10+ Black Copper Maran Eggs

[sonew123]

aww so close Brindle come out come out wherever you are!!!

 

[acid_chipmunk]

You guys crack me up! I swear, we all need to go into some kind of 12 step program together!!!!

 

[sonew123]

sweet pea thinks shes funny eh?

 

[Phage]

Here are some of whchristie's BCM

chicks

that hatched yesterday:

 

[aussieheelr]

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It depends on your incubator. I stagger hatch in my cabinet. If you have a small icubator, ie hova or lg, then you run into some hang ups. You can hand turn them when you put a group into lockdown. Doing that requires opening the incubator to turn the later batch, and this causes the humidity levels to drop each time when the batch in lockdown should be at a constant higher humidity. Leaving the turner in the bator would solve the turning issue, but then you run into problems of hatching chicks being stuck in the turners. I'm one of the people that puts eggs into lockdown and then doesn't open the door until the hatch is over. Every now and then I have to because of a problem with a chick hatching, but for a normal hatch the door stays closed to keep humidity up. My suggestion would be to borrow an incubator from somebody or buy a second one to use as a hatcher if you want to stagger hatch and have multiple set dates. I know that many people on here open up the smaller units all the time to grab chicks as they hatch and put them somewhere else to dry off and fluff up. I swear by my methods and they by theirs, its all in what works for you. If you do run a stagger hatch my suggestion would be to divide your incubator into two sections so the hatching chicks didn't knock around the developing ones. This can be as simplle as putting the hatching ones into a container they cant climb out of. Then you would open it to turn the eggs and grab the hatched chicks all in one swoop. My only concern with this is the possibility of shrink wrapping the hatching ones because you would have to open the bator several times a day. Some say this doesn't harm the hatching ones. I've opened the cabinet after a hatch to pull out the chicks and heard the crackle from the exposed egg membranes as they dried though.

I stagger hatched 3 different sets in my Genesis and did ok. They were my own eggs, not shipped, so they had a leg up on the situation. I made a "divider" out of cardboard and fitted it over the automatic turner and took out the extra racks to make space for the eggs in lock down. The divider kept the chicks from getting in with the turning eggs and getting smooshed.
At the time each set went into lockdown I took the eggs out and did a quick clean of the water resivour and put everything back in: about 3 minutes time. I hatched out some where around 13 out of 16 eggs at lock down combined. Still not ideal, but it worked for the situation I put myself in.

 

[spiritdance]

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Read through the thread, saw this, and couldn't help but think 12 steps would NEVER be enough ... it would take that just to unteach me "chicken math"!

 

[Sportsterjeep]

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It depends on your incubator. I stagger hatch in my cabinet. If you have a small icubator, ie hova or lg, then you run into some hang ups. You can hand turn them when you put a group into lockdown. Doing that requires opening the incubator to turn the later batch, and this causes the humidity levels to drop each time when the batch in lockdown should be at a constant higher humidity. Leaving the turner in the bator would solve the turning issue, but then you run into problems of hatching chicks being stuck in the turners. I'm one of the people that puts eggs into lockdown and then doesn't open the door until the hatch is over. Every now and then I have to because of a problem with a chick hatching, but for a normal hatch the door stays closed to keep humidity up. My suggestion would be to borrow an incubator from somebody or buy a second one to use as a hatcher if you want to stagger hatch and have multiple set dates. I know that many people on here open up the smaller units all the time to grab chicks as they hatch and put them somewhere else to dry off and fluff up. I swear by my methods and they by theirs, its all in what works for you. If you do run a stagger hatch my suggestion would be to divide your incubator into two sections so the hatching chicks didn't knock around the developing ones. This can be as simplle as putting the hatching ones into a container they cant climb out of. Then you would open it to turn the eggs and grab the hatched chicks all in one swoop. My only concern with this is the possibility of shrink wrapping the hatching ones because you would have to open the bator several times a day. Some say this doesn't harm the hatching ones. I've opened the cabinet after a hatch to pull out the chicks and heard the crackle from the exposed egg membranes as they dried though.

I stagger hatched 3 different sets in my Genesis and did ok. They were my own eggs, not shipped, so they had a leg up on the situation. I made a "divider" out of cardboard and fitted it over the automatic turner and took out the extra racks to make space for the eggs in lock down. The divider kept the chicks from getting in with the turning eggs and getting smooshed.
At the time each set went into lockdown I took the eggs out and did a quick clean of the water resivour and put everything back in: about 3 minutes time. I hatched out some where around 13 out of 16 eggs at lock down combined. Still not ideal, but it worked for the situation I put myself in.

Cool, and thanks for chiming in. 13/16 is a good hatch for stagger hatching, especially with doing it in a little bator, I'm impressed. And awesome idea on taking out the extra turning racks from the unit, I didn't even think of that.

 

[aceschix]

christi...I so want these but my bators are stacked in true hatch-a-holic style

 

[sonew123]

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muggs??? you mean Christi?? LOL

 

[Brindlebtch]

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just shakin' things up!