California - Northern

[ronott1]

Thanks guys!! I also have a pip in one of my regular sized eggs, it's been exactly 19? days since the eggs were set, to the hour if I'm remembering right. At what point do they usually pip? Is this one early? I can hear muffled peeping and the egg is wobbling. It's a Black Copper Marans egg. This is one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced! Just a few weeks ago they were nothing but what people eat for breakfast, and now they're living, breathing babies!

What day and time did you set them?

 

[BCollie]

May 21st around 9pm

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Mine is on the North West with a big window facing west. It is very oppresive in there. I should put a thermometer in there and find out how much hotter it is

Last couple of days up here have been rough.
Eggtopsy on eggs from Chiquita that DH was chilling at night. 3 showgirls, 1 silkie, 1 was upside down in the shell, another seemed to have ruptured the yolk, 1 was bloody inside like it had tried to pip on a vein. The 4 and the maran egg both looked like they should have been able to hatch, everything right where it should have been before pipping but they never did.

I wasn't able to get any improvement on the phoenix cockerels leg and when working with it he was showing signs of pain. So I bit the bullet and put him down today.

So soory on the hatch and having to put you guy down. That must have been hard but it sounds like it was the best thing to do....

Thanks guys!! I also have a pip in one of my regular sized eggs, it's been exactly 19? days since the eggs were set, to the hour if I'm remembering right. At what point do they usually pip? Is this one early? I can hear muffled peeping and the egg is wobbling. It's a Black Copper Marans egg. This is one of the most amazing things I've ever experienced! Just a few weeks ago they were nothing but what people eat for breakfast, and now they're living, breathing babies!

How exciting!

 

[Kaylish]

So I've Finally caught up on the 400+ posts that I missed while camping...

@BCollie So glad to hear all your girls are better and the tests were negative. And Congrats on the first hatch!

@PetRock your Langshans are beautiful!

@JDXX and your Blues!!!

Soo in love! ...and I was just over in your neck of the woods! Maybe next time we head that way I could pick up some hatching eggs?
To everyone else I missed... Welcome! Awesome coops! Sorry about the losses. And Yea for new fuzzy butts!

and now the hard decisions...What to fill the incubator with for my first time!!!!

Thinking local pickup (within 2 hrs of Chico), good dual purpose (for those hard-to-home roos) and/or Cute and Adorable! Will most likely only be able to keep 1-3 but don't want all meaties because I KNOW my daughter will fall in love with our first hatch (ok, ok... I will too...

) PapaBrooder has some beautiful BBS and Lavender Orps (huge sucker for blues) or...SUGGESTIONS?

 

[BCollie]

So my dog is a working line Border Collie...and she herds EVERYTHING, one of her favorite things to herd is baby chicks. For 3 weeks she ignored the incubator, but now that it's chirping it has suddenly become a magical white box worthy of the extremely rare head tilt, and a now undying obsession. She and I are probably thinking the same thing, "Where's the babies? I know they're in there...I can hear them...but I don't see them..."

 

[Kaylish]

and to whomever posted the link to the BYC page with all the charts and definitions; THANK YOU!!!

 

[BCollie]

So I've Finally caught up on the 400+ posts that I missed while camping...

@BCollie So glad to hear all your girls are better and the tests were negative. And Congrats on the first hatch!

@PetRock your Langshans are beautiful!

@JDXX and your Blues!!!

Soo in love! ...and I was just over in your neck of the woods! Maybe next time we head that way I could pick up some hatching eggs?
To everyone else I missed... Welcome! Awesome coops! Sorry about the losses. And Yea for new fuzzy butts!

and now the hard decisions...What to fill the incubator with for my first time!!!!

Thinking local pickup (within 2 hrs of Chico), good dual purpose (for those hard-to-home roos) and/or Cute and Adorable! Will most likely only be able to keep 1-3 but don't want all meaties because I KNOW my daughter will fall in love with our first hatch (ok, ok... I will too...

) PapaBrooder has some beautiful BBS and Lavender Orps (huge sucker for blues) or...SUGGESTIONS?

PapaBrooder is great, I would definitely consider getting eggs from him. But if this is your first hatch, don't start off with something too expensive!

 

[ronott1]

May 21st around 9pm

Yes, today is day 19.

If they all hatch before day 21, the temperature may be a bit high. A bit high is not terrible but can cause problems.

Did you check to see what the temps were at egg level? For the Genesis 1588, it should be 99.5 at egg level.

I bet they will hatch just fine though!

 

[BCollie]

Thanks Ron. The temp may have been a bit high, I kept it at 99.9 like I was told to but maybe I should try putting it at 99.5 next hatch. We'll see how this one goes, maybe this one is just an early bird!

So, question...the chick that hatched this morning is dry but it's not totally fluffy. The feathers on the head and back aren't fluffy, they're hard and dried to the chick. What causes this?

 

[Kaylish]

PapaBrooder is great, I would definitely consider getting eggs from him. But if this is your first hatch, don't start off with something too expensive!

the price is the only reason I'm still looking. $48/dozen is pricey for me; especially if I screw it up and get nothing. On the other hand, I'm really learning to appreciate the difference between good breeders and those out to make a buck (like some of the stories I've heard) I'd much rather have some beautiful birds then just whatever I can find for cheap. I'm hoping to find something in between for my first try.