Finally! SUCCESS!!!! I have chicks! ****PICS added-1 day old****

Fourth times a charm...I have finally managed to hatch 4 Lavender Orpingtons! I've been tweaking my incubation techniques all summer trying to have a successful hatch. I started with six eggs, one quit after day 7 and one made it to lockdown but didn't hatch and had an unabsorbed yolk sac. Of the other four, two pipped yesterday (day 20) with one hatching last night and the other this morning. The other two hatched this afternoon.

 

I was really starting to get discouraged since on the last two tries I've had a couple make it to lockdown then die because they didn't absorb the yolk sac. I did a dry hatch this time and was finally able to buy the auto turner for my Brinsea. I think that made a huge difference. I have six more LO eggs in from another BYC member. I'm doing everything the same and will candle on Monday.
The PO screwed up with these. They arrived in Anchorage last Friday and they didn't send them out here to our branch. They sat in the warehouse in Anchorage all weekend.

 

Quote:They are! Still drying off so I'll leave them in the incubator until tomorrow morning. I've never hatched anything other than Silkies. I'll get some pics tomorrow when they're all fluffed.

 

Okay, my bad these are project LO's...I have 3 black and 1 that is blue or splash. Anyway, I finally got a start for my breeding program. Hoping they aren't all boys,which would be my luck. Six more in the incubator from another BYC member who has birds from Hinkjc. First candling on Monday.
Pics coming shortly.