Halloween Hatch-A-Long 2017

[DwayneNLiz]

china marker

whats this? and:

your chickie is like my piggies..

cute piggies!!

FIRST POST OF THE DAY! (sadly)
Candled the school eggs during our parent teach conference today. Turning the heat up .5 degrees must have done the trick because all 5 are doing great! I'm feeling more confident about these Halloween babies!

Also, I accidentally dropped an egg last week while turning them and cracked it pretty good. In a blind panic and because I don't own nailpolish I slapped a piece of ducktape cut to size on the egg. It cover about 1/4 of the egg. Now I'm feeling foolish cause I have no idea how that chick is going to hatch! Should I just wait till day 19 and then peel it off as carefully as I can?!? Ugh. Why didn't I think that through better?!

ummmmm not sure about the tape......

I think if you go slowly and put water on the edges of the tape to loosen the adhesive as you go, maybe use a feeding syringe or your fingers to drip water and break the seal it has on the egg, you should be able to remove it safely. Fingers crossed for you down here in AZ

NO WATER!!! it will chill it!! maybe a little coconut oil?

Thanks I will try, wishing it was any other tape but ducktape right now! haha, but hey duck tape fixes everything!

[/QUOTE] LOL see baove response , no water!!

 

[WVduckchick]

whats this? and:

your chickie is like my piggies..

cute piggies!!

ummmmm not sure about the tape......

NO WATER!!! it will chill it!! maybe a little coconut oil?

YOUR piggies??????

In other news, I have one external pip in one Brinsea, and hear another gotta-be-female call duckling peeping very loudly in the styro hatcher. I can candle thru the windows and see several internal pips.

Liz-duckling is still in the other Brinsea at low humidity until this evening or tomorrow, but she is still fighting!

 

[venymae]

whats this? and:

your chickie is like my piggies..
cute piggies!!

ummmmm not sure about the tape......

NO WATER!!! it will chill it!! maybe a little coconut oil?

LOL see baove response , no water!![/QUOTE]

no water. Gotcha.

 

[Christinecam]

Setting up the second incubator for lockdown

 

[WVduckchick]

Setting up the second incubator for lockdown

GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

YOUR piggies??????

In other news, I have one external pip in one Brinsea, and hear another gotta-be-female call duckling peeping very loudly in the styro hatcher. I can candle thru the windows and see several internal pips.

Liz-duckling is still in the other Brinsea at low humidity until this evening or tomorrow, but she is still fighting!

YAY! GO, Liz-Duck!!! GOGOGOGO!!!!

 

[Josh L.]

LOL see baove response , no water!!

no water. Gotcha.[/QUOTE]

Lmao okay. I've used it in the past for getting things off of eggs near hatch, and since eggs when near hatch produce a lot of their own heat, a little water shouldn't be a problem for most chicks... Obviously it shouldn't be ice water, but I figure that is relatively self explanatory. I usually heat water before even adding it to an incubator.

 

[Christinecam]

My eggs are dancing in the bator!
I usually set my lockdown at 98.5 but my incubator I can’t seem to get it over 98.
I may have to go to plan b

 

[lawson1986]

So my update, is that I candled my eggs under my broody and they all appear to be growing beautifully. The dozen that went in the incubator however, is a totally different story. Only two appeared to be fertile and one of them died early as there was a blood ring. So that left one good developing egg...I decided no use in running the bator for just one egg, so I put the good one under the broody too. I sure hope she continues to do such a good job as I spent a small fortune on those fertile silkie eggs!!!

 

[Christinecam]

So my update, is that I candled my eggs under my broody and they all appear to be growing beautifully. The dozen that went in the incubator however, is a totally different story. Only two appeared to be fertile and one of them died early as there was a blood ring. So that left one good developing egg...I decided no use in running the bator for just one egg, so I put the good one under the broody too. I sure hope she continues to do such a good job as I spent a small fortune on those fertile silkie eggs!!!

Best of luck!! Nothing like Mother Nature!