Day 20, No activity.....Is this normal? Chicken mom freaking out! :)

Hello everyone.

Sorry I have been remiss in posting how our incubation finally turned out..........We had no eggs that hatched, and actually, after opening and examining them, there was only one viable egg in the entire batch. The dark colored shells hindered being able to actually see what was going on in there.

On a brighter note, our second batch is in the incubator and just went into lockdown this morning. I can now see the HUGE difference between the first hatch and the second hatch. The blood vessels are VERY apparent. These, too, are all shipped hatching eggs, some from Ebay and some from Poppa's Poultry (whom I found on this forum), and all of Jeff's eggs are developing very nicely!!! I had three different shipments from Ebay and two of them (Chocolate Orpingtons and Jubilee Orpingtons) were a total bust, not one viable egg after candling at day 14. Upon opening each egg, they had not even began development.

With any luck, our Thanksgiving will be extra blessed with new chicks!

Jill
 
Hello everyone.

Sorry I have been remiss in posting how our incubation finally turned out..........We had no eggs that hatched, and actually, after opening and examining them, there was only one viable egg in the entire batch. The dark colored shells hindered being able to actually see what was going on in there.

On a brighter note, our second batch is in the incubator and just went into lockdown this morning. I can now see the HUGE difference between the first hatch and the second hatch. The blood vessels are VERY apparent. These, too, are all shipped hatching eggs, some from Ebay and some from Poppa's Poultry (whom I found on this forum), and all of Jeff's eggs are developing very nicely!!! I had three different shipments from Ebay and two of them (Chocolate Orpingtons and Jubilee Orpingtons) were a total bust, not one viable egg after candling at day 14. Upon opening each egg, they had not even began development.

With any luck, our Thanksgiving will be extra blessed with new chicks!

Jill
Awww. So sorry your first hatch didn't work out.
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But I'm glad this one is going better! C'mon little chickies!
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I just went thru the same experience you did. Waiting and waiting for nothing to pip. I water candled on Saturday night with no live chicks. The cold snap we had made it really hard for my incubators temp to stay right. Pretty sure thats when i lost them. But like you I'm getting more eggs from ebay for the New Year's Day hatch along. I think this time around things will go much smoother for the both of us. Happy hatching and Happy Turkey Day!
 
The eggs I got were packed with care. Big side up and even sent extras. All the eggs were fertile til I got a hold of them. First time incubating in a new incubator in a cabin with no central heat. I'm moving them to my office in town this next time around. That's why they don't want feed back on hatch rate just shipping condition. Because they can't control what we do to the eggs. My seller was super nice and two dayed shipped the eggs. I just can't wait til February when the hatcheries start selling. I also didn't want the minimum of 25 chicks to care for!
 
Today is day 19, nothing to report so far today :) I did see one of the eggs rocking last night (I think, unless I was just so wanting it to happen I imagined it! )

If you are looking to buy hatching eggs, I highly recomment www.papaspoultry.com. All of Jeff's eggs are developing well, and they were packaged with care. He has a good variety, too.

I ordered Lemon Blue Cochins off Ebay and all of them were viable. I think it is just luck of the draw with the way the boxes are handled.

I will keep you all updated, hopefully tomorrow or Thursday brings good news and some new little ones.
 
Heading in to day 21, nothing to report. No pipping or peeping. I'm getting nervous, I had hoped SOMETHING would have happened!
 

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