Eggs in incubator 8/22. Anyone else putting eggs in?

[Bantam Chase]

lol, mine are set about 2 days apart - you're not alone in the 'dumbness club', lol!

 

[Edwards' East of Eden]

My one lone egg is still in lockdown - saw it rocking this afternoon, so hopefully not much longer!

Hatched a batch of four on August 27-29, and lost one of those babies today. She was still so tiny and weak, and all the boiled egg yolk and polyvisol in the world didn't seem to help her. My BOrp neighbors from down the road were over, and I had her in my hands and had resigned myself to culling her after they left - and I looked down and she was gone.

So, upside, I guess, is that I didn't have to kill a chick, and she got lots of love and I was holding her when she passed. Is that an upside?

Miss you, little Darling -

 

[SkyWarrior]

According to my incubator, Monday is hatch day.

I candled the eggs the other day and I'm pretty sure I have one dud, probably due to age/refrigeration more than anything else. So, if all goes well, my Mini-Brinsea will hatch out 6 chicks.

 

[Anarchy82]

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That sucks. But, I feel it was better to go in the hands of someone taking care of. Then to be killed by the hands that take care of.

 

[NancyP1]

tomorrow is day 21 for me...already have 11 fuzzy butts in the brooder!!! yay chickies!!

 

[rarely bored]

Power came back on... think it was off for 7 to 8 hours. I think the egg temps dropped down to the mid 80's. Sure do hope the chickies didn't mind too much.

A little late for the day, but here is the countdown dance:

so glad to hear of successful hatches!

Can hardly wait to see pictures of them all!

 

[Bantam Username]

I HAVE A PIP 2 DAYS EARLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Anarchy82]

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Great news. And the even better news, I woke up this morning to one of my eggs with a pip.

And I can hear a little chirping here and there. Hope he breaks threw, this egg I was worried about because it had a big air pocket in the egg.

 

[Bantam Username]

My other 2 have big air pockets. I have had such trouble though, I've had to break lockdown.

My humidity was only at 48% so I had to get a wet paper towel in there, which made humidity too high so I had to take it out and put a dry paper towel in to bring it down and now have removed the dry towel to stabilize it. I don't know why the humidity is so low, its an rcom and is supposed to regulate humidity itself. I am so desperately hoping all will be ok. Humidity seems to be sitting around 70-73% at the minute.

 

[Anarchy82]

Knock on wood, humidity is the only thing I have not been having a problem with. I have my homemade incubator, I put some sponges inside. So what I do now, is when I see the humidity drop to 68% I take a needle I had from the vet when my cat had pink eye and we had to quirt the medicine into his mouth. Well I have a small hole near the sponge that I stick the needle in and shot water onto the sponge and that brings it back up to between 74 - 76%.