Anyone HATCHING?!?!? Newbie's and addicts WELCOME!!!! Hatch Calendar page 1!!!!

[aaggjg]

I came home to 2 silkies hatched and one more pipped!! these are from my free eggs..... My shipped silkies have done nothing hopefully they are just slower..... It's only just day 20 as I didn't set until 9:30 pm. These little ones are soooooo cute!! I can't post pixs until I'm at work tomorrow.

 

[silkymom1986]

I came home to 2 silkies hatched and one more pipped!!

these are from my free eggs..... My shipped silkies have done nothing

hopefully they are just slower..... It's only just day 20 as I didn't set until 9:30 pm. These little ones are soooooo cute!! I can't post pixs until I'm at work tomorrow.

Oh YAY!!! How exciting!!!

Congrats!!

 

[stephanie1992]

Egss goin into lockdown today at 6pm!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jx2inNC]

Tomorrow is day 18, so lockdown starts soon!

 

[aaggjg]

My 3rd little one hatched this morning at 6:45am! Leap Silkie!!!

I have 2 more pips on the free silkie eggs... this is the incubator that was unplugged for 8 hours but it doesn't seem to have effected them at all!!!!

Baby 1:



2 Babies posing together...


I have 1 pip in my shipped eggs!!!! I was giving up even though it is only day 20 ..... I really hope that one hatches

 

[DraigAthar]

Leap Silkie! Haha, that's cute! Hope you get many more!

My 3rd little one hatched this morning at 6:45am! Leap Silkie!!!

 

[silkymom1986]

Soooo adorable!!!

Congrats!!!

Hope to see pics of more soon!! glad the unplugging didn't hurt them!

 

[Tressa27884]

Ok. I know this may be a crazy question, but has anybody ever weighed their eggs to check on growth inside. A growing chick has to weigh more than a non viable egg doesn't it? I'm asking because I'm having a hard time candling and seeing which eggs are growing and which aren't. I thought if I could weigh them I'd have a better idea of growth....

 

[DraigAthar]

Actually, an egg loses weight as it develops. The air cell in the egg gets larger as water evaporates through the egg shell. Brinsea has some good info about weighing developing eggs in their incubation handbook: http://www.brinsea.com/pdffiles/Brinsea_Handbook.pdf

Ok. I know this may be a crazy question, but has anybody ever weighed their eggs to check on growth inside. A growing chick has to weigh more than a non viable egg doesn't it? I'm asking because I'm having a hard time candling and seeing which eggs are growing and which aren't. I thought if I could weigh them I'd have a better idea of growth....

 

[chickenlickin8]

Tomorrow is day 18, so lockdown starts soon!

I have this exact same set up. My eggs are on Day 5. Will moving the eggs from the turner to the wire bottom for lockdown hurt the hatch rate?