FEB HATCH-ALONG THREAD ...COME JOIN US.... EVERYONE!

[gapeach717]

So my new awesome sauce egg candling light is up and running....and out of ten eggs left, I think I got 4 left to hatch. How it makes it all the way to this point and then not hatch kills me. And boy do they STINK!!!!!

I can't WAIT to get them in the brooder! Gag!!

 

[Gbear74]

all my eggs have been shipped- a few tips for shipped eggs: after unpacking, let them sit with pointed end down for 6-12 hours. Use an egg carton if you have one. Then you can put them in the bator. I always set my eggs pointed end down in the bator, no turning for the first 5-7 days- it gives air cells time to settle & chick to develope. Good luck!I

I have my bator running and all the BCM eggs waiting till morning to go in. All my eggs arived in very good shape I just hope they didn't get too cold in the mail. I'm trying to figure out how to attach a pic to these posts can anyone help, ah I think I just figured it out! I tried to and it said I don't have permission to attach?

 

[Brookhavens]

Hi everyone... Finally, my Serama eggs came! For shipped eggs, I know they recommend letting them sit all night with fat ends down? Should I do this?

Big end is always up!!! Once you put them in the incubator tomorrow do not start turning them for 5-7 days. Just let them start cooking without moving. Serama eggs are more fragile than normal eggs and this seems to help them get a better start.

 

[Brookhavens]

I have my bator running and all the BCM eggs waiting till morning to go in. All my eggs arived in very good shape I just hope they didn't get too cold in the mail. I'm trying to figure out how to attach a pic to these posts can anyone help, ah I think I just figured it out! I tried to and it said I don't have permission to attach?

You don't have enough posts on the forum to post pictures yet. I think the magic number is 50.

 

[Gbear74]

Big end is always up!!! Once you put them in the incubator tomorrow do not start turning them for 5-7 days. Just let them start cooking without moving. Serama eggs are more fragile than normal eggs and this seems to help them get a better start.

I did have 2 eggs that I couldn't realy see a small or big end on. the were the same on both ends I just had to pic an end and go with it.

 

[hokankai]

You can candle and look for the end the air cell is on. You want the air cell UP.

 

[PugBug]

OH IT IS FUNNY in a way ,,,laugh or cry I mostly JUST couldnt watch

Well funny but in a stress what -do- i-do-now? way.
Always a moment like that it seems in every hatch I dont know why.
Yeah these little devils climbing all over the eggs and rolling them so tiny why are they so strong.? One actually did get up on a egg like it was a circus ball stood up like a roo would!
HE was off before i got the camera. What a pic!.And getting the eggs all wet from the wet wash rag. Climb on it them my poor AMS eggs and laying flat out like on a beach suntanning on top of f# 5.!!

LOL this is one of the reasons when the basque hatched I was moving them out of the bator not long hatching- they were climbing all over the ones zipping- I was so afraid they would impede the ones trying to get out. It was awful, but looking back it was funny too-

 

[PugBug]

Even I just panicked!!

me too! NO way, pointed end DOWN!!!

 

[jphendrix]

LOL this is one of the reasons when the basque hatched I was moving them out of the bator not long hatching- they were climbing all over the ones zipping- I was so afraid they would impede the ones trying to get out. It was awful, but looking back it was funny too-

Mine are doing the same thing!!! LOL! But I don't want to open the incubator for fear of shrink wrapping the other 6 that are pipped!

 

[Roxannemc]

Omg Rox, between the mess, goop, and eggs and the need to lay ON the eggs by the others and pecking at pipping all day I am mentally wore out!! Good luck to the rest of your hatch!!!!

Well gotta look at my calender but think i gotta sneak in about 20 eggs tonite or tomorrow more lockdowns! SNEAK in with the ams in lock day 20 jeez.! Boy i sure didnt plan this right. think ill go look at elephants having babies on tv.
Puts the chicks in perspective LOL.