END OF FEB. HATCH-ALONG, ANYONE?

[WinklerFarms]

Oh and another funny thing is that two of them that i was SURE were dead at lockdown have hatched. Stubborn little things just wouldn't move I guess.

 

[chevynova]

If the chicks have not pipped internally there's nothing you can do but wait!

I'm having trouble with patience, too. My first hatch was a disappointment. I didn't try to help any of the chicks because I was using a tiny incubator and I was afraid if I opened it I'd shrink wrap everyone. I ended up with 3 chicks from 13 eggs. This time, with a big incubator, I probably helped too much. Even so, around 20 chicks have hatched (or were helped out) and three are still working on zipping. The only losses since lockdown were a weird double yolker that I am still watching and one chick that died for some reason before it internally pipped.

 

[TBJumper0514]

Not sure what to think for me now, out of 25 for sure live chicks at lockdown only five have hatched so far and all were yesterday evening. One piped and suffocated because a chick tilted its egg. There are only two other pips now. I snuck two different eggs out through the top window (LG incubator) and candled them and I could see the chicks moving inside and there was no internal pip. Those early five I am guessing were in hot spots. Any other Ideas? This has me worried and it is hard to be patient! I set on 2/5 late morning so hopefully overnight/tomorrow morning I have a lot of activity in the bator!

I also set on 2/5, but in the evening. I have 9 chicks so far and about another 12 pipped(that can see) out of my 44 eggs. Hopefully they will do a lot of work overnight! I have trouble being patient too, but I try not to interfere. If they go over the hatch date, I will float test them to see if they are still viable.

 

[chevynova]

My hatch is done... Stayed up most of the night to observe and then went to bed for a few hours. Woke up and two of the zips have hatched, one died and the double yolker appears to have mutated. One chick in the brooder got shoved out from under the heat and was quite cold so I set up a temporary 2nd brooder for him to warm up and recover. Pics later after the couple in the bator get fluffy!

 

[wowmanacat]

I might be a bit at finding this but I am now hatching 16. I had the glass break int he incubator yesterday morning and this morning woke to two pips and one of the eggs that had a crack from the glass is now also pipping. It just sucks that I am going to be away from the house for par of the day.

 

[mkhenderson17]

My incubator went into lock down yesterday. I have half the eggs due Monday and Half due Tuesday. I have 28 bantam eggs on right now. My 2 roos are Millie Flures and my hens are Millie flures, 2 porcelains, 2 EE's. and 2 Golden Sebrights. I started with 30 eggs, Had to throw 2 out. They never developed and were starting to smell. I have 4 others I'm not sure are Worth leaving in but They will just hang out until after the hatch just in case. This is my first hatch at home so I'm very excited!

We Hatched some chicks out at my work too. They hatched Tuesday. We ended up with 4 little peeps. One had to be euthanized because he was deformed (I work at a vet clinic and we didn't want the poor little one to suffer. He was VERY deformed). We had 5 that did not hatch. They are still in the incubator just in case but I'm not super confident about them. They were looking good but never pipped.

I will let everyone know how my first home hatching goes!

Congratulations to everyone on their hatches so far!!!

 

[TBJumper0514]

I have 30 so far, and at least 7 more pipped/zipping out of 44 eggs. Just removed the chicks so the eggs could have some space...they were wreaking havoc on the place! I am quite disappointed that I got 4 single combed BLRW so far out the group. At least one of my hens must be contributing that problem. Oh well, they will still make pretty layers for someone!

 

[WinklerFarms]

This hatch was disappointing for me out of 34 set only 7 hatched. (Two of them I had to help and are ok but very weak. I candled a few and they were dead, so I candled more and the same. Broke all the non hatchers open and they were all fully developed but never pipped internally. I am assuming that a brief dip in temp (down to 93 for about a half hour) may have had something to do with it. Not sure though. Chicks at this stage should survive that! All the non hatchers had not absorbed the yolk or drawn down blood, so it must have been not too long after lockdown. Only one of them was upside down in the shell. Could it have been humidity issues?

 

[WinklerFarms]

How is everyone else's hatching going?

 

[TBJumper0514]

How is everyone else's hatching going?

Yes, anyone else having progress? I have 35 hatched, 1 zipping, and the last 8 look like they are not going to hatch. So, 36/44 total.