THE MOTHER'S DAY HATCH-A-LONG!!!! The last day to join in and set eggs with us is April 28th. - Page 70

Please Cross your fingers for me everyone. I candled tonight and had to remove a couple eggs, others I can't see through well but judging by the shadow they seem to be developing on time. However I do have 1 white egg in there. The father is a Silkie x RIR rooster, the hen is either a Silver laced Polish or an Appen. Spitz. I have been trying for 3 hatches to hatch one of these white eggs, All have died before 1 week. This one is over  week and hopping and bopping all around in its shell. I lost a lot of eggs reciently due to a temp spike of almost 104 degrees for an unknown amount of time(it was overnight) Somewhere between 8pm and 8am. This one survived!

Today is Day 9 for most of you.

 

Good luck with all of your eggs!  I ended up with eight little fuzzy-butt German New Hampshires.  I'll leave the last two eggs in for a while, but I think that's a wrap!

Don't these guys make a punk-ish little trio?

As much as I'd like to add my own yard, I'll be nice and wait till I'm not renting. LOL

 

I gave ya 5 and I really hope you make it.

Send me a girl!  

i need help, i tried incubating 42 eggs, only 18 hatched.  i kept the temp at 100 and humidity stays around 40 to 50 degree until lock down and  then i raised it to 70%. what am i doing wrong?

Arielle I removed my turner tonight on my 2 batches of eggs due to hatch this weekend and candled all the eggs. They are all developing. Here is a picture of one of the eggs. The air cells are all about this big. Should I have left them in the turner for another day to help the air cell to get a bit larger?

Anyone help please. Thanks

Shoot can't upload the picture. Well the air cell looks like about 14 days instaed of the 18 day size to me. Should I leave them at about 40 percent humidity or lock them down?

Well I decided to candle the eggs in the bator. It looks like out of 40 eggs, there are 25 that show signs of fuzzy butts. There were some that I marked with a dot on the top. I will keep them and see what happens. I have a paper that shows the eggs development day by day and I keep looking at it and it gives me a good idea where we are in development.

I love those chicks, chestnutridge... adorable!

 

 Tomorrow is day six for us! I think the eggs in my bator (ameraucanas and EE's) are pretty much shot after a temp spike to 106....broody eggs are doing well though. All of the serama eggs seem to be fertile and it looks like I got 6 or 7 out of the 11 ameraucana eggs under the hens! I also set a couple silkie eggs that may be pure silkie or possibly surprise chicks... there was a serama roo in there for a while  

 

More pure seramas due next weekend :)

Candled tonight.
Orpingtons day 8
6 look good, one clear, one ring of death.

Ameraucana day 3?
I think 5 may be developing, one clear,
one I can't see through the shell.

Got more eggs in the mail
Appen. Spitz. , mottled Jave, Cream legbar.

This is addicting.

Ok just candled

BBS Marans so hard to see in those!! But I know I saw movement in 2 and I think there are blobs in all..... But I can't see a thing so I guess I'll find out in 17 days there are 11 in the incubator.

Silkies 14 growing 1 blood ring and 8 blanks.......

I have 4 eggs under my broody..... No idea when I'll have time to candle those..... Maybe I'll just see what happens on hatch day.