April Hatch Thread--Come Join Us!

[FrankiesMom]

I lost my last olandsk dwarf egg today on day 15. 4 eggs developed out of 9. I lost 1 about day 8 or 9 & lost 2 on day 11.

5 of the blrws are still doing good though.

Sorry to hear about your last od egg, HC02...

Here's fingers crossed for your blrws.

 

[LBKS]

It's hard to tell how bad the temperature spike affected the eggs, but it looks like the one grocery store experiment egg that was developing might be dead now. The other eggs in the hatching set have an aweful lot of clears for Day 4, but it looks like the spike wasn't bad enough to wipe them all out.

Right now there are 9/24 hatching eggs in incubator #2 showing veining.

#1 is fast approaching Day 14 (friday) but I think it is down to 13/26 left as viable. Still holding out hope for one brown shell, but it hasn't darkened up nearly as much as the other, plus hasn't changed in a few days from what I can tell.

Storms had me up most of the night worrying about losing power. I need to get a computer backup power battery and hook my incu's into that at some point.

 

[LONDON HENS]

Here are the rest of the babies in the brooder babies.

The Orpingtons again because I didn't want to try and photograph them again

What breed are these guys? I love them!

 

[jphendrix]

I have 4 pips and heard chirping!!!! This is day 20 for me and hopefully I will have lots of chicks running around before the day is out!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!

I am sure I will be glued to the bator today!!!!!

 

[LONDON HENS]

I have 4 pips and heard chirping!!!! This is day 20 for me and hopefully I will have lots of chicks running around before the day is out!!!!! I am so excited!!!!!!!!

I am sure I will be glued to the bator today!!!!!

What Temperature have you been running for your incubation? My first pip wasnt till the last few hours of day 21. I think mine might have been a tad low

 

[LONDON HENS]

My faith in incubators has been restored (My first time a few years ago none hatched

). I have 6 hatched and one pipping. I have 6 more eggs that havnt pipped yet.

Has anyone else had really prolonged hatchings? Day 23 here.

 

[jphendrix]

It's hard to tell how bad the temperature spike affected the eggs, but it looks like the one grocery store experiment egg that was developing might be dead now. The other eggs in the hatching set have an aweful lot of clears for Day 4, but it looks like the spike wasn't bad enough to wipe them all out.

Right now there are 9/24 hatching eggs in incubator #2 showing veining.

#1 is fast approaching Day 14 (friday) but I think it is down to 13/26 left as viable. Still holding out hope for one brown shell, but it hasn't darkened up nearly as much as the other, plus hasn't changed in a few days from what I can tell.

Storms had me up most of the night worrying about losing power. I need to get a computer backup power battery and hook my incu's into that at some point.

 

[jphendrix]

What Temperature have you been running for your incubation? My first pip wasnt till the last few hours of day 21. I think mine might have been a tad low

I have been running between 100 and 102, with a couple of spikes to 104 those scared me!!!!! I am using a LG Still air and had the auto turner in too.

 

[jphendrix]

My faith in incubators has been restored (My first time a few years ago none hatched

). I have 6 hatched and one pipping. I have 6 more eggs that havnt pipped yet.

Has anyone else had really prolonged hatchings? Day 23 here.

Congrats on your new babies!!!! Fingers crossed those yet to hatch!!!!!

 

[cosmic-chick]

I put 17 eggs in the incubator starting on March 18 - 22. So far I have 6 hatched and 2 quitters I definitely have some learning to do...I'd like to have a chicken incubate the eggs for future.

Lori