April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[Aidanhall92]

Mine are finally hatching! I have 4 pekin duck eggs in my brinsea incubator. These 28 days have gone too slowly haha

 

[barn206]

Good morning all
So we hatched 13 chicks out of 21 eggs. Last one was born this morning at 6:30. With 2 roosters and 28 hens, it’s likely they all weren’t fertile eggs. Today is day 22 so I’m going to leave the eggs alone and check on them tonight. I’m very happy with this first hatch. This NR360 incubator was well worth the money. Glad I joined this hatch along... I really learned a lot from you all
So thank you!
I’ll post pictures as soon as everyone is in the brooder. Good luck!!!

 

[smfarman]

OK, still no pictures but all 14 babies hatched! I am beyond thrilled. All of my hatches so far except for this one have had many DIS at the end - I must be figuring it out!

Throughout the incubation process I removed 8 eggs - a couple blood rings very early on, and some quitters. No idea why they quit. I had some temperature fluctuation issues at the beginning, and a little bit of a learning curve on humidity with this particular bator...but overall I am so pleased.

Now...to pick which two babies out of the 14 that I will keep for our flock. The other 12 have already been sold. Y'all, they are so cute, this will be a very difficult choice .

Congratulations on your hatch with 14 chicks, how do you sell them

 

[Minky]

LOCKDOWN !!!!
So I candled last night (I didn't even bother with my OE and Maran eggs- all I can see are glowing air cells. )But the lavender Orpington all looked good, so Im' assuming I will have some other chicks hatch too. I put all 42 into cartons with most of the carton cut away. I realized that 3 had been in the incubator upside down (air cell on bottom) for entire 18 days... they are round Maran eggs, and the ladies I purchased from had written the date on that end, so I never clued in...
I made the decision to right them, so now they are air cell up. Do you think that anything will hatch from those 3? I marked them so I know for next time. I also had one maran eggs that had the air cell on the side. Totally on the side- a very large air cell. What does that mean? I tried to position that one upright, but favouring the side with the air cell.

I have chick peeping sounds playing for them LOL

My husband think Im nuts.

 

[AgnesGray]

I have chick peeping sounds playing for them LOL

My husband think Im nuts.

I'm convinced they help! And my husband also thinks I'm nuts. Ha!

 

[AgnesGray]

Lots of DIS/malpositions in these eggs that were shipped on the side. I'm thinking of reviewing positively with "Eggs shipped on their sides and packed with great care" as she took the time to write a handwritten note and everything, just didn't know how to ship them and hopefully that will clue in buyers.

2 out of 13 hatched. This is the last egg in the incubator. Alive only because of the air hole made, I guess. Since no progress was made, I opened it up a bit more. Major crossbeak.

 

[cmom]

Lots of DIS/malpositions in these eggs that were shipped on the side. I'm thinking of reviewing positively with "Eggs shipped on their sides and packed with great care" as she took the time to write a handwritten note and everything, just didn't know how to ship them and hopefully that will clue in buyers.

2 out of 13 hatched. This is the last egg in the incubator. Alive only because of the air hole made, I guess. Since no progress was made, I opened it up a bit more. Major crossbeak.
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I had a crossed beak and she was my most favorite bird. Her name was Gladys. She was 3 years old when a fox got her during the middle of the day. She was a love and loved to be loved. I did have to trim her beak now and then. I still miss her and blame myself for her loss.

 

[MROO]

In addition to my Easter HAL babies (all three hatched,) I had three more Nankin and five Nankin/NHRed cross eggs in the 'bator. I was hopeful, but not too optimistic about the crosses hatching, as they were more of a mixed-date hatch experiment. Big surprise! Two of the three added Nannies and three of the five crosses hatched. The Nankin and one cross were late quitters, while the last cross was a clear I somehow missed during the first candling.

One of the crosses had to be extracted manually- well beyond the assisted hatch guidelines, because it was positioned oddly with its' head under its' wing and feet cockeyed. It was peeping piteously, so I got it out. The poor baby was a mess! At first, I thought it had wry neck, so I treated it with Selenium and Vitamin E - a mix I've had good luck with on hatchery wry neck chicks - but we lost the little one, anyway. In retrospect, I don't think it was wry neck at all, but a deformity in the chick from odd positioning while it developed. It was very long, almost snaky-looking. Poor baby. It tried so hard!

Still, this was a good hatch, despite being so small. Seven live, healthy chicks from 11 eggs. With the fertility issues inherent to RC Nankins, I can live with those numbers! Now, if I can only get those kinds of results from bigger hatches, Life'll be grand!

 

[AgnesGray]

I had a crossed beak and she was my most favorite bird. Her name was Gladys. She was 3 years old when a fox got her during the middle of the day. She was a love and loved to be loved. I did have to trim her beak now and then. I still miss her and blame myself for her loss.
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Awe, this gives me hope this one will make it. I'm sorry you blame yourself. Middle of the day could have happened to anyone with the birds ranging outside and the fact that she got three years of the good life being cared for by you is beating all odds.

I will welcome tips for caring for her if she makes it through hatching.

 

[MROO]

Good morning all
So we hatched 13 chicks out of 21 eggs. Last one was born this morning at 6:30. With 2 roosters and 28 hens, it’s likely they all weren’t fertile eggs. Today is day 22 so I’m going to leave the eggs alone and check on them tonight. I’m very happy with this first hatch. This NR360 incubator was well worth the money. Glad I joined this hatch along... I really learned a lot from you all
So thank you!
I’ll post pictures as soon as everyone is in the brooder. Good luck!!!

I have the NR360, as well. It's taken awhile to learn its' idiosyncrasies, but I'm beginning to like it! I had five eggs left in it at day 23. I tossed two - a quitter and a clear - and was going to toss the last three, simply because they looked "flat" inside and we were already well past hatch day. Something told me to let 'em ride one more day. I actually argued with myself out loud over it (DD looked at me like I was certifiably nuts!) but I ended up putting them back and going to bed. Lo and behold ... the next morning we had two pips and the start of a zip!

A word of warning for the NR360. Mine is my second of that articular model. The first was replaced for free because the turner died halfway through my second hatch. We didn't hand turn because, once we suspected a problem, it still worked properly every time we manually tested it. I'm paranoid, now, so I check several times a day to make sure that the eggs' positions are changing properly. Losing that hatch of critically endangered Nankins was heartbreaking!