I have tried it twice now. The first hatch a couple of days ago I had 8 chicks out of 12 eggs and today I had 5 hatch out of 8 eggs. My first hatch I layed the eggs on their side and only 6 out of 11 hatched, so I think it has increased my hatch rate.
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Hey - my babies are here!! Beautiful!! Of the 7 (Campines) that went in - 4 are here!! Two eggs still in the bator so we could have some "late bloomers." Last two born today - two born yesterday!! They are beautiful!!! Some Pictures posted at ...
Well I think the hatch is finished. We got 4 Leghorns and 4 Campines out of 5 Leghorns and 7 Campines. We still have 3 eggs in the bator and one chick died after pipping. The egg carton worked great and I think the results were good. The leghorns were from my chickens and the Campines were...
Just an update I have one Campine chick almost out and 5 more eggs pipped. I should be asleep by now but I can't sleep with things happening so fast. Will post pictures later.
I have 3 pipped today. I am so excited.
Can someone please explain "hatch in the carton" for me I know that is showing my lack of knowledge but if I don't ask I can't learn. I tried to find it else where but that is where my lack of knowledge hurts me as well LOL jean in UP of MI (freezing...
I think that is cool. I watched an eagle cam one time. It was neat the see how the eagle took care of their eggs and see the babies hatch. I will be checking in on them and hope to see some hatch.
Just transferred eggs to hatcher. Now i join everybody else waiting for the eggs to hatch. This is the hardest time for me to wait. I will be at the bator every extra sec checking on things. I have 5 white Leghorn and 7 Campine eggs. Hope everything goes good. I only had to throw away 2 campine...
They arrived this am. Got a call at 6:00 to go pick them up. They are 2 RIR pullets, 4 JG pullets, 2 JG cocks, 1 Buff Black Tailed Jap, 7 SC Nankins, and one Emben goose.
This is my first time posting a picture so I hope I did it right.
Thank you so much for the ideas and responses. The power has come back on and the temp is back up in the bator. I was worried when the temp started dropping as fast as it did. The spotlight helped keep the temp up and it never got lower than 96 so I hope all is ok in there. That line of storms...
I have OEGB, Campine and White leghorn eggs 14 days in--ELECTRICITY out!! We are having really bad weather and they have no idea how long it will be out!!! I have used spotlight and temp is falling faster than expected! How long can it stay low?? What can I do? Put the spotlight in couple...
I have my second batch of eggs in now. Only 2 of the 28 shipped eggs are clear. The rest are developing normal but have another week in the bator.
The first was 15 eggs shipped, 4 clear, 4 dead without pipping, 1 dead after pipping, and 6 chicks.
I placed an order from Ideal last week - received a message confirming delivering and wanted me to know that they would place random/unknown chicks - for warmth - they gave me the option of refusing those, but you void your guarantee from them, so they gave option of purcahsing insurance...