Valentine's Day Hatch

[featherz]

My hot2pot eggs were supposed to get here today, but looks like they aren't here yet. Hopefully tomorrow! I won't be able to let them 'settle' much but will have to do. I have a few mutt eggs to throw in as well. =)

 

[BHep]

I set 5 eggs from my flock under my banty broody. She has been sitting on 7 eggs for 2 days, I needed to get those eggs out before they start to develop.
I set :
3 Lav. Orps.
1 EO x LO
1 Frizzled Cochin

her sisters get on the nest with her and I can stick a few more in. There are 3 sisters, they brood & raise the chicks together.

 

[Axle Quails]

Can i join this hatch along ?

I got 10 eggs hopefuly for hatching all pekin bantam hatching eggs

 

[Sumatra503]

I will be setting:

6 EE/OE eggs
up to 14 Mystery Eggs
like 54 Button Quail Eggs

I have set already:

4 Emu Eggs

 

[dixiebeast]

Ok...I know there is a hatch rate contest but I cant find the "sheet" to fill out !! I am setting the following for the Val day hatch:

2 Ameraucanas
4(hope for 5) Self Blue OEGB
6 EE eggs from Eaglethehenpecked(one is cracked and if I wax it there will be 7)
???? mystery(I think quail ) from shellyga...she hasnt said if extras!!

Do I need more?? LOL Guess I need to go back and look if there is a minimum number!!

ETA: I need more eggs!! Must have 24!!

 

[mrheinz77]

I haven't made the sheet. I'll try when I get home. Otherwise it is fine to post here if I don't get it made.

 

[Dingo]

I thinned out my brood, I have 3 OEGB eggs, all the LF eggs are looking good, and the cochin didn't do anything, thats 10 chicken eggs out of 16 set. I'm not going to touch the quail eggs til next weekend.

 

[dixiebeast]

Thats ok...my gals are off laying this week...big drop in eggs for me and what I do want to hatch are my bantam breeds which are not laying hardly at all!! 24 will be a hard number for me to hit...I had 24 in because of bought eggs and hatched 19 yesterday!! That is a big batch for me...I usually just set a few each week..I have one laying age OEGB and one duccle...and the Amers I get 2 a day but have a few in grow out now!

I haven't made the sheet. I'll try when I get home. Otherwise it is fine to post here if I don't get it made.

 

[mrheinz77]

I have the sign up sheet so we all know who is participating and how many eggs are being set. If you are participating, please complete the form with your BYC user name and the number of eggs set. I will edit how many hatched when we have peeps.

Click on the link to sign up.

If you make a mistake, resubmit and I will delete your original submission. If you are setting quail eggs, you can fill this out when you set them.

Sign Up

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[debs_flock]

Well, I already have more than the 42 eggs my turner will hold. I'm not expecting as good of a hatch rate as last time, because I'm experimenting. So far I have the eggs I've saved from my EE & campines (a second one started to lay), that was 19 eggs and I expect to get up to 3 more tomorrow before the set.

Then tonight I made a trip to Trader Joe's, although I'm not positive about the pack date, they were only stamped with a sell by date (Feb 18th).

Standard old white eggs.



But I was very excited when I went to my local health food store. They had lots of local eggs, none marked fertile, but all marked free range. So I'm hoping the locals have a rooster or two. These eggs were packed yesterday. They had some lovely olive eggs, but they had no pack date. They also were selling duck eggs, I might have to go back and try some of them too. Anyway, I was so excited when I looked in this carton. I think the employees were getting suspicious. I stood at the cooler so long, so I could look at every carton, there was such a variety of eggs. Three of these are SUPER dark!



And lastly, I'm leaving on vacation on Saturday, an 11 hour drive to the Oregon coast. I'll be gone a week. I found this on the GQF website, made specifically for the Genesis 1588. I am so ready for this hatch!



I'll post a final set picture and count. I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't stack extra eggs since the incubator will be in the back seat of my car

Now, to get a decent hatch

............but maybe not 42!

Deb