December hatch-along

[Cerise1924]

This is my first hatch, ever. I built an incubator after watching a few Youtube videos and we selected some of our own eggs to hatch. I was going to plan for Christmas babies, but we all got excited and put them in on Thanksgiving. We're hatching 2 Olive Egger, 2 Crested Cream Legbar, and 1 Dominique egg. I have 2 RIR cockerels and 1 OE cockerel. I think that if they're fertile, it would most likely be by one of the RIRs. I'm hoping to produce more Olive Eggers, excluding the Dominique egg, of course. I look forward to candling and I think I am more excited than the kids. Fingers crossed for healthy babies.

Very exciting! Such a nice variety of eggs you have. Wishing you best of luck for cute, fluffy December chicks.

 

[Chikn-Chik]

My eggs are officially set!! Hatch date is December 19th - ? since I'm going to keep adding eggs as I get them for a few weeks.

Chick prospects will be:
Buff silkies
Paint showgirl roo over black and white hens
Bantam WCB polish
And hopefully my paint showgirl hens will start laying who are covered by a silver partridge silkie roo
AND I have one mystery egg in the incubator who is said to be a bantam turken, so we shall see!



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[generaldsherman]

My eggs are officially set!! Hatch date is December 19th - ? since I'm going to keep adding eggs as I get them for a few weeks.

Chick prospects will be:
Buff silkies
Paint showgirl roo over black and white hens
Bantam WCB polish
And hopefully my paint showgirl hens will start laying who are covered by a silver partridge silkie roo
AND I have one mystery egg in the incubator who is said to be a bantam turken, so we shall see!



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nice! Love the look of showgirls.

 

[AmieD]

Thank you. I can't wait to see what's going on inside!

 

[AmieD]

I got eager and candled my eggs a few days early. I couldn't see into my olive eggs because they're too dark, but I have veining in the 2 Cream Legbar and Dominique eggs!!!! I assume the olive eggs probably do, too. I've never done this before and it is sooo exciting! I'm growing chicks! lol.

 

[AmieD]

My eggs are officially set!! Hatch date is December 19th - ? since I'm going to keep adding eggs as I get them for a few weeks.

Chick prospects will be:
Buff silkies
Paint showgirl roo over black and white hens
Bantam WCB polish
And hopefully my paint showgirl hens will start laying who are covered by a silver partridge silkie roo
AND I have one mystery egg in the incubator who is said to be a bantam turken, so we shall see!



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I'm just curious, how does it work when you add eggs with different hatch dates? Do you increase humidity at the end of the hatches? Thanks.

 

[Chikn-Chik]

Quote:I'm just curious, how does it work when you add eggs with different hatch dates? Do you increase humidity at the end of the hatches? Thanks.

Most would probably be horrified to hear this, but I've never kept up with the humidity while hatching eggs. I keep the tray filled with water and keep the temperature right and had very many successful hatches Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[orrpeople]

We went into lockdown yesterday. Chicks are due the 2nd! I keep watching the eggs to see if there's any movement, but not yet! Anyone with shipped egg experience? Wondering where they tend to pip with the big oblong air sacks - I'm keeping those eggs in the cut down egg cartons, but I am concerned they might pip low, into the egg carton wall.

 

[Bug n Flock]

We went into lockdown yesterday. Chicks are due the 2nd! I keep watching the eggs to see if there's any movement, but not yet! Anyone with shipped egg experience? Wondering where they tend to pip with the big oblong air sacks - I'm keeping those eggs in the cut down egg cartons, but I am concerned they might pip low, into the egg carton wall.

Eeee! Exciting!! Good luck!!!!

My first hatch was shipped eggs. Little bitty button quails. I kept them in an egg crate for their incubation and at lock down set them on their sides on the floor of the 'bator. Out of 12 eggs, 5 hatched. One died a day later. The rest of the eggs had an early quitter and the rest were clear.

 

[orrpeople]

Of the 16 shipped BCM eggs (they sent 4 extras on a dozen order), 2 quit early, and 2 more quit by day 14's candling. My last candle the night before lockdown showed one, possibly 2 more quitters, but they didn't smell, so I left them in. So technically I have 10 with viable embryos, and of those, only 2 with normal looking air sacks. The other eggs in the bator are our home grown BCM/EE crosses (hoping for olive eggers) and 1 RIR/BCM egg thrown in because husband thought it would be fun.