APRIL Hatch a long ......Anyone?

[Roxannemc]

Well I blew it ...Think ikilled all my hatching chicks.
today day 21.. Everything has been perfect ..BUT.... a week or so ago the bator started to stink...I smelled each egg.No didn't find a stinker ...EASY to know when you do ..almost makes your eyes water...GUCK...but nothing.... so for the next week every day or so i would smell them ....nope didnt fine one...then took the later ones and put them in another bator and these in lockdown still this same bator...Then today i thought the bottom of one of the wells looks black like after chicks hatch...I have a feeling THAT is what stinks and i think it poisoned the chicks.
Don't know how it happened as i bleach the whole thing before setting any but the room is a hallway ands lots of dust from my 170 lb dog so ??? Maybe that?...NO IDEA
I snuck pennies in to help the bacteria but didn't think on hatch day I would take them out clean it now ...too late.....as they are all probably dead anyway i did see a wiggle egg last night ....I thought anyway.....no other movement no pips and end of day 21.

SAd though as they had grown well up until this .

Then my other bator has been great...not a genesis but doing fine.stead y temp. today the temp goes t o106.!!!ugh.,..I caught it within an hour of that spike maybe less.Thought theyd be fine.
Went out to eat dinner tonite come back 106 again for how long ?no idea.

So who knows about these eggs too.
After this ruined hatch is over another day or so to be sure ...the others will all go back in the genesis once its cleaned out and really bleached well.NO spike in it to worry about

.Always some new happening with hatching something you have never had.. .

 

[Roxannemc]

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Add one or 2...start ith one terry wash rag soaked put open as much as possible in your bator it will bring the humidity up FAST.
For me sponges don't work

 

[Roxannemc]

Sorry i repeated myself....... Last email about the terry rags for humidity i thought i sent it someone came in and was talking but then didn't see it on here missed that page when readying all the things going on..

 

[FarmGirlForLife]

I have a broody goose and so far two of the six eggs have externally pipped. I'm so excited! Hoping the other ones will follow soon!

 

[philyaw539]

Same here, Thanks!

Thanks!

Yes.

I do believe Barnyard Mixes are some of the prettiest and BEST chickens/animals!!!

 

[philyaw539]

incubator question and I'm nervous.

I have a homemade incubator and am using the STC-1000 thermostat to control a 25 watt light bulb as heat source. I accidentally left the internal temperature probe under an egg after the rotation this morning about 8:30. When I got home about 5pm I checked on the eggs and the internal thermometer was reading 106 degrees.

I immediately opened the lid to cool it down and rotated the eggs as normal. Be it that this is day 7 what is the likelihood that they will not survive? What are the chances they will survive?

Thank you for your input.

Temp spikes happen to all of us and usually they survive! Don't give up and good luck!!

 

[Sterl18]

Well I blew it ...Think ikilled all my hatching chicks.
today day 21.. Everything has been perfect ..BUT.... a week or so ago the bator started to stink...I smelled each egg.No didn't find a stinker ...EASY to know when you do ..almost makes your eyes water...GUCK...but nothing.... so for the next week every day or so i would smell them ....nope didnt fine one...then took the later ones and put them in another bator and these in lockdown still this same bator...Then today i thought the bottom of one of the wells looks black like after chicks hatch...I have a feeling THAT is what stinks and i think it poisoned the chicks.
Don't know how it happened as i bleach the whole thing before setting any but the room is a hallway ands lots of dust from my 170 lb dog so ??? Maybe that?...NO IDEA
I snuck pennies in to help the bacteria but didn't think on hatch day I would take them out clean it now ...too late.....as they are all probably dead anyway i did see a wiggle egg last night ....I thought anyway.....no other movement no pips and end of day 21.

SAd though as they had grown well up until this .

Then my other bator has been great...not a genesis but doing fine.stead y temp. today the temp goes t o106.!!!ugh.,..I caught it within an hour of that spike maybe less.Thought theyd be fine.
Went out to eat dinner tonite come back 106 again for how long ?no idea.

So who knows about these eggs too.
After this ruined hatch is over another day or so to be sure ...the others will all go back in the genesis once its cleaned out and really bleached well.NO spike in it to worry about

.Always some new happening with hatching something you have never had.. .

Awww, shoot! But you never know! I didn't get any action until day 21, no wiggling that I ever saw, nothing. Hugs &

 

[Sterl18]

Heard this little one peeping this morning, externally pipped around 10:30, started zipping around 4, just hatched before 5:30, and proceeded to fling him/herself all over the other eggs (which haven't even budged). Now cheeping loudly...hopefully the others will take the hint!

 

[goodb]

Temp spikes happen to all of us and usually they survive! Don't give up and good luck!!

Thank you for the encouragement. I really hope they survive.

 

[goodb]

Heard this little one peeping this morning, externally pipped around 10:30, started zipping around 4, just hatched before 5:30, and proceeded to fling him/herself all over the other eggs (which haven't even budged). Now cheeping loudly...hopefully the others will take the hint!

Rooting for you!