August Hatch-A-Long

[Maiahr]

@Erba , please can you tell what temp and humidity are you using? I have a HDD incubator and I will set 20 Sussex eggs in 10 days, but it will be my very first time with Sussex eggs and they are expensive, so I would like to make sure I am doing everything correctly. My very first chicken hatching was not successful - 2 chicks out of 19 eggs and they were also expensive (Brahma and Orpington),

 

[Maiahr]

We finished our last hatch for July over the weekend. Now, on to August! What is everyone hatching/planning to hatch in August?

We got a good deal on a used GQF Electronic Sportsman 1502 over the wknd. This is our first cabinet incubator, so we are pretty excited to give it a go. I set 69 eggs last night, which is a lot for us. It didn’t even take up a full 2 trays, and they easily fit in a single layer on 1 shelf. In hindsight, a cabinet incubator might be overkill for us LOL! Here is our August so far:

8/5 hatch date:

• 24 Silkie (white) eggs from Karen Larson at Catdance Silkies
• 36 Ebay “rare” eggs from Foxfire Farms (Isbar, CCL, Blue Maran, Maran, Pavlovskya, Golden Spitzhauben, Silver Spitzhauben, Icelandics, Ayam Cemani, Deathlayer)

8/9 Hatch Date:

• 12+ Silkie eggs (BBS and Buff) from Magnolia Silkies.

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I have set chicken eggs on Aug 17th, so hatch date should be Sept. 7th.
I have 5 Brahmas, 9 Black Orpington, 3 White Leghorns and 10 just general chicken (don't know the breed, will see when they hatch).

 

[Erba]

@Erba , please can you tell what temp and humidity are you using? I have a HDD incubator and I will set 20 Sussex eggs in 10 days, but it will be my very first time with Sussex eggs and they are expensive, so I would like to make sure I am doing everything correctly. My very first chicken hatching was not successful - 2 chicks out of 19 eggs and they were also expensive (Brahma and Orpington),

I set the temperature to 37.5°C and my humidity was 45% until lockdown. Then raised it to 60 to 70% for the hatch. Hope this helps and good luck!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Well I still have one live egg in the incubator and two of the chicks that aren’t doing so well in the other. I’m fairly certain the other eggs are done but I’m leaving them in just in case. Excuse the brooder mess cleaning is next on the agenda. Here are 10/12 I was hatching for the other person (the other 2 are still in the incubator, hopefully recovering) View attachment 1881876
This little girl came from theoretically my Barnvelder boy? Kidlet swears she watched it hatch from an egg labeled “Sam” but I can’t see the white LH CCL cross and a hyline producing this.View attachment 1881878View attachment 1881879
I wasn’t sure who this little ones daddy was... until I saw the fuzzy feet! Surely one of Chickie Hawks girls!View attachment 1881880View attachment 1881881
And here’s my little mixed bag of chicks... I think I have 23? Out of 30 going into lockdown. 5 or six of there’s are from the other farm where my Barnvelder boy is theoretically the father.View attachment 1881896View attachment 1881895
The one fallen down in the second pic is just a timing thing... she’s fine! So it’s time to ready the bigger brooder I think!

Wow! What a great hatch! Let be the variety of breeds and colors that you have there. Congratulations on a great hatch!!!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Just cracked them open. the one which was completely clear, yolk intact and looked like any egg I collect for eating. The one with the dark side, never any veins the yolk was liquified.

No movement in any of the eggs. if nothing changes by lockdown, the whole batch will be removed and marked as un-fertile.

And I picked up these eggs couple of hours away and brought them back, so can't blame it on shipping.

Oh that’s a bummer! We incubated marans eggs earlier this summer and it was so hard to see! By day 17 though, I could see a dark object filling most of the shell in the developing eggs.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Bad news about broody guineas with the five day old keet. It looks like they are abandoning it; one went to roost instead of hanging out in nest with the keet last night, and both went to roost tonight. I got them down and they looked at the peeping keet, but still flew back up to roost. That keet has tried so hard to keep up with these crazy moms; I’m so very sad for it! It’s now in a brooder box all alone with a mirror and stuffed animal that it’s ignoring. A single guine egg looks like it will hatch in about a week; thinking that I can put it with this keet...

 

[ScottyGill]

Oh that’s a bummer! We incubated marans eggs earlier this summer and it was so hard to see! By day 17 though, I could see a dark object filling most of the shell in the developing eggs.

I bought a powerfully candler and could clearly see the veins and air cells in 3 of my maran eggs, which have all hatched. Two others were clear and one and something development but stopped at some point. I knew it was a quitter as I saw no veins. And no further development. So sorry. I had that experience with every single one of the CCL eggs I also set. That was disappointing.

 

[Bookworm0124]

Day 20, woke up to one external pip that I can see!

 

[john_wrightson2003]

I have set chicken eggs on Aug 17th, so hatch date should be Sept. 7th.
I have 5 Brahmas, 9 Black Orpington, 3 White Leghorns and 10 just general chicken (don't know the breed, will see when they hatch).

You should come join the September hatch along!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Bad news about broody guineas with the five day old keet. It looks like they are abandoning it; one went to roost instead of hanging out in nest with the keet last night, and both went to roost tonight. I got them down and they looked at the peeping keet, but still flew back up to roost. That keet has tried so hard to keep up with these crazy moms; I’m so very sad for it! It’s now in a brooder box all alone with a mirror and stuffed animal that it’s ignoring. A single guine egg looks like it will hatch in about a week; thinking that I can put it with this keet...

Aww, I'm sorry the broody guineas failed again! Hopefully another keet hatches soon and they get along well.