April Hatch Along

[rookhomestead]

Can't find my other post. Someone asked me about my humidity. Up till now it's hovered between 48 and 52, usually right around 50.I just added a bit of water to a couple of channels trying to get the humidity up some. Temp hovers right at 99.5 sometimes tipping toward 100 but goes right back down. Never below 99 except when I had opened the lid to get some for candling. I thought Saturday would be the 21st day but since I began them on a Sunday 3 weeks ago, I guess Sunday is our target hatch day. This is my first ever hatch and I'm like a kid waiting on Christmas! Just came home from work and found 1 with a pip hole!

Super eggciting!!

 

[GA Bunny]

So what is an estimated hatch time from first pip hole? Is that the right term? Or peep hole? I'm gonna be like those folks that kept watching the giraffe not give birth hahaha

 

[Cerise1924]

So what is an estimated hatch time from first pip hole? Is that the right term? Or peep hole? I'm gonna be like those folks that kept watching the giraffe not give birth hahaha

hahaha, I know how you feel. I have had mighty chicks who pip and zip with astonishing speed (within half an hour), but that is highly unusual. In general, they pip, then rest a while (several hours), then gradually unzip that shell and climb out and say hello.

From my experience, it's usually 6-24 hours from first pip to fully hatched chick - a wide range, I know. Anyone else want to weigh in?

 

[spruce creek]

Can't find my other post. Someone asked me about my humidity. Up till now it's hovered between 48 and 52, usually right around 50.I just added a bit of water to a couple of channels trying to get the humidity up some. Temp hovers right at 99.5 sometimes tipping toward 100 but goes right back down. Never below 99 except when I had opened the lid to get some for candling. I thought Saturday would be the 21st day but since I began them on a Sunday 3 weeks ago, I guess Sunday is our target hatch day. This is my first ever hatch and I'm like a kid waiting on Christmas! Just came home from work and found 1 with a pip hole!

Did you have your humidity at around 50% for the first 18 days or just after lockdown?

 

[GA Bunny]

It stayed at 48 or 50 until today. It's come up since I added the water

 

[Birdydeb]

I thought about sillies, but my birdies are free range. I think I read sillies don't do so good in rain and cold. I've got enough to worry about without that too!! Oh my, sillies hahahaha.

Groovy hens and sillies....hahahahaha! That seriously made me laugh and I am still chuckling at the thought of groovy hens and sillies running around the yard. Hubby thinks I have lost it....I told him....chicken humor.

 

[orrpeople]

Oh my. We have a baby Bielefelder and it's a girl!!! When I think about the poor condition of the packaging, the terrible air cells, how they traveled half way across the country, and how they really all just looked like a terrible mess at the first candling (I really scored myself a zero hatch rate and kept three in the bator on the slimmest chance those awful blood ring looking veins might produce something) this little baby is a huge miracle!!

 

[BirdsNRabbits]

Oh my. We have a baby Bielefelder and it's a girl!!! When I think about the poor condition of the packaging, the terrible air cells, how they traveled half way across the country, and how they really all just looked like a terrible mess at the first candling (I really scored myself a zero hatch rate and kept three in the bator on the slimmest chance those awful blood ring looking veins might produce something) this little baby is a huge miracle!!

Congrats!!

 

[rookhomestead]

I hope that little chicky has some company!! Hurray for survivers!

 

[rookhomestead]

Groovy hens and sillies....hahahahaha! That seriously made me laugh and I am still chuckling at the thought of groovy hens and sillies running around the yard. Hubby thinks I have lost it....I told him....chicken humor.

Thankfully my boyfriend is as nutty as I am! We make weird farm jokes to each other