August Hatch-A-Long!

[jnjmanning]

I have a second batch in the incubator on day 3 already, lol.

I have 2 more hatches in there! Uggggggh

 

[Gen9]

Well after this batch, I hopefully won't have to incubate any more eggs, because I think one of my pullets have gone broody!!! *happy dance*

 

[Gen9]

First 2 are out. A white and a partridge

So cute!! Yay!

 

[Heidisgran]

I have 3 full! nutty

 

[dvoice]

JNJManning, Your incubator looks great, I have the digital display from China (XM-18) It does everything auto.Although because it's 220V I hooked up the fan seperate and so far I don't have humidity hooked up. I was having a hard time keeping the humidity up so I just added a Repti fogger. Seems to work great but I have to get my friend to link it to the controller for auto humidity.220V-120V So far I've got the temp. set for ON 37.6C(99.32) and OFF 37.9 although it often hit 38.1(100.58). Will this be ok or do I need to reduce my cut-off?

 

[familypendragon]

Ugh, my poor stuck chick is still in there - its been 25 hours now I am keeping an eye on him - still breathing and moving. Watching to see when all the blood vessels have retracted on the membrane. I ended up using some coconut oil on a qtip instead of more water on the membrane. The water was penetrating and he was swimming in there. It has kept it clear and I am no longer worrying about water in his nostrils. Plus CO is antibacterial.

 

[jnjmanning]

JNJManning, Your incubator looks great, I have the digital display from China (XM-18) It does everything auto.Although because it's 220V I hooked up the fan seperate and so far I don't have humidity hooked up. I was having a hard time keeping the humidity up so I just added a Repti fogger. Seems to work great but I have to get my friend to link it to the controller for auto humidity.220V-120V So far I've got the temp. set for ON 37.6C(99.32) and OFF 37.9 although it often hit 38.1(100.58). Will this be ok or do I need to reduce my cut-off?

Mine ranges from 99.5 to 100.3. But your temp range looks great! I dry incubate, no water, until I see the first pip. Then I raise it to 60%. My basement stay a constant 47% so this has really worked for me. My control panel actually has a place to hook in my turners also. But I just drilled a hole and put in a power strip to plug them all in to. Beats paying $700 plus for a Sportsman!

 

[familypendragon]

Its still in there at 26 hours. I am trying to be very careful and patient. I have been able to confirm that it isn't in proper position - but its head over right wing not under left wing. The membrane was so dry, and adding water was flooding the poor little guy so I decided to try coconut oil instead and it worked great - clear membrane plus naturally antibacterial. I have just been watching to make sure the blood vessels recede before I did too much to help. He just started chirping loudly a minute ago which is the first time he has done that. So I went back to the assisted hatch article again and saw that was a good sign of starting to be ready to get out. I brought him back out of the bator under a strong light and thought that it looked good for attempting to peel away a little of the inner membrane. I carefully lifted it with a damp qtip by gently rolling the qtip under and all I could see left were very fine spider web lines. So I carefully eased it back over the head and sides of shell a little and it was fine. But then I saw tiny prick of blood at the shells edge so I dabbed it with paper towel, wrapped it back up and it is sleeping in there right now again. When he pipped it turned out he did indeed pip below the air cell and pipped through both membranes. I found that there seemed to be blood inside crusted to his feathers. But i was able to unstick him from it by gently rolled the damp qtip under the membrane.

Here's the little bugger. You can see the wing under the head and the breast bone off to the left side. He is even a little sideways in the shell - the chest is at the top of the shell. All the others are pipping away still except my RIW mixes which are either slower or not coming out (?)

 

[familypendragon]

Here was #2 hatching

 

[familypendragon]

Here is "trouble" sleeping and chirping in the hatcher.