April Hatch Thread--Come Join Us!

[chickydee64]

By the time hatch day/hour/minute arrived which is right now, 22 of the 84 eggs set hatched. 8 of the eggs were shipped and aren't due till tomorrow.
As luck would have it, the only one I could candle, a white Minorca, apparently wasn't fertile.
Another must have had a crack because when I weighed at 11 days it had lost 34% of it's weight and didn't develop.
That left 82 with only room for about 50 in the hatcher.
What a dummy I am for setting so many at once. I also pedigreed them requiring 16 different batches I had to keep separate and leg band as they came out.
More pipping now. Will keep in touch. I have to go back to leg banding now.
Bye.

We may be related.......................

Sounds so like me........Good luck

 

[chickydee64]

That I'm not, I'm really blessed!

And we are blessed to have you sweating out the hatches with us................................

 

[crazyfarmer]

Day 21 for the coturnix. Decided to eggtopsy Neither one was fertile witch is strange as my boy Cooper sure was busy lol. On a better note I now have 3 broodys

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Day 21 for the coturnix. Decided to eggtopsy Neither one was fertile witch is strange as my boy Cooper sure was busy lol. On a better note I now have 3 broodys

I have 3 broodies also!

 

[Keggen]

Well it took a while but when I woke up this morning I checked my gauge for temp and humidity and it shows the high and low for a 24 hour period. Apparently it got up to 86% sometime in the night! Temp finally settled back at 99 and I let the humidity come down to 75% for now. Condensation had built up on the windows so I opened it for a minute to release some of it. Geesh. Amateur, right? Lol!

I'm aiming for 70-75 for hatching.

We also have more brooding going on in the coop! I feel bad because the most dedicated Black Australorp has been a very good mommy so far and is sitting really well but other hens keep climbing in either with her or in the moments she gets up. Mostly they are laying eggs and leaving but one other BA is apparently also in the mood to brood and totally took over her nest today for who knows how long. The first brooding BA actually got into another nest because hers was taken. I just don't want them to get nervous and give up the nest from stress.

Oesdog I'll be sure to update you on the waxed egg as it goes. I read some suggestions about carefully removing the wax after the chick pips so I'm considering it as a possibility right now.

Those of you with lots of chick fever, I'm the same! I just don't know what to do with any more chickens. What do you do with your extras? Sell them, cull them, what?

 

[chickydee64]

Well it took a while but when I woke up this morning I checked my gauge for temp and humidity and it shows the high and low for a 24 hour period. Apparently it got up to 86% sometime in the night! Temp finally settled back at 99 and I let the humidity come down to 75% for now. Condensation had built up on the windows so I opened it for a minute to release some of it. Geesh. Amateur, right? Lol!

I'm aiming for 70-75 for hatching.

We also have more brooding going on in the coop! I feel bad because the most dedicated Black Australorp has been a very good mommy so far and is sitting really well but other hens keep climbing in either with her or in the moments she gets up. Mostly they are laying eggs and leaving but one other BA is apparently also in the mood to brood and totally took over her nest today for who knows how long. The first brooding BA actually got into another nest because hers was taken. I just don't want them to get nervous and give up the nest from stress.

Oesdog I'll be sure to update you on the waxed egg as it goes. I read some suggestions about carefully removing the wax after the chick pips so I'm considering it as a possibility right now.

Those of you with lots of chick fever, I'm the same! I just don't know what to do with any more chickens. What do you do with your extras? Sell them, cull them, what?

I sell them.known in the neighborhood as "The chicken lady"...............Our feed store buys the roo's for $5.50
I have never asked what happens to them.................

 

[LBKS]

Came home to a second chick out - brown. Leghorn. And an Acona that has pipped. Leghorn needs to dry then both chicks will move to the brooder.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Those of you with lots of chick fever, I'm the same! I just don't know what to do with any more chickens. What do you do with your extras? Sell them, cull them, what?

Eat them! Might as well get something out of the time and effort put in to them.

 

[allsummedup]

Eat Hearty.

 

[TheCrazyChick]

Well, tomorrow will be day 23 or 24 and I have 5 hatched and 11 still sitting there. Candled all and I could swear there is still some shenanigans going on.

As luck would have it, I seem to have a Broody Hen. For the first time. (Second time she has TRIED to go broody.) This will be her second night not to sleep on the roost with the rest. I am thinking
I may sneak some of those 11 eggs, that don't seem to be too interested in hatching, under her tonight and see what happens by morning.

What do y'all think? Try it tonight or wait until early morning? If at all.