Hatching Eggs By The Moon Thread

[floridachickhatcher]

sorry ^_^ dont worry i fixed it

 

[zookeeper15133]

Eggs started pipping at 8 AM.

5:24 PM

7:03 PM

8:15 PM, Still half in egg!

Seven more to go! I hope they do it tonight!

 

[floridachickhatcher]

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what are those??

 

[zookeeper15133]

Silkies

 

[MarsHillchickencoop]

I just hatched my first baby today! Mama is still sitting on one more, how long would you wait?

 

[MuckyPuppy]

With mine I guess you could say the hatching by the moon thing has so far been good and bad. Bad:

I candled all 6 of my D'anver eggs last night and 4 were clear, bad or died early, one was a maybe and only one was a positive. Good:

I have one D'anver egg that looks promising.

In my last hatch I also had 6 D'anver eggs and ALL of them were either clear, bad or died early. So I've made a 100% improvement!

Maybe the whole bantam thing put the moon off.

I'll be checking 6 eggs of a different breed today. Hopefully that will go much better.

 

[floridachickhatcher]

im going to lose 2 chicks but 2 out of 24 is not bad i just have 22 now ^_^ but around the 4th day is when my weaklings die off so they are on time for dying sadly and im setting more eggs this weekend and im going into lockdown Mon&Tue and we now have 116 baby chicks and i have to hatch out 184 more i wont be done until the middle-end of NOV i have to try an hatch out 300-350 depending on how many roosters we get

 

[KenK]

I didn't have a great hatch but I blame that on rough shipping and my poor incubating skills. The eight chicks that did hatch out on a favorable moon are thriving.

 

[floridachickhatcher]

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most chicks born on a good moon do thrive ^_^

 

[floridachickhatcher]

i had 7 chicks hatch out during the night they are a day early LOL i have 13 left