April Hatch Challenge....

[Chicken Woman]

Just took my showgirls,silkies,welsummers off the turner and added a sponge.


I WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL THE HATCH IS FINISHED !

I am so excited ! A friend of mine put her s in the same time so we can hatch together. And keep one another from opening the bator !

 

[sunnychooks]

I just found this thread. I had my very first hatch on 4/14. All were fertile and I had 34 out of 36 hatch!!!!! They were mutt eggs from my own chickens. One of them died shortly after it hatched (does that count?). I still can't believe I got that many to hatch. I would have been happy if SOMETHING hatched!
I already have 30 more eggs in the bator (today is Day 3).
Must... Hatch... More... Chicks... *help me...*

 

[walkswithdog]

Well I won't win any contests but I'm delighted with the nearly finished disaster hatch. Five poults from the rescued eggs and five chicks from broken air cell and pullet eggs. All in all - in a hatch that "should" have produced nothing, I'll take it. This was a staggered hatch in a single bator.

Two last turkey hold outs hatching in the next 24. Not sure they're going to be possible, they're over 31 days now.

The broody turkey is happily puttering around the yard with her substitute chicks (mixed reds and a BAmutt she actually DID hatch). It's funny I got the timing on that dead on, the night I stuffed the reds under her is the night the BA hatched.

My next batch won't be until May, it'll be normal and easy compared to this.

Luck to those still hatching!!!

 

[babymakes6]

Well, my hatch didn't go so good. I had three Silkie chicks out of seven eggs hatch. The other four never pipped, just died. I think my humidity was too high in the last three days. I was keeping it at 75-80%. I have another batch in my homemade incubator that are on day 5. I will try to keep the humidity at 40% for 1-18 days, then raise it to 55% on the last three. We'll see if that works better.

 

[walkswithdog]

Ah... better luck next time. My first hatch ended in one living chick so you have me all beat for a first time!!! Each time you do it, you learn and things go better over the long haul. You also get a much better feel for the incubator and settings particular to your home and environment.

Best wishes for that next hatch!

 

[AK Michelle]

For my first hatch I started with a dozen eggs then a week later added another batch, so as the time drew near I built a hatcher, exactly like the bator I built. Eggs were alive and well when they moved to the hatcher but only a couple hatched, the rest died before pipping. 2nd batch did the same, a couple hatched, the rest died in the hatcher.

Now I have a 3rd batch going, 2 dozen EE's plus 7 brown eggs, I'm NOT going to add anymore to them, so they can stay in the bator. They seem to develop fine in there and only die after they are moved. This time,

hopefully

, I will get a better hatch rate if they can stay where they are happy.

Michelle

 

[walkswithdog]

Best of luck this time Michelle, you'll figure out what's up with that hatcher eventually - darn things. As soon as I went to set eggs for this next set, my computer fan in the Uglybator quit. It's always something.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Ok ladies and flamboyant gentleman.... lets try this again!

Get out your sacred voodoo headdresses and your moo-moo gowns and do the ancient hatch dance of the poultry gods... I'm due for my third hatch this month and I have 3 buffs still kicking. Lets get some good joo-joo flowing this way please!!!

 

[debilorrah]

Quote:

OOOOOOoowhooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

I even cracked myself up with that one! LOL