The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[cmom]

If anyone is interested I have eggs available. I just had my first hatch for this season and it was very good considering the eggs were older eggs. I was surprised myself.

 

[waddles99]

If anyone is interested I have eggs available. I just had my first hatch for this season and it was very good considering the eggs were older eggs. I was surprised myself.

I actually ordered some eggs from you this year. I wanted to last year but had no incubator, now I do. Last spring I got a nice female and then another really nice male and 2 awesome females last fall to breed, but I wanted to have some different families from the same line to work with so I won't be inbreeding. I have 14 of yours in the incubator as we speak. We are on day 7 right now. I am going to candle tomorrow. I hope I get a nice hatch rate. My last hatch I did was shipped to me from a breeder out west but I only got 3/11 so hopefully I do better this time!

 

[cmom]

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That is sooo cool. I love it. I hope you have a good Hatch. Some of the eggs I put in my incubator are around 2 weeks old because I send out the freshest and what's leftover goes into mine. Right now it's full so I cant put any more in until more hatch. They will be around 2 weeks old. I now have 3 more families to hatch from. A couple of months ago I finally got rid of the last of the males so the bachelor coops were converted back to breeding coops. I added nest boxes to them. I'm going to sell a few more pullets from last years hatch because I'm using 2 of the coops that I use for grow-out as breeding coops right now. Need to downsize to make room for the new youngsters. The chick coop has been converted to the hatchery.and brooder. it's pretty tight in there but I'm making it work. I hope to have a separate building next year for hatching and brooding. I have to go looking to find what I want then start saving for it.

 

[waddles99]

That is sooo cool. I love it. I hope you have a good Hatch. Some of the eggs I put in my incubator are around 2 weeks old because I send out the freshest and what's leftover goes into mine. Right now it's full so I cant put any more in until more hatch. They will be around 2 weeks old. I now have 3 more families to hatch from. A couple of months ago I finally got rid of the last of the males so the bachelor coops were converted back to breeding coops. I added nest boxes to them. I'm going to sell a few more pullets from last years hatch because I'm using 2 of the coops that I use for grow-out as breeding coops right now. Need to downsize to make room for the new youngsters. The chick coop has been converted to the hatchery.and brooder. it's pretty tight in there but I'm making it work. I hope to have a separate building next year for hatching and brooding. I have to go looking to find what I want then start saving for it.

I will be sure to post the results of today's candling. My eggs are from family 1 and 3, 7 of each. Which fills both of my tiny 7 egg incubators. I have a feeling I will be needing more incubator space next year, lol. They are so expensive, but I love the Brinsea incubators. I am not to the stage of setting up official breeding pens, since we are moving over the summer and I don't want to set up anything only to have to move it or leave it behind. When we get to the new property that will be good time to set up the official stuff, permanent too. Right now I have 2 large outdoor coop and run setups, a large cage in the barn for show conditioning, smaller growout cages in the garage(currently empty), and of course a couple brooders in my garage. I hope to expand the operation at our next property. I'm not looking to raise a hundred birds a year, maybe 30-50, something more manageable.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I will be sure to post the results of today's candling. My eggs are from family 1 and 3, 7 of each. Which fills both of my tiny 7 egg incubators. I have a feeling I will be needing more incubator space next year, lol. They are so expensive, but I love the Brinsea incubators. I am not to the stage of setting up official breeding pens, since we are moving over the summer and I don't want to set up anything only to have to move it or leave it behind. When we get to the new property that will be good time to set up the official stuff, permanent too. Right now I have 2 large outdoor coop and run setups, a large cage in the barn for show conditioning, smaller growout cages in the garage(currently empty), and of course a couple brooders in my garage. I hope to expand the operation at our next property. I'm not looking to raise a hundred birds a year, maybe 30-50, something more manageable.

I hope you have a good hatch. I knew I was going to need more incubation space than what my Incuview offered (27 eggs), so I built one that will hold many more eggs. I bought an IncuKit and built it for (around) $200, and I can cook up to 68 eggs. It's steady as a rock! I only have one turner tray in it, and there is only one open spot left.... 33 eggs. My pair of pullets laid 2 dozen eggs in the last 2 weeks. If they continue to lay like that, I'll have to add the second turner next week.

It's a good idea to start with a low number of chicks the first year. Get the hang of it, and once you get your feet under you, start increasing the numbers. I plan to put 45-60 chicks on the ground this season. I'll probably end up on the upper end of the scale... lol!

 

[waddles99]

Updates of the candling. 8/14 eggs were viable. One of them looked iffy but the shells are so thick it was hard to see so I kept it. 3 of them were #1 and the other 5 were #3. They are due to hatch in 13 days.

 

[cmom]

Updates of the candling. 8/14 eggs were viable. One of them looked iffy but the shells are so thick it was hard to see so I kept it. 3 of them were #1 and the other 5 were #3. They are due to hatch in 13 days.

I mark eggs I think are quitters.One year I took about a half dozen out and put them in an pulp egg carton. I was in checking the hatchers and I heard this peeping not coming from the hatchers. The chicks I thought were quitters hatched in the egg carton. The room they were in was plenty warm but what a surprise. This is one from last years hatch.

 

[waddles99]

I mark eggs I think are quitters.One year I took about a half dozen out and put them in an pulp egg carton. I was in checking the hatchers and I heard this peeping not coming from the hatchers. The chicks I thought were quitters hatched in the egg carton. The room they were in was plenty warm but what a surprise. This is one from last years hatch.

I just take them out because I heard they can spread bacteria to the viable ones.

 

[cmom]

Day 23 and another chick just hatched. I'll leave the eggs in for a couple of more days. In a couple of past hatches I have had chicks hatch on day 25.

 

[Momof3plustwins]

I hope you have a good hatch. I knew I was going to need more incubation space than what my Incuview offered (27 eggs), so I built one that will hold many more eggs. I bought an IncuKit and built it for (around) $200, and I can cook up to 68 eggs. It's steady as a rock! I only have one turner tray in it, and there is only one open spot left.... 33 eggs. My pair of pullets laid 2 dozen eggs in the last 2 weeks. If they continue to lay like that, I'll have to add the second turner next week. It's a good idea to start with a low number of chicks the first year. Get the hang of it, and once you get your feet under you, start increasing the numbers. I plan to put 45-60 chicks on the ground this season. I'll probably end up on the upper end of the scale... lol!

I have an Incuview also. Quick question on if you ever had the egg turn quit working? It worked last fall and the first batch this Spring but now it dosen't turn and I don't know why.