February Hatch-A-Long

[AusHen]

11 out of 12 have hatched, no pip or anything on the remaining cream legbar egg but I'll candle and wait a bit as the Marans only hatched not long ago (dry though)



Cream Legbars. I ended up with 3 cockerels, 3 pullets


Lavender Sussex


This is meant to be a Speckled Sussex???


Bantam Sussex (mistaken identity in shell, not Orpington)


Marans


Polish. Either normal or frizzle

 

[Nmarine1057]

I have 3 more incubators. A Rcom king, a modified Little Giant, and a Genesis. I'm hoping to get a cabinet incubator soon too....

That's a lot of bators

 

[juliasflock]

Day 18! I locked down late last night because things ran too warm from my hovabator wafer going, and I’m anticipating pips starting tomorrow afternoon/evening. My 360 has been amazing, I hope I like hatching in it. My wafer came to fix the hovabator, but haven’t gotten around to it.

Glad I’m busy today, because lockdown feels like it takes longer than the first 18 days

 

[BenlynFarm]

My lockdown is today! But, while I wait I’ll enjoy this precious thing that arrived last night!!!

 

[ravvenesque]

These two ducklings were hatched on 2/2/2021. We are awaiting their sibling, still incubating.

 

[Nmarine1057]

Day 18! I locked down late last night because things ran too warm from my hovabator wafer going, and I’m anticipating pips starting tomorrow afternoon/evening. My 360 has been amazing, I hope I like hatching in it. My wafer came to fix the hovabator, but haven’t gotten around to it.

Glad I’m busy today, because lockdown feels like it takes longer than the first 18 days

I can't wait to see pictures!

 

[My hen house]

Im going Fire up an janoel 12 in a week!!

 

[PDXJULES]

After a few years of hatching with the bators I have (they aren't great but they work until I can get a cabinet bator) I have realized that for my area I need to run no water if our humidity is over 15% in the normal air which is usually is. Then add water enough to bring the humidity up to 30-45 max while hatching cause when they start coming out of the eggs they tend to spike it right up over 80% if I get it too high. With keeping it lower I get less shrink wrap issues. I still need to figure out how to keep them from playing soccer with the eggs. Hoping I don't lose any in this batch to them kicking the eggs around so much. So far 6 babies and another 10+ eggs pipped 27 total that I am very sure were viable and three from a broody hen that I am pretty sure froze outside before I noticed her off the nest and brought them in, but I figured that I had to try either way.
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arranging a rope around eggs at lockdown can help reduce rollovers from lively hachlings. Here is an example - similar to what I am currently doing.

 

[Nmarine1057]

arranging a rope around eggs at lockdown can help reduce rollovers from lively hachlings. Here is an example - similar to what I am currently doing.

Thanks for this! I've had to rescue some chicks that had rolled over before. I've used the toilet paper roll method before, with some success. I cant remember why I stopped doing it though.

 

[smfarman]

It's a Faleemi camera wireless wifi I found it on amazon and I run it from streamlabs OBS to youtube live.

11 out of 12 have hatched, no pip or anything on the remaining cream legbar egg but I'll candle and wait a bit as the Marans only hatched not long ago (dry though)

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Cream Legbars. I ended up with 3 cockerels, 3 pullets
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Lavender Sussex
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This is meant to be a Speckled Sussex???
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Bantam Sussex (mistaken identity in shell, not Orpington)
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Marans
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Polish. Either normal or frizzle
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There're so cute