August Hatch-A-Long!

[Lunar Rain]

or you'll not wait and end up like me with 4 incubators lol

Haha! My husband would kill me. It's bad enough that I have him out in the heat building a huge coop for 30-40 birds. Lol

 

[sbas5561]

Well WELCOME to the Hatch A Long!!!

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

It might be three strikes your for me.  Stared with 6, after candling at day 15, I had two not fertile, three early deaths, and one still in the running.  I had to move the incubator to a different location, but it took a about 2 minutes. The egged rolled a little.  It is now day 19, no piping and I don't notice any movement.  This is the last one at bat and it has two strikes and three balls.  I am hoping for a home run.  This is my first time, I don't know what to expect or when to give up.  Am I suppose to be seeing movement, piping, or hearing them chirp on day 19?  How many days do I wait before I give up?

 

I only saw movement in one of five eggs on day 19 and that one actually died during lockdown . The others that are all healthy chicks didn't move or pip until day 21. Don't give up now. And don't worry too much about the eggs rolling a bit when you moved the incubator...hens roll their eggs around too.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Thanks for the advise.  Aren't the eggs suppose to move at day19?  Can you open up the incubator at lockdown to add more water to raise humidity?

 

You may have already gotten an answer, I am playing catch up this afternoon, but anyway....don't open the incubator during lockdown. Use a tube of some sort that you poke thru the vent hole to add water in order to keep the humidity up there. Good Luck!

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: mine just finished my second coop!! I told him I need a coop just for the bantams and silkies and when I got home one day about a week ago he was half finished...I'll post a picture it's so cute!

 

[CarolinaHen]

My broody hen got off the nest today so I candled her eggs. Both looked good, so I placed them back in the nest. She went to look at them,fluffed her feathers and walked away. I gave her nearly an hour to return and when she didn't, I put them in the incubator with the others. Well..... ten minutes later she was back on the nest! The eggs are back under her fickle butt now.

 

[Heidisgran]

I just love this thread!! no one else could understand this passion

 

[Heidisgran]

My broody hen got off the nest today so I candled her eggs. Both looked good, so I placed them back in the nest. She went to look at them,fluffed her feathers and walked away. I gave her nearly an hour to return and when she didn't, I put them in the incubator with he others. Well..... ten minutes later she was back on the nest!

The eggs are back under her fickle butt now.

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

I just set my 1st batch of Cochin Bantam eggs yesterday. I've never hatched chicken's before....I'm hoping all goes well!!!

Welcome to the Hatch A Long!!

 

[CarolinaHen]

I just love this thread!! no one else could understand this passion

Ain't that the truth!?! I'm already stressing because school starts back next week (I'm a teacher) and I have eggs in the bator set to hatch the next Tuesday. Tuesday is a school day! I should have set them to hatch on a Saturday!