Alaska hatchers..How is everyone doing? Baby pics !!!!!!

[Mahonri]

I love reading these hatching threads.

Those babies are a lot of work!

 

[hollyandty]

I am hoping some of those hatching vibes are being sent all over Alaska.
We set 18 refrigerated eggs and 18 fresh eggs of mixed d Uccles and they are due to hatch on Feb 14th. Candled last Saturday and 2 of the frig eggs were not fertile but all the other eggs had lots of movement. Can't wait to see these little guys.
I set 48 Buff Orp and Black sex links and they are due to hatch Feb 21. I plan on candling them today so we will see.
Wishing you all great hatching vibes.
Holly

ETA: Why is our time zone 5 hours different from BYC time?

 

[PandoraTaylor]

because of where we are all located....lol


and Yes Good Hatching Vibes sent to all hatchers of BYC and the world.

where did you get the refrigerated eggs?

 

[BirdBrain]

The (2nd incubator) Hatcher gets a temp spike every 5th day of running of 104, which drops humidity. So it needs a fan kit I think.

Pandora, have you considered that it might be the other way around--that when the water dries up (humidity goes down) that that is what causes the temp spike. Some how I seem to remember someone saying that some time ago. I wonder what would happen if you kept a real close eye on water levels and refilled when they were getting pretty low.

ETA: Why is our time zone 5 hours different from BYC time?

If you go in to your profile you can select your time zone. I think ours is -9 but don't hold me to it.​

 

[PandoraTaylor]

well the first temp spike was with the first eggs and didn't drop the humidity much- none of those 4 hatched. (due to too low of humidity it was only 25% 1-18; Raised to 45% in Hatcher)

the second one happened with the last hatching, it dropped the humidity to zero on (Feb 3 late) Hatch day, 4 had hatched early (Feb 1 & 2nd),
and the other 4, 2 had internal pips, 1 never piped at all and 1 was infertile or an early quiter (no blood veining when opened).

this time I am not changing them from the 1st incubator (at the moment we have 5 of the 7 eggs still moving). as stated above.

I will just remove the turner, candle and return the eggs to the incubator in a Carton, then raise the humidity for lockdown, then we will see if I can hatch better with the Fan.

ETA: I will not add anymore eggs until this batch is hatched. I was adding eggs with the first hatches, so they were staggered hatches is why I used the 2nd incubator as a Hatcher, plus it didn't have the turner or the fan. I thought it would work better to just rotate the eggs to it as I candled, I already had the humidity and temp stable for lockdown. (I thought)

sometimes my own thinking gets me in trouble.

 

[hollyandty]

where did you get the refrigerated eggs?

My daughter has 30+ d uccles and she wasn't finding many buyers for her eggs so we were keeping them in the frig. The ones we used were at least 2 weeks old maybe older.

ETA: Why is our time zone 5 hours different from BYC time?

If you go in to your profile you can select your time zone. I think ours is -9 but don't hold me to it.

I have -4 AST (I thought that meant Alaska Standard Time) selected. I have only lived here for 28 years but I thought we were only 4 hours behind the East coast and 1 hour behind the West coast. Is there a time zone I am not aware of?​

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Yep
-9 Alaska Standard Time. lol

 

[BirdBrain]

It is not so much an issue of being 4 hours behind the east coast as it is of being 9 hours behind the GMT.

 

[Mrs MIA]

My first "test" hatch was about 33%... several went to the hatcher, then quit. But, I am not a quitter, so I followed it up with another tray of eggs. And another. And another is building to go in on Wednesday.

It's still so cold, fertility isn't the best. But give it a few more weeks...

(and I have dibs on one of Miss Deb's BCM roos...

)

 

[hollyandty]

It is not so much an issue of being 4 hours behind the east coast as it is of being 9 hours behind the GMT.

Thanks BirdBrain now it makes sense.​