HALLOWEEN HATCH!!! Anyone

[Suechick]

Howdy, We still have 5 out with 4 pips and one that has been fully zipped for 5 hours.
How long can they take to get out once they've fully zipped? Day 21 is almost over, will they be OK to hatch on day 22?

Congrats everyone on your lovely chicks.

 

[denasfarm]

Well heres a few most ended up blurry or the little buggars moved. You can see the Turken in the back of one, and the 4 white silkish ones in another. When my daughter gets home from work Ill get her to help me take better pics.
These all hatched from Brown or Green eggs with EE roos.

 

[denasfarm]

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Yes, Give them some time. Keep that bator shut and the humidity up. They should come on out tonight.

 

[k2chickens]

well im about 2 hrs into day 22 now and again i could of swore i herd another chirp...but here is no movement/pips to be seen. I have 7 eggs left that need to hatch. I was thinking maby they pip'd on the bottom of the egg...so i was debateing opening up and turning all the eggs over to see if i needed to help a pip'd egg that had quit. should i do it??

 

[k2chickens]

ok i just sat in the bator room for 10 minuets and just listened. I got 5 chirp's...3 very silent ones and 2 VERY loud ones.

Do i turn the eggs over to look for bottom pip's...or should i just wait. God i hate day 22

 

[Luvmybob]

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I don't know the answer but I wish you the best! Can I ask a question? Is it bad to turn an egg over if you hear chirping? Also- JUST my opinion, but I would wait---I am by far NEW to this whole thing, but if I were in your shoes I would just wait a little longer..

Good Luck and I hope u get your answer--

 

[kathyinmo]

I have a fatality. I am sick about it. One of the Silver Penciled Plymouth Rocks drowned in the water dish. Did you see my pictures ... I have marbles in the dish! Not enough, obviously. I added more now.

I almost had a fire last night. I had set up the heat lamp, but needed to go get the wire I set it on. I went outside to get it, then messed around there a few minutes. When I came back in, the 2 x 4 I had the side of the lamp resting on was smoltering. That was only in 20 minutes at the most. BEWARE of those heat lamps!

This all reminded me to be even more cautious! I hope this helps some of you to not make these mistakes.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I think just wait.

 

[neferset]

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Hows the carton hatching going?

I have done that and liked it better than hand turning. My HovaBator turner is so rough it makes the eggs look like they all have quitter rings around them. Bruises the fire outa my eggs. So this time I just laid them flat on the wire. Turned them when I thought about it. Maybe once a day...some days I forgot and just poked my hand in for a sec and rolled over the top of them all at once and THIS is the best hatch I have had this year! I even let it run dry twice!

Well, most of my eggs were in the hovabator turners. I don't seem to have too much trouble with them, but I had been laying them on their sides in the still air Little Giants for hatching. A friend of ours is the accountant for an egg farm and he gave us a couple of the 30 egg flat cardboard trays. That's what I've been using. I will be sorry to see them gone after this. I'll have to ask him for more.

All the eggs for the Halloween hatch did incubate for at least a week or two in the cartons though. For day to day turning, I wouldn't use the big trays anymore, though. They bend in a middle a bit, so when you prop them the ones on the down end are not really tilted that much.

I understand about the best hatch. I've hatched more eggs in the incubator in the last two weeks than I did all summer long. Even with crashing temperatures and other problems.

 

[k2chickens]

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I think just wait.

really?? how long?? i was thinking about turning them over to check for bottom pips before i went to bed tonight...i would say around 10 or 11.