Why Did I Do It? Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well Merry Christmas to you. I have eggs in the incubator right now. Hopefully they will hatch Dec. 18th. I think I will be living with chicks in the house for the winter. LOL
 
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OH MY! Keep in touch and share pics, OK? I'd love to see your Serama chicks!

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I am beginning to feel a bit CRAZY myself! I mean, chicks in December? WHAT WAS I THINKING? I like the idea of two lights in the brooder.....My little chicks will start in the basement but then I'm going to need to put them in the garage........Thanks for the tip!
 
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Well, it's comforting to know I'm not the only person who will have chicks in the house for the winter........
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And Merry Christmas and wishing you an awesome hatch!
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What are you hatching, by the way?
 
rachaelcb80...

Hi! Saw that you have serama eggs in the bator! I just started a batch Monday. Do you keep your temp at 99.5 or 100? What do you set your humidity level at?

This will be my first batch of my own line of Seramas. So excited..trying to hatch out chocolate frizzles, white frizzles, and mottled frizzles that are very typey. Have been collecting beautiful birds from some of the top breeders to start my own gene pool.
I am in SC, but we still get some dang cold weather here. Guess I could have waited till spring, but too impatient.

Hope you have a great hatch!!
 
Our nights here are below freezing now (foothills of the Cascades not for from Seattle). I hve 2 brooders. One is inside our "shed" that is like an ourdoor bedroom w/ electricity. I've had one lightbulb recently EXPLODE (I think a chick got wet and fluffed itself, splashing water on the bulb...that chick was found soaking wet and dead
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) That room lso has an electric fireplace so should the bulb burn out etc the ambient temp stays warm. Our new hatches go there till they starat to get feathers, then we move them to a small chicken coop I ordered from ebay, keep it's door shut to keep them fromthe run, and there's a heat lamp inside. The system is working well.

My biggest fear is a power outage, common here. We need to get a small generator so we can kepe the heat lamps going.
 
Wow! Chickmom..just noticed you are from Strasburg, Ohio..so is my husband!
His parents still live there. I visited for the first time last year..what a beautiful area, and what nice, down-to-earth people!
My husband has lived in SC for last 20 years, but still misses many things from his home.(but NOT the cold winters!)
 
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Wow, such a small world! I don't think I'd miss the winters either! They do seem so long......But summers get so hot and humid up here too.....I'm always glad for the change of seasons.......
 
My chicks started pipping last night.....None were hatched this morning, but there were more pips, and here I am at work.....I can't wait to get home and hopefully I'll see a few chicks.......Then I'll realize why I did it........
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Yeah for pips! Will be looking for updates about hatching!

I ended up buying the eggs from Fattie so have a batch in the incubator right now. They're due Saturday 17th. I just candled today and had 5 out of 14 clear so those got tossed. The other 9 were bouncing around in their eggs so fingers crossed for them! And fingers crossed for your chicks too!

My Seramas hatched last weekend. I had a really, really poor hatch rate. I had a very hard time with my LG incubator keeping stable. My lovely husband bought me a Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance last week though so hopefully I will have an easier time hatching shipped eggs now. That's what my Bantam Cochins are in from Fattie now.

Here's my only two Seramas that hatched;

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