Starting about 18 BCM eggs tonight. March 24th /25th hatch

[john in wa]

Your chicks will be fine in the incubator. I leave my chicks in the incubator for the first 24 hours or so. it gives them good time to dry and fluff up and i also think the hatched chicks help to stimulate the other chicks to get busy and hatch.


Ok out of the 19 eggs i have a total of 7 chicks. 2 from the bought eggs and 5 from my girls = 36.8% hatch rate it is not my best, but sure beats my worst at 0%.

After we are all done hatching i think we should do a follow up with hatch rates. the average temp and humidity you incubated your eggs at and how many days.

 

[Emmalion]

3 out and one more pip.

 

[petunias212]

Great idea - since I'm such a glutton for punishment and now totally hooked on hatching - that would be some great info to have.

Way to go Emmalion!! congrats!!

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[kvmommy]

My hatch rate is 35%...not great either but good. All of them are EE, Jersey Giant mix, one splash ameracauana OE, mix, and couple maybe OE/EE, and 1 lav ameracauna. I'm tempted to float test the rest of my eggs since they wiggled the past 2 days, but did nothing so far. But..today is day 21, its probably best to just wait it out. I missed out on the silkies I wanted to buy on Ebay, because I fell asleep.

 

[Emmalion]

I just got to watch #4 hatch

 

[ggarratt]

Wow, so much action while I was in meetings all afternoon!!! Congrats to everybody on their chicks!

When I got home from work I had one more chick (another buff! Where are these coming from???). So now I'm up to 6 chicks. 4 bought and 2 of mine. And I have a new pip in another one of the bought eggs. There are still 8 eggs that haven't pipped yet as far as I can see.

This is a really drawn out hatch. My first pip was on Tuesday and it seems like they keep hatching and pipping just one at a time. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I have more pips or chicks hatch over night tonight. We'll see! I'll definitely leave them over the weekend to give everybody their fair chance.

 

[petunias212]

well my new tally out of my remaining 7 - only 3 hatched...the other 4 were fully formed pipped but died and i don't know why cuz they were fully formed...the last one hatched though doesn't look so great so I'm not sure if it's going to survive.

I'm bummed but a glutton for punishment because I'm on my way to the post office bright and early tomorrow morning to send off a money order for another set of eggs - Ameracauna and Welsummer.

 

[petunias212]

does the humidity in the room where the incubator is play a part in hatching success? i don't know what my room humidity is (i live in missouri) and whether I should get a humidifier...

 

[Emmalion]

I have a hot air humidifier in the room where my bator is. It helps with keeping the humidity up I think. Plus I have it right near it so it blows under the bator as well

 

[kvmommy]

We're all gluttons for punishment I think! Are you guys gonna participate in the easter hatch? I got shamo eggs on the way, hoping to get silkies and gonna buy some local barnyard mix eggs. Probably anyway. No pips or nothing from my last eggs.