chicks !!!

 

[weegarden]

Hawk 12, what kind of incubator is that?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Gonna set eggs as soon as I come back from vacation!

enjoy yourself!!

Quote:

Quote: I know!! Me and my rotten luck.

I forgot to confess that I didn't candle these or mark air cells when I set last night. I'm just all over the place on this one.
There, there,

Maybe you can find someone else to go on the cruise and you can stay home with the eggs and kids!

LAMO!!! too funny!!! PICK ME PICK ME @campingshaws

Quote: OH!!! pictures??

Everyone have a great day!

I'm spending another day at the auction!

Hope it was fun!!!

Heading to the swap..morning! Going to be trying something new this time..will share later.

So I set 8 BLRW, 3 SS, 1 BCM / RIR cross, 10 SLP eggs, and 4 SLP crosses on March 30th. I also have another 12 silkie eggs coming in next week that I am going to manually turn and up the humidity and hope for a better hatch than 0% the last time I tried silkies.

I am going ahead and joining in.

Today I set 4 yellow gold pheasant eggs and 24 Pharoah coturnix quail eggs

ohhhh LOVELY!!!

@Sally Sunshine , picture of the DIS are here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ing-lots-of-graphic-pictures/10#post_14983167

Warning - graphic pictures!

-Kathy

Thanks tons!!

Getting ready to go into lock down with my golden necked d'uccles! Tomorrow is day 18...

And yesterday was so beautiful, I stayed outside working most of the day. Got a pretty red glow from it, because of course I didn't think the first day that it was about 63 degrees I would need sunscreen! But on a good note, got the second roosts poop board up, got the oyster shell hopper mounted to the wall by the feeders, and another nest box in (which no one is brave enough to use yet). Getting ~5 eggs a day now!

And I have been eating omelettes and scrambled eggs almost every morning for 2 weeks now. So delicious!

I want pics of your coops !!!!!

@Sally Sunshine i wanted to ask you if you had frizzled sermas , or micro seramas i think they are called , if so do you have any fertile eggs

we have about 8 broody hens in there right now! I just switched pens to stop them! the new roos are NOT letting them brood lmao!!! I am also not npip anymore, we have to retest, I didnt do it last year because of being sick, but checking fertility now in the bator.