The Fathers Day Hatch-A-Long!!! The Last Day To Set eggs Is June 3rd!!!!

[1hotmoma]

I hope I haven't confused anyone. I need to get my eggs started since I will be teaching a class at camp on embryology. I have several hatching that week for the kids.

 

[Tripp16]

Well looks like Im out of luck to join in. My friend wants to borrow my bator to hatch a few Peacock eggs in. I dont really need anymore chicks since I had 20 hatch on the mothers day hatch.

Still need to find them homes. Haha

Good luck to everyone else and Ill be looking in on you guys!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I just found out I'll be getting 3 dozen eggs to set this Saturday, so I'd love to join you. It looks like I'll be a week or more behind some of you, though! The eggs will be pullet eggs but I'm really pumped to see what I can hatch from these!

I have a very persistent and frustrated broody Welsummer hen. Before, I tried to move my broody Phoenix to a small coop with a run adjoining the flock's run, but she just paced the fence line and wouldn't settle down. Then, when I put her back in with the others, she continued to brood. She kept letting other hens in, so I put a cover on her nest box. Then, one morning after I let her out for her daily spa, another hen climbed in with her and they broke an egg during the 20 minutes I was gone. So, the remaining eggs went into the incubator and she broke up. No success there. Now, I have put a large dog crate in the main coop with water, food, and a milk crate for a nest box. I'll move the Welsummer in tonight and see if she'll be willing to sit under those circumstances. If so, she'll get some of these EO eggs I'm picking up on Saturday.

The rest will go into my incubator. My goal for this hatch is low humidity and larger air cells. I think I'll go completely dry at first and adjust if necessary. Right now, I'm about 50% for shipped eggs and 85% for home eggs (small sample, though) overall. What I don't like is that I always have some eggs that make it to lockdown and don't hatch. I hope to remedy that. These eggs will have been driven a few hours but not shipped, so I think I've got a chance for a good hatch. I'm worried about house temps, though, in summer. I think I'll move the incubator to the bedroom where we have a thermostatically controlled window air conditioning unit. It will be cool but hopefully steady...

Just thinking "out loud"...

 

[mollygirl]

I'm in I will set around 40 chicken eggs on June 1st,barnyard mix so I'm hopeing to come up with all diffrent kinds of chicks,

 

[Arielle]

I just found out I'll be getting 3 dozen eggs to set this Saturday, so I'd love to join you. It looks like I'll be a week or more behind some of you, though! The eggs will be pullet eggs but I'm really pumped to see what I can hatch from these!

I have a very persistent and frustrated broody Welsummer hen. Before, I tried to move my broody Phoenix to a small coop with a run adjoining the flock's run, but she just paced the fence line and wouldn't settle down. Then, when I put her back in with the others, she continued to brood. She kept letting other hens in, so I put a cover on her nest box. Then, one morning after I let her out for her daily spa, another hen climbed in with her and they broke an egg during the 20 minutes I was gone. So, the remaining eggs went into the incubator and she broke up. No success there. Now, I have put a large dog crate in the main coop with water, food, and a milk crate for a nest box. I'll move the Welsummer in tonight and see if she'll be willing to sit under those circumstances. If so, she'll get some of these EO eggs I'm picking up on Saturday.

The rest will go into my incubator. My goal for this hatch is low humidity and larger air cells. I think I'll go completely dry at first and adjust if necessary. Right now, I'm about 50% for shipped eggs and 85% for home eggs (small sample, though) overall. What I don't like is that I always have some eggs that make it to lockdown and don't hatch. I hope to remedy that. These eggs will have been driven a few hours but not shipped, so I think I've got a chance for a good hatch. I'm worried about house temps, though, in summer. I think I'll move the incubator to the bedroom where we have a thermostatically controlled window air conditioning unit. It will be cool but hopefully steady...

Just thinking "out loud"...

Food for thought: AC air is dry air--proceed with extra caution. You may need more water not less. I used AC to dry down my first batch of eggs when the air cell was not big enough and it was already day 16. Needed to rush the drying so I used AC and a fan. You may want to monitor the %RH in the room, generally 50% will get you a lower %RH inside the incubator.

I'm in I will set around 40 chicken eggs on June 1st,barnyard mix so I'm hopeing to come up with all diffrent kinds of chicks,

Barn yard mixes are fun--each one is a surprize!

 

[MMB53]

I hope I can hold out till Saturday night (7 days) to candle my Fathers Day Hatch eggs

It's so hard to stay out of the bater, I want to seeeeeee whats going on in there, lol! I hope I have some good viable eggs this time. I have done all the recommended things for shipped eggs that I found from the BYC expert hatchers.

 

[Arielle]

I hope I can hold out till Saturday night (7 days) to candle my Fathers Day Hatch eggs

It's so hard to stay out of the bater, I want to seeeeeee whats going on in there, lol! I hope I have some good viable eggs this time. I have done all the recommended things for shipped eggs that I found from the BYC expert hatchers.

Which techiques did you try-- many opinions on shipped eggs? Wishing for a good hatch!

 

[crazypetlady]

I just set 14 eggs under 2 broody bantam x this is my 1st time using a broody.

They each had 1 barn yard mix under them then I moved them into a cage and put 6 silkie eggs under them.


I have a broody RIR I am going to try to do the same with her I wonder how many silkie eggs I can fit under her.

So add 14 to the 100+ I set earlier. I will set more tomorrow or sat.

 

[Tripp16]

Ok well my friend cant get the incubator until next week.

This is soo tempting not to load the bator! Should I? Or should I not? When are the chicken eggs supposed to be set?

Let me go check the main page! I want to be able to enter these contest!

 

[yinepu]

all 6 goose eggs were damaged in shipping.. so I'm pulling all of them and adding more waterfowl eggs later this coming week