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

[Pyxis]

Well, since I'm posting in here, haha.

For April, I have set right now:

3 Quail due Saturday for the EHAL.

3 Ko Shamo due Saturday for the EHAL.

26 Aztec Ducks due the 15th.

7 more quail due the 22nd.

Mallards due the 30th.

Nine turkeys due the 24th-ish, probably a couple days sooner.

4 more Ko shamos due the 28th.

Pigeons due around the 22nd.

 

[Pyxis]

Hi Pyxis
Can I ask why ? I’m at 1500 feet above sea level and I’m curious having the humidity up to 52%? Just trying to figure this stuff out.. it’s new to me ..

Why weigh them? It's just a more accurate way to determine how much moisture they're losing, and with that info you can adjust the humidity more accurately.

 

[barn206]

Why weigh them? It's just a more accurate way to determine how much moisture they're losing, and with that info you can adjust the humidity more accurately.

Sorry I wasn’t clear. Do you think my altitude at 1500’ above sea level is ok with the incubator having 50% humidity? Should it be lower?

 

[Pyxis]

Sorry I wasn’t clear. Do you think my altitude at 1500’ above sea level is ok with the incubator having 50% humidity? Should it be lower?

I can't really say, sorry Best thing is to watch the air cell growth and just try to make sure that that looks fine. I'm at roughly 500 feet elevation if that helps you any.

 

[barn206]

I can't really say, sorry Best thing is to watch the air cell growth and just try to make sure that that looks fine. I'm at roughly 500 feet elevation if that helps you any.

Ok thank you. Tomorrow I’ll try to do some more research. I was just wondering about my location regarding humidity
Have a good night all

 

[CindyinSD]

Tossed seven duck eggs, so I'm left with 8 Ancona and 9 mixed. All lookin GOOD. Should hatch around April 24.

I set 11 goose eggs April 5. Thought I wasn't gonna get nothin'. Today (4th day) I candled while rotating them in the bator. Nine goin strong and two with wee red smudges. Little gander's doing his job! They'll be out around May 4, but I'm so pleased I wanted to tell y'all anyhow.

 

[Knighstar679]

So i have 3 little wiggling chickens in eggs right now they are due the 22nd. Still super nervous about hatching out chickens.

I also have 26 duck eggs i just put in the incubator on tuesday but i won't know if they are fertile until Sundayish. They won't hatch until into may by my best guess.

 

[gmjarvi]

I'd try weighing the next batch of eggs you do to track the moisture loss, just to pin down the humidity and either verify that it was the problem, or eliminate it as the problem. The best humidity to use varies from place to place. For me, for example, if I did 50%, my chicks would definitely drown in the shell. 30% is where I need to be at.

Yeah, I have been weighing all of my eggs to track weightloss, but I havent done the total math on the cayuga eggs yet. My notes say that by D10 they had lost 6% (avg). Does this seem high for

I am in the Upper Peninsula of MI and it gets quite dry here in the winter (though the snow has been melting so the relative humidity creeping up)...we are at about 656 ft elevation. I have radiant heat in the house, and our indoor relative humidity is around 45%. Good thing my roosters really like doing their job (makin' babies lol) so I can really hone my hatching technique. I have a batch of chicken eggs (D2!) in an NR360 right now with humidity at 40%.

 

[Pyxis]

Yeah, I have been weighing all of my eggs to track weightloss, but I havent done the total math on the cayuga eggs yet. My notes say that by D10 they had lost 6% (avg). Does this seem high for

I am in the Upper Peninsula of MI and it gets quite dry here in the winter (though the snow has been melting so the relative humidity creeping up)...we are at about 656 ft elevation. I have radiant heat in the house, and our indoor relative humidity is around 45%. Good thing my roosters really like doing their job (makin' babies lol) so I can really hone my hatching technique. I have a batch of chicken eggs (D2!) in an NR360 right now with humidity at 40%.

You're shooting for a weight loss of about 12% by the time the egg enters lockdown. Normally the way I track it is to look at an egg's weight, calculate how much weight it should be losing each day or week or whatever, and then if that's not matching up with what it should be, I adjust the humidity to suit.

 

[smfarman]

The Foxfire batch is finished with 15 hatched. I haven't posted a pic of the second Pavlovskaya. It didn't absorb all of the yolk and has a red tumor-looking thing on its head.
The Cream Legbars are on D21 and the first just pipped. 10 made it to lockdown.

Are the cream legbars from your flock