Who's hatching in February?

[Chic-n-farmer]

hello....im rgvchicks new to this website....just joined about an hr ago.....i just set 25 English Standard (Blue Cock) eggs on a homemade incubator i built....first time doing this hope everything goes well.....hatch feb 21-22......happy to be part of this community....rgvchicks

Welcome to BYC! Happy hatching

 

[Syharrison]

35 quail eggs all different types all in my incubator now keeping cozy with three days left!!!

first time at a dry hatch too

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

I've only hatched coturnix and painted buttons in the past. I love their calls.

 

[Syharrison]

the coturnix females are amazing birds so friendly and their calls are amazing, ive gone for some cali king quail this time too

 

[CALI CHICK]

Chick N Farmer, how are things going with your eggs? Hope they are all growing nicely.

This is Day 15 for me. I still have 11 silkie eggs in the bator. 4 were clear so I scrambled those up for my hens, which they loved. And one accidently got cracked. Unfortunately one of the 11 may have stopped developing around Day 12 but it's still in. (It doesn't smell yet but there hasn't appeared any changes or movements since Day 11 or 12).

I'm getting so anxious about lockdown, which I plan to do on the afternoon of Valentines Day. The main reason I'm nervous is because I'm moving the eggs to a different incubator that has windows.

 

[fairwindminishetland]

What are you hatching? It's today? And my birthday!

 

[fairwindminishetland]

Do you use one bator for incubating and one for hatching? I've got 42 plus eggs going...first dozen set to hatch on the 17th! Those are d'Uccles...then blue langshan a week later and bantam cochin the following week! So excited. I had stopped hatching last year but am excited about the new varieties!

 

[hdowden]

Do you use one bator for incubating and one for hatching? I've got 42 plus eggs going...first dozen set to hatch on the 17th! Those are d'Uccles...then blue langshan a week later and bantam cochin the following week! So excited. I had stopped hatching last year but am excited about the new varieties!

i use 2 i have a hovabater and an lg. lg i had to use for incubating this time and it ended up getting unplugged and then the kids turned the dial up and tried to fry the eggs (which they might of done

), only time will tell and day 21 is coming close to an end and still no pips.

i will be doing the easter hatch and incubating in the hovabater and hatching in the lg. dont know what i'm going to "cook" this time though my options out of the hens laying are yokohams and sumatars (mixed together, colors are blue, black, silver duckwing and red shouldered), fbcm ( but they seem to have wheaten mixed in

when they werent supposed to) and br and doms (2 dom roos over 2 br hens and a dom hen)(also currently have 4 of their babies and you can already tell whos the cockerel, 3 pullets and 1 cockerel dont know who laied what eggs and that was a test for my hovabater as i had just got it might have some chicken later on with the roosters, yum yum)

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Chick N Farmer, how are things going with your eggs? Hope they are all growing nicely.

This is Day 15 for me. I still have 11 silkie eggs in the bator. 4 were clear so I scrambled those up for my hens, which they loved. And one accidently got cracked. Unfortunately one of the 11 may have stopped developing around Day 12 but it's still in. (It doesn't smell yet but there hasn't appeared any changes or movements since Day 11 or 12).

I'm getting so anxious about lockdown, which I plan to do on the afternoon of Valentines Day. The main reason I'm nervous is because I'm moving the eggs to a different incubator that has windows.

Good luck with the move! I have never incubated silkies before.

I pulled 38 clear eggs from the original 93 I set on January 28.

9 of 9 of the brahma eggs I had bought and picked up were clear, so there was a fertility issue there.

2 of the 4 duck eggs were clear, but these are from a new layer.. and I figured I might as well take a chance on incubation instead of making them into breakfast.

I had recently separated and relocated all my chickens so I wasn't too surprised by the number of clears.

I have since set another 2 batches. One on 2-4 and one yesterday. All are from my birds and I have about 150 eggs in there. I candle at about 10 days and remove the bad eggs. I keep notes in a book, not in my head... and if i could find where I put that book, it would be great!

I use a Sportsman cabinet incubator and different egg trays. I try to group all of the same date eggs on one shelf, but can't always.

I have found that writing the date set, on several eggs in a tray, helps me to know what eggs and when to move to the hatching tray.

With the duck eggs I just keep them all in a tray with the date marked on all of them. A quick glance and I know where they are at in the incubation stage.