FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

[Loc20chick]

I keep my vents open and just watch the humidity closely. Chicks use a lot of air when they hatch, so closing the vents can sometimes reduce the amount of oxygen enough to effect their health. I have done it both ways, and leaving the vents open does seem to make a difference.

Thanks

 

[Orpington Crazy]

Happy happy happy. I have been bad and candled the eggs on day five not day seven like I normally do but heck who cares. I have 3/5 buff orps that are showing veins and 3/7 gold laced crossed to buff orps also veining. So happy dance happy dance.....

 

[Loc20chick]

Happy happy happy.

I have been bad and candled the eggs on day five not day seven like I normally do but heck who cares. I have 3/5 buff orps that are showing veins and 3/7 gold laced crossed to buff orps also veining. So happy dance happy dance.....

congrats !!!

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Woo

Happy happy happy. I have been bad and candled the eggs on day five not day seven like I normally do but heck who cares. I have 3/5 buff orps that are showing veins and 3/7 gold laced crossed to buff orps also veining. So happy dance happy dance.....

Woo Hoo!!!!!!!

 

[nj2wv]

Two more hours till February ! Good luck everyone with your hatches ! Can't wait to see everyone's babies !

 

[emvickrey]

I candled again last night and took out all the ones that won't develop. Which left me with room in my 2nd bator so I filled that one with 40 eggs. Turns out none of my splash eggs where fertile when I candled last night then today I found the roo in that pen dead. So he had to have something going on with him that I couldn't see. I did replace him with his offspring I hatched last year so it will be a while before I have fertile eggs but I'll keep checking them every week. I have people wanting their eggs.

 

[Robbo]

Question

This is my first hatch. I believe I put one too many eggs in my bator. I don't have room to do the hand roll for turning. Plus it is a circle bator and that would be hard anyway. So I have been picking them up gently, turning them, and laying them back down.

Is this okay?

 

[BonRae67]

Question

This is my first hatch. I believe I put one too many eggs in my bator. I don't have room to do the hand roll for turning. Plus it is a circle bator and that would be hard anyway. So I have been picking them up gently, turning them, and laying them back down. 

Is this okay? 

That is what I do. I don't have an egg turner, I hand turn. I like being involved with my eggs and hatch.

 

[Robbo]

Great, Thank You. My mom was helping me turn them and was worried we could be jossiling them too much taking them out.

 

[rainbowchick]

It's February! Bring on the fluffy butts!!!

ETA: who's hatching first anyway?