Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Hatching Eggs part 2

 

Deb, She means seramas with silkied feathering.  I raise them too, by accident.  They popped up in my bloodline from Jerry S.

 
Cathryn  rainbowsilkiesTM  in  Michigan





On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:44 PM, Deb and Randy Buckler <gotrandy@tcsn.net> wrote:
 

OMG!  Do keep us posted. When you say "Silky Serama", are you meaning you're getting a few Silky eggs and a few Serama eggs, or are you meaning you're getting chicks that will be a cross from Silky/Serama?  Yikes....miniature Silkies! Million dollar chickens!
Deb
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 6:59 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Hatching Eggs part 2

 
 
In my last post I wrote how I decided to hatch some eggs and had bid on some silky Serama eggs on Ebay and was hoping that my bid was highest.

The next day (Sunday) I eagerly checked my email to see if I had a notice that I had won the bid for the silky Serama eggs and I had! The auction was for 6 eggs and I really wanted a dozen so I sent a message to the seller asking if I could get another 6 eggs for the same bid price and within a few hours I received the message back that she would double my eggs with no additional shipping costs. I was excited!

Next I got out my incubator that had been in storage for the last couple of years. I dusted it off and gave it a good wash and put it out in the sun to dry. The incubator is the foam kind called a Hovabator. It has two windows on the top so I can see the eggs and a fan as well as the hygrometer that will show both temperature and humidity.

As the incubator dried I picked out my chicken books and reread through the hatching egg sections to refresh myself on what I needed to do. The temperature for hatching eggs should be 99 degrees with 35-45% humidity. I set up my incubator when it was dry and plugged it in after adding some water to the water pan. A few hours later I noticed the temperature was 99 degrees but the humidity was up at 76%! I opened up the two vents on the top of the incubator and poured out some of the water.

Now all I have to do is wait to make sure the humidity gets down to 45-50% and wait for the mail man to wait for my eggs to arrive!

Check out my blog for my ongoing story of hatching eggs!
http://loveschickens.wordpress.com
 
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