4 Chicks Down, All Done! Mystery Hatch-A-Long! Hatch Date 9/3/21 and today apparently

[topochico225]

Hey hey hey!

Chicken math has struck again.

While I legally can't have any more chickens (I'm already 2 chickens over), my friend is asking me to incubate 12 Mille Fleur d'Uccle eggs for her! I adore incubating, and the d'Uccles are so much fun to hatch. She gave me 12 for a Bio project earlier this spring, and I kept the two pullets from that hatch. They'll be at POL soon!

She's giving me a dozen eggs in a few days. I'll be incubating them in my Brinsea Mini II Advance. I hope y'all will join along!

 

[casportpony]

Following!

 

[LostBoi73]

Good luck we have a couple of these and they are great.

 

[Jenessa_096]

Yay! I’ve never hatched eggs in an incubator but I have one and might try next year! I’m still deciding what breed and if I should do ducks or chickens. What do you guys think? Are ducks harder? Should I try duck eggs for my first hatch or should I do chicken eggs?

 

[topochico225]

Good luck we have a couple of these and they are great.

I love them! I have 2 POL pullets.

 

[topochico225]

Yay! I’ve never hatched eggs in an incubator but I have one and might try next year! I’m still deciding what breed and if I should do ducks or chickens. What do you guys think? Are ducks harder? Should I try duck eggs for my first hatch or should I do chicken eggs?

Ducks take longer to hatch than chickens. I'd do chicken eggs for my first hatch, they're so much fun and they don't need water to swim in!

 

[Jenessa_096]

Ducks take longer to hatch than chickens. I'd do chicken eggs for my first hatch, they're so much fun and they don't need water to swim in!

I do have ducks and we are thinking of Expanding our flock. That’s just my reason, but I think I will just do chickens, they sounds easier for a first timer. Thanks!

 

[topochico225]

I almost forgot to start up the incubator last night! Temp and humidity are good. My friend had 8 eggs yesterday, so I'll probably be getting them today or tomorrow.

 

[topochico225]

Okay, she's delivering 10 eggs tomorrow morning. We've had heat advisories for the past week, so her hens aren't laying a lot. I don't want to take any chances with the fertility of the older eggs decreasing, so full steam ahead with 10!

 

[topochico225]

Wow, I'm great at remembering to update this thread.

Today is day 2 of incubation! I'm about to go candle.