So, I learned:. take the pic of the broody & chicks asap, they get big & feather fast. I need better lighting in the Incubating Room, may put in a ceiling fan with a light! Better heat! Get a good photo of the chick & egg as it's hatching. And you need to have better weather & a good...
Lost my pics, just found some on my hubby's phone, I bought a camera. Will be practicing taking some pics by end of this week. My before and after of my mini coop! Here's a few pics. My hatching chick, couldn't hardly see the egg, my Marans eggs-supply&demand couldn't get them before Easter...
Here is some of my Marans -chicks & my heating pad setup with puppy pads. Work long hours, so it's easier to cleanup when I get home. I may have a broody, we'll see if she'll adopt them.
I've got 13! I lost two, one was upside down pip, and the other died and he was almost completely unzipped. The last one just got out of the egg a few minutes ago. Since they were dark Marans eggs, I couldn't see if they were saddle shaped air cells. The rest were not fertile, sure glad they...
I stayed up the last two nights, checking humidity, it dropped to 45%, had an upside down pip. Peeled some of the eggshell off. Opened up two suspect eggs(duds). Wrapped a wet paper towel around it, went to sleep @6am. Got up @2pm. I've got eight! One more pipped....think I'll enter some...
My Marans are hatching! Had to move them to the rcom, couldn't get the humidity up on the New Harris past 45% this morning & I was worried humidity would drop by the time I'd get home from work. Two hatched and one is unzipping...
Power bumps are messing with my Harris Farm incubator. It keeps track of the days until lockdown and hatch day. I have some french copper Maran eggs in. Wow, good thing I checked. Had to correct the day setting.
Then I noticed a cord wrapped around his foot and leg. I unwrapped it and left it connected. Thought he wasn't going to be able to walk, but he's working it out. He's tiny. Here is a couple of pics of my Easter Eggers that hatched. I'll post a pic of the lil one later, we're in the middle...
Correction 9 Easter Eggers, I thought the last one didn't make it, it's a fighter, the lil one is out of the egg? It had hit a blood vessel and wasn't moving. I'm so happy.:woot
Read on this website to get a spray bottle of water and mist your duck eggs. (Not sure how often). Someone shipped me two dirty duck eggs and they hatched. You could probably get some eggs from someone on this website!
All I had to was go to bed and sleep, I have 6 Easter Eggers hatched. Two pipped and the same two still thinking about it (they are alive) I had to soften the membrane and take the top of the shell off their heads, it was dried up around their beaks......my farm innovator kept spiking at 102...