Surviving Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

When I hatched my first batch I woke up every 3 hours to check.

Seeeee? We are not alone. *laughing*

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Seeeee? We are not alone. *laughing*

I was pretty watchful myself when I hatched my first batch. DH was just like whatever. He shut off the lights on me and went to bed.

 

[scandiafowl]

I was pretty watchful myself when I hatched my first batch. DH was just like whatever. He shut off the lights on me and went to bed.

Did it get easier for you ?

 

[jerryse]

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Lisa Griffin Could this thing load any slower??? It's freezing here Boss. Brrrrr ... Tired of freezing, cold, snow_, freezing rain and black ice. Brrrrrrrr....

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Penelope Ann Penn lets hope we have some warm weather coming

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Illoria Anderson Here in the part of Utah, that I live in, we get like 2 weeks of Spring and then it's Summer weather the rest of the months before November.

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Karen Wright Sorry about the weather for ya...hope you get your pretty Weather soon ! Not bad here today.

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Dory Panghulan Ludy Same here Boss...but still going to rain on Wednesday and Thusday.

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Dena Tavenner Yes so ready for warm weather

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Steve Gray If you lived here in Vegas when is 125, you'd be singing a different tune right now! Lol

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Teresa Bell Beautiful here in west Virginia sunshine and 68

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Travis Chamness Our spring , here in Texas, started in J

 

[chickenlover292]

My science teacher just hatched his chicks for this year in his room at the school and I come in and watch them in the Morning, when I have his class, and right after school. I know him well enough that he had me help him move them over to the brooder that I had brought over for him to put them in from the incubator. He trusts me more than anyone not to drop them

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Did it get easier for you ?

I stopped watching the temp as much, so the first 18 days aren't as stressful for me. But I'm still pretty watchful during lock down and especially when they start hatching. I pretty much neglect everything else going on! Lol

I last hatched 24 BCMs in October. That stressed me out because I never hatched such a dark egg before. I went home from work all of the time to check the temp. And then I heard the darker thicker shell can be harder to pip. My face was glued to the bator like a candy store kid during lockdown!

I did start to collect my Ameraucana eggs a few weeks back thinking I'd hatch some OEs. My BCM rooster loved those ladies and I knew the fertility would be awesome. I changed my mind and never set them.

 

[scandiafowl]

I wonder what it is that makes roosters love certain hens and ignore others. How often they dust bathe?

 

[MinnesotaNice]

I wondered the same thing. He was obsessed with all of my blue egg layers and one of my OE hens. Must of been the dust bathing =)

 

[scandiafowl]

My one EE screams and runs away every time a rooster comes near her. I don't bother incubating her eggs.

 

[scandiafowl]

MinnesotaNice - how many birds do you have?