Who's Setting Eggs This Week[end]? [August 8-14]

[WRVgirl]

Day 11 and disaster has struck! My incubator bulb packed up so therefore no heat has been produced. I don't know how long it was out, could be 6 hours, could be 15 mins. I've got the temp stable again now but I'm thinking I will probably have lost the lot.
I'm leaving them in and will continue as normal until the end just to make sure but I'm not hopeful. I'm devastated!

 

Don't stress too much just yet, as long as the lid was closed on the incubator it would have retained heat for a while...it's not like the eggs went hot to cold immediately.

Keep your eye on them, but there is definitely still hope for them!

 

[Welshchick]

Thank you for giving me hope Nicole! I'll definitely keep treating them as if all is well and keep my fingers crossed

 

[Brookhavens]

Day 11 and disaster has struck! My incubator bulb packed up so therefore no heat has been produced. I don't know how long it was out, could be 6 hours, could be 15 mins. I've got the temp stable again now but I'm thinking I will probably have lost the lot.
I'm leaving them in and will continue as normal until the end just to make sure but I'm not hopeful. I'm devastated!

I wouldn't give up hope. Remember a hen gets off her eggs to go do her thing and then comes back. Hopefully it was just a short cooling down period.

 

[nuthatch]

WelshChick, I agree with everyone else. Losing heat is not so bad as overheating. Pretend it didn't happen. Meanwhile, you're making it hard for me to express my joy that I'm on lockdown!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Things are going swimmingly here. Candling on Sunday prior to lockdown, and then I am swearing to myself to not open the incubator for 5 days.
Then where am I gonna put these chicks?! I have two bunches already. Luckily, one dozen is for a friend, so I have to brood them until I can deliver them to her. The rest stay here. Eek.
I have to get started on a second coop. That is all there is to it. I bought myself tools a week ago and a saw today. I have no excuse except my kids require constant vigilance or they do crazy things.

Constant vigilance or they do crazy things? Too funny, like what?

My 2 yr old once took the keys to a Yukon (I could hardly hoist myself into it sat so high) locked himself in, started car, and LAUGHED at all attempts to get him to let us in! Same 2 yr old used to take gallons of milk, drag into living room and DUMP out on rug, feed every last hot dog in fridge to eager German Shepard.

At 20 mos old, used broom stick to get medicine off of back of counter, UNSCREWED child locked lid, and spent rest of day getting charcoal pumped into stomach at hospital. Ate Desitin too many times to remember, couldn't keep it in babybag.

At five, cut all hair off puppy, ummm many more stories, these are off the top of my head.

This is the ONE child out of four, he made me afraid to sleep.

 

[WRVgirl]

WelshChick, I agree with everyone else. Losing heat is not so bad as overheating. Pretend it didn't happen. Meanwhile, you're making it hard for me to express my joy that I'm on lockdown!

YYYYYAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!

Hope you have a big, fat hatch

I've still got 6 days to go until lockdown! Ugh. I want chickies NOW!

 

[WRVgirl]

Constant vigilance or they do crazy things? Too funny, like what?
My 2 yr old once took the keys to a Yukon (I could hardly hoist myself into it sat so high) locked himself in, started car, and LAUGHED at all attempts to get him to let us in! Same 2 yr old used to take gallons of milk, drag into living room and DUMP out on rug, feed every last hot dog in fridge to eager German Shepard.
At 20 mos old, used broom stick to get medicine off of back of counter, UNSCREWED child locked lid, and spent rest of day getting charcoal pumped into stomach at hospital. Ate Desitin too many times to remember, couldn't keep it in babybag.
At five, cut all hair off puppy, ummm many more stories, these are off the top of my head.
This is the ONE child out of four, he made me afraid to sleep.

O.M.G.
I'm never having kids. LMAO!

 

[ChicksinPR]

Constant vigilance or they do crazy things? Too funny, like what?
My 2 yr old once took the keys to a Yukon (I could hardly hoist myself into it sat so high) locked himself in, started car, and LAUGHED at all attempts to get him to let us in! Same 2 yr old used to take gallons of milk, drag into living room and DUMP out on rug, feed every last hot dog in fridge to eager German Shepard.
At 20 mos old, used broom stick to get medicine off of back of counter, UNSCREWED child locked lid, and spent rest of day getting charcoal pumped into stomach at hospital. Ate Desitin too many times to remember, couldn't keep it in babybag.
At five, cut all hair off puppy, ummm many more stories, these are off the top of my head.
This is the ONE child out of four, he made me afraid to sleep.

ok, I have a child like that... child number 2...after having child number 3 and still trying to keep up with child number 2... I just closed the baby factory... I feel the pain of those stories... I can't even take a shower without wondering what she is doing...

 

[sandmbaker]

so after after my hen went broody I ordered some eggs just when I get them she decides to quit. now im on day 12 incubating and she decides she wants to go broody again and puffs up and pecks the heck out of me when I try to collect the eggs.

so I gonna let her set on some fake eggs and maybe after babies hatch Il put them under her at night so she can help raise them.

 

[WRVgirl]

I've always wondered about that...

What triggers a hen to go broody? Is it like a dog going into heat? Or less predictable?

How long will they stay broody?

And once they start sitting on eggs, will they follow through? Or is there a chance that they'll change their minds about the whole thing?

ORRRR...

Is every chicken differen?