Valentine's Day 1st Annual Hatch Along

[darkbluespace]

Hatch day is getting CLOSER!!!!!

I was shocked this morning when I realized it is only 8 days away!!

 

[ChickyChickens]

I was shocked this morning when I realized it is only 8 days away!!

Same...lol for me its already 7 days

 

[HerbGir1972]

All our own eggs did the chicken dance for me. Had 8 eggs I Slipped in just to check fertility for someone.
Looks like we should be hatching 27 on Valentines

 

[taymar's flock]

Four days to lockdown!!!!! Thank goodness week two is over. It is the longest part of the hatching wait.

Last candle count was seven amerucanas and four marans.

 

[misfitmorgan]

This HAL is going fast!! i cant believe we are only 8 days away from chicks already.

 

[StephensonC]

I'm soooooo ready for some more babies!! Lockdown in just a few days ya'll!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Sugar in her box, and below getting lessons on how to eat chick feed broody not her mom.

6 eggs due on the 13th.

 

[ochochicas]

Quote: Good to know! Our local feed stores sell EEs for $4 and they are supposed to be pullets, but they are not all pullets so it is basically like getting straight run there. Sometimes you also get the wrong breed and not the egg color you wanted. I can hopefully sell my chicks for $3 and make a little bit of the money back I spent on the incubator and all the feed!

There are a couple of Facebook poultry sites where I live, but I will probably just advertise them on Craigslist. In Seattle, Craigslist is huge and gets way more traffic than Facebook. You can try searching in your state for Facebook groups that are for poultry.

I've had to pull about 20 eggs so far since they were not fertile (mostly the ones from my neighbor). The rest should be pipping on Friday with chicks hatching a week from now. I don't think my incubator temperature has been stable this time because I put TOO MANY eggs in there. I'm sure that will lower my hatch rate. So far there are still 12 legbar eggs left, so I'm hopeful!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Where are you at? I am in winthrop. you have grass must be western wa. LOL.

 

[ochochicas]

Where are you at? I am in winthrop. you have grass must be western wa. LOL.

I'm on the western slopes of the cascades close to Seattle. Yes, we do have grass! LOL Right now we also have a lot of mud and ponds and not so much grass. This rain is horrible. Luckily the chickens don't seem to mind the rain too much.