7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[chicknlove]

I'm in the process of building a hatcher using the incu advance with just one heater. I hope to have it up and running on day 18 which will be the 28th of this month. I,ll keep you posted.

Yes you better, any pics will do. Show us your progress

 

[chicknlove]

Pick up each egg and smell it. You can tell which is the bad one usually.

Look for little dots on the egg too.

The smell is gone today, I'm stumped.. I guess it wasn't coming from the bator after all .. Or it was all in my head..

 

[chicknlove]

Thanks. I have lavender orpington eggs. And a mix of rhode island red hens and easter eggers hens bred with my black lavender cross english orpington roosters. Im breeding my lavenders back to black for a better feather quality! I really hope they hatch!

Oh boy! I want some of these birdie too.. I will get there, by spring for sure ! Until then I'm living through you. So don't hold back on the pictures

 

[Jessimom]

I am sorry for asking silly questions...

I started 14 eggs the week before the HAL started. I set another 7 for the HAL. I have one incubator. When my first 14 go into lock down and I have to bump the humidity up to 75%, what do I do with the HAL eggs?

Obviously I need a second incubator, right?

For everyone here that have been adding eggs day after day (like I want to do), how do you handle the day after day adds? Won't they all need lock down 24 hours apart from each other? If it's lock down and I can't open the "bator, how do I get the new eggs in?

Thanks!!!!


Here are the silkie babies I got last May, the 5 I still have are responsible for all the eggs I have in my 'bator

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Ummm both

Allllrrrriiiggghhhttt, you asked for it

Not the best pic, but here are the eggies cooking:


Some of their parents:

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I am sorry for asking silly questions...

I started 14 eggs the week before the HAL started. I set another 7 for the HAL. I have one incubator. When my first 14 go into lock down and I have to bump the humidity up to 75%, what do I do with the HAL eggs?

Obviously I need a second incubator, right?

For everyone here that have been adding eggs day after day (like I want to do), how do you handle the day after day adds? Won't they all need lock down 24 hours apart from each other? If it's lock down and I can't open the "bator, how do I get the new eggs in?

Thanks!!!!


Here are the silkie babies I got last May, the 5 I still have are responsible for all the eggs I have in my 'bator

I have two incubators, one I use for the incubation part, the other for hatching. If the added eggs are only a day or two behind, I just lock them all down at the same time. If they're, say, a week apart, they move over to the hatcher so the humidity doesn't mess with the later eggs. I hope that helps

 

[Twoandhelp]

Went ahead and started my cortunix! 48 of them!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Official count is 16. I will not add anymore eggs to the 'bator, I will NOT add anymore eggs to the 'bator.....

And also, I lied. There are now 17 eggs in the incubator. I swear I won't add anymore (after today

).

 

[Cynthia12]

Allllrrrriiiggghhhttt, you asked for it

Not the best pic, but here are the eggies cooking:


Some of their parents:

Oh! You are going to get some frizzles! Or do you call them Sizzles? I think it's the same thing..lol..they are frizzly and Sizzly! I just hatched some too. I think I showed some of my silkies. I love your birds! Darling! I'm in love with your last one, the dark blue!
Sharing my black frizzle I hatched for the Halloween h a l..and the blue that I just hatched a little later because the ones that hatched before were so darn cute.




I have to go find my blue one..can't find it.

Do you ever sell eggs?

 

[ronott1]

I am sorry for asking silly questions...

I started 14 eggs the week before the HAL started. I set another 7 for the HAL. I have one incubator. When my first 14 go into lock down and I have to bump the humidity up to 75%, what do I do with the HAL eggs?

Obviously I need a second incubator, right?

For everyone here that have been adding eggs day after day (like I want to do), how do you handle the day after day adds? Won't they all need lock down 24 hours apart from each other? If it's lock down and I can't open the "bator, how do I get the new eggs in?

Thanks!!!!


Here are the silkie babies I got last May, the 5 I still have are responsible for all the eggs I have in my 'bator

Wait until you see the first pip and raise humidity- should be about day 20 but you never know.

If you have a turner, then take out a section or rails or two. You can also hatch in tomato baskets to keep down the mess.

Like this:



I have rubber shelf liner in the bottom.

The day or two of higher humidity will not hurt the older eggs.