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

[Mrs MIA]

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Oooh... purty!!!

1st BC Marans chick from Debs eggs has hatched!!! All on its own, and clean!!!

Up to 3 duckies now, too.

 

[PoultryPeeps]

Thanks! I think he's pretty handsome.

But...what do you think of the pic of the chick on page 120? Does anybody think it is going to be lavendar?

 

[Alaska animal lover]

Thank you for posting that for me! He's a beauty!
I didn't answer you about the lavender chick because I don't have a clue about that stuff, they're cuties though!

 

[Mrs MIA]

What post number? I have my pages set to show 50 posts at a time, so I'm only on page 25...

 

[PoultryPeeps]

Thanks, and good luck on your hatch! I'm very pleased with the looks of Susan's chicks. I will enjoy watching them feather out, their coloring looks very nice. Plus the Cochins are a bonus!

 

[PoultryPeeps]

Mrs. AK...
Post 1198, the bottom pic of the single chick

 

[Alaska animal lover]

I'm hating my hygrometers right now. I have two acu-rites, and one repti therm analog style. I calibrated them all twice before starting the incubation. Both the acu-rites were off, one by 8% the other by 9%, the repti-therm was only off 1%.
They all read pretty consistent the first 18 days, but now that I added the water to the trays for lockdown, the acu-rites are reading way lower than the repti-therm. They are still reading 43 and 44%, when the repti-therm is reading 60%. I think I'm just going to go with my gut and trust the repti-therm.

honestly I can spell.

 

[PoultryPeeps]

This is the best hatch I have had - I used the 'dry hatch' method and trusted my Hovabator 1588 more. I have only 3 more eggs to hatch - don't know if they are going to do anything, but I am leaving them a little longer. I usually candle obsessively but this time only did once, and I think that makes a difference. I did have one egg that pipped quite early and on the side of the egg, and it ended up dead when I checked it after 2 days.

 

[Alaska animal lover]

I'm also using the 1588. So you didn't add water at all? I didn't for the first 18 days and the humidity stayed between 35-45% just from the humidity in the room,(master bedroom closet, but it's across from the bathroom).
I added water tonight, just for the lockdown period, and would like it to stay at 60%, no higher than 65, but now I can't trust my hygrometers.
I really don't want to drown these chicks.

 

[PoultryPeeps]

Well, it is dryer in my house - I did in fact keep adding water to try to keep the humidity at 45ish, but it varied quite a bit and would go down overnight and during the day when I'm gone to the 20s. Then when I added water it would go up into the 50s. But when I went to lockdown I went all out and got humidity up into the 70s. I had good size air cells and they seemed to like the high humidity because they hatched like crazy!