5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[GerbilsOnToast]

Aaaannnnnnnddd.... PIP!!!!

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Sparkle has been quietly talking to her eggs for the past couple of days. She is my House Silkie and has brooded and hatched in the house before, but in the second bedroom (laughingly called "the Office"), not the living room. She took over the dog bed under the TV table late last month and I tucked three large fowl flock "mix" eggs under her on the 11th for the NYD Hatch.

Retired, and without a car for the past couple of weeks, I have had a front row seat to Sparkle's broody behavior. Never observed this "chattiness" before. It's adorable.

Yes. Yes, it is!

 

[Pozees]

Aaaannnnnnnddd.... PIP!!!!

Woo hoo!

 

[ronott1]

Aaaannnnnnnddd.... PIP!!!!

That is a nice pip!

 

[chickee]

Hearing about everybody's peeps and pips and early birds makes me happy!

Hope you wake up to some too! Maybe it will make you feel a little better. You need some babies to put a smile back on you face

 

[SilkieSensation]

Candled my quail eggs last night and just as I was finishing, the last egg to get candled had already started piping. Have had two early hatchers so far. Out of the 112 eggs I set, 38 were definitely not fertile and there were a few I wasn't sure about since the shells are dark. Hopefully, all 74 eggs will hatch. Here's a pic of one of the early hatchers.

soooooo little! I love them! this hatch I was going to incubate button quails, but I decided not to. I didn't know if they would need different humidity or anything...so I didn't. GOOD LUCK WITH THE REST!

I hatch quail with chicks & ducks in staggered hatches all the time. Quail do best with about 30-40% humidity for the first 15 days & then 40-50% for lockdown. This is still air. Add 10-15% for forced air. I usually transfer my eggs to another bator for hatching but often leave the quail to hatch where they are if I have anything else hatching at the same time. I rraise humidity to 50% for chicks & poults and 60% for waterfowl. If I have different species hatching together I try to average the humidity between them & just watch more closely for humidity related issues.

 

[Whoops]

Knowing they are in there, chirping, but not pipping is agonizing! I keep imagining them shrinkwrapped or some other horrible thing, just desperately waiting for some help.

I am telling myself, "step away from the 'bator"

C'mon, chickies!

 

[Avlana]

Lots of early birds! I heard one of mine peeping. A little chocolate Wyandotte. No external pips yet. (Set on the 11th, bantams)

 

[Whoops]

Aaaannnnnnnddd.... PIP!!!!

 

[ronott1]

Knowing they are in there, chirping, but not pipping is agonizing! I keep imagining them shrinkwrapped or some other horrible thing, just desperately waiting for some help.

I am telling myself, "step away from the 'bator"

C'mon, chickies!

Oh yes! Stay away from the Bator! well unless you want to just stare at the pretty eggs..Wait, was the a pip.....

Lots of early birds! I heard one of mine peeping. A little chocolate Wyandotte. No external pips yet. (Set on the 11th, bantams)

Yes, lost of early ones. We will also have late ones!