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mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 11 10:06 am Post subject:
Make that nine. Chick central here.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 11 10:08 am Post subject:

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 11 10:10 am Post subject:
I love your incubator.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9714
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 11 10:31 am Post subject:

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 11 5:41 pm Post subject:
I have pipping under two broodies!

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 11 6:27 pm Post subject:
I have a total of 9 assorted chicks from 15 eggs. Not bad for a first go at using an incubator. They're very rowdy.

bulworthy project

Joined: 27 Jun 2011
Posts: 188
Location: Rackenford, Devon

Posted: Tue Jul 19, 11 6:37 pm Post subject:
2 of our hens (an old english pheasant fowl and a light sussex have been sitting on eggs for about 10 days now. First time for us so we very excited!

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 11 11:37 am Post subject:
We have one so far.I wasn`t meant to have any,but the loca lchicken pusher(yes,you know who you are )sent me home with some just about to hatch eggs in my bra!

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 11 7:27 pm Post subject:

gardening-girl wrote:

We have one so far.I wasn`t meant to have any,but the loca lchicken pusher(yes,you know who you are

)sent me home with some just about to hatch eggs in my bra!

are they still in there?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 11 9:28 am Post subject:
Jessie appeared from the herbaceous border yesterday morning with 8 chicks. There were 4 eggs left in the nest which we put in the ark with her and the babies: one of those hatched too. We now have 9 day old, 9 10 day old and one 6-week old. I'm not sure where they'll all go...

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 11 10:00 am Post subject:
We now have 6! One of the banties from Chez,and 5 very random chicks. All we know is that they are Light Sussex x ???

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 11 10:05 am Post subject:

Tavascarow wrote:

Just candled 58 eggs due to hatch 23/7.
Mixed lot of Light Sussex, Cuckoo Marans, Buff Sussex, Welsummers, Ixworth & Salmon Faveroles.
Couldn't get enough light penetration through the Marans & Welsummers to be sure but of the 36 lighter coloured eggs I've only one clear so looking good so far.

45 hatched, all bought in eggs, the cuckoo marans failed completely so someone's cock is firing blanks & one looks like it might be a mongrel but I'm not complaining as they where cheaper to buy than free range eggs in the supermarket.

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 11 11:03 am Post subject:
Fantastic My last hatch of the year hatched on Friday - Exchqeuer Leghorns. Set 13 all fertile at a week. The hen broke 1 a couple of days later. 10 hatched. The 2 that didn't were covered in yolk from the broken one. On the same day the first pullet from this years hatches came into lay at 18/19 weeks - a Barnvelder

Woodburner

Joined: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 2904
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 11 2:53 pm Post subject:
Contrary to expectations, (new thermomenter also reads high - I'm wondering if he actually sent me the same one back!) and we've had two powercuts, so turning up the temp a tad hasn't really helped, but I've actually had four hatch from this last batch. There are two that I definitely want to keep (out of eight altogether) and possibly another two for Chez.

Di Howes

Joined: 20 May 2006
Posts: 140
Location: Near Yeovil, Somerset

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 11 4:51 pm Post subject:
We have a broody sitting on 6 eggs. They were due (21 days) Sunday. They were candled and showed chicks in every egg. Just started typing this as worrying that nothing has happened when granddaughter phoned to say one egg is cracked and she can hear cheeping (probably a bit of imagination here) so would seem that something is on the way!! Di

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