Utah!

[farmerbrian87]

I am constantly going outside and admiring him lol. I've been wanting one forever and now my life feels complete haha I'm curious to see what he and my americaunas will produce.

 

[sillycmoy]

Wow... Brian he is AWESOME.... So jelly... One of these days I hope to move to where I can have a rooster....

 

[farmerbrian87]

His colors are amazing and I just love the black beard. He seems to be scared of my hens though except for 1 EE. He will get the hang of the new place.

 

[Iluvmysilkies]

I just have the cheap o Little Giant Still Air Incubator. My first hatch wasn't so good. But it also was that more then 1/2 the eggs weren't fertile. The next hatch we did to try again. And we did very well. The 3rd and last hatch was last years Easter Hatch Along and I can't remember how many, but it was over 30 chicks that did hatch. I set 48 but I'm down to 31. 14 of them wasn't even fertile. Then the others where quiters. I didn't really candle all of them before lock down either. I did them at 16 days because of my temp spike to 102 for a few hours. That's when I pulled the quiters, so I just figured to leave them.

But all 3 hatches I had a very hard time getting the humidity to even get to 50 until they start hatching, then its fine. Right now hovering around 42-47. All 3 wells are full of water, and I even have too large surface square tupperware bowls in there with sponges that are soaking wet, but its still not bringing it up. I give up really on the humidity, it is what it is. I do have reptile gauge in there and it always reads higher then the digital one. So that one is almost at 60%. But I just have to say a little prayer that they still hatch, because I can never get it up to 65% until they start hatching. Drives me nuts

Good luck! Let me know how it goes.

 

[acemario]

I'm so sad! All 7 of my eggs were doing awesome, but the power has been out for 3 hours!!! I put some warm water on the eggs. I hope they make it!

 

[RedIII]

Brian, he is gorgeous! Happy Birthday!

Bitsy, how old is she? Some hens' combs don't get dark red for quite a while. One of my Wyandotte girls was like that. If she's not a spring chicken, perhaps it's a nutrition thing? Does she have any symptoms like being really tired, not eating, abnormal poo, etc?

ETA: Dang you, phone! Stop autocorrecting me and making my sentences look silly!

 

[RedIII]

I'm so sad! All 7 of my eggs were doing awesome, but the power has been out for 3 hours!!! I put some warm water on the eggs. I hope they make it!

Ace, I'll bet they're fine. Remember that hens have to get up to eat and go potty - and some take their sweeeet time, too!

 

[the-bird-man]

i agree with red, ace. i bet they will be fine.

red the reason i brought up the brahma is because i figured a hen that big that does go broody could help hatch lots of your ice eggs and plus i feel like enabling people right now lol

 

[sillycmoy]

Ace just get a bra and put them in there for a while. Blahahahahahaha........ Was it last year that someone was trying to hatch 2 eggs by carrying them in her bra... Go search for the thread. Hilarious....

So my humidity is down to 37. I put more crap in there wet, but I'm running out of room. I want to cry. **** dry Utah! Please rain, snow anything... And I keep going over hoping for a peep in there. Its day 19 in 2 hours. And I'm impatient and I'm worried about them because of the temp spike and the stupid humidity. Grrrr......

 

[acemario]

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Ace, I'll bet they're fine. Remember that hens have to get up to eat and go potty - and some take their sweeeet time, too!

I just called again and said it will be up by, get this, FOUR IN THE MORNING!!!!!!!! Gaaaaaah!