EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[SidChick]

My daughter looked at the eggs about 5 hours ago, and no pips. It's zipping now, about one inch. I hear peeps. All looks fine. Assuming others hatch Friday, do I still take this one out tomorrow? Add water then??

 

[kajira]

That happened once to me and it turned out the lid wasn't seated correctly on the top of the incubator, so maybe check that? (What's your ambient humidity?)

@Sally Sunshine @DwayneNLiz

Fertility apt went good. We start meds tonight, I go back monday for labs. Got the insurance crap figured out, and it's a 55 dollar copay for trigger shot, and 55 copay for the injectable meds (of any dosage per month... so I may switch entirely to injectable cycles after this. I'm going ot talk to him about options next monday if this cycle doesn't work out.) Out of pocket expense for femera is 257 because insurance won't cover my dosage of oral meds, because their protocol for insurance is 2.5 and I have to take 10mg for 3 days and 12.5 for 2 days to get my ovaries to produce an egg. :/ Insurance says it's WAY out of the norm so they won't cover it. Blah. the poopers.


BUT if everything goes well - we will hopefully trigger in 10 days roughly give or take a couple of days, and in 3-4 weeks maybe i'll get to make a big announcement.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

My daughter looked at the eggs about 5 hours ago, and no pips. It's zipping now, about one inch. I hear peeps. All looks fine. Assuming others hatch Friday, do I still take this one out tomorrow? Add water then??

I'm wondering if the lid didn't get back on right when your daughter checked - I've done that. Check that the lid is on ok. It will not hurt anything to toss in a damp paper towel or two in as insurance if you think it's too dry. That would be the best.

(What do you mean by take this one out - you mean if it hatches? No, leave it in, it can stay in a while, presuming you can get the humidity back up, repeated opening will risk the other eggs, and there;s no harm leaving the little one in to dry off.)

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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[lovechicks1293]

woo hoo!
my (very) experienced chicken-owning friends did a vent check on my unknowned gender chick and she's a girl!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

OK, really heading back out to work on lumber again now.

 

[lovechicks1293]

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that's so exciting! praying for you

 

[lovechicks1293]

good night all!

 

[lovechicks1293]

OK, really heading back out to work on lumber again now.

 

[Honora]

Why do I feel like I'm in the wrong part of town?

Awwww. Hi chickies!