I put eggs in the bator today...

42 of em...
Its gonna be 21 long days, I hope they all hatch!

I will candle on day 7, 14 & 18... then lockdown til they hatch :)

Lock Down...

Today is day 18.
I candled again last night, didnt take pictures this time. Everything looks to be going good. 32 eggs have made it to lock down! I filled all the water trays my instruction book said to fill, took the eggs out of the egg turner and laid them down and now its time to wait and see what happens. I couldnt see good in the 6 dark eggs on the far side, but there is no weeping and no yucky smell coming from them so I left them in. I just think the shells to dark for me to get a good look. They do have air pockets, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for good results. The next 3 days are going to be hard, I'm really excited... I'm so excited I've dreamed about hatching eggs for the past 2 nights, how crazy is that, lol! My family thinks I'm weird... but just wait til they see those cute lil fuzzy butts hatching!

It Arrived Today...

My very own Hova-Bator... yeehawwww

Brian ordered this for me earlier in the week and I've been collecting eggs to go in it for my 1st hatch. I've been reading on this and have wanted a incubator since I got chickens (almost a year ago). I'm so happy I could scream and I did when the kids told me it came in today! I'm alittle scared but I think I'll be fine... we got it up and running, its almost to 100 degrees. I'm thinking by tomorrow evening I should be able to put the eggs in and start the count down!
Stay Tuned...

We went ahead and got the automatic egg turner too. I didnt want to have to worry about turning the eggs 3 times a day.

I've got 26 Buff Orpington, 3 Easter Egger and 3 bantam eggs waiting...
I think I will added 2 more eggs to the batch tomorrow.

If you have any positive advise fill free to share
Thank You...