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

[8ROYALS]

Day 21...40 eggs and hatch is done. 34 chicks hatched and 6 waiting...
I am 85% right now....will try to get pics up
3 bantam cochins
2 bantam crosses
10 'OE' roo x GSL hen
19 'OE's

The 5 bantam are sold and someone is coming to get the others tomorrow, but how many unknown...
18 more in lockdown tomorrow...

So far my hatch rate for this month is 76 gatched to 90 set in lockdown
that give me 84%

 

[chickette]

A first chick

Congrats. I go into lockdown tomorrow evening and am soooo excited for a chick

 

[chickette]

Heres the deal! I live in a drafty house so I put the bator in my bathroom with a oil heater in the room to keep the room warm. Well... the heater died, the bathroom is cold, and my bator went down to 94 -95 For approx 1 hr at most. Lockdown is tomorrow evening. Does anyone know of this happening before? and what were the results? I am worried that i killed possible 19 eegs

 

[8ROYALS]

I had mine go down to 92 for like 6 hours several nights this past month with the cold weather. I am still at at 80+% rate...Wait it out and see what happens...I also put a heavy blanket around mine to keep in the warmth at night.

 

[chickette]

Thank you for the reply. To control the temp during the winter for 21 days is harder then I thought. It has snowed here for 2 days making it much colder then usual.

 

[VI KING RANCH]

I just had twenty out of four hundred hatch today ( put them in so I can get twenty a dayish) so far we are at a 100 percent hatch rate.
Good hatchrite incubator will hatch anything.

 

[farmerChef]

10/21 have hatched, almost all the rest are pipped. Last one to hatch went from nothing to zipped in 5 minutes, and hatched 10 mins later! It's blue in yellow, but the parents are a Dark cornish hen and a red/buff/white mixed rooster.

unless she still had some 'stuff' left from my young roo, who is gold cuckoo w/blue.

 

[jennifersmith326]

We had to cull a chick last night. It had splay legs and it just layed there on its head all the time.

 

[farmerChef]

14/21 have hatched, here are some pics

more to come......

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Awww what cute fuzzy butts.