VERY excited!!!!

[77horses]

I'm really excited about the eggs that are in our homemade incubator right now! Not just because they are from our own chickens, not just because one is hatching really soon(I hope!), but because these special eggs are a cross between our standard Splash Cochin rooster, named Foghorn, and our black Ameraucana pullet, named Raven! And what is inside each developing egg is a complete mystery; we don't know what the chick will look like! Well, we have an idea...we are guessing that maybe one will have more splash colors, or it will have more black than splash. Maybe one will be almost all splash or almost all black. Maybe one will have feathered feet and maybe one will have clean legs. I'm really really really really excited to see what the chicks look like; it will be very interesting! I can imagine a chick with feathered feet, a puffy Cochin tail, and Splash colors with more black mixed in.

I really hope that all 4 of the blue eggs make it; one is out of the turner and ready to hatch right now, while 2 might be developing and 1 may be hatching soon as well(but has a watery look to it...the air cell moves when I turn it while candling).

I hope we get at least 1 or 2 of these chicks to hatch!

Also, I have a few Buff Orp/Splash Cochin eggs developing right now, and 2 Red Star/RIR eggs also developing. They are all at different ages, so I've marked my calendar with the date of the egg(which is marked on the egg) so I know which ones are at day 18 and need to be taken out of the egg turner.

Wish the soon-to-hatch Amer./Splash Cochin chick luck!
Thanks!

 

[mahalo4]

you better be putting some pictures up!!!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

How do you make a home-made incubator?
Congrats!

 

[77horses]

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Thanks!

You can go to the BYC learning center and go to the "How-To" link(the first one) and find "Homemade Incubator". Click on that and it will bring you to a page with different incubators made by different people. Here's the link to that page:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/chicken-coop-incubator.html

 

[77horses]

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I will!

 

[77horses]

UPDATE: Egg hasn't pipped yet but we are guessing it's around day 18-19 now...

The broody hen has been setting on this egg along with some others and she gave up, so I put it in my incubator with the rest. I don't know exactly how old it is, but by candling and looking at the week that the broody hen went broody, it must be at 18 days by now.

I'm guessing that it should be hatching later this week...should either pip today or tomorrow sometime. The problem is is that I'm at my mom's house and the bator is at my dad's house(couldn't risk putting it in the car and driving for over an hour to my mom's house). So I've been calling my dad daily to ask if it has pipped.

I probably will miss it hatching, but I will see it next week.

Then I will be able to get pics and post them on here.

 

[milleryardchx]

Thats exciting! I have our first barnyard mix eggs in the incubator too. They aren't due till next week but we have an EE rooster and we don't know who all is the mamas we have buff brahma, barred rocks, RIR, Leghorn, white rock, Golden sex links, Buff O, and a Minorca. We only have one white egg in there so I'm guessing its from the leghorn. But I'm excited to see what the chicks looks like and if their hens what color eggs they will lay green because of daddy or brown or white cause of mama. first time for letting our mixed eggs incubate.

 

[77horses]

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Good luck!

This is our second time hatching out our own eggs(1st time was with a broody Buff Orp hen). In fact, it's teh first time using the incubator!

 

[milleryardchx]

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This is our second time using an incubator first time was with a homemade so this is our first time using our lg no temp spikes so i'm hopeful. first time i put in 5 of our eggs and non were fertile we had our rooster for only three weeks at that point. we will see what we get. i wish i had a broody never had one in two years

This is our incubator right now 5 from the yard hens rest bcm eggs

 

[americana-chick]

Best of luck, im sure you will have a bunch of chookies..