World Egg Day Hatchalong!(October 12, 2012 is World Egg Day!)

[GVChickenMan]

Thursday for me too Cochins1088. 6/6 cream legbar eggs coming along beautifully when candled on Sunday. Come on! Pullets please! First time hatching from my own stock and slightly excited.

 

[cochins1088]

So I was looking for ideas for the week 3 contest and I came across this photo. It's not mine, I just found it on google images, but I thought you guys would like it.

 

[GVChickenMan]

So I was looking for ideas for the week 3 contest and I came across this photo. It's not mine, I just found it on google images, but I thought you guys would like it.

LOL. Not sure THAT would fit in my little bator. Broody would be the only way to go.

 

[cochins1088]

Thursday for me too Cochins1088. 6/6 cream legbar eggs coming along beautifully when candled on Sunday. Come on! Pullets please! First time hatching from my own stock and slightly excited.

Yes, I'm so excited. I'm hoping for 50 - 50 roosters and hens as these were my first shipped eggs and they will be the first chickens that I will actually be breeding for quality, so I'm hoping for multiple hens and rooster to pick from. Of course, only 4 of them developed, so I'm ordering more eggs. Yay!

 

[cmfarm]

I found this picture and thought it would be good for the photo contest.

 

[cluck-cluck]

I better go lock them down then! (then I better get my lazy b*tt outside a d finish that darn coop!)

OMG, Didn't see those pictures, I think I've wet myself

 

[Old English GB]

Hope this works for the pic contest...lol

 

[cluck-cluck]

LOL, I'm going to have to send these pictures to my daughter in France, LOL

 

[jennyworley35]

Well, it looks like what my problem was with my recent hatches was my mercury thermometer....I had used it for the hatch where I got 7 out of 11 babies, but then put it in the brooder with them. After they moved out of the brooder I washed it and it slipped on the card where the temps were printed.

I got a digital thermometer to use alongside it for the next hatch, but I have read not to trust the digital ones and THOUGHT I had fixed the positioning of the mercury one, so I used the digital to read humidity and the mercury to read temps. DUMB MISTAKE. The digital always read about 2-3 degrees lower, and I blew it off.

To continue, I bought a nice set of analog thermo and hygrometer yesterday... the temps and humidty were right on with my digital. :O I have been ruining my own hatches with the temperature all this time. GAH. I increased the temp in the bator yesterday, hoping to save the ones who are still in there. Last ditch effort, and I still have at least 12 which were moving last night. Send me lots of positive hatchie energy, please!

Positive hatching thoughts are being sent telepathically to your eggs

for real hope your hatch goes well

 

[jennyworley35]

My little duckling egg, Buster, is on day 28 today!! He was wiggling around like crazy this morning

. Buster has been still for the past few hours. It is so hard to wait. I am crossing my fingers for a safe hatch soon!

hoping it goes well