BYC's 14th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along - 2023

[junior67]

Think power may be back on since I can pull up my camera for my chickens coop and run

 

[muddy75]

Shoot. We are having a wind storm and lost power. I am not home so asked my husband to wrap a towel around the incubator to hold in the heat. Hopefully it isn't out for long!

They get it back on soon! I had an outage like that during an ice storm a couple years ago…..I think it was out for like 4-6 hours but luckily it only caused a day delay in hatching

 

[muddy75]

Think power may be back on since I can pull up my camera for my chickens coop and run

 

[junior67]

once I got home I checked the govee and the temp only went down just under 1/2* when the power was out so just a normal day with a bit of a bounce in temp. PHEW! Could have been so much worse since they were warning that if people lost power it could be until tomorrow morning until you got it back. So thankful that didn't happen.

 

[buckock]

Power was out and temp dropped to 85! Not sure about the damage. Time will tell.

 

[muddy75]

Power was out and temp dropped to 85! Not sure about the damage. Time will tell.

I think the temp on mine when we lost power a few years ago was 78??? That it did not significantly change anything and you still get a good hatch

 

[junior67]

Power was out and temp dropped to 85! Not sure about the damage. Time will tell.

hopefully if anything it just delays hatch a tiny bit but all the babies are still good!! fingers crossed for you!

 

[junior67]

What would cause a bunch of quitters between day 8-14? Guessing most were day 9-12 or so. I lost 6 or 7.... In the 5 hatches I have done I maybe lose 1 that starts developing. 6-7 seems like a lot to me. This is out of 19 that were developing.

Some candling pics to double check I am right on quitters. I did crack a couple I could tell for sure and while you could see a baby it was tiny still.

And are these air cells good for day 13/14 (the ones marked 2-? Are on day 10)

 

[muddy75]

What would cause a bunch of quitters between day 8-14? Guessing most were day 9-12 or so. I lost 6 or 7.... In the 5 hatches I have done I maybe lose 1 that starts developing. 6-7 seems like a lot to me. This is out of 19 that were developing.

Some candling pics to double check I am right on quitters. I did crack a couple I could tell for sure and while you could see a baby it was tiny still.

And are these air cells good for day 13/14 (the ones marked 2-? Are on day 10)

The air cells look fine…..
As far as early quitters, some of my early hatches, there were some that appeared bad that ended up hatching…..did you double check your instruments prior to this hatch? I’ve had malfunctions during hatches, when everything was fine before. Are these eggs shipped or HG? Any other factors that may have impacted development like power outage or extreme temp/humidity change?
I would suggest marking any questionable ones and checking again in a few days for changes

 

[junior67]

The air cells look fine…..
As far as early quitters, some of my early hatches, there were some that appeared bad that ended up hatching…..did you double check your instruments prior to this hatch? I’ve had malfunctions during hatches, when everything was fine before. Are these eggs shipped or HG? Any other factors that may have impacted development like power outage or extreme temp/humidity change?
I would suggest marking any questionable ones and checking again in a few days for changes

I am hatching for someone else from my town with eggs from his chickens. He drove them maybe 5 min to me. We did have a power outage but only for maybe an hour and I checked my thermometer and it dropped maybe 1/2* in that time. I have a govee thermometer/hygrometer in there that I double checked again before this hatch since the one I just did the air cells seemed a bit small so wanted to be sure it was reading right so that is good. I had one day that for maybe 1/2 hr it shows it was 101.3 but then dropped back down so may be a fluke. the ave temp has been around 99.2-99.6. Since I have an NR360 my govee circles around when the eggs are rolled so the temp fluctuated depending on the spot in the incubator. I can put up a chart from day 7 till today of my temps and humidity.

In June and July I did shipped eggs and from those 2 hatches 28 chicks hatched out of 30 that started to develop. think there were 2 that were DIS at the end but that was it. no quitters the whole time. Then I just did a hatch right before this one (last chick hatched a day before I put these eggs in) for the same guy and 5 developed and 5 hatched.

I checked some eggs a few days ago and looked like maybe quitters and still looked the same today. then I noticed a few others today (I didn't check all the eggs the other day). I can't see veins or movement in them just a dark blob. I left I think 5 in there but don't feel hopeful on those ones. around day 7 or so I have questioned some since the chicks like to hide a bit and sometimes I don't see the veins either, but normally by day 14 I can see them again no problem.