Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

So excited for my next batch! Set around 225 eggs that are due to hatch on my birthday April 2nd! What could be a better birthday present? Only my incubator is temporarily out of commission so I had to set them in my hatch and hand turning them 2 x a day lol.

Set the usual silkies showgirls in white black buff and cuckoo, and bantam white Cochins in smooth and frizzled.

Will candle on Sunday. Not expecting great fertility as I was away for 10 days during collection and most of my pens are AI'ed

Excited to see how we do :)

Excellent! I set about 140 last Sunday so there should be a lot of critters sharing your birthday.

Nice!!!! fingers crossed for you both. I just set a week ago, and again last night.....and there's no birthdays or anything coming up....oh, and i only set 42. half chickens, half turkeys, so i'll have to pull the chickens out for lockdown in a different incubator and let the turkeys keep perking along another week. why do i do that to myself? geez....been hatching so long you'd think i would figure out set the turkeys FIRST, then add chickens a week LATER....

Wow. That's a lot of chickens. Good luck!

That is ALOT of eggs. Wow! Good luck

WoW 225 eggs. 140 eggs 42 eggs. You guys are my hero's!!! I go for smaller hatches, 20 is my limit to handle!
Fairsing farm How many did you hatch from the last batch, any beautiful showgirls for me? Could pickup in Paris if you have any. Only like white ones with bow ties no beards.

kenya wrote:QR_BBPOST WoW 225 eggs. 140 eggs 42 eggs. You guys are my hero's!!! I go for smaller hatches, 20 is my limit to handle!
Fairsing farm How many did you hatch from the last batch, any beautiful showgirls for me? Could pickup in Paris if you have any. Only like white ones with bow ties no beards.

Hey Kenya, I only hatched 3 non bearded I need to grow those out for the Ohio nationals. I will reserve you a couple for mount forest

WOWZERS!!! thats awesome Fairsing! fingers crossed!!! I just fired up mine. 64 eggs plus whatever I get tomorrow. mostly reds plus a dozen light brown leghorn. I set tomorrow night!!!

kenya wrote:QR_BBPOST WoW 225 eggs. 140 eggs 42 eggs. You guys are my hero's!!! I go for smaller hatches, 20 is my limit to handle!
Fairsing farm How many did you hatch from the last batch, any beautiful showgirls for me? Could pickup in Paris if you have any. Only like white ones with bow ties no beards.

I ended up with about 50 or so chicks from my last batch

Good luck with this hatch, tell those showgirls to get to work, you need more! Ha! Ha!