Brinsea Octagon 40 Thread

[poultryman84]

That's awesome! Thats about my shedule. I usually get one or two on day 20. It will be like popcorn by tomorrow. They look good for fresh hatchers, too. Not too wet. I think you're going to have a great hatch

Are you still running 99.5 on the display, or did you bump to 100.0? Whatever it is right now, leave it. Once I started getting one early hatcher, the rest were like clockwork on day 21

I checked the eggs this morning at 7 and there was nothing but the pips. I went and checked them again at 8:45 and two chicks had hatched. As far as the temp I have it at 99.8 and it has been there since about day 2. One thing I notice so far with this hatch is the chicks are way more dry when they come out. On my last hatch all the chicks I got were very wet. I had the humidity in the Styrofoam at an average of 40% witch is the same as I have the Brinsea set at. It is amazing the difference between the two.

 

[scflock]

I checked the eggs this morning at 7 and there was nothing but the pips. I went and checked them again at 8:45 and two chicks had hatched. As far as the temp I have it at 99.8 and it has been there since about day 2. One thing I notice so far with this hatch is the chicks are way more dry when they come out. On my last hatch all the chicks I got were very wet. I had the humidity in the Styrofoam at an average of 40% witch is the same as I have the Brinsea set at. It is amazing the difference between the two.

That was one of the first things I noticed in my first Brinsea hatch. The chicks look so much better when they pop out, and I have not had one instance of splayed legs or crooked toes

 

[AmyLynn2374]

That was one of the first things I noticed in my first Brinsea hatch. The chicks look so much better when they pop out, and I have not had one instance of splayed legs or crooked toes

I've never had leg or foot problems, but if I don't move my chicks to the brooder they don't truly fluff up. Of course, I have my humidity 75% at hatch....lol

 

[scflock]

I've never had leg or foot problems, but if I don't move my chicks to the brooder they don't truly fluff up. Of course, I have my humidity 75% at hatch....lol

I leave mine in the incubator so long that the fluffy chicks actually start sucking the moisture out of the air, no joke

 

[poultryman84]

 

[poultryman84]

6 have hatched. 4 cream legbar and 2 spitz

 

[scflock]

Those look awesome coming out of the shell. You are going to have a great hatch

 

[scflock]

6 have hatched. 4 cream legbar and 2 spitz

Hopefully you'll get a lot of hens in the legbars. Can you tell yet?

 

[poultryman84]

Hopefully you'll get a lot of hens in the legbars. Can you tell yet?

How do you tell?

 

[scflock]

How do you tell?

Cream legbars are autosexing. The roosters will have a dot on their heads