Anyone else setting eggs this weekend? 8-3-12?

[aussie pete]

Oh I am sooo frustrated. I am not sure exactly what happened, I must have bumped the controls last night when I took two out that that hatched. They were dry and fluffed up and there were no other pips so I decided it was safe to take them out. I gave all the other eggs a nice pep talk and told them to get on with the hatching. Went to bed at around 1, still nothing. Up this morning at 5, again nothing. Starting to feel like they were not going to hatch. All morning I have been working on a cake for a delivery this afternoon and pretty much just staying away from the incubator to avoid having even more disappointment. Around 11am there was still nothing. I quickly grabbed the egg that I had seen trying to internally pip on Wednesday night. It was still alive and I could see plenty of movement. I quickly put the egg back in and put the lid back down. Maybe out for 15 seconds. Barely lost any heat or humidity.

So now it is 3 and I went in to check for pips. Happen to notice that my incubator has decided to go back to the cooling cylce and is now at 84 degrees. I started freaking out and called for my husband to help me. He was able to reset it...I was in too much of a panic. The cooling cycle, that I turned off or thought I turned off on Wednesday cools down for 120 minutes every 24 hours. So this might be while I have not had anymore action. They were cooling Thursday and Friday and I didn't notice. So now it is all good and the heat is rising. Perhaps they ones that are still viable will hatch this evening. I sure hope so. I feel like an awful chicken mother. I have had those incubators running since April and never done something so silly.

But in other good news, my last set of shipped eggs came yesterday from Texas, six more Cream Legbars. Of the six it looks like two might have detached air sacs, the other 4 look great. So I just set them now in my small incy. I went ahead and set all the eggs, as I have had a silkie with a detached sac grow and hatch. Those eggs are expensive and I want to at least give it a try. This will be my 4th try this season for cream legbars. The first hatch I ended up with 4 of 7 and the other two sets have all been quitters or no growers. Fingers crossed I will get some good birds from this set. This will be my last set, because my husband surprised me with a cruise in October and I don't want to have too many young ones for the chicken sitter to deal with.

Please keep your fingers crossed that I just did not chill my babies and kill them.

will keep my fingers crossed for u ,mine dropped about the same ,with my power cut fri .hopefully we will both be ok

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

It is now 9:30pm on day 21 and no more action. I am hoping they are just slow and late due to the cooling still being on after lock down. How are all the chicks that you all have hatched?

 

[Nicole01]

My $50 pure blue and black Ameraucana's ended up being Easter Eggers.. I won't be showing them or keeping them. I asked a friend to take them if her hatch isn't successful. If she doesn't want them I'll either give them away on CL or put a low price on them. One has a blind eye, but can see out of the other. I bought these 4 from another website online, not here.

Lockdown starts today for my other 11. I think there's a quitter in there, but I'm not sure. I don't know if any will hatch at all.

I'm starting over next spring if this doesn't work out.

 

[Nicole01]

It is now 9:30pm on day 21 and no more action. I am hoping they are just slow and late due to the cooling still being on after lock down. How are all the chicks that you all have hatched?

I read somewhere where they can survive a cooling all the way down to 0F for 24 hrs and live. I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I do hope yours are okay.

 

[aussie pete]

yahoo !

1 out & 4 more pipped ,13 to go.is only 4hrs over the exact 21 days . hope "wyochickenmamma" yrs r ok

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

yahoo !

1 out & 4 more pipped ,13 to go.is only 4hrs over the exact 21 days . hope "wyochickenmamma" yrs r ok

That is awesome...super happy for you! Can't wait to see pictures.

Sadly, I still just have the 2 that came on Friday. I candled those eggs this morning and there is no movement. Sometime today I will bring myself to open them to see when they quit. I know that the brahma egg was still moving on Saturday, but that drop in temp could have killed it or it could have just been a late shell death. I have had that happen before. So what I do know is that I have two chicks, that will be strong. I have 12 FBCM day olds getting shipped tomorrow to go into the brooder with them and I have my last set of Cream Legbar eggs in the other incubator now. It is what it is and mother nature knows best. Luckily, none of these eggs were expensive and it is all ok. Life is good and this was a good lesson in counting my eggs before they hatch.

 

[aussie pete]

sorry ,more of yrs didnt make it ,i pleased after my power outage & this is my first incubation . it is 1.15 am mon here now ,so hope when i wake tomorrow will have more ,pics soon cheers pete

 

[Nicole01]

There are a few eggs I candled where I can not see a thing inside. All I see is the air sac.

Are these still good eggs? Maybe the membrane is too thick? What do you think?

I started lockdown for my others. Let's hope they hatch. I'm trying to keep my humidity at 60%. Lockdown humidity is so tricky!

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

There are a few eggs I candled where I can not see a thing inside. All I see is the air sac.
Are these still good eggs? Maybe the membrane is too thick? What do you think?
I started lockdown for my others. Let's hope they hatch. I'm trying to keep my humidity at 60%. Lockdown humidity is so tricky!

I would go ahead and put them in there, can't hurt. I end up doing that with a lot of my FBCM eggs..the shells are just too dark to tell what if anything is going on in there. Good Luck and keep us posted.

 

[aussie pete]

Hi All ,woke today to find 5 out & 4 more pipped

,half way fingers crossed for more today