August Hatch-A-Long!

[AParmer]

You're welcome. Truthfully it looks closer to day 16 or 17. I'd watch it closely and make sure the lowest dip in the air cell is up. July hatched two early birds for me.

 

[turkenlurken]

I have 6 eggs and 5 look like this. The one looks so small it may be a quitter but I am leaving it for now. I thought they looked a day or two bigger from the 1st candling so I think I will keep a good eye on them. I know they will hatch when I am sleeping or at work this weekend!

 

[nicole63021]

Eggs are rocking (well, wiggling, since they are in a carton, lol)! Humidity has been stable at 62%......now the long LOOOONNNNGGGG 3 days till fluffies.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

I also have a slight smell in the bator. I just pulled out each egg and smelled them all. None of them seems offensive.  I just set them in yesterday. I washed it good with dawn after the last hatch. I'm wondering if the smell I got at the very end of that hatch permeated the fan area and it's blowing back out now. I'm not quite sure what to do.

If your incubator smells but each egg doesn't then it's most likely a but of something left over from previous hatch that is now heating up and smelling. Styrofoam holds bits of stuff in the pores and can do this.

 

[Gen9]

I also have a slight smell in the bator. I just pulled out each egg and smelled them all. None of them seems offensive. I just set them in yesterday. I washed it good with dawn after the last hatch. I'm wondering if the smell I got at the very end of that hatch permeated the fan area and it's blowing back out now. I'm not quite sure what to do.

If your incubator smells but each egg doesn't then it's most likely a but of something left over from previous hatch that is now heating up and smelling. Styrofoam holds bits of stuff in the pores and can do this.

If it's not your incubator then it might be an egg. Just tossed out a second oozer today.. *sigh* 5 eggs left to go! I think I won't be trying the dry hatching method any time soon. I had great results keeping my humidity at 50% last time. Total; 3 eggs stopped developing, and 2 oozers, 6 eggs were infertile. 5 still going strong = 16 eggs I started with.

UNLESS!! dry hatching weeds out the weak ones and kills them before hatching. I don't want to deal with already hatched chicks dying again.

 

[familypendragon]

If it's not your incubator then it might be an egg. Just tossed out a second oozer today.. *sigh* 5 eggs left to go! I think I won't be trying the dry hatching method any time soon. I had great results keeping my humidity at 50% last time. Total; 3 eggs stopped developing, and 2 oozers, 6 eggs were infertile. 5 still going strong = 16 eggs I started with.


UNLESS!! dry hatching weeds out the weak ones and kills them before hatching. I don't want to deal with already hatched chicks dying again.

This is only my first hatch, but I am dry hatching with a few variations. I started with 41 eggs - 27 that are my mutts, taken from my fridge, and 14 that were shipped eggs. They aren't hatched yet, but so far things seem to be going well. I have mine in staggered batches and am moving them to a separate bator for a hatcher. I found 2 of my mutts that died (blood ring) and 3 infertile shipped eggs, and 2 scrambled shipped eggs. So down to 32 for both batches combined. I just moved batch 1 (20 mutts) to the hatcher. I actually moved them a few hours earlier than I had intended because the heat they were generating was causing my bator to spike up to 102. I took them out and put them in the hatcher leaving batch 2 in the original bator at the original settings and it immediately settled back down to the correct temp. I had the hatcher set to 99 and 65% humidity before putting the eggs in. It immediately climbed to 101 and 80% humidity. I turned down the heat and added no more water. It settled into proper temp over about 3 hours with a few more tiny adjustments and then dried down to 65% humidity. When it finally got down to 60% (Took 16 hours) I added 1/4 tsp water and it went back up to 65%. I have no oozers etc. Now anything could happen in the next 5 days, LOL! But I wonder if its actually a result of some bacteria that pre-existed in the bator? I wonder about using a colloidal silver and water spray to clean it all out before the next hatch?It would not create any fumes or contaminate any eggs and it kills darn near everything. I've even considered putting a few drops in the distilled water I use for humidity.

Anyone tried this?

 

[jnjmanning]

If it's not your incubator then it might be an egg. Just tossed out a second oozer today.. *sigh* 5 eggs left to go! I think I won't be trying the dry hatching method any time soon. I had great results keeping my humidity at 50% last time. Total; 3 eggs stopped developing, and 2 oozers, 6 eggs were infertile. 5 still going strong = 16 eggs I started with.

UNLESS!! dry hatching weeds out the weak ones and kills them before hatching. I don't want to deal with already hatched chicks dying again.

Dry hatching has nothing to do with this. I prefer the week genetics to die before I hatch out a mess or chicks that suffer and die.

 

[ihavechickens]

12 days left still quite early but that does not stop me from getting excited

 

[jnjmanning]

This is only my first hatch, but I am dry hatching with a few variations. I started with 41 eggs - 27 that are my mutts, taken from my fridge, and 14 that were shipped eggs. They aren't hatched yet, but so far things seem to be going well. I have mine in staggered batches and am moving them to a separate bator for a hatcher. I found 2 of my mutts that died (blood ring) and 3 infertile shipped eggs, and 2 scrambled shipped eggs. So down to 32 for both batches combined. I just moved batch 1 (20 mutts) to the hatcher. I actually moved them a few hours earlier than I had intended because the heat they were generating was causing my bator to spike up to 102. I took them out and put them in the hatcher leaving batch 2 in the original bator at the original settings and it immediately settled back down to the correct temp. I had the hatcher set to 99 and 65% humidity before putting the eggs in. It immediately climbed to 101 and 80% humidity. I turned down the heat and added no more water. It settled into proper temp over about 3 hours with a few more tiny adjustments and then dried down to 65% humidity. When it finally got down to 60% (Took 16 hours) I added 1/4 tsp water and it went back up to 65%. I have no oozers etc. Now anything could happen in the next 5 days, LOL! But I wonder if its actually a result of some bacteria that pre-existed in the bator? I wonder about using a colloidal silver and water spray to clean it all out before the next hatch?It would not create any fumes or contaminate any eggs and it kills darn near everything. I've even considered putting a few drops in the distilled water I use for humidity.

Anyone tried this?

I use oxine to clean with.

 

[SportChick]

Hi. My eggs are arriving tomorrow. My broody hen is sitting on a clutch of unfertilized eggs until we can get the fertilized ones under her. She is hardly eating or drinking anything. I'm more worried about the drinking because it's pretty hot here. Is that normal? Will she get up when she needs to drink something?