Yup hatch is right on 21 days. They start pipping at 20 and are usually all done by 21. Just sexed my last hatch and it was worse. Only got 2 roos maybe. I'm going to start logging all activity in my hatches. It's not like I'm getting anything special I'm just obviously culling before they hatch...
I'm getting insane girl ratios. As hatch was 24 pullets and 3 roos. Of course I set 46 eggs so my guess is the roos are in the bunch of eggs that did not hatch. Trying to find the variable but have not. It's been this way for 4 hatches now. Put 4 dozen in get 27 to 28 eggs hatch with all pullets...
So out of 32 eggs that made it to lockdown I now have 28 very healthy fbcm chicks :) love love love that incubator! Bcm hatch with my old one out of 24 eggs I got 2 live bcm chicks lol.
Great news. The last one didn't have wry neck! I guess it was just a cramped neck from being stuck to the shell unable to move. Moving around with it's head up now :) yeah hatch over!! Lol time to set 36 more lol
One of the assisted hatches has wry neck. Treating with poly-vi-sol but Def not going into the breading group :( so 27 healthy bcm chicks :) love love love my incubator. First hatch 1 out of 24 hatched healthy. This hatch 28 out of 36 :)
So my second hatch is almost over. I only had three assisted hatches and not till all others were out. Those three all had spots stuck to their shell where they were unable to move. I waited though till everyone else had hatched and all pips were done to assist. Which assured those we're done...
Yeah I have two this hatch that probably won't make it. I won't risk helping until all the viable one's are in the brooded and all pips are hatched. Once everyone is all taken care of I will candle the one's that are still not pipping and help those two out. Will be about three days after they...
I took the high Road and let it be. I can still see it breathing but since then 8 more have pipped and I don't want to loose the 8 to save the 1. Did that last time. Opened the incubator because I didn't know better and the 5 that had pipped shrink wrapped and didn't make it. The one that i...
So I can see the chick is moving. I'm on day 20 and none have piped except that one. The shell has fallen away but the outer membrane is still intact. It started looking a solid white so I raised the humidity from 65 to 70 and it went back to a transparent. I am not opening the incubator but...
Thank you :) I'm terrified, excited and impatient all in one. I must check on them at least twice an hour even though I know it's too early. Waiting on these is worse than the week wait while trying to get pregnant lol.
Lol thanks. I'm on day 19 of my second hatch. First one was horrible 1 chick out of 24 made it. Second one so far 32 of 36 have made it to hatching stage lol. I just had to start with black copper marans lol.
I am running my first batch of eggs through the large cabinet unit with the external humidifier and wow the difference in development is amazing. last batch of marans I had 24 eggs and only 8 developed to go into the hatcher this time I had 36 eggs and 32 made it to incubation. had 2 not...