February 2023 hatch-a-long

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This is the white egg..
The gray egg hatched...Welsummer egg is still zipping, below
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This is the gray egg chick in the light...
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I am very excited... below is this chick's grandmother...
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Below is the other grandchild and you can see frizzle feathers...
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FBMcrazy8 said:
Oh no…there is still time. 😂 I’m being impatient. It’s only day 19. It will be day 20 at 11:30am central time tomorrow. After posting this, like a few hours later, I did see an egg rocking. Up to this point I didn’t notice anything like that but I did see them moving inside before I put them in lockdown. Again just impatient and really excited to see them but, also so nervous cause this is my first hatch.
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Hows it going? Any chirps yet?
 
FBMcrazy8 said:
Slow…very slow. I’m pretty sure paint drys fast than this… 🤔. No chirps yet. I’m hopeful though that soon I will hear it. Then I really won’t be able to leave the incubators side. I forewarned my husband that when they go in lockdown I will too.
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Tomorrow they probably will pip. Trust me, they will pip the second you leave them alone for a few hours.
 
I did lockdown tonight, and it was a fiasco. I have a Brinsea Maxi 24. The plan was to get a second one going next to it, and split the eggs half and half to separate breeds for hatching, put the hatching mats down, candle and mark air cells.

I pulled the eggs out into a lined box so that I could remove the turners.... and the eggs are already chirping and thrashing around. This is supposed to be day 18, and these eggs are from my yard, so I know they didn't get any hen incubation... yet here I am holding an egg that's already pipped. Sigh. Scrapped candling and air cells, got them back in the two incubators as fast as possible. Put some coconut oil around the pip. Threw in warm wet paper towels, and am topping up the water chambers trying to get the moisture back up. I think it's just the one pip, but another is peeping. Hopefully I haven't harmed them too badly.
 
Cluckatar said:
I did lockdown tonight, and it was a fiasco. I have a Brinsea Maxi 24. The plan was to get a second one going next to it, and split the eggs half and half to separate breeds for hatching, put the hatching mats down, candle and mark air cells.

I pulled the eggs out into a lined box so that I could remove the turners.... and the eggs are already chirping and thrashing around. This is supposed to be day 18, and these eggs are from my yard, so I know they didn't get any hen incubation... yet here I am holding an egg that's already pipped. Sigh. Scrapped candling and air cells, got them back in the two incubators as fast as possible. Put some coconut oil around the pip. Threw in warm wet paper towels, and am topping up the water chambers trying to get the moisture back up. I think it's just the one pip, but another is peeping. Hopefully I haven't harmed them too badly.
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I doubt you've done any harm at all. Remember, mama hen leaves the nest a couple of times a day to do her business, and they're fine.
 

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