6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[Cynthia12]

After a quick candle this morning, I noticed that some of my chicks are not as far along as others so I decided to put heat them in the microwave for 5 seconds to speed up the process...Not a good idea.

You're kidding .. right? Right?!

 

[misfitmorgan]

So something aweful happened friday night. The breaker tripped that the incubator was on(no idea why) so the incubator was off while i was asleep, it also tripped the furnace so the house got cold on top of that, when i woke up the thermometer in the bator said 55F and the eggs were cold. I know the bator was off more then 3.5hrs cause the day counter didnt trip until some time after 2am last night when i couldnt stay up any longer. So i am waiting until tonight and hoping i see more veins growing in there then i did when i candled friday night. i so hope i didnt kill them all because they were doing so good even the shipped muscovy eggs.

 

[ronott1]

So something aweful happened friday night. The breaker tripped that the incubator was on(no idea why) so the incubator was off while i was asleep, it also tripped the furnace so the house got cold on top of that, when i woke up the thermometer in the bator said 55F and the eggs were cold. I know the bator was off more then 3.5hrs cause the day counter didnt trip until some time after 2am last night when i couldnt stay up any longer. So i am waiting until tonight and hoping i see more veins growing in there then i did when i candled friday night. i so hope i didnt kill them all because they were doing so good even the shipped muscovy eggs.

They should be fine.

 

[Cynthia12]

Pen one rooster

Pen two rooster









Just a few more won't hurt----

The blues above are the breeding pen the HAL eggs are all from. Blue on Blue

 

[Cynthia12]

Candle them tomorrow--They should be fine.

X's 2.. Bet they are fine.

 

[misfitmorgan]

They should be fine.

X's 2.. Bet they are fine.

i hope so.

 

[Cynthia12]

So something aweful happened friday night. The breaker tripped that the incubator was on(no idea why) so the incubator was off while i was asleep, it also tripped the furnace so the house got cold on top of that, when i woke up the thermometer in the bator said 55F and the eggs were cold. I know the bator was off more then 3.5hrs cause the day counter didnt trip until some time after 2am last night when i couldnt stay up any longer. So i am waiting until tonight and hoping i see more veins growing in there then i did when i candled friday night. i so hope i didnt kill them all because they were doing so good even the shipped muscovy eggs.

I'm with Ron again, should be fine..This happened to a friend of mine. First time hatching, power went out during the night..she was into the 2nd week, she threw them out! She thought for sure they were just gone. I told her to go get them! Ha..she went out and got them from the garbage and put them back in .. this was hrs. later of course. Guess what? She had a great hatch.

 

[carcar80]

Yep our power went out 12* once in late week 2 or early 3rd week with ducks once. Things were fine.

 

[LAChick]

My incubators got accent end tally(<--really,auto-correct?) unplugged at some time last night. The dome incubator got down to room temp (66) and the foam incubator was at 76 when I discovered they were unplugged.

I have no idea how long they were "cooling", it could have been as long as 8 hours, but maybe that will make up for all the times the temp spiked to 103. lol! I hope they are okay

I should have at least 10 more eggs arriving tomorrow ( I don't know why these ones coming from LA are taking as long as the ones sent from CA). This is me being restrained! I don't know what will happen for the Easter HAL!

I agree, hang in there!

 

[blackgoat]

After a quick candle this morning, I noticed that some of my chicks are not as far along as others so I decided to put heat them in the microwave for 5 seconds to speed up the process...Not a good idea.

LollOL!

Incubate eggs in a fraction of the time!
I'm gonna pop in my 5-day-old eggs and see if I can get them to catch up with my 11-day-old ones!