Anyone hatching on the 4th Of May Or Around that time. Hatch with me!

[poularde]

I have babies!

So out of the 11 eggs that went into lock-down I have 8 in the brooder right now. The ones in the brooder are 1 blue laced red wyandotte, 2 golden polish, 2 bc marans, 2 blue splash marans, and 1 silver laced wyandotte. So nothing happened until day 21. To tell you the truth I did not think anyone was going to hatch. There was no chirping or egg rocking. I was checking the eggs at least every hour. This is my first hatch and I was expecting possible disappointment. So I was walking through the house and I heard chirping. I ran in there to find a golden polish climbing around the other eggs and the other polish was pipping. I was so excited and worst of all I had to go to work. I guess it is good I had to go because it does take quite a while for everyone to hatch. When I got home the other polish had hatched and there was pips on a lot more eggs. I watched the silver wyandotte hatch and one black copper. It was so amazing. I am hatching in a Brinsea 20 eco and it was very crowded in there. It is so hard to not open the incubator.

8 of the 11 eggs had hatched yesterday and one more was zipping when I went to work again. Getting home from work the egg seemed to be in the same position it was 10 hours earlier. I remembered reading a post about them taking sometimes 14 hours to hatch. you could see the chic's fuzz sticking out of the egg and a little movement. I became concerned because the polish had hatched over 30 hours ago and all the other chicks were dry. A few of the chicks started pecking at the slow hatcher. I decided to take them out. I got the shower going and warmed up the room to pull everyone out. When I pulled out the chicks I decided to help my egg that seemed to stop hatching. I was so careful I didn't take the chick out of the egg I just finished the zip around. It was chirping during this and I was so afraid of making a mistake. So now my chick a blue orpington has hatched and he is a big one. I still have my orp in the incubator to dry he does seem a bit weak so I hope he makes it.

I am not putting him with the other chicks until he runs around like the rest of them. I still have 2 eggs left in the incubator with the orp. I don't see any pips and this is day 23.

The two eggs left are a buff brahma and an easter egger. How much longer should I give these two eggs?

All in all I am happy to have healthy looking chicks in the brooder and I hope my little orp makes it. I can't wait to get more eggs to hatch. Good luck to all those

 

[JestersEye]

I have another batch of eggs that are due to hatch on May 13th... but I think they might take a little longer because they didn't seem quite as far along as I would've expected when I candled on May 6th. I could be wrong, of course; but that was the impression I had when I candled. I think perhaps the temp was a bit low when I first started incubating in my new Brower Top Hatch incubator, and maybe that led to slower development of the embryos.

I moved the developing eggs into my Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco after candling them, since my first batch did so well there. I think I finally got the temp stabilized in the Brower, but I decided to go with the Brinsea anyway, because it just seems really trustworthy. Right now, there are 12 Blue Andalusian eggs and 7 Blue Orpington eggs that made it to lockdown. I had to use wax on one of the developing eggs because I found a crack in the shell when I candled it. It seems okay, though. The chick inside was moving around quite a bit, and looked good and healthy. I sure hope it still makes it.

 

[Delighted]

poularde YAY!!!!

on your babies! I had been expecting a poor hatch-- even nothing, too--and here they are! Mine never peeped or rocked in the shells, either--I figured they just didn't make it. I hope your little blue orp makes it, too. As to the other eggs, I keep reading here that some hatch as late as day 24 or 25--didn't didn't I read day 28? Can you candle the last two? I just took my last 4 out--don't have a strong enough flashlight right now, so I didn't candle. It was day 25. All four had chicks! But I don't think they were alive. (I'm gonna start a new thread to ask about this, because I don't want to go to far off topic! LOL!)


JestersEye good luck on your hatch too!

 

[poularde]

Thanks Delighted.

I put my orpington in with the others. He seems fine. Still a little weak but none of his hatch-mates seem to be picking on him. He is drinking and eating though.

I love happy endings. Once I locate my camera i will post some pics.

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

No babies for me. Autopsies showed all different stages of development, so the various temp spikes and drops must have killed them on different days.

I will try again when a new thermostat is installed and proven.

Congrats to all who had successful hatches! I will just keep playing with the 6 peepers I have from an earlier hatch and wait for my box of 25 coming from Sand Hill in June.

Happy Hatching!

 

[Delighted]

Jo Ann, I'm so sorry your batch didn't have any hatchers. I'm glad you have some to play with now and that some more are on their way. I do understand not wanting to try til you have the right equipment. My last 5 died probabaly at hatch time-- their eggs were full of liquid--I had put a couple wet rags and later some more water in because of the two dry hatched eggs--but then i drowned the last 5! I will make sure i have a hygrometer for next time!