What are you currently incubating/brooding?

[RichmondHens]

Setting Copper Blue Marans, Exchequer and Black Leghorns under my (large) Buff Orpington today. Exchequer Leghorns and Cream Legbars due to hatch Thursday.

[RichmondHens]

Chicks starting to hatch. One (male) cream legbar so far, others pipping when I last checked at tea time.

[jessmorris]

Ooo, how exciting!

My incubator has just stopped turning the silkie eggs, and one is very active! Miss Buffy Rose (a ridiculous name for a bantie - my friend Morag says it sounds like a porn star ;-)) is sitting tight on her 7 mixed barred wyandottes, due Sunday/Monday.
I have everything crossed now!
JM

[jessmorris]

Can you put up a pic of your bantam cayennes Nicos? (I think you may have done this last year but heaven knows which thread!) Are they a French breed?
JM

dummy egg in situ waiting for a 'taker'
...then ( depending on which lass take the bait) 6-8 eggs of our bantam Cayennes

[RichmondHens]

Chicks starting to hatch. One (male) cream legbar so far, others pipping when I last checked at tea time.

Spoke too soon. Only one more chick hatched (exchequer leghorn), one pipped but struggling to make any progress out.

[petal]

to help or not to help, that is the question....

[RichmondHens]

Fortunately it made it out in the night with no help from me.

[Suechooks]

Have your Legbars hatched yet?

Fortunately it made it out in the night with no help from me.

[RichmondHens]

Have your Legbars hatched yet?

Out of the first 6 I had 2 cocks (now over 2 weeks old), the second 6 produced only 1 cock. Out of 6 Exchequer Leghorns I had 2 chicks hatch, but one has now died (just found it 20 mins ago). I am having a c**p hatching season so far. Not feeling optimistic about having many POLs in September. Also sat some Indian Game eggs (my own) just to see if the cock is doing his thing - he is not it seems as the eggs candled clear after one week and I chucked them away. Mind you, the hens are so quick he doesn't seem able to catch them!

[RichmondHens]

Fortunately it made it out in the night with no help from me.

Spoke too soon, again. Found it dead 20 mins ago - see above post.

[Suechooks]

Out of the first 6 I had 2 cocks (now over 2 weeks old), the second 6 produced only 1 cock. Out of 6 Exchequer Leghorns I had 2 chicks hatch, but one has now died (just found it 20 mins ago). I am having a c**p hatching season so far. Not feeling optimistic about having many POLs in September. Also sat some Indian Game eggs (my own) just to see if the cock is doing his thing - he is not it seems as the eggs candled clear after one week and I chucked them away. Mind you, the hens are so quick he doesn't seem able to catch them!

I had 5 Legbars hatch but one of the girls died so am left with 3 boys and a girl! All the eggs were fertile including all 6 Barnevelders but only 3 of those hatched. Of the original 4 under broody I dropped one on 2nd day, one got broken 2 weeks in but was empty, one hatched and the last one (an Araucana) like 1 CL,3 Barnevelders were all dead in shell - fully developed chicks too which was really annoying. I've never opened the eggs before but I was sure these were all fertile so thought I'd check.

[petal]

June the buff orpington has gone broody - sat on lots of eggs today grumbling at me.

[jessmorris]

Can I pop in here again and ask if anyone knows where I can hire or borrow an incubator?

I tried Freecycle and got given one, plus offers of more, and I contcated my local poultry club. The secretary took the lot for me - bless 'im!

JM

[jessmorris]

Boo. Nothing from the incubator - boo!
One silkie pipped and then stopped. The other silkie egg which had been bouncing for 3 days now lies still, tho' when I candled it I can see the chick breathing. Its horrid. I know I'm not 'supposed' to intervene but its so hard. The wyandotte stopped developing early on and has gone in the compost bucket.
Boogle.

[petal]

are these your own eggs or posted?