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

[BluebirdHomestead]

Do you have the room temp set correctly? If your room is 70-75° and your incubator is still set at 65-70°, that'll really throw you off.

The room is about 72 and I have the darn thing set to room temp “80-85”. And it’s happening with both of them. So annoying!

 

[Knighstar679]

So i candled my chicken eggs. I am still seeing movement in them at this point. We are 6 days from lock down and 9 days from hatch day! Still not sure what I think of hatching chickens but it hasn't been too hard. I have done a mostly dry hatch.

 

[karenerwin]

I candled my eggs today too. Day 11 pulled 5 clears ( out of 34 eggs). Have quite a few that I think have blood rings but I left them in there in case I am wrong. Have movement in quite a few as well and then have quite a few that I either can't see into or I just can't tell what is going on. I guess I'll know in about 10 more days.
I too am doing a dry hatch.

 

[Akoharski4]

Day 18 here! 9/16 of my shipped eggs have made is thus far: 3 silkies, 3 silver laced polish, 3 fizzle polish, PLUS 1 of my own Phoenix/d’uccle/polish cross (which I am very excited to see). We borrowed my neighbors polish/duccle x roo and he’s found a love connection with our favorite Phoenix girl. Lockdown is tomorrow and I’m hoping for another successful hatch!

I also have 8 salmon faverolles cooking under my psycho broody due to hatch 4/23. I’ve been treating this nutty girl like the family dog. She gets forced outside twice a day for 45 mins each time

Do any of you combine your different age hatchlings together? My group of 6 that are two weeks old are in the brooder and are comfy. Can I combine the newborns? Or is that too risky?

 

[karenerwin]

Day 18 here! 9/16 of my shipped eggs have made is thus far: 3 silkies, 3 silver laced polish, 3 fizzle polish, PLUS 1 of my own Phoenix/d’uccle/polish cross (which I am very excited to see). We borrowed my neighbors polish/duccle x roo and he’s found a love connection with our favorite Phoenix girl. Lockdown is tomorrow and I’m hoping for another successful hatch!

I also have 8 salmon faverolles cooking under my psycho broody due to hatch 4/23. I’ve been treating this nutty girl like the family dog. She gets forced outside twice a day for 45 mins each time

Do any of you combine your different age hatchlings together? My group of 6 that are two weeks old are in the brooder and are comfy. Can I combine the newborns? Or is that too risky?

I have combined mixed age chicks many times with little to no problems.

 

[Akoharski4]

I have combined mixed age chicks many times with little to no problems.

Thanks for the reply! The age gap isn’t major so
I was hoping it wouldn’t be terrible! All bantams. All from the same source!

 

[Akoharski4]

Thanks for the reply! The age gap isn’t major so I was hoping it wouldn’t be terrible! All bantams. All from the same source!

Eta: all but one from the same source!** lol

 

[clinfitt]

hey guys. I joined both April and May because its April- but I'm due in May

I just checked my eggs, and the last row seems room temp and the top two rows seem very warm, almost hot. Can those styrofoam incubators (mine is a little giant with egg turner and forced air) and yes I double and triple checked the temp, -can they heat unevenly?
I figured it was the lid (because the heater is off-centre on the lid) so I rotated the lid 180 degrees.. man I hope this isn't a bust.....

I have one like that as well and I rotate twice a day and I have pretty good hatches. I also have to heat mine a little higher than it says because the reading on mine is off. Actually, I now have two and BOTH are off by a little bit. When my eggs come out of the turner, it's worse because they are lower but usually by hatch time the temp seems to matter less and they do okay.

 

[CindyinSD]

The room is about 72 and I have the darn thing set to room temp “80-85”. And it’s happening with both of them. So annoying!

Set it to 70-75. It seems to work better for me to go with the actual room temperature. I'm not sure what the metric is for heating more or less relative to room temp setting, but it does seem to help just setting that particular parameter in accord with actual temp. Is the room the bators in stable, or is there a lot of traffic, opening/closing doors? Are they sitting against an outside wall? Near a heat or cooling source? Do people (children) open them often?

 

[abpatchy]

Well, I got 21 chicks. One chick I ended up helping out of the shell. It was zipped but the skin had hardened over it. The beak was sticking out and moving. It is not doing well and maybe I shouldn't have helped.
There is another one that seems to have a hard time walking. Can't really tell why.