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The problem with still air incubators is that there are spots inside the incubator that while just a few inches away the temp is around 99.5 they can be down as low as 97. The trick to using a still air incubator is to divide your incubator into imaginary quadrants and move each egg through its...

Left the house at 4 am and while I was gone, just got home, Miss Hissy Pants last egg hatched. It's now out in the brooder with the others. I'll have to get pictures tomorrow

I set eggs today, which also means they have a hatch date of June 1st or so. So I have started next months thread. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/june-2021-hatch-a-long.1466665/ I set 42 eggs. I also have 1 more egg to hatch this month and I have really come to hate broody eggs. I...

3 out and 1 zipping. I have had to help 1 that the air cell was saddled, and I expect the second saddled egg which is zipping now more than likely will have to be helped.

3 more pips this morning. This is an interesting hatch as it involves eggs that were under a broody that were in various stages of development when she took her two chicks off the nest, so while 1 of the eggs should still be turned, I am relying on chick pool to do the job for me, so we will see...

I have pips and chirps. And I have a pip from miss hissy pants eggs that I put in an incubator. I almost pulled one of them last night while candling then as I gave it a second look a head popped into view so I quickly put it back. That is the one that pipped a bit ago. I also locked down for...

Not late at all. Welcome to Chicken enablers 102. Which differs from Chicken Enabler 101 by the factor of 10

So miss hissy pants, with 2 chicks hatched decided to abandon the nest this afternoon. She so far is being a wonderful mom and the rest of the flock is being watchful and protective of her and the chicks. I was prepared to swoop her and her chicks away but looks like I can leave them be. I took...

Went out to collect eggs tonight and 'Miss Hissy pants', mom named her, I called her number 52, because of her leg band number, was clucking up a storm. then this alien popped up out of her chest :) I suppose I can expect more in the morning

hmmm. I now have wo empty small incubators...Hmmmmm

We need to know what incubator you are using, how many eggs are in it and on what day you are to even begin to answer. In general, the closer you get to hatch day the temps will spike slightly as the activity of the chick will generate heat. When big hatcheries lockdown, they actually put...

I've moved 6 to the brooder this morning. 5 FBCM (out of 7) and one Aloha. today is day 21, but my experience with Aloha's is that they normally start to pip on day 21 and start hatching on day 22

And the first one out is...A FBCM chick.

Sitting here finishing up before going out to start my non livestock chores and I hear chirping from behind me. Soon

Well I locked down last night. Now it is a waiting game. Normally by day 18 my candler can see into fbcm eggs at least enough for me to see air cells and if it looks viable, but it failed on these 7 from my own flock . hmmm, it's nice knowing they are that dark, but it sucks not knowing.

If it was only a short time things will be fine. You have to start to worry when the humidity is too high for days on end.

I have no idea. those eggs also took 20 days to get to me. they started in Texas, then went to California, then to Phoenix, then to Pennsylvania then back to Texas and then to New Jersey before they went back to Phoenix, then to Tucson, then Yuma and finally here to my post office. I want...

I have 24 shipped Aloha eggs, from Texas, going into the incubator tomorrow. Well 23 as I noticed a crack that is weeping on one of them. At least this time they did not travel 5000 miles to get to me. Of course they only started from just over 700 miles from me. Last shipment was a nightmare...

Dang nab it. or use the colloquium of your choice, but I am being kid friendly here. Sadly, I think this just goes to prove, house cleaning must be kept on hold until hatching is over or what can be down in that scant 2 hour window between hatches :).

They should hatch around the 4th. But you can lockdown early. I lockdown on day 17 normally and have been known to lockdown on day 16 in teh height of the summer. Even with collecting eggs several times a day, our heat causes them to start early. My latest hatch, which is ongoing I had half of...