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No heat needed. Barred Rocks and Easter Eggers are very cold tolerant breeds.

We also got the most snow in years last night. A light dusting that was gone by morning. lol It doesn't usually snow here, so any amount is treat.

They are on day 3. Not a huge loss at this point.

The motor for the fan in my incubator gave out. Heating element still works, so I guess it's a still air till the replacement unit arrives.

Leave it in there. It will help encourage the stragglers to finish hatching.

Severely deformed. This chick would never have been compatible with life. Organs are supposed to be inside the body, the beak and skull are deformed, and it seems like a brain did not properly form. Nothing you could have done to prevent this.

I've been using the Incuview for about 2 years now. It's fantastic. Fell off the kitchen counter, onto a tile floor and still works just fine. Simple, easy, reliable. What more could you ask for in an incubator?

With all the trays filled with water, I've never had it go over 75%. It's probably that all the hatching chicks (very moist when first out), combined with the sponge led to too much damp surface volume, driving that humidity reading too high.

The eggs in my incubator are only on day 2. Loving all the chick pics. Congrats to all.

Do you have a calibrated thermometer inside the incubator? Thermostats can be inaccurate.

Your incubator may be running a bit too warm.

I'm planning on one more hatch before I set for Valentines.

Picture?

Wyandottes are not, typically, barred. If the Wyandottes are silver laced or Columbian, then the offspring with a BCM rooster should be red sexlinks, but given the black down of the birchen genes of the BCM, you will not be able to sex the chicks until they feather in. Males will be black with...

Don't worry too much about taking the eggs out of the incubator. A hen gets off her eggs for about an hour or so every single day right up till hatching. A few minutes out while you remove the turner isn't going to hurt anything.

That may or may not have happened for me at a Christmas party last week... Someone also asked me about my meat rabbits...

The chick that needed help did not survive the night. And the little silver partridge that everyone thought was cute couldn't figure out how to get back under the heat and died.

Her little vent was pasted up, she'd been stuck in that egg for so long. Poor thing is feeling much better now that her bum is cleaned up. The change was almost immediate. And she has the whole night in the brooder to recover before her siblings wake up and start running all over the place.

I'll be getting her in the brooder as just as soon as I'm certain she's all closed up. Don't want to accidentally cause her intestines to herniate.