FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long, come join in!!

[flgardengirl]

Yes you can open one of the vent plugs to control humidity in the LG. I sometimes just open one and set it upside down halfway over the hole and then slide it over until I get the humidity right. You can tape it down so it doesn't move if you need to. I put computer fans in mine. I think that helped alot.

 

[Hottchick]

Hello. I am waiting on shipped eggs as we speak. They were supposed to be shipped on Friday. I hope they will be here tomorrow! I'm excited, I've never hatched eggs. I'm nervous too. There are so many things that can go wrong and you have their lives in your hand. My son is using hatching the eggs as a school science fair project. (mostly just an excuse for me to get to hatch eggs). I'm also almost afraid for too good of a hatch rate as I can only keep 2 pullets and will need to rehome the rest.

Anyway....looking forward to this project.

 

[Flashy2003]

Ill Join. I have 7 Silkie eggs set to hatch on Feb. 6Th. But this is my first hatch, so we will see what happens.

 

[flgardengirl]

I just candled the 12 key west eggs, 2 ameraucauna x phx, and 2 phx eggs. It looks like both of the phx and am x phx eggs are developing and 9 of the key west ones are. Not sure about the other 3. I will wait awhile and do them again. My flashlight sucks so I can't see through the 6 marans eggs grrr.

Congratulations Flashy and Hottchick. Welcome to hatchers anonymous lol. The first hatch is the most exciting.

 

[midget_farms]

Yup - I just candled my 56 eggs.

Its just now the end of the 4th day. I know its a little early. Anyway - I definately saw stuff in maybe 2 eggs. I think I saw something in a dozen or maybe 15. The rest looked like duds. I'm going to wait until Friday & try again.

I knew it was too early.

 

[gryeyes]

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< slaps your hands, gently > Stop that. You knew it wasn't right and you did it anyway. Shame on you. (I'm teasing.)

 

[Illia]

Alright, so does anyone else have pictures yet?

These are all what's left of my hatch. . . Culled out the duds, and I have still a decent number left. I culled about half the Marans eggs, and only sacrificed ONE Shamo egg. Very pleased.

Only 2 more weeks left!!

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Cleaned the incubator this morning and setting the next batch in a minute. 36 eggs this time. Going to make sure the humidity is right and temp is set to 100(still air)... then get the little buggers in there in roughly 3 hrs. Deciding to set our weather channel weather station in the incy this time, then surround it with the eggs. We'll see...

hoping for better than 48.6% hatch rate for our second clutch.

 

[Pidgey104]

heres what I have in the bator
12 Blue Turken from Nava
18 Seramas I picked up at sunshine classics
15 other assortment of eggs while I was helping clean out the cages at the show Free (Which when I checked 10 of those were veining)
5 Bantam RIR
18 from my BLRW/Std Cochin pen
8 Delaware
6 from my STD Cochin pen
and 2 green emu eggs

Most should hatch around the 1st

 

[Shelly_WNC]

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What is your target humidity range , that works for you? I am just starting out ... and my humidity was 33% this morning. I am trying to keep it around 50% - thinking day 1-18 should be 50% humidity (from what I read anyway).