Hatch Along March 1st

[jhfamily5]

Hi there! I set a mix of eggs from my silkie(BBS), showgirl and d'uccle girls on 3/1 and received 24 shipped silkie eggs this morning that are resting before joining the others. I will be doing a staggered hatch...setting in my Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance EX and moving to my LG still air for lockdown and hatching. I haven't done a start-finish hatch in an incubator before or hatched shipped eggs either so this is totally a learning experience for me. Good luck everyone!

 

[Blingaling1]

Glad we have a few people doing this hatch-a-long. I candled last night and I have 4/4 Mille
Fluer, 4/5 BLRW, 6/6 Wheaton/blue Wheaton Ameraucana fertile eggs. Of course it's very difficult to see veining in the Marans so ill wait till day 10 to candle them.

 

[DraigAthar]

I'll candle tonight and maybe get an idea of how many are developing. It's still a little early for me, I set a day after you Blingaling. But I've got my fingers crossed! I'll probably weigh this batch for the first time tonight, too. Your numbers sound great so far!!!

 

[BayGoose]

I set a lone golden polish egg 3/1. It was the only egg that survived shipping. Bummer. I was really excited to have my first polish chickens. But I candled last night and saw an embryo so I hope it makes it till the end!

 

[DraigAthar]

Well, I candled last night. Preliminary are not looking so good, only 8 of the 24 are definitely developing. 7 are definitely NOT developing, and the other 9 are a little too dark-shelled to be sure. Hrm. Wonder if I've got a fertility problem with that roo. My other roo had 21 out of 24 fertile on the last hatch!

 

[Alwayswantchics]

I set 14 mixed breed from my girls outside on the 1st.. First set for this year. Hope to candle tomorrow. Doing a dry hatch again. Had pretty good hatch in October. Keeping fingers cruised for just as good this time.

 

[hopkinshens]

I started incubating 9 of my mixed brahma bantam and 1 mixed brahma egg on the 25th of February they are due next week

 

[SarahJaneB]

Sweet! Was hoping I'd see a hatch-a-long like this. I set my eggs on March 1 so day 1 for me is the 2nd and hatch day is the 22nd. This is my third hatch and I had pretty good hatch rates my first two times. I set 38 eggs this time. Candled for the first time the other day.

I am certain that 6 were definitely infertile and 9 more were question marks but some looked like they were developing. I don't take anything out this early just in case.

I set australorp eggs from my own flock.



Here's one of the chicks from my 2nd hatch. Their feathers are coming in! Such cuties

 

[SarahJaneB]

Oh and here are my eggs


Taken before temp was stable. It's now stable at 99 and holding great! Humidity stays around 38%. For the first 18 days I leave both red caps off the bigger air holes and I fill only the middle water thing for that humidity then during lockdown I block one of the bigger air holes and fill the other two water spaces and the humidity jumps to around 50% ish. Stays around 60% when the chicks start hatching. I only turn twice a day.

 

[LuvinChickens]

I just candled. 21 eggs left. I started with 28... I just can't wait!