15+ hr pip

[Kiki]

Well, we just lost the fight... But I'm honestly surprised it lasted nearly as long as it did. And that internal pip is now an external pip.

I am sorry you lost it.
Try to wait a little long for them to try to get out on their own next time.

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

I am sorry you lost it.
Try to wait a little long for them to try to get out on their own next time.

I'm trying another incubation next week, and I'm hoping I'll be more preoccupied with the new chicks than the incubator so I leave it alone a bit more.
I'm trying to sell this year and I need more chicks to do that. Not that the numbers are all that important to me, but it would help... I'm in it because I love it, but it does have to support itself.

 

[aart]

Well, we just lost the fight... But I'm honestly surprised it lasted nearly as long as it did.

Ahhh...am surprised too...open abdomen is often fatal.

I'm trying to sell this year and I need more chicks to do that. Not that the numbers are all that important to me, but it would help... I'm in it because I love it, but it does have to support itself.

Where are you selling? Pretty hard to make it 'pay for itself', incubators are expensive.

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

Where are you selling? Pretty hard to make it 'pay for itself', incubators are expensive.

tractor supply swaps, auction, and facebook. And I meant more the business as a whole, not the incubator. Plus I've only got a little giant still air, so it only cost me $98 with the egg turner... that's part of my problem.

 

[Kiki]

tractor supply swaps, auction, and facebook. And I meant more the business as a whole, not the incubator. Plus I've only got a little giant still air, so it only cost me $98 with the egg turner... that's part of my problem.

I have great hatches in my LG still air.

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

I have great hatches in my LG still air.

(also a newbie...) and still trying to correct humidity in it. I'm working on it, sadly at the expense of the poor "test subjects"...

 

[Kiki]

(also a newbie...) and still trying to correct humidity in it. I'm working on it, sadly at the expense of the poor "test subjects"...

After this hatch....run the bator for a week empty...or with non fertile eggs in it just for the heck of it.
Play around with it.
Open it like you are candling.
Get to know it before you set eggs again.

 

[RoosterML]

I just finished my first hatch a week ago today. The first pip I was all excited. I waited and waited and waited some more. To the point i figured it died. It took nearly 24 hours from first pip to out of the shell. No way was I going to assist with my lack of experience. Every egg that pipped did successfully hatch and are all still doing well. Good luck with the rest.

 

[aart]

Might sound like a broken record here but.....
Test your therms and hygros before every hatch!:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

 

[Madie'sOddFlock]

Might sound like a broken record here but.....
Test your therms and hygros before every hatch!:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

Thanks, but they've been tested(I now know for sure that the incubator is almost always off with it's readings). My biggest problem is finding the right balance for my specific area and circumstances. The local college recommends the average humidity and temps, but I haven't found the best results with that in at least my incubator. I plan on talking to as many people in the area as I can this spring through to fall.