anyone else hatching may 1st

[pdsavage]

I have my own frizzle bantam cochins hatching May 1....

 

[ranchhand]

I've got 14 Delaware Blue Hen eggs in the Genesis 1588, due on May2nd. Humidity is again an issue, I'm working on it!

 

[Bec]

Lets hope that this time you get more than the last!

 

[mac80103]

May 1st hatch for me too!

Blue Splash Jersey Giants and SLW

 

[retiredwithchicks]

Candled for my May 2 hatch. I am doing my first hatching. I put 23 eggs in the incubator on the 11th of April and have candled them tonight. Have one blood ring, one no go, and 20 live babies, and one that is olive green that I cannot see into! All but 5 of these are RIR's, 2 Pearl White Leghorns, 3 mutts of EE x RIR or EExWhite Leg. The light area of most all the eggs was very large, at least one third of the egg. Is this good or bad? Worry about the moisture/humidity since won't have my meter until this weekend. Temps have been very good at 99-100 the entire time. I live a distance from somewhere to get a meter so am making a trip to do that this weekend. Definitely want one before the last three days.

 

[michiganlarry]

I just can't believe how long 21 days can take!

Ours are due to hatch on May 2.

 

[retiredwithchicks]

Maybe we'll survive and get good hatches!

 

[Darin115]

I candled last night. I had 0 non-fertile eggs. That was a first for me. No quitters so far.

I will check again on day 18. Mine are due to hatch on the 2nd.

Darin

 

[patandchickens]

I candled last week and again this morning. Only 1 of my 21 sussex eggs had *anything* in it (and that was a blood ring). Harrumph. The whole point of building the incubator was to get some chicks from my sussexes

The 5 eggs I set from the whackadoodle campine hen that lives with the sussexes, however, were ALL fertile, one died but the other 4 are boogieing all around in there.

I do not actually WANT sussex-campine mutt chicks

I only set them b/c they're white eggs and I wanted something I knew I could candle easily.

Oh well.

I think the problem is that she's the sussex roo's favorite, so I will put her and a companion elsewhere, maybe clip the fluffy 'pants' on the sussex hens as was suggested to me, and try again in a month or two.

Sigh.

Pat, who will still be duly excited if any of the campineX chicks manage to hatch successfully

 

[Picky Chicky]

Hmm.. haven't thought to candle the eggs under my broody girl. I was just waiting to see if she kicked out any 'stinkers' - so far none have been exiled.

Here is a picture of her sitting like a good Momma.