Set eggs February 12th! Hatch a long with me!

[speckledhen]

I never have used cartons because I figure broodies wouldn't hatch them on end so I lay them on their sides. That way, even if they pip very low on the egg, they aren't stuck in a bad place.

 

[meshellrose]

mine are on their sides

 

[Long Last Farm]

I am late to this thread, but I am expecting my EE eggs, and banty mix eggs to hatch on March 3rd or 4th. I crammed 33 eggs into my brinsea eco 20. As far I can tell, about 30 are developing. Three were obviously not fertile, so I tossed those after about one week. I am wondering how this is going to go--have had a temp. spike early, and my hydrometer is not working correctly., so I guess it's even more of a crap shoot than usual...lol.... Good luck to everybody!!!

 

[NYRIR]

Welcome to my life, except mine always goes to 104. Ugh, I still have 10 alive though! Last time and this time, the eggs that make it past day 10 all seem to make it to lockdown

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Is it a huge deal if the temperature is a little lower this week, like 98 or 99 considering they are pretty much done growing? I won't be able to check on them for a good 12+ hours tomorrow and can't trust it not to spike, so if I keep the bator a bit lower if it does spike it will only be to 101 ish.

Lol...Mine is from the temps in the house fluctuating from the wood stove....

We'll see what happens

 

[NYRIR]

I am late to this thread, but I am expecting my EE eggs, and banty mix eggs to hatch on March 3rd or 4th. I crammed 33 eggs into my brinsea eco 20. As far I can tell, about 30 are developing. Three were obviously not fertile, so I tossed those after about one week. I am wondering how this is going to go--have had a temp. spike early, and my hydrometer is not working correctly., so I guess it's even more of a crap shoot than usual...lol.... Good luck to everybody!!!

Me too....

 

[B J Hopkins]

I had 2 Blue Cochins go broody at the same time. First of Dec. Too cold so I tried to convince them by locking them out of the chicken house during day time. After 2 weeks I gave up and gave them 5 eggs between the two. They interchanged who was sitting on which nest. Hatching time Jan 4th. A spectator stepped on a hatching egg/chick died. Another chick couldn't get off it's back/died. One egg sterile. 2 surviving hatchlings so I gave one to each hen. Night 3 one chick went UNDER chicken house instead of IN chicken house. Froze. So the two Mamma's have both been raising the ONE chick. Chick is a Barred Rock and now 8 wks old. Mamma's are just now pushing him away. When they say Cochins make Good Mamma's - they are right!

 

[3GChicks]

I am ahead of you by a couple of days. We set our eggs on February 10th, this is our first time trying to hatch. We should hopefully have something on Thursday. I want to sit there and watch but I am going to drive myself nuts if I do that

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[B J Hopkins]

OK, I've read 14 pages of comments trying to see if anyone commented on the egg cargons on rollers. How do they turn? By hand or automated. If by hand I think I'll try it! My automatic egg turner quit last fall, and I'm turning eggs by hand. Like the cartons though.

 

[B J Hopkins]

I wish I'd found this thread when I first joined BYC the first of Feb. I also set 9 eggs on the 12th. But I kept getting eggs from my other Cochen and some every 3rd day from my Silkie so that now I've 24 eggs in the 'bator hatching at 4 different dates.

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

@B J Hopkins:
That is actually PVC pipe glued on the bottom of those egg cartons.



You turn your eggs by tilting the egg carton 3 times a day.




I got the idea from somebody on BYC. I can not take all the credit for the idea. A thing I did change to the original idea is I cut around my egg carton leaving only a little "cup" for the egg to sit in. I also cut a hole in the bottom of the carton as you can see in the photos. I did this to help with air flow, not sure if it makes much of a difference.