February Hatch-A-Long

[BlueBaby]

I decided to go ahead and try candling a bit ago, since I was wondering how the shipped silkie egg's were coming along. Out of those 18 silkie hatching egg's that arrived, I have spider vein's in 13 of them. I am throwing out the other 5, because they were clear's.

 

[cppeace]

Sorry about the clears. Good luck with the rest.

 

[BlueBaby]

That's ok, I paid for a dozen but she sent 18, so with my still having 13 good one's I'm still doing ok, right?

 

[cppeace]

If you hatch more than 50% with shipped you're doing great! So you still have a shot with better than that for sure.

 

[BlueBaby]

If you hatch more than 50% with shipped you're doing great! So you still have a shot with better than that for sure.

They still have a way to go yet. I just started incubating them at 12:00 am on Feb. 22nd., so They should hatch on March 13th or 14?

 

[cppeace]

Ah you just started 2 days before me then lol. I plan to not candle mine until Monday, which will be day 9. I'm not going to even start turning until this Friday. Shipped eggs needs babying for sure.

 

[BlueBaby]

Ah you just started 2 days before me then lol. I plan to not candle mine until Monday, which will be day 9. I'm not going to even start turning until this Friday. Shipped eggs needs babying for sure.

I do have an automatic turner, but it's for my other incubator that is still being stored in a box right now.

 

[cppeace]

I turn by hand lol This is going to be the most eggs I've ever tried to incubate lol

 

[feedman77]

Finally did a candling of the eggs I set.
Guess I'll have to start over with chicks. Not one egg was fertile and started to form.
Congrats to those that hatched new babies

 

[Ranchwithaview]

We survived our first go at incubation, but I lost a lot of sleep. Haha. We also got two chicks out of it. One from our first eggs put in, and one from the eggs put in four days later (because I thought for sure I had killed the first set with a temp spike early on). Both from the same hen, likely a black Australorp mix. The rooster is a Black Copper Marans mix. Unfortunately, my phone won't let me upload any pictures.

We had some sad losses too, the one from set A that pipped and died, and two from set B full grown, but no pips.