🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[kelseyk]

7 BCM's hatched today! I have 2 more pipped and 1 that I am still waiting on. This BCM experience has been wonderful! I bought more from the same seller 2 days ago. Hoping for another good round with the next batch!

 

[Hucklekree]

Lost the Speckled Sussex form the McMurray shipment. Was sickly for so long. Treated as I was able and it passed this morning.

On the flip side all my new ducks are doing well. Still scared witless when I enter their pen. I hope that calms down eventually. I know for a fact that they know what a human is.

I now have:
Saxony
Silver Appleyard
Welsh Gold Harlequin
Welsh Silver Harlequin
Golden Cascade
Cayuga
Pekin
and
Khaki Campbell ducks

In the same vein, my Male Silver Appleyard one of two that survived the duckling shipping massacre during the riots has been proven to be female. Unless males quack like females... Not a totally bad development. Usually it works out the other way, female turns out to be male.

Like one of the sexed Andalusian pullets bought from McMurray. Not so sure she is a she anymore.

I have enjoued catching up with everyone's hatch a long journey for this month and look forward to seeing what else August brings us.

Sorry about the novel

 

[Vantic]

I’m not home and my eggs are in the bator all 42 of them. I was going to fill the second bator, but I’ll do that when I get home

It would be a neat trick to fill you incubator when you were not home. Incubator filling fairy..

 

[Chookwagn]

I can hear cheaping and I can see eggs rocking

 

[quailbird]

13 Button Quail shipped eggs

Harris Farms Nurture 360 incubator with auto heat
Temp 99.5, Humidity 45-50%

August 17 = Day 14
Temp 99, Humidity 70-75%

August 19 = Day 16 - 1 day remaining
2 pips, no rocking nor chirps

I purchased a brand new incubator, Harris Farms Nurture 360 and this is the first use. I couldn't use the Little Giant due to inexperience and wanted something more automated. This one seemed a good economic choice for me and got at local TSC.

Had a power outage yesterday evening for about an hour in which temp went down to 87.5 degrees and humidity went up to 97% about 40 minutes into the outage. I know this because I began to worry with condensation beginning to build on incubator clear plastic walls. So I hooked up the car inverter, ran an extension cord to the patio and plugged in the incubator and sucked out about 1/2 Cup of water from the outside well with a syringe. Temp and humidity normalized again and after about 20 minutes running the incubator plugged in with the car inverter, the electric came back on and things seem back on track again. Hopefully no damage was done.

Compared to the last still air incubator which was not automatic, this new forced air, auto temp incubator seems much easier for me as an inexperienced hatcher. Temp absolutely constant throughout the incubation at 99.5 degrees and humidity was not difficult to keep up with by adding water to outside water well and not having to open for that purpose, keeping humidity constant throughout at about 45-50%. Although this product does auto turn, I turned manually due to small egg size.

I have the old incubator set up next to the new one and can use it as a temporary brooder for transfers if necessary. As for the new incubator, I read all the reviews and there is one flaw to it which is the fan located at the top of the machine. I do not think it will be an issue for these tiny birds, but read that larger chicks injured on their heads on the fan. Once hatching begins, I will be watching constantly since the whole incubator is see through all around.

 

[Sammi_0411]

Mine hatched monday 33 quail out of 38 eggs all doing well so far i tell u wat it was my first time with quail and i couldnt belive how fast they hatch compared to chickens..... there was 2 hatched when i went to bed for a couple hours....when i got up there was 27 in the inc lol they pop out like popcorn only way to describe it ....hope all your hatches go well
Sam xx

 

[FortCluck]

It would be a neat trick to fill you incubator when you were not home. Incubator filling fairy..

I could probably do that. Yesterday my friend got 18 chicken eggs and 18 quail eggs. I just don’t want to hatch anymore chickens.

 

[AusHen]

I now have three silkie chicks which I think all all boys. one tiny pip and another large pip.



I don't see or hear any action on the other eggs in the hex but it isn't even hatch day yet so I will remain patient and enjoy these little cuties

 

[Trisseh]

Here’s the tiny quail that is doing ok. It peeps like crazy until I go check on it and then it makes happy chirps and climbs into my hand... none of the others were that friendly... lol.

also my first duck egg hatched, not sure what’s going to happen with the other 2 just yet but

 

[Chookwagn]

well today is meant to be hatch day for my 7 eggs in the bator.... I can hear cheeping and see rocking but no pips that i can see yet (in my quick look before I left for work)....

but....

Im wondering because I had a hiccup with the temp on about day 14 (think they got a litttle cool for a few hours) that they could hatch a little later...