August Hatch-A-Long!

[familypendragon]

My pipped chick is pushing another piece of shell up and down trying to push it off - so exciting!

 

[familypendragon]

EEK! Another one pipped!!

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

EEK! Another one pipped!!

Lol, how exciting!

 

[DeannaA]

That is what the hatching 101 article says to do. Take them out and lay them down with the lowest dip in the air cell facing up.

That is what I have been following.

 

[DeannaA]

Like I stated, several very experienced breeders used to think the same way. But are now keeping them upright.

I will try my next batch that way and see what happens.

 

[familypendragon]

Its very hard to make myself go to bed for fear of missing a hatch, LOL! It's funny, after all my reading I still didn't understand that day 21 is when you generaally expect them to be hatched - not begin hatching

 

[DeannaA]

You don't always get pictures of chickens when you do a search for sex link chick.

I had one silkie egg that was supposed to hatch Friday, nothing yet. I have Silver Laced Wyandottes that were supposed to hatch today, nothing. I get 2 of them and they are still moving inside. Mytemps have been crazy. I have been checking everything. I finally moved the ones I was sure were still alive on day 17 to a different incubator that has been holding it's temp steady for 2 days. As soon as I took them out the temp stablized in the incubator they were in. The questionable ones are still in there.

Just to quadruple check my temp/humidity guages, I put a themometer in the glass of water inthe incubator. It was an empty one. The temp was 106' but in the glass it was 99.6'. I have read that it's more accurate to take a reading in water (or is it the wet bulb temp I should be looking for) but I am nervous about leaving it that high. the humidity was 70. My temp always jumps 8 degrees when the water dries up. Help, again, please.

 

[familypendragon]

You don't always get pictures of chickens when you do a search for sex link chick.

I had one silkie egg that was supposed to hatch Friday, nothing yet. I have Silver Laced Wyandottes that were supposed to hatch today, nothing. I get 2 of them and they are still moving inside. Mytemps have been crazy. I have been checking everything. I finally moved the ones I was sure were still alive on day 17 to a different incubator that has been holding it's temp steady for 2 days. As soon as I took them out the temp stablized in the incubator they were in. The questionable ones are still in there. Just to quadruple check my temp/humidity guages, I put a themometer in the glass of water inthe incubator. It was an empty one. The temp was 106' but in the glass it was 99.6'. I have read that it's more accurate to take a reading in water (or is it the wet bulb temp I should be looking for) but I am nervous about leaving it that high. the humidity was 70. My temp always jumps 8 degrees when the water dries up. Help, again, please.

I've never heard any of that about using a glass of water. That doesn't seem right to me at all. Thermometers are to measure the air temp. At egg level the goal is 99.5. If putting it in water is making the air temp 106 it would fry the eggs I just got a hygrometer at walmart that has a probe you can dangle through the vent at egg level. Its about $13 I think and works very well.

 

[nicole63021]

Woke up to another little chick and at least one more pip!

 

[jnjmanning]

Also - I have had no rocking prior to the pipping - is that weird?

Did you incubate them upright? If you did "some" of the time, once you lay them down, they won't rock.
And the air cell line that you marked could have dropped much more in just hours. That is not too low of a pip.