August Hatch-A-Long!

[Heidisgran]

so I guess if it's not too cold in the frig it'll be fine

 

[Heidisgran]

I had that in one of my incubators this morning! ugh! before coffee I was scrubbing it so my newly set shipped eggs wouldn't have to much exposer to it! thank goodness I had put them in the back!

 

[Heidisgran]

the lavender orpingtons are so beautiful...with my shipped eggs I ended up with only 1 survivor that hatch but she is amazing! the little frizzles I was telling you about are a bit darker!

 

[bestponymilo]

Excited for everyone's future peeps--I have a "barnyard" assortment under a couple of broodies. Should start hatching out the 17th! Haven't set eggs in ages, I forgot how addicting it is

 

[Heidisgran]

 

[CarolinaHen]

I've got a question for some of you with way more experience than me. I have a hen whose eggs start out doing very well, but then quit midway through. Th have good air cells, good veining, and I've even seen movement in some of them. Then between day 10 candling and candling before lockdown, they all have developed a blood ring and have to be tossed. This is the second hatch this has happened with, and she is about a year old. Any idea what could be causing this? She's the hen in my avitar and I really want some of her babies. Thanks!

 

[DeannaA]

Day 26 the eggs never pipped and now I'm not sure if they are alive. Looks like one might be. I've heard of eggs hatching on day 28 so I will leave them in there.

My bantams were due to hatch yesterday and no pips. There were still 10 moving last time I candled.

I put a few Lavender Orpingtons in lockdown yesterday. All I am doing now is waiting. No pips.

 

[Heidisgran]

awe! she's beautiful...have you looked it up from your search engine?? I think I've read that it's something lacking in you hens diet a mineral or something...when you narrow it down let us know what you find so we can learn too...

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

lol.....okay...I thought I read something about some refrigerated eggs that are due to hatch...I was curious

I got them from a local natural grocery store. They were from a free range poultry farm about a 45 min drive from the store. They had been washed, trucked, and refrigerated for several days before I got them. They were not marketed as 'fertile eggs', just free range. I also bought a dozen eggs marked as fertile eggs, apparently there are people who want to specifically eat only fertile eggs?? Anyway, I let them sit on my kitchen table for twelve hours (after driving the one hour drive to my home). Then I had to crack two of the 'fertile' eggs before I got a fertile one. The first 'free range egg' was fertile, my dog broke a second one, so 10 of each went into the incubator. None of the 'fertile' eggs developed, but 6 the 'free range' eggs did develope. one died at about day 12, the remaining five went into lockdown alive. 3 hatched naturally, one was breech and I did a full assist after many hours of hearing a peeping but no pip. Thank goodness I did because its beak wasn't near the shell, it wouldn't have hatched on its own. One died during the second day of lockdown. I did an eggtopsy and it was breech as well, couldn't have pipped ever in that position. All four chicks are doing very well, and you wouldn't know which one was an assist now because that one is the fiestiest if the bunch!

 

[Heidisgran]

it's so hard....but didn't I read that you were adjusting temps at some point?? I don't always remember! but anyway if they have cooled a little at sometime during incubation that would delay your hatch...

try to keep busy...lol....and remember if your nose is constantly smushed against the incubator window it might stick that way