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YEA! Hoping your Christmas babies have a healthy hatch!:jumpy:jumpy:jumpy:jumpy

:fl Good luck! It sounds like you got this!:woot:pop:pop:pop

To add on: I should note that we've assisted six chicks out this fall, total, that have shrinkwrapped (see Sally Sunshine's EGGCELLENT Assisted Hatching article - absolutely invaluable). Incubator hatching is an artificial, NOT a natural, environment, so to my way of thinking, a chick that might...

We have had horrible problems with shrink wrap this fall, but some of that is probably breed-dependent (ODs are notoriously hard to hatch by incubator), and a LOT of it is probably regional climate. We're really dry where I live, so we probably have a lot more shrinkwrap issues than folks in the...

That's easy: keep your favorites, and use the rest to lure a currently chicken-less friend over to the dark side. You know - chicken math, hatchaholics anonymous, etc.

So cute! I love seeing broodies with their little ones. I'm guessing that you are going to try to sneak any that hatch from the incubator under the brooty?

Actually, they're all the same breed, Olandsk Dwarf. The chicks come in two color patterns, either the blond with random brown spots on the head and/or back, or the chipmunk pattern (both sharp and blurred). These chicks are from several different hens (purchased eggs), but I've had both...

I usually only hatch enough each year to add a couple of layers and find homes for the cockerels (there's usually only one or two, since I usually hatch only 4-6 eggs). Sometimes I'm successful getting people to take the cockerels as half of a breeding pair if I have enough pullets to spare...

Hope springs! Five pips when I got home tonight!:wee

I'm heartbroken tonight: I discovered when I checked the incubator this evening that it had not been heating all day. Apparently when I stopped the turner this morning, I didn't save the new setting correctly (new incubator), so the entire thing has been off for 12-14 hours. I got it going...

On their sides, all the way thru.

I just candled, too! Our expected hatch date is the 12th, so this was Day 14. We pulled one that looked like it was an early quitters, and the eggtopsy showed it stopped around Day 7. The other 18 (all Olandsk Dwarf) look like they are coming along, except the air cells are worryingly small -...

It's 56 here today, 60 yesterday. We've had one 29 degree night so far this fall, but we had well over a week's warning for that, we'll only have a handful of freezes during winter here, and other nights have been 43 or higher. The brooder plate has done fine for the littles at all those temps...

Any updates?

WOW - those colors sound AMAZING! Hope you can share some pics later!:love

Just did the 7 day candle: 5 blood rings, 13 clears, 19 developing :celebrate...not bad when half the eggs were 11-21 days old when set. Put all seven of the good ones from the old FI incubator in the new Brinsea, replacing the clears and blood rings (7 total! Funny how that worked out:cool:)...

In other news, I just set a whole bunch of OD eggs this evening. My source kindly gave me, in addition to the 18 I had requested, another 19 that are 2-3 weeks old - long shots, I know, but we might get lucky. I had to fire up a second incubator since I wasn't expecting that many and only have...

I think that would technically put you in a January hatch-along, but I don't think it really matters.

Olandsk Dwarf.