December hatch-along?

[AstraChick]

I just tried to introduce the two babies, but it didn’t go so well. The yellow one is 2-3days oldish, and the other one hatched yesterday evening. The great one is nice and fluffy now (except it’s back) so I put them together on my living room floor. The yellow one pecked the other ones beak, but it wasn’t terrible. As soon as I put them in the brooder tho, the yellow one grabbed the grey on and tried to throw it around. Now it has a little blood on its beak

I read on here, when they are naughty but you need to catch them doing it, tap them on the back down towards the tail, just like mamma hen would do to naughty chicks, it work worked for me, maybe they're trying to work out who's boss already.

@Scrambles55 thats alot of eggs, will be lots of cuties in the hatch
yes i just picked up my eggs too i'm only doing 6 this hatch, pure Australorps but it will be a lucky dip as to what i get, black, blue and splash mix. Last hatch was white Australorps and its looking like i have 4 girls and 4 boys, i had to cull 1 due to aggression but i cant keep all 4 boys either.

@Fur-N-Fowl OMG that is so cute

 

[AstraChick]

So, do I bring the incubator temp up before setting the eggs inside?

I think so, although my last hatch i just put them in and turned it on so the eggs slowly warmed up with the temp, maybe someone else has more experience as im learning aswell and all hatches are trial and error i suppose untill you've been doing it for quiet some years with the same bator.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Mine should hatch Christmas Day also.

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

As if Christmas Day isn't busy enough to begin with

I read on here, when they are naughty but you need to catch them doing it, tap them on the back down towards the tail, just like mamma hen would do to naughty chicks, it work worked for me, maybe they're trying to work out who's boss already.

@Scrambles55 thats alot of eggs, will be lots of cuties in the hatch
yes i just picked up my eggs too i'm only doing 6 this hatch, pure Australorps but it will be a lucky dip as to what i get, black, blue and splash mix. Last hatch was white Australorps and its looking like i have 4 girls and 4 boys, i had to cull 1 due to aggression but i cant keep all 4 boys either.

@Fur-N-Fowl OMG that is so cute

Thankyou, her cuteness is deceiving!

 

[AstraChick]

Because my eggs have been posted out to me, I have read that i need to let my eggs sit for atleast 24hrs before i set them in the bator.
So my hatch will be 27th Dec, couple of days after Christmas Day.

This will be my 2nd hatching with shipped eggs, and if all goes to plan then i should be able to use my own eggs in the future

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Because my eggs have been posted out to me, I have read that i need to let my eggs sit for atleast 24hrs before i set them in the bator.
So my hatch will be 27th Dec, couple of days after Christmas Day.

This will be my 2nd hatching with shipped eggs, and if all goes to plan then i should be able to use my own eggs in the future

That's still a festive hatch

Hatching shipped eggs it great but when you get to hatch your own you feel much more excited to see what you get from your birds!

 

[AstraChick]

That's still a festive hatch

Hatching shipped eggs it great but when you get to hatch your own you feel much more excited to see what you get from your birds!

yes so much more excitement when hatching own eggs. Hatching shipped eggs was an experiment and was just as exciting when hatching began. I was actually very surprised i got a 100% hatch rate with shipped eggs, never had that before. Which make me re-think this hatching of eggs on their side vs setting them upright.
I use to have a broody a few years ago, i miss her so much, then i didn't get another broody so i purchased bator and hatched my own eggs. We are currently in re-build mode tho, due to natural disaster here, gum trees hanging over chook run dropped a limb and distroyed part of the chook run enclosure then bloody fox got it and ended everything. Was so disheartened, was about to give up but i had little chicks in the brooder that kept me going. So now it's, let the re-build begin. all gum trees have been cut right back so this doesn't happen again.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

yes so much more excitement when hatching own eggs. Hatching shipped eggs was an experiment and was just as exciting when hatching began. I was actually very surprised i got a 100% hatch rate with shipped eggs, never had that before. Which make me re-think this hatching of eggs on their side vs setting them upright.
I use to have a broody a few years ago, i miss her so much, then i didn't get another broody so i purchased bator and hatched my own eggs. We are currently in re-build mode tho, due to natural disaster here, gum trees hanging over chook run dropped a limb and distroyed part of the chook run enclosure then bloody fox got it and ended everything. Was so disheartened, was about to give up but i had little chicks in the brooder that kept me going. So now it's, let the re-build begin. all gum trees have been cut right back so this doesn't happen again.

You couldn't ask for better than 100% from shipped eggs!

Aw no, it's awful when something like that happens and sets you back. It really can be so disheartening.

Good thing you had those chicks in the brooder to keep you going!

 

[aliciaplus3]

I just picked up a single hatch from the neighbor up the road... I have a few that are still inside and more due the 14th. French black copper marans. Some of my next hatch will be from the same pen so I could hatch black blue or splash marans.

 

[aliciaplus3]

Just candled and pulled the 2 bresse eggs as they quit, one silkie and a bcm that showed blood rings. And 3 turkey eggs that were Yonkers. So I still have 11 silkies, 11 bcm and 2 Nn eggs due dec 14th. 6 nn and 1 turkey egg due dec 21st and 12 turkey eggs due dec 28th, 2 of these looked questionable but we are still too early to call.

 

[Kat MacK]

Just candled and pulled the 2 bresse eggs as they quit, one silkie and a bcm that showed blood rings. And 3 turkey eggs that were Yonkers. So I still have 11 silkies, 11 bcm and 2 Nn eggs due dec 14th. 6 nn and 1 turkey egg due dec 21st and 12 turkey eggs due dec 28th, 2 of these looked questionable but we are still too early to call.

I just candled, too! Our expected hatch date is the 12th, so this was Day 14. We pulled one that looked like it was an early quitters, and the eggtopsy showed it stopped around Day 7. The other 18 (all Olandsk Dwarf) look like they are coming along, except the air cells are worryingly small - like about Day 7. We've had lots of problems in past OD hatches with chicks not making through membranes at hatch that we thought were connected to having too low humidity, so we may have overcompensated this time around. I dropped the humidity setting on this new incubator to its lowest setting, 20 percent. I don't think there's much else I can do at this point, but does anyone have any advice? ODs are notorious for drowning at hatch.