April Hatch Thread--Come Join Us!

[MadamContrary]

My bantam BLRW's are hatching! One is out and a couple more pipped. Going to bed and hope to wake up to an incubator full of fluffy chicks!

FANTASTIC!!!

 

[ceocka]

I am in. I need to candle my eggs tomorrow

OK so I am new to BYC and incubating! I set my 14 shipped eggs today after resting them blunt end up for 24 hours. Now after reading about the no turn theory for shipped eggs it is "to turn or not to turn..." Anyway I have 3 Easter Eggers, 1 Black Copper Maran, 1 Blue Maran, 3 Barred Rock, 3 Rhode Island Reds, and 3 Australorp due to hatch April 12th. I sure hope they are punctual or 2 days late I have a wedding to go to on the 13th, I would hate to miss the big event!

I have a wedding to go to on same day!

 

[hodgesk2]

Okay, I am joining!

I am new to BYC. I went to feed my Bantam hen and roo and noticed my hen has gone broody!! Which is amazing because I was just begging my boyfriend to buy more chicks from TSC. I am not too sure about when they are due because I noticed in on a Monday, but my boyfriend said she had been setting for 2 or 3 days...I work 12 hr shifts at night on the weekends so he takes care of them while I work. Babygirl (my hen) should hatch some chicks this weekend coming up. I am assuming it will be on Saturday or Sunday. I am hoping they will hold off until Monday so I can be there!! So excited to be a chickie mom!!! I am new to this though. These chickens were given to us by a family member, so I am learning everything there is to know about chicks off of BYC.
Advice would be much welcomed!!! I am planning on letting Babygirl do all of the work since she knows better than I do.

Advice please!!

 

[LONDON HENS]

What have others done when the air cells haven't grown/enlarged enough when getting near to lockdown. Is dropping humidity right down risky for the eggs? What have others done to increase evaporation from the eggs without causing harm to them?
any advice would be much appreciated??
I have the brinsea eco 20.

 

[LBKS]

First candle of the eggs, only 2 I could tell had veining out of 26 (with 6 being too dark to candle with my light). Going to give the rest a while though since I'm too inexperienced to know if I'm right or not - marked my guesses down for veins, blood rings, and no development. Guess I'll check in again at day 7. Not expecting much from a first hatch, but it'd be nice to have a > 10% hatch rate

Making progress on the coop work in the mean time - aiming to have it all done by hatch day!

 

[Maah]

Wow... how do I always miss these new month threads? LOL.

Please excuse me while I skip past the first 22 pages. Good luck to all who have set for this month's hatch-a-long.

I had 8 out of 8 chicks hatch from the March/Easter hatch!! They're currently in my brooder and looking ADORABLE! I'm very happy with my EE/Brahma cross chicks. Looks like I have a very good chance at getting my hen with muff/beard, feathered feet, and laying green eggs. So happy about that.

For this month's hatch:

I set 8 silkie eggs under my broody hen yesterday. Plus I'm expecting a shipment of olive eggers this week and will hopefully set them in my brinsea this weekend.

 

[TheCrazyChick]

Guess I need new glasses. I thought most of my eggs were gonna be doa, but my daughter came over for Easter, looked at a few eggs, and exclaimed "We've got veining!" Yay! First hatch may not be a total failure after all! Going to wait to look at the rest until tomorrow, which will be day 7 and also heading TSC today to pick up a LF Still Air that's ON SALE so I can have a seperate place for the hatching, sinceone shipment of eggswas delayed adn idn't get set until 3 days ago. Excited!

 

[PugBug]

Be careful what you wish for. I started incubating last July with the intentions of only wanting a few chickens for eggs. I built one coolerbator for that and then became so addicted that I built another for hatching. I soon realized that wasn't enough and ended up buying a Sportsman and using the coolerbators just for hatching. I ran into a problem just the other day with all of them being full and had eggs coming in so I had to build another coolerbator just for them.

I now have over 100 chickens (most of them under 4 months) but I am starting to see the fruit of my labor because my older birds are starting to lay.

Hey Brooks! Is this where everyone moved to???

And I did the same- have almost 100 chicks all under 5 mo. Just wanted a few to begin with- but it is addicting!

 

[PugBug]

Oh I forgot to say hello to everyone

And I've currently got 6 bourbon red turkey & 18 polish bantam eggs in the bator. Also have SLW, SFH & more bourbon reds on the way this week to set.

 

[hokankai]

What have others done when the air cells haven't grown/enlarged enough when getting near to lockdown. Is dropping humidity right down risky for the eggs? What have others done to increase evaporation from the eggs without causing harm to them?
any advice would be much appreciated??
I have the brinsea eco 20.

I had this happen my first hatch and what I did to try and remedy it was run the bator completely dry through lockdown until I got internal pipping. Once I saw internal pipping that's when I bumped up the humidity. A few eggs still weren't ready and didn't end up hatching though. Ideally I would have had a separate incubator to move the pipped eggs when they were ready.