August Hatch-A-Long!

[DeannaA]

My humidity is 70-75. I have wyandottes in there. The eggs were causing the temp to go to 106 and down to 95 within hours. I thought it was the incubator so u moved them yesterday. Turns out the incubator was fine. It was the eggs causing it. Here are pictures and a video I just took.maybe you guys will recognize a problem. I have bantam eggs that are due Tuesday. Their shell if completely full. These eggs are only 3/4 full but they are larger. Still seems the egg should be full of chicken by now. Also, you can see the chick moving in there.

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[NosiphoChooks]

I just set 16 millefleur pekins! 10 from my own flock and 6 from a sale I went to. Only my second hatch and im trying a dry hatch this time... wish me luck really excited! below are pics of the parents

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Here is all four of my baby chicks.


In order from left to right... Chip (breech chick), Unnamed so far Chick #3, Butterscotch, and Sunshine.
According to the wing feather method of sexing, Chip is a boy the other three are girls. I kind of feel its true because chip has a comb already so big it parts his hair on his head, the other three have tiny little combs. We will see when they grow up. I think Chip looks like Speckled Sussex babies, and the other three are looking like New Hampshire Red babies. What do you think???


I have one chick going in to lockdown tomorrow, then 15 newborn silkie babies should be arriving Friday morning, then 18 silkie eggs and 2 of my own eggs going in to lockdown on 19th. Then I am done for a while!!!

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

My humidity is 70-75. I have wyandottes in there. The eggs were causing the temp to go to 106 and down to 95 within hours. I thought it was the incubator so u moved them yesterday. Turns out the incubator was fine. It was the eggs causing it. Here are pictures and a video I just took.maybe you guys will recognize a problem. I have bantam eggs that are due Tuesday. Their shell if completely full. These eggs are only 3/4 full but they are larger. Still seems the egg should be full of chicken by now. Also, you can see the chick moving in there.

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I am not experienced enough to diagnose a problem, if the chick is moving, then no need to worry.

I noticed that when the chicks were working on pipping and zipping the temps would go way up, then as soon as they hatched out the humidity would go up and the temp would go down. I just held steady on the temps that I knew were good, let natural fluctuations from chicks just happen.

 

[DeannaA]

I tried to attach my video several ways. I can't. Says I'm not allowed. So I guess you won't be able to help after all. I was only able to add one picture. Maybe there is a limit.

 

[ihavechickens]

Here is all four of my baby chicks. In order from left to right... Chip (breech chick), Unnamed so far Chick #3, Butterscotch, and Sunshine. According to the wing feather method of sexing, Chip is a boy the other three are girls. I kind of feel its true because chip has a comb already so big it parts his hair on his head, the other three have tiny little combs. We will see when they grow up. I think Chip looks like Speckled Sussex babies, and the other three are looking like New Hampshire Red babies. What do you think??? I have one chick going in to lockdown tomorrow, then 15 newborn silkie babies should be arriving Friday morning, then 18 silkie eggs and 2 of my own eggs going in to lockdown on 19th. Then I am done for a while!!!

So cute

I like sunshine

 

[familypendragon]

Familypendragon were your chicks shipped? I was reading last night while fretting over my breech baby, that shipped eggs tend to have more incidences of being breech. Mine were not only shipped, they were store bought, not even marked fertile. Just free range eggs. I feel pretty lucky to have 4 survive out of the 10 I incubated.

No but they were refrigerated.

 

[justoldbobo2]

They are adorable! It is so hard to wait for the last few huh?

No doubt have to stop working on my coop to go have a look see

Here is all four of my baby chicks. In order from left to right... Chip (breech chick), Unnamed so far Chick #3, Butterscotch, and Sunshine. According to the wing feather method of sexing, Chip is a boy the other three are girls. I kind of feel its true because chip has a comb already so big it parts his hair on his head, the other three have tiny little combs. We will see when they grow up. I think Chip looks like Speckled Sussex babies, and the other three are looking like New Hampshire Red babies. What do you think??? I have one chick going in to lockdown tomorrow, then 15 newborn silkie babies should be arriving Friday morning, then 18 silkie eggs and 2 of my own eggs going in to lockdown on 19th. Then I am done for a while!!!

Great looking hatch you have

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

No but they were refrigerated.

Hmmm, mine too. We are going to have to watch this and see if others who have refrigerated eggs have a high number of breech chicks. statistically its only suppose to be 2-5% but i had 2 out of 5, thats pretty high.

 

[Heidisgran]

the temp issue would have been if you had dips in temps during incubation that would cause them to hatch later...if they haven't internally pipped there isn't a lot you can do...but if some have gotten active then they maybe getting ready too...they'll be pretty still just before the pip their air